The books that are changing how readers, critics, and scholars think

The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

Brian Christian

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

Heather McGhee

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Sparks: China's Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future

Ian Johnson

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Patrick Radden Keefe

The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War

Craig Whitlock; The Washington Post

Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East

Kim Ghattas

Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945

Ian W. Toll

The Showman

Simon Shuster

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

Ibram X. Kendi; Keisha N. Blain

Black Futures

Kimberly Drew; Jenna Wortham

What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition – An Empowering Guide to Interrogating Whiteness and Creating Justice

Emma Dabiri

Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad

Matthew F. Delmont

Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause

Ty Seidule

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

Clint Smith

The Uncool: a Memoir

Cameron Crowe

Checkmate: Genius, Lies, Ambition, and the Biggest Scandal in Chess

Ben Mezrich

The Dog's Gaze: A Visual History

Thomas W. Laqueur

Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word, and Me

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor

View from the East Wing: A Memoir

Jill Biden

The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail

Eric Jay Dolin

1873: The Rothschilds, the First Great Depression, and the Making of the Modern World

Liaquat Ahamed

The Long Revolution: Creating a United States After 1776

Nathan Perl-Rosenthal

The Land and Its People

David Sedaris

Trudeau & Doonesbury

Joshua Kendall

Marilyn and Her Books: The Literary Life of Marilyn Monroe

Gail Crowther

Stalin's Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire

Antonia Senior

Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old

Mary Beard

On Witness and Respair

Jesmyn Ward

The Theater: Courage and Survival in the Defining Atrocity of the Ukraine War

James Verini

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

John Green

Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution's Mysteries Solved

Kenneth Catania

Me and Sister Bobbie: True Tales of the Family Band

Willie Nelson; Bobbie Nelson; David Ritz

Cassino '44: The Brutal Battle for Rome

James Holland

Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad

Michela Wrong

MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios

Joanna Robinson; Dave Gonzales; Gavin Edwards

While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

Meg Kissinger

The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy: And the Path to a Shared American Future

Robert P. Jones

Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims

Jennifer Vanderbes

Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution

Gordon S. Wood

Every Deep-Drawn Breath: A Critical Care Doctor on Healing, Recovery, and Transforming Medicine in the ICU

Wes Ely

Playing with Myself

Randy Rainbow

Broken Horses

Brandi Carlile

The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

Tim Alberta

The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943

James Holland

There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Brian Goldstone

When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World

Jordan Thomas

Allies at War: How the Struggles Between the Allied Powers Shaped the War and the World

Tim Bouverie

The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders

Sarah Aziza

Languages of Home: Essays on Writing, Hoop, and American Lives, 1971–2025

John Edgar Wideman

JFK: Public, Private, Secret

J. Randy Taraborrelli

Trauma Plot: A Life

Jamie Hood

Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America

Clay Risen

The Feather Detective: Mystery, Mayhem, and the Magnificent Life of Roxie Laybourne

Chris Sweeney

Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice

Virginia Roberts Giuffre; Amy Wallace

Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live

Susan Morrison

Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People

Imani Perry

Art Work: On the Creative Life

Sally Mann

The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North

Michelle Adams

This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days

John Darnielle; John Keogh

Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism

Sebastian Smee

A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon

Kevin Fedarko

Be Ready When the Luck Happens

Ina Garten

3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

James Kaplan

Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity

Diarmaid MacCulloch

The Place of Tides

James Rebanks

Ingrained: An Uplifting Memoir about Woodworking and Craftsmanship

Callum Robinson

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

Robin Wall Kimmerer; John Burgoyne

The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918

Nick Lloyd

The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon

Adam Shatz

Cassino '44: The Brutal Battle for Rome

James Holland

Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories

Amitav Ghosh

Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church

Hahrie Han

American Mother

Colum McCann; Diane Foley

Malcolm Before X

Patrick Parr

The Diaries of Franz Kafka (The Schocken Kafka Library)

Franz Kafka; Ross Benjamin

Ordinary Notes

Christina Sharpe

Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

Ashley Shew

Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History

Peter Brown

Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution

Cat Bohannon

Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History

Benjamin Balint

When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

Donovan X. Ramsey

Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age

Tom Holland

My Name Is Barbra

Barbra Streisand

The Deadline

Jill Lepore

Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration

Rebecca Heisman

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

Timothy Egan

Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan (American Music Series)

Alex Pappademas; Joan LeMay

The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

Jeff Goodell

Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America

Julia Lee

A Heart That Works

Rob Delaney

Hello, Molly!: A Memoir

Molly Shannon; Sean Wilsey

Serious Face: Essays

Jon Mooallem

We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story

Simu Liu

The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People

Walter Russell Mead

Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

George Monbiot

What We Wish Were True: Reflections on Nurturing Life and Facing Death

Tallu Quinn

I'm Glad My Mom Died

Jennette McCurdy

My Seven Black Fathers: A Young Activist's Memoir of Race, Family, and the Mentors Who Made Him Whole

