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

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

Ben Goldfarb

Black Futures

Kimberly Drew; Jenna Wortham

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

Jonathan Blitzer

The Showman

Simon Shuster

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

Martin J. Sherwin

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Patrick Radden Keefe

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

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

Kate Beaton

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

Cat Bohannon

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

Heather McGhee

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

John Green

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

Merlin Sheldrake

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

John Garth

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

Ian W. Toll

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

Ibram X. Kendi; Keisha N. Blain

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

Letters to My White Male Friends

Dax-Devlon Ross

Playing with Myself

Randy Rainbow

Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains

Alexa Hagerty

Frog: And Other Essays

Anne Fadiman; Sam Anderson

The Last Manager: How Earl Weaver Tricked, Tormented, and Reinvented Baseball

John W. Miller

When America Stopped Being Great: A History of the Present

Nick Bryant

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

John Garth

Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power

Jefferson R. Cowie

You Can Be the Last Leaf: Selected Poems

Maayaa Abau Al-Ohayyaat

Carville's Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice

Pam Fessler

I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World

Rachel Nuwer

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

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor

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

Paul Kix

You Got Anything Stronger?

Gabrielle Union; Kevin Carr O'Leary

Deep Delta Justice: A Black Teen, His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the South

Matthew Van Meter

Memorial Days

Geraldine Brooks

Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts

Margaret Atwood

A Day Like Any Other: The Life of James Schuyler

Nathan Kernan

The Waterbearers: A Memoir of Mothers and Daughters

Sasha Bonét

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

Mariah Blake

Black Genius: Essays on an American Legacy

Tre Johnson

Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy

Mary Roach

A Year with the Seals: Unlocking the Secrets of the Sea's Most Charismatic and Controversial Creatures

Alix Morris

Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free

Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson

Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America – A Powerful Story from Counterculture to Hollywood Legend

Jeff Chang

Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford

Carla Kaplan

Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist

Daniel Pollack-Pelzner

Art Work: On the Creative Life

Sally Mann

Three or More Is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here: 2012-2025

Jelani Cobb

Raising Hare: A Memoir

Chloe Dalton

I Just Keep Talking: A Life in Essays

Nell Irvin Painter

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

Nicola Twilley

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

Henry Hemming

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

Kevin Baker

Another Word for Love: A Memoir

Carvell Wallace

Patriot: A Memoir

Alexei Navalny; Алексей Навальный

The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World

Robin Wall Kimmerer; John Burgoyne

Out of the Darkness: The Germans, 1942-2022

Frank Trentmann

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

Eliot Stein

Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

Keith O'Brien

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

James Kaplan

Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church

Hahrie Han

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

Zoë Schlanger

The Lucky Ones

Zara Chowdhary

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

Shefali Luthra

Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage

Jonny Steinberg

Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country

Patricia Evangelista

Creep: Accusations and Confessions

Myriam Gurba

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

Alex Pappademas; Joan LeMay

The Deadline

Jill Lepore

Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World

Henry Grabar

The Diaries of Franz Kafka (The Schocken Kafka Library)

Franz Kafka; Ross Benjamin

What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds

Jennifer Ackerman

Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains

Alexa Hagerty

The Six: The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts

Loren Grush

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

Timothy Egan

Life on Delay: Making Peace with a Stutter

John Hendrickson

The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean

Susan Casey

Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

Melissa L. Sevigny

Rough Sleepers

Tracy Kidder

Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy

Jamie Raskin

Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm

Dan Charnas

The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions

Greta Thunberg

Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self

Andrea Wulf

Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness

Laura Coates

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

Will Jawando

All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: Hope—And Hard Pills to Swallow—About Fighting for Black Lives

Andre Henry

The Rise: Kobe Bryant and the Pursuit of Immortality

Mike Sielski

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

Elena Conis

In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss

Amy Bloom

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

Andy Greenberg

Freedom's Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power

Jefferson R. Cowie

Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands

Kelly Lytle Hernández

Democratic Justice: Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court, and the Making of the Liberal Establishment

Brad Snyder

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

Sally Hayden

Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres

Kelefa Sanneh

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

Wes Ely

Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain

Sathnam Sanghera; Marlon James

Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching

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

Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History

Lea Ypi

Nonbinary: Personal essays exploring gender outside the binary and carving out space.

Genesis P-Orridge

Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages

Dan Jones

Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love

Rebecca Frankel

The Nazis Knew My Name

Magda Hellinger; Maya Lee; David Brewster

Madhouse at the End of the Earth: The Belgica's Journey into the Dark Antarctic Night

Julian Sancton

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

Tarana Burke

Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX

Eric Berger

The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice

Scott Ellsworth

Alpha: Eddie Gallagher and the War for the Soul of the Navy SEALs

David Philipps

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

Rebecca Hall; Hugo Martínez

Choice Words: Writers on Abortion

Annie Finch

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

Hadley Freeman

JFK: Coming Of Age In The American Century, 1917-1956

Fredrik Logevall

Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times

David S. Reynolds

The Meaning of Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey; Michaela Angela Davis

Mozart: The Reign of Love

Jan Swafford

The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War

Michael Gorra

The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart

Alicia Garza

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

Roberto Lovato

The Best of Me

David Sedaris

Golem Girl: A Memoir

Riva Lehrer

Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art

Rebecca Wragg Sykes

Separated: Inside an American Tragedy

Jacob Soboroff

A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom

Brittany K. Barnett

Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1938-1941

Alan Allport

Home Made: A Story of Grief, Groceries, Showing Up--and What We Make When We Make Dinner

Liz Hauck

A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents

Mary-Alice Daniel

Squirrel Hill: The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting and the Soul of a Neighborhood

Mark Oppenheimer

The Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly: Portraits and Sketches, 1942-2011

Edith Schloss; Mary Venturini

Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

Katherine Rundell

Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire

Lizzie Johnson

Beyond: The Astonishing Story of the First Human to Leave Our Planet and Journey into Space

Stephen Walker

White Magic: Essays

Elissa Washuta

Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine

Padraic X. Scanlan

Paper Cuts

Ted Kessler

Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands

Kelly Lytle Hernández

Sentient: How Animals Illuminate the Wonder of Our Human Senses

Jackie Higgins

Judy Blume: A Life

Mark Oppenheimer

How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

Michael Schur

Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins

Barbara Demick

Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

Keith O'Brien

You Got Anything Stronger?

Gabrielle Union; Kevin Carr O'Leary

The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War

Giles Tremlett

A Night at the Sweet Gum Head: Drag, Drugs, Disco, and Atlanta's Gay Revolution

Martin Padgett

Give Me Liberty: The True Story of Oswaldo Payá and his Daring Quest for a Free Cuba

David E. Hoffman

The Pink Line: Journeys Across the World's Queer Frontiers

Mark Gevisser

Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir

Natasha Trethewey

The Barcelona Complex: Lionel Messi and the Making--and Unmaking--of the World's Greatest Soccer Club

Simon Kuper

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

John Garth

A Wild Idea

Jonathan Franklin

We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance

Kellie Carter Jackson

Power and Liberty: Constitutionalism in the American Revolution

Gordon S. Wood

When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World

Jordan Thomas

In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage

Silvia Vasquez-Lavado

It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him

Justin Tinsley

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