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

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Siddharth Kara

Real Estate: A Living Autobiography

Deborah Levy

How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Sabrina Imbler

Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run

Peter Ames Carlin

Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

Natasha Trethewey

Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993

Sarah Schulman

The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021

Peter Baker and Susan Glasser

Patriot: A Memoir

Alexei Navalny

The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III

Peter Baker

The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter

Kai Bird

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Omar El Akkad

Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent

Dipo Faloyin

Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America

Shefali Luthra

Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves

Nicola Twilley

A Truce That Is Not Peace

Miriam Toews

Judy Blume: A Life

Mark Oppenheimer

Safe Passage: The Untold Story of Diplomatic Intrigue, Betrayal​, and the Exchange of American and Japanese Civilians by Sea During W​o​rld War II

Evelyn Iritani

Everybody's Fly: A Life of Art, Music, and Changing the Culture

Fab 5 Freddy with Mark Rozzo

Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!

Liza Minnelli

In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man: A Memoir

Tom Junod

The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary

Terry Tempest Williams

Reproductive Wrongs: A Short History of Bad Ideas About Women

Sarah Ruden

Muv: The Story of the Mitford Girls' Mother

Rachel Trethewey

The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change

Rebecca Solnit

El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory

Jazmine Ulloa

Red Dawn Over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity

Frank Dikötter

Starry and Restless: Three Women Who Changed Work, Writing, and the World

Julia Cooke

Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery

Gavin Newsom

A Fate Worse than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War

W Fitzhugh Brundage

The Science of Second Chances: A Revolution in Criminal Justice

Jennifer Doleac

Me and Sister Bobbie: True Tales of the Family Band

Willie Nelson and Bobbie Nelson with David Ritz

A Fate Worse than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War

W Fitzhugh Brundage

Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement

Ashley Shew

The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values

Brian Christian

Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy

Erich Schwartzel

Strong Roots: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Ukraine

Olia Hercules

What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing—What Birds Are Doing, and Why

David Allen Sibley

Niche: A Memoir in Pastiche

Momus

Moses and the Doctor: Two Men, One Championship, and the Birth of Modern Basketball

Luke Epplin

Letters to My White Male Friends

Dax-Devlon Ross

V Is For Victory: Franklin Roosevelt's American Revolution and the Triumph of World War II

Craig Nelson

Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

Rachel Maddow

Landlines

Raynor Winn

Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice

Yusef Salaam

Daughter of Mother-of-Pearl

Mandy-Suzanne Wong

Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife

Francesca Wade

Baldwin: A Love Story

Nicholas Boggs

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

Virginia Roberts Giuffre

The Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon's Enduring Impact on America

Mark Whitaker

How to End a Story: Collected Diaries, 1978-1998

Helen Garner

Bread of Angels: A Memoir

Patti Smith

The Uncool

Cameron Crowe

The Sea Captain's Wife

Tilar J Mazzeo

The Boys in the Light: An Extraordinary World War II Story of Survival, Faith, and Brotherhood

Nina Willner

Raising Hare: A Memoir

Chloe Dalton

Mother Mary Comes to Me

Arundhati Roy

We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution

Jill Lepore

Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy

Julia Ioffe

Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler

Susana M Morris

We Did OK, Kid: A Memoir

Anthony Hopkins

When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

John Ganz

Patriot: A Memoir

Alexei Navalny

My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me

Caleb Carr

The Message

Ta-Nehisi Coates

My Good Bright Wolf: A Memoir

Sarah Moss

The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

Jesselyn Cook

Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive

Eliot Stein

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

Zoë Schlanger

Did I Ever Tell You?

Genevieve Kingston

Cher - The Memoir (The Cher Memoir, #1)

Cher

Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

Katherine Rundell

The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

Evan Friss

Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

Adam Higginbotham

The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City

Kevin Baker

Four Shots in the Night: A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland

Henry Hemming

How to Cook a Coyote: The Joy of Old Age

Betty Fussell

The War Within a War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and at Home

Wil Haygood

Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage

Heather Ann Thompson

The Science of Second Chances: A Revolution in Criminal Justice

Jennifer Doleac

Red Dawn Over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity

Frank Dikötter

The Sea Captain's Wife

Tilar J Mazzeo

Black Bear: A Story of Siblinghood and Survival

Trina Moyles

Island at the Edge of the World: The Forgotten History of Easter Island – A Provocative Archaeological Study of Colonial Legacy, Indigenous Reclamation, and the Collapse Myth

Mike Pitts

The Real Ones: How to Disrupt the Hidden Ways Racism Makes Us Less Authentic

Maya Rupert

Across the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of the Crossword Puzzle

Natan Last

Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage

Belle Burden

Playmakers: The Jewish Entrepreneurs Who Created the Toy Industry in America

Michael Kimmel

The Glorians: Visitations from the Holy Ordinary

Terry Tempest Williams

Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink, and Deviant Desire

Anastasiia Fedorova

Homeschooled: A Memoir

Stefan Merrill Block

Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece's Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece

James Romm

Everybody's Fly: A Life of Art, Music, and Changing the Culture

Fab 5 Freddy with Mark Rozzo

I Have Been Buried Under Years of Dust: A Memoir of Autism and Hope

Valerie Gilpeer and Emily Grodin

The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir

Martha S. Jones

The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I's Dream

Charles Spencer

Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel

Edwin Frank

The Showman

Simon Shuster

I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays

Nell Irvin Painter

In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

Sebastian Junger

The Leaving Season: A Memoir in Essays

Kelly McMasters

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

Cat Bohannon

Stay True

Hua Hsu

Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times

Azar Nafisi

What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Afterlife of Paradise Lost

Orlando Reade

Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia

Elizabeth Catte

The Reopening of the Western Mind: The Resurgence of Intellectual Life from the End of Antiquity to the Dawn of theEnlightenment

Charles Freeman

Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography

Staci Robinson

Balanchine's Apprentice: From Hollywood to New York and Back

John Clifford

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

Robert P. Jones

Yogi: A Life Behind the Mask

Jon Pessah

City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong

Antony Dapiran

Tom Stoppard: A Life

Hermione Lee

There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness

M Leona Godin

Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation

Hannah Gadsby

Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial

Corban Addison

107 Days

Kamala Harris

Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy

Henry Kissinger

The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People

Rick Bragg

American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis

Adam Hochschild

The Lyrics

Paul McCartney, Ed. by Paul Muldoon