Will Jawando

Walking the Bowl: A True Story of Murder and Survival Among the Street Children of Lusaka

Chris Lockhart; Daniel Mulilo Chama

Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency

Andy Greenberg

The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains

Bethany Brookshire

It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic

Jack Lowery

The Gotti Wars: Taking Down America's Most Notorious Mobster

John Gleeson

The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA

Jorge L. Contreras

Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights

Erwin Chemerinsky

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

Elizabeth Kolbert

Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses

Jackie Higgins

Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause

Ty Seidule

Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain

Sathnam Sanghera; Marlon James

I Had a Miscarriage: A Memoir, a Movement

Jessica Zucker

Don't Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo

Mansoor Adayfi

On Juneteenth

Annette Gordon-Reed

Broken Horses

Brandi Carlile

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

Ibram X. Kendi; Keisha N. Blain

You Got Anything Stronger?

Gabrielle Union; Kevin Carr O'Leary

Real Estate: A Living Autobiography

Deborah Levy

We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland

Fintan O'Toole

Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World

Victoria Finlay

Tom Stoppard: A Life

Hermione Lee

The Worlds of J. R. R. Tolkien: The Places That Inspired Middle-earth

John Garth

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X

Les Payne; Tamara Payne

Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power

Bradley Hope; Justin Scheck

The Last Million: Europe's Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War

David Nasaw

The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

Vincent Bevins

Dead Reckoning: The Story of How Johnny Mitchell and His Fighter Pilots Took on Admiral Yamamoto and Avenged Pearl Harbor

Dick Lehr

South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War

Alice L. Baumgartner

Is Rape a Crime?: A Memoir, an Investigation, and a Manifesto

Michelle Bowdler

November 1918: The German Revolution

Robert Gerwarth

The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)

Katie Mack

Dancing After TEN

Vivian Chong; Georgia Webber

The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

Brian Christian

The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States

Walter Johnson

The Meaning of Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey; Michaela Angela Davis

Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution

Tania Branigan

Hadley Freeman House Of Glass-The Story and secrets of a twentieth-century Jewish family

Hadley Freeman

The American Revolution and the Fate of the World

Richard Bell

Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration

Reuben Jonathan Miller

Born to Be Hanged: The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune

Keith Thomson

The Essential Kerner Commission Report

Jelani Cobb; Matthew Guariglia

The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune

Alexander Stille

Saving Freud: The Rescuers Who Brought Him to Freedom

Andrew Nagorski

Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution

Elsa Panciroli; April Neander

Blood, Fire and Gold: The story of Elizabeth I and Catherine de Medici

Estelle Paranque

The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA

Jorge L. Contreras

Love in the Blitz: The Long-Lost Letters of a Brilliant Young Woman to Her Beloved on the Front – A Timeless Wartime Memoir of Survival and Romance in WWII London

Eileen Alexander

The Slow Road North: How I Found Peace in an Improbable Country – A Poignant Northern Ireland Memoir and Social History of Grief and Healing

Rosie Schaap

Don't Stop: Why We (Still) Love Fleetwood Mac's Rumours

Alan Light

The Dirty Tricks Department: Stanley Lovell, the OSS, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare

John Lisle

3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

James Kaplan

The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

Wright Thompson

Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America

Dahlia Lithwick

The Courage to Be Free: Florida's Blueprint for America's Revival

Ron DeSantis

Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen

Dan Heath

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

Timothy Egan

Playing with Myself

Randy Rainbow

War Diary

Yevgenia Belorusets; Greg Nissan

A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad

Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and the Revolution in the Americas

Roberto Lovato

The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet

Jeff Goodell

The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth

Kristin Henning

Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television

Todd Purdum

V13: Chronicle of a Trial

Emmanuel Carrère; John Lambert

The Good American: The Epic Life of Bob Gersony, the U.S. Government's Greatest Humanitarian

Robert D. Kaplan

The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?

Michael J. Sandel

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need

Bill Gates

The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

Mustafa Suleyman; Michael Bhaskar

Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy

David J. Chalmers

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

David Graeber; David Wengrow

Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility

Martha C. Nussbaum

The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Jonathan Haidt

Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

Adrienne Rich

Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World

Dorothy Roberts

Who's Afraid of Gender?

Judith Butler

The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

Amitav Ghosh

The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron

Roger Shattuck; Jed Perl

Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers, and Silents―and What They Mean for America's Future

Jean M. Twenge

Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy

Adam Tooze

How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Andreas Malm