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.
April - June 2025 Issue
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Adams, Michelle. The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North.
Badawi, Zeinab. An African History of Africa.
Baggini, Julian. How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy.
Baker, Josephine. Fearless and Free: A Memoir. (trans. Sophie R. Lewis and Anam Zafar) Downloadable audiobook
Bardenwerper, Will. Homestand: Small Town Baseball and the Fight for the Soul of America.
Benjamin, Rich. Talk to Me: Lessons from a Family Forged by History.
Betancourt, Manuel. Hello Stranger: Musings on Modern Intimacies.
Black, Riley. When the Earth Was Green: Plants, Animals, and Evolution’s Greatest Romance.
Bonhomme, Edna. A History of the World in Six Plagues: How Contagion, Class, and Captivity Shaped Us, from Cholera to COVID-19.
Boylan, Jennifer Finney. Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us.
Carr, Nicholas. Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart.
Chaplin, Joyce E. The Franklin Stove: An Unintended American Revolution.
Chihaya, Sarah. Bibliophobia: A Memoir. Downloadable audiobook
Chu, Jeff. Good Soil: The Education of an Accidental Farmhand.
Clapp, Alexander. Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash.
Clark, Nicola. The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens: A History.
Conley, Dalton. The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture.
Dowd, Maureen. Notorious: Portraits of Stars from Hollywood, Culture, Fashion, and Tech.
Ewing, Eve L. Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism.
Feng, Emily. Let Only Red Flowers Bloom: Identity and Belonging in Xi Jinping's China.
Ferrell, Kari. You'll Never Believe Me: A Life of Lies, Second Tries, and Things I Should Only Tell My Therapist. Ebook
Goffe, Tao Leigh. Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis.
Gordon, Linda. Seven Social Movements That Changed America.
Gordon, Meryl. The Woman Who Knew Everyone: The Power of Perle Mesta, Washington’s Most Famous Hostess.
Gorton, Stephanie. The Icon and the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America.
Grae, Jean. In My Remaining Years.
Gray, Kurt. Outraged: Why We Fight About Morality and Politics and How to Find Common Ground.
Gross, Michael Joseph. Stronger: The Untold Story of Muscle in Our Lives.
Hammer, Joshua. The Mesopotamian Riddle: An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World's Oldest Writing.
Hanley, Phil. Spellbound: My Life as a Dyslexic Wordsmith.
Hanson, Thor. Close to Home: The Wonders of Nature Just Outside Your Door.
Hawkins, Lee. I Am Nobody's Slave: How Uncovering My Family's History Set Me Free.
Jones, Martha S. The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir.
Jones, Sarah. Disposable: America’s Contempt for the Underclass.
Kennedy, Pagan. The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story.
Koul, Scaachi. Sucker Punch: Essays.
Krist, Gary. Trespassers at the Golden Gate: A True Account of Love, Murder, and Madness in Gilded-Age San Francisco.
Kwon, Giaae. I'll Love You Forever: Notes from a K-Pop Fan.
Lynskey, Dorian. Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About the End of the World.
Madison, Ira III. Pure Innocent Fun: Essays.
Martin, Kristen. The Sun Won’t Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood. Ebook
Miele, Joshua A. and Wendell Jamieson. Connecting Dots: A Blind Life.
Moses, Omo. The White Peril: A Family Memoir.
Mystal, Elie. Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America.
Nixey, Catherine. Heretic: Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God.
O’Meara, Mallory. Daughter of Daring: The Trick-Riding, Train-Leaping, Road-Racing Life of Helen Gibson, Hollywood’s First Stuntwoman.
Oney, Steve. On Air: The Triumph and Tumult of NPR.
Ó Tuama, Pádraig. 44 Poems on Being with Each Other: A Poetry Unbound Collection.
Owen, Michael. Ira Gershwin: A Life in Words.
Parten, Bennett. Somewhere Toward Freedom: Sherman’s March and the Story of America’s Largest Emancipation.
Pearson, Tanya. Pretend We're Dead: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Women in Rock in the ’90s.
Pelly, Liz. Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist.
Perry, Imani. Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People.
Plunkett, Adam. Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost’s Poetry.
Reade, Orlando. What in Me Is Dark: The Revolutionary Afterlife of Paradise Lost.
Reichert, Bonny. How to Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty. Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Robinson, Callum. Ingrained: The Making of a Craftsman.
Romney, Rebecca. Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend. Ebook
Rooks, Noliwe. Integrated: How American Schools Failed Black Children.
Roper, Lyndal. Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants’ War.
Scanlan, Padraic X. Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine.
Sen, Mayukh. Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star.
Shade, Colette. Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was).
Shenon, Philip. Jesus Wept: Seven Popes and the Battle for the Soul of the Catholic Church. Ebook
Shubin, Neil. Ends of the Earth: Journeys to the Polar Regions in Search of Life, the Cosmos, and Our Future.
Smil, Vaclav. How to Feed the World: The History and Future of Food.
Stone, Daniel. American Poison: A Deadly Invention and the Woman Who Battled for Environmental Justice.
Toobin, Jeffrey. The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy.
Torres Medina, Felipe. America, Let Me In: A Choose Your Immigration Story.
White, Edmund. The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir.
Williams, Juan. New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America's Second Civil Rights Movement.
Yuknavitch, Lidia. Reading the Waves: A Memoir.
Zimmer, Carl. Air-Borne: The Hidden History of the Life We Breathe.
Zusak, Markus. Three Wild Dogs (and the Truth): A Memoir. Ebook