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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