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.
July - September 2025 Issue
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Aziza, Sarah. The Hollow Half: A Memoir of Bodies and Borders.
Becker, Adam. More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity.
Bienstock, Richard and Beaujour, Tom. Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Story of Alternative Rock's Wildest Festival.
Blake, Mariah. They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals.
Bolin, Alice. Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse.
Burrough, Bryan. The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild.
Chen, Anelise. Clam Down: A Metamorphosis.
Christensen, Lauren. Firstborn.
Chu, Andrea Long. Authority: Essays.
Clark, Tiana. Scorched Earth: Poems.
Cockerell, Rachel. Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land.
Dalrymple, William. The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World.
De Robertis, Caro. So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color.
Dickinson, Elizabeth Evitts. Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free.
Dominus, Susan. The Family Dynamic: A Journey into the Mystery of Sibling Success.
Dunthorne, Joe. Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance.
Febos, Melissa. The Dry Season: A Memoir of Pleasure in a Year Without Sex.
Filgate, Michele. What My Father and I Don't Talk About: Sixteen Writers Break the Silence.
Fugett, Karie. Alive Day: A Memoir.
Goldstone, Brian. There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America. Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Grandin, Greg. America, América: A New History of the New World.
Green, Elon. The Man Nobody Killed: Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart's New York.
Greene, A. Kendra. No Less Strange or Wonderful: Essays in Curiosity.
Greenwell, Megan. Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream.
Gurung, Prabal. Walk Like a Girl: A Memoir.
Gustafson, Courtney. Poets Square: A Memoir in Thirty Cats.
Hage, Dave and Marcotty, Josephine. Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie.
Hagey, Keach. The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future.
Harris, Malcolm. What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis.
Hess, Amanda. Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age.
Hoffman, Claire. Sister, Sinner: The Miraculous Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson.
James, Rachel McCarthy. Whack Job: A History of Axe Murder.
Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne. Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings.
Jiménez, Cristina. Dreaming of Home: How We Turn Fear into Pride, Power, and Real Change.
Knox, Amanda. Free: My Search for Meaning. Downloadable audiobook
Kriegel, Mark. Baddest Man: The Making of Mike Tyson.
Kureishi, Hanif. Shattered.
Larocca, Amy. How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a Time.
Leavitt, Danielle. By the Second Spring: Seven Lives and One Year of the War in Ukraine.
Li, Yiyun. Things in Nature Merely Grow.
MacCulloch, Diarmaid. Lower Than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity.
McWhorter, John H. Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words.
Nadel, Dan. Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life.
Nguyen, Viet Thanh. To Save and Destroy: Writing as an Other.
Pember, Mary Annette. Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools. Ebook, downloadable audiobook
Perry, Andre M. Black Power Scorecard: Measuring the Racial Gap and What We Can Do to Close It.
Prideaux, Sue. Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin.
Read, Bridget. Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Scheme Shaped America.
Rediker, Marcus. Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea.
Risen, Clay. Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America.
Rodell, Besha. Hunger Like a Thirst: From Food Stamps to Fine Dining, a Restaurant Critic Finds Her Place at the Table.
Ruhl, Sarah. Lessons from My Teachers: From Preschool to the Present.
Russo, Richard. Life and Art: Essays.
Sack, Kevin. Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church.
Sciolino, Elaine. Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World's Greatest Museum.
Seabrook, John. The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty.
Sheff, David. Yoko: A Biography.
Shukla, Dr. Jagadish. A Billion Butterflies: A Life in Climate and Chaos Theory.
Simpson, Erika J. This Is Your Mother: A Memoir.
Smith, Jennie Erin. Valley of Forgetting: Alzheimer’s Families and the Search for a Cure.
Sosenko, Carla. I'll Look So Hot in a Coffin: and Other Thoughts I Used to Have About My Body.
Starkey, Brando Simeo. Their Accomplices Wore Robes: How the Supreme Court Chained Black America to the Bottom of a Racial Caste System.
Summerscale, Kate. The Peepshow: The Murders at Rillington Place.
Tammet, Daniel. Nine Minds: Inner Lives on the Spectrum.
Theoharis, Jeanne. King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South.
Thomas, Jordan. When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World.
Tourmaline. Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson.
Vara, Vauhini. Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age.
Viorst, Judith. Making the Best of What's Left: When We're Too Old to Get the Chairs Reupholstered. Downloadable audiobook
Walker, Shaun. The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and Their Century-Long Mission to Infiltrate the West.
Weisman, Alan. Hope Dies Last: Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future.
Weymouth, Adam. Lone Wolf: Walking the Line Between Civilization and Wildness.
Whitaker, Mark. The Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon’s Enduring Impact on America.
Williams, Dana A. Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer's Legendary Editorship.
Young, Michelle. The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland.