Get ahead of the crowd with these great recent releases that may not be on the New York Times bestseller list, but that have critics and readers talking.
January - March 2025 Issue
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Abrahamian, Atossa Araxia. The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World.
Abu Toha, Mosab. Forest of Noise: Poems.
Aciman, André. Roman Year: A Memoir.
Anolik, Lili. Didion & Babitz.
Atwood, Margaret. Paper Boat: New and Selected Poems: 1961 – 2023.
Balascio, April. Raised by a Serial Killer: Discovering the Truth About My Father.
Brathwaite, Lester Fabian. Rage: On Being Queer, Black, Brilliant . . . and Completely Over It.
Bren, Paulina. She-Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street.
Brotton, Jerry. Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction.
Brown, Craig. Q: A Voyage Around the Queen.
Caffall, Eiren. The Mourner's Bestiary.
Carrère, Emmanuel. V13: Chronicle of a Trial.
Chomsky, Noam. The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Endangers Policy the World.
Collins, Billy. Water, Water: Poems.
Conger, Kate and Mac, Ryan. Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter.
Cuadros, Alex. When We Sold God's Eye: Diamonds, Murder, and a Clash of Worlds in the Amazon.
Davis, Kenneth C. The World in Books: 52 Works of Great Short Nonfiction.
DiMeo, Nate. The Memory Palace: True Short Stories of the Past.
Edim, Glory. Gather Me: A Memoir in Praise of the Books that Saved Me.
Fensterstock, Alison. How Women Made Music: A Revolutionary History from NPR Music.
Fernando, S.H., Jr. The Chronicles of DOOM: Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast.
Frank, Edwin. Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel.
French, Paul. Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties, and the Making of Wallis Simpson.
Gabriele, Matthew. Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers that Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe.
Giaimo, Cara. Atlas Obscura: Wild Life: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Living Wonders.
Gilbert, Julie. Giant Love: Edna Ferber, Her Best-Selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American Film.
Graham, Elyse. Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II.
Greenberg, David. John Lewis: A Life.
Hamilton, Kate. Mad Wife: A Memoir.
Hamilton, Nigel. Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents.
Han, Hahrie. Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church.
Hargrove, Nikkya. Mama: A Queer Black Woman’s Story of a Family Lost and Found.
Hasegawa, Tsuyoshi. The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs.
Hughes-Hallett, Lucy. The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham.
Idle, Eric. The Spamalot Diaries.
Jacobsen, Rowan. Wild Chocolate: Across the Americas in Search of Cacao's Soul. Ebook
Jähner, Harald. Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany.
Johnson, Ayana Elizabeth. What If We Get It Right?: Visions of Climate Futures.
Jones, Dan. Henry V: The Astonishing Triumph of England’s Greatest Warrior King.
Kahler, Abbott. Eden Undone: A True Story of Sex, Murder, and Utopia at the Dawn of World War II.
King, Charles. Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah.
Labrie, Sarah. No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir.
Levy, Deborah. The Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies.
Mayer, Youngmi. I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying: A Memoir.
Miller, Douglas K. Washita Love Child: The Rise of Indigenous Rock Star Jesse Ed Davis.
Molesworth, Helen. Precious: The History and Mystery of Gems Across Time.
Moore, Marcus J. High and Rising: A Book About De La Soul.
Moss, Sarah. My Good Bright Wolf: A Memoir.
Munson, Richard. Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist.
National Museum of African American History and Culture. In Slavery's Wake: Making
Black Freedom in the World.
Neal, Jennifer. My Pisces Heart: A Black Immigrant's Search for Home Across Four Continents.
O’Heir, Jim. Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of Friendship, Waffles, and Parks and Recreation.
Omokha, Rita. Resist: How a Century of Young Black Activists Shaped America.
Panek, Richard. Pillars of Creation: How the James Webb Telescope Unlocked the Secrets of the Cosmos.
Parr, Patrick. Malcolm Before X.
Prem, Deja Vu. Beyond the Mountains: An Immigrant's Inspiring Journey of Healing and Learning to Dance with the Universe.
Rainbow, Randy. Low-Hanging Fruit: Sparkling Whines, Champagne Problems, and Pressing Issues from My Gay Agenda.
Ramos, Paola. Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America.
Randall, David K. Into Unknown Skies: An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First Flight Around the World.
Reeder, Lydia. The Cure for Women: Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi and the Challenge to Victorian Medicine That Changed Women's Lives Forever.
Richardson, Elsa. Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut: The Secret Story of the Body's Most Fascinating Organ.
Robertson, Aaron. The Black Utopians: Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America.
Rosner, Elizabeth. Third Ear: Reflections on the Art and Science of Listening.
Rybczynski, Witold. The Driving Machine: A Design History of the Car.
Sacks, Oliver. Letters.
Schmitt, Armin. The Lost World of the Dinosaurs: Uncovering the Secrets of the Prehistoric Age.
Schoch, Richard. How Sondheim Can Change Your Life.
Schuettpelz, Carrie Lowry. The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America.
Sobel, Dava. The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science.
Somerset, Anne. Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers: Her Life, the Imperial Ideal, and the Politics and Turmoil That Shaped Her Extraordinary Reign.
Stein, Eliot. Custodians of Wonder: Ancient Customs, Profound Traditions, and the Last People Keeping Them Alive.
Sullivan, Jared. Valley So Low: One Lawyer’s Fight for Justice in the Wake of America’s Great Coal Catastrophe.
Thomas, Abigail. Still Life at Eighty: The Next Interesting Thing.
Wawro, Geoffrey. The Vietnam War: A Military History.
Wilson, Randall K. A Place Called Yellowstone: The Epic History of the World’s First National Park.
Witt, Emily. Health and Safety: A Breakdown.