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New Books November 2025

Business

Bad company : private equity and the death of the American dream / Megan Greenwell.

Fusion strategy : how real-time data and AI will power the industrial future / Vijay Govindarajan and Venkat Venkatraman.

Criminal Justice

Dismantling mass incarceration : a handbook for change / edited by Premal Dharia, James Forman, and Maria Hawilo.

Locking up our own : crime and punishment in black America / James Forman.

Private criminal justice : how private parties are enforcing criminal law and transforming our justice system / Ric Simmons.

Fine Arts

A little history of music / Robert Philip.

Double exposure : resurveying the West with Timothy O'Sullivan, America's most mysterious war photographer / Robert Sullivan.

Errand into the maze : the life and works of Martha Graham / Deborah Jowitt.

The natural history of Edward Lear / Robert McCracken Peck.

Paris in ruins : love, war, and the birth of impressionism / Sebastian Smee.

History

The age of Reconstruction : how Lincoln's new birth of freedom remade the world / Don Harrison Doyle.

America, América : a new history of the New World / Greg Grandin.

American dark age : racial feudalism and the rise of Black liberalism / Keidrick Roy.

China : a new history / John King Fairbank and Merle Goldman.

In the shadow of liberty : the invisible history of immigrant detention in the United States / Ana Raquel Minian.

King of kings : the Iranian revolution : a story of hubris, delusion and catastrophic miscalculation / Scott Anderson.

Ours was the shining future : the story of the American dream / David Leonhardt.

Reagan : his life and legend / Max Boot.

We refuse : a forceful history of Black resistance / Kellie Carter Jackson.

When the sea came alive : an oral history of D-Day / Garrett M. Graff.

Math and Natural Sciences

Advances in ecological research, volume 72. Ecological horizons. Part 1 : from nature to people / edited by Alex J. Dumbrell

Every living thing : the great and deadly race to know all life / Jason Roberts.

Fire and flood : a people's history of climate change, from 1979 to the present / Eugene Linden.

Tree by tree : saving North America's eastern forests / Scott J. Meiners.

The war below : lithium, copper, and the global battle to power our lives / Ernest Scheyder.

Social Sciences

AI needs you : how we can change AI's future and save our own / Verity Harding.

Dictionary of gestures : expressive comportments and movements in use around the world / François Caradec; illustrated by Philippe Cousin; translated by Chris Clarke.

How fascism works : the politics of us and them / Jason Stanley.

One day, everyone will have always been against this / Omar El Akkad.

Rationality : what it is, why it seems scarce, why it matters / Steven Pinker.

Seeing like a commons : eighty years of intentional community building and commons stewardship in Celo, North Carolina / Joshua Lockyer.

Teaching White supremacy : America's democratic ordeal and the forging of our national identity / Donald Yacovone.

Viral justice : how we grow the world we want / Ruha Benjamin.

We the people : a history of the U.S. Constitution / Jill Lepore.

When bad things happen to privileged people : race, gender, and what makes a crisis in America / Dara Z. Strolovitch.

Social Work

Travelers to unimaginable lands : stories of dementia, the caregiver, and the human brain / Dasha Kiper.

Wards of the state : the long shadow of American foster care / Claudia Rowe.

Curriculum

In every life / Marla Frazee.

Shark teeth / Sherri Winston.

Fiction

The bees / Laline Paull.

The best short stories 2025 : the O. Henry Prize winners / edited by Edward P. Jones.

Flesh : a novel / David Szalay.

Headshot : a novel / Rita Bullwinkel.

The new wilderness : a novel / Diane Cook.

People like us : or The other continent, or Johnny Wordcount stumbles into a high-end croissant bar on the Seine in search of The Kid & orders the big dream / Jason Mott.

Polostan / Neal Stephenson.

Remarkably bright creatures : a novel / Shelby Van Pelt.

Check out our new Popular Fiction as well!