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

Gambling with Armageddon: Nuclear Roulette from Hiroshima to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1945-1962

Martin J. Sherwin

Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

Rachel Maddow

Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis

Jonathan Blitzer

King: A Life

Jonathan Eig

Magdalena: River of Dreams

Wade Davis

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

Virginia Roberts Giuffre; Amy Wallace

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

Emma Dabiri

Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement

Tarana Burke

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

Vincent Bevins

Black Futures

Kimberly Drew; Jenna Wortham

Pessoa: A Biography

Richard Zenith

Our Enemies Will Vanish: The Russian Invasion and Ukraine's War of Independence

Yaroslav Trofimov

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

Heather McGhee

The Undocumented Americans

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

Merlin Sheldrake

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

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

Yusef Salaam

Until the Last Gun Is Silent: A Story of Patriotism, the Vietnam War, and the Fight to Save America's Soul

Matthew F. Delmont

Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments

Joe Posnanski

The Successor: Boris Nemtsov, Vladimir Putin and the Decline of Modern Russia

Mikhail Fishman; Michele A. Berdy; Михаил Фишман

Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching

Rachel Marie-Crane Williams; Julie Armstrong; C. Tyrone Forehand; Mariame Kaba

Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness

Laura Coates

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

Tallu Quinn

Coming Home

Brittney Griner; Michelle Burford

My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route

Sally Hayden

American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics

Kevin Hazzard

We Survived the Night

Julian Brave NoiseCat

The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald

John U. Bacon

The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943

James Holland

The Enduring Wild: A Journey Into California's Public Lands

Josh Jackson

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

Robert P. Jones

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Omar El Akkad

The American Revolution: An Intimate History

Geoffrey C. Ward; Ken Burns

A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler

Nathan Kernan

Not My Type: One Woman vs. a President

E. Jean Carroll

They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals

Mariah Blake

No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson

Gardiner Harris

Too Good to Be Altogether Lost: Rediscovering Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House Books

Pamela Smith Hill

The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb

Garrett M. Graff

Apple in China: The Capture of the World's Greatest Company

Patrick McGee

Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run

Paul McCartney; Ted Widmer

Black Genius: Essays on an American Legacy

Tre Johnson

Joyride: A Memoir

Susan Orlean

Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping's China

Emily Feng

Jane Austen's Bookshelf

Rebecca Romney

Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings

Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

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

Caleb Carr

The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

Byron: A Life in Ten Letters

Andrew M. Stauffer

Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring

Brad Gooch

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

Adam Shatz

Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity

Diarmaid MacCulloch

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

Zoë Schlanger

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

Adam Higginbotham

I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays

Nell Irvin Painter

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

Steve Coll

Malcolm Before X

Patrick Parr

Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters

Charan Ranganath

Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church

Hahrie Han

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

Eliot Stein

We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds

Sally Adee

A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy and War at Oxford, 1900-1960

Nikhil Krishnan

The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

Ned Blackhawk

Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

Ben Goldfarb

Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal

Bettina L. Love

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

Cat Bohannon

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

Ian Johnson

Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility

Martha C. Nussbaum

Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage

Jonny Steinberg

Time's Echo: The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance

Jeremy Eichler

The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean

Susan Casey

Lou Reed: The King of New York

Will Hermes

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

Jeff Goodell

You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America

Paul Kix

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

Benjamin Balint

Finding Me

Viola Davis

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

Erich Schwartzel

One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World

Michael Frank; Maira Kalman

Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet

George Monbiot

Healing: Our Path from Mental Illness to Mental Health

Thomas Insel

Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life

Alice Wong

And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle

Jon Meacham

Voice of the Fish: A Lyric Essay

Lars Horn

Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War

Roger Lowenstein

How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future

Maria Ressa; Amal Clooney

Where the Children Take Us: How One Family Achieved the Unimaginable

Zain E. Asher

Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World

Barry Lopez; Rebecca Solnit

In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage

Silvia Vasquez-Lavado

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

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop

Danyel Smith

Francis Bacon: Revelations

Mark Stevens; Annalyn Swan

The Problem of Alzheimer's: How Science, Culture, and Politics Turned a Rare Disease into a Crisis and What We Can Do About It

Jason Karlawish

Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood

Dawn Turner

House of Sticks

Ly Tran

My Remarkable Journey: A Memoir

Katherine G. Johnson; Joylette Hylick; Katherine G. Moore

Comeback Season: My Unlikely Story of Friendship with the Greatest Living Negro League Baseball Players

Cam Perron; Hank Aaron; Nick Chiles

Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

Howard W. French

Redeeming Justice: From Defendant to Defender, My Fight for Equity on Both Sides of a Broken System

Jarrett Adams

The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism

Kyla Schuller; Brittney Cooper

Walk with Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer

Kate Clifford Larson

The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth

Jonathan Rauch

The Essential Kerner Commission Report

Jelani Cobb; Matthew Guariglia

American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850

Alan Taylor

Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

Laurence Rees

The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe

Mark Mazower

150 Glimpses of the Beatles

Craig Brown

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker, 1965–2000

Alice Walker; Valerie Boyd

Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History

Paul Farmer

Paying the Land

Joe Sacco

World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

Aimee Nezhukumatathil; Fumi Nakamura

Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused

Melissa Maerz

Pastoral Song: A Farmer's Journey

James Rebanks

Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America

María Hinojosa

Monopolized: Life in the Age of Corporate Power

David Dayen

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

Kim Ghattas

Diary of a Young Naturalist

Dara McAnulty

Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

Lauren Redniss

Black Futures

Kimberly Drew; Jenna Wortham

The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America

Eric Cervini

Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town

Barbara Demick

Another Word for Love: A Memoir

Carvell Wallace

Last On His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century

Youssef Daoudi; Adrian Matejka

Sybille Bedford: A Life

Selina Shirley Hastings

The Exceptions: Nancy Hopkins, MIT, and the Fight for Women in Science

Kate Zernike

Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres

Kelefa Sanneh

Charles Sumner: Conscience of a Nation

Zaakir Tameez

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

Roberto Lovato

Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions

Batja Mesquita

Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction

David George Haskell

This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch: The Joy of Loving Something--Anything--Like Your Life Depends On It

Tabitha Carvan

Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

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

Erich Schwartzel

JFK: Public, Private, Secret

J. Randy Taraborrelli

The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty

Natalie Livingstone

Nothing More of This Land: Community, Power, and the Search for Indigenous Identity

Joseph V. Lee

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

Peter Baker; Susan Glasser

Vagabond

Tim Curry

Making It So

Patrick Stewart

Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original

Howard Bryant

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

Siddharth Kara

Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage

Belle Burden

Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace

Carl Safina

Notes on Grief

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America

Fergus M. Bordewich

Defiance: A Memoir of Awakening, Rebellion, and Survival in Syria

Loubna Mrie

Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction

Lynne Olson

There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

Rory Carroll

Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment's Bloody War from D-Day to VE-Day

James Holland

How to Sell a Poison: The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT

Elena Conis

Stalin's War: A New History of World War II

Sean McMeekin

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