Booked Up: The Best Books of 2025
America, América: A New History of the New World
Greg Grandin
(Penguin/Random House)
Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea
Marcus Rediker
(Penguin/Random House)
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
Omar El Akkad
(Penguin/Random House)
Crumb: a Cartoonist’s Life
Dan Nadel
(Simon & Schuster)
Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley
Jacob Silverman
(Bloomsbury)
Is a River Alive?
Robert Macfarlane
(Norton)
They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals
Mariah Blake
(Penguin/Random House)
Assassins of Memory: Critical Pedagogy and the Politics of Erasure
Henry Giroux
(Bloomsbury)
Tigers Between Empires: The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China
Jonathan Slaght
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy
Laleh Khalili
(Verso)
The Trees are Speaking: Dispatches From the Salmon Forests
Lynda V. Mapes
(Washington)
Hardcore Punk in the Age of Reagan: The Lyrical Lashing of an American Presidency
Robert Fitzgerald
(North Carolina)
Citizens of the Whole World: Anti-Zionism and the Cultures of the American Jewish Left
Benjamin Balthaser
(Verso)
Pretend We’re Dead: The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of Women in Rock in the ’90s
Tanya Pearson
(DaCapo)
Little Red Barns: Hiding the Truth, From Farm to Fable
Will Potter
(City Lights)
The Manifesto of Herman Melville
Barry Sanders
(OR Books)
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