Top 10
Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity
Paul Kingsnorth. Thesis, Sept. 23 ($32, ISBN 978-0-593-85063-3)
The forces of technology and capitalism that seem to be enveloping the planet are explored, and opposed, in this rumination from novelist and essayist Kingsnorth.
Amateurs! How We Built Internet Culture and Why It Matters
Joanna Walsh. Verso, Sept. 9 ($24.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-83976-539-1)
The author of Girl Online examines how online creativity, fueled by user-generated aesthetics, has slowly been professionalized and co-opted, including for the training of AI.
Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Cory Doctorow. MCD, Oct. 7 ($30, ISBN 978-0-374-61932-9)
Tech journalist and sci-fi novelist Doctorow elaborates on the term he’s coined for the ever-decreasing quality of the internet.
The Eyes of Gaza
Plestia Alaqad. Little, Brown, Sept. 30 ($18.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-316-59745-6)
Excerpts from Alaqad’s diary chronicle her experiences as an early broadcaster of Gaza’s destruction, which she documented on Instagram.
Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley
Jacob Silverman. Bloomsbury Continuum, Oct. 7 ($30, ISBN 978-1-3994-1998-7)
The increasingly outlandish beliefs of tech billionaires and their efforts to implement a radical political agenda are investigated by journalist Silverman. 50,000-copy announced first printing.
Girls Play Dead: Acts of Self-Preservation
Jen Percy. Doubleday, Nov. 11 ($28, ISBN 978-0-385-55004-8)
Profiling women who have experienced trauma, journalist Percy outlines how their lives are dominated by fight-or-flight survival strategies. 50,000-copy announced first printing.
Miracle Children: Race, Education, and a True Story of False Promises
Katie Benner and Erica L. Green. Metropolitan, Jan. 13 ($29.99, ISBN 978-1-250-75910-8)
Two New York Times journalists report on a majority-Black Louisiana prep school with a 100% college acceptance rate that was revealed to be embroiled in a college admissions scam trading on racial stereotypes. 60,000-copy announced first printing.
Off the Scales: The Inside Story of Ozempic and the Race to Cure Obesity
Aimee Donnellan. St. Martin’s, Sept. 9 ($30, ISBN 978-1-250-38906-0)
Donnellan, a reporter for Reuters, recaps the scientific discovery of GLP-1, and also probes whether the drug is being used to paper over social inequities and how the breakthrough’s female lead scientist had to fight for recognition.
Racebook: A Personal History of the Internet
Tochi Onyebuchi. Grove/Gay, Oct. 21 ($27, ISBN 978-0-8021-6625-8)
The evolving relationship between race and the internet over the past 30 years is examined by Hugo Award winner Onyebuchi.
Rehab: An American Scandal
Shoshana Walter. Simon & Schuster, Aug. 12 ($29.99, ISBN 978-1-9821-4982-6)
Pulitzer finalist Walter probes how for-profit rehab clinics have worsened the opioid epidemic.
Longlist
Abrams
What Happened to Millennials: In Defense of a Generation by Charlie Wells (Sept. 16, $28, ISBN 978-1-4197-7081-4) profiles five members of America’s largest living generation to explore how global and national events have impacted their private lives.
Amistad
Mounted: On Horses, Blackness, and Liberation by Bitter Kalli (Aug. 19, $22, ISBN 978-0-06-337175-0) examines cowboy imagery in Black life and culture, including the ways in which it reappropriates legacies of colonial violence as a source of power.
Arsenal Pulp
Of Floating Isles: On Growing Pains and Video Games by Kawika Guillermo (Sept. 2, $22.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-83405-006-5) weighs the transformative influence video games have on the inner lives of people who play them and interrogates their effects for good and ill on younger generations.
Astra House
Front Street: Resistance and Rebirth in the Tent Cities of Techlandia by Brian Barth (Nov. 11, $29, ISBN 978-1-6626-0161-3) profiles residents of Silicon Valley’s homeless encampments, exploring why homelessness is so difficult to solve and positing that the encampments pose contentious philosophical questions.
I Deliver Parcels in Beijing: One Man’s Quest to Speak the Truth About the Global Gig Economy by Hu Anyan, trans. by Jack Hargreaves (Oct. 28, $27, ISBN 978-1-6626-0304-4). In this Chinese bestseller, a gig worker recounts working odd jobs in a series of anonymized megacities, shedding light on a rarely seen aspect of the Chinese economy.
Bloomsbury
The Afghans: Three Lives Through War, Love, and Revolt by Åsne Seierstad (Aug. 5, $32.99, ISBN 978-1-63973-626-3). The Pulitzer-winning author of The Bookseller of Kabul paints a portrait of three young Afghans whose lives were turned upside down by the 2021 U.S. withdrawal.
Bold Type
The Trillion Dollar War Machine: How Runaway Military Spending Drives America into Foreign Wars and Bankrupts Us
at Home by William D. Hartung and Ben Freeman (Nov. 11, $30, ISBN 978-1-64503-063-8) investigates how the Pentagon’s budget flows into the coffers of private contractors and tech firms that are more interested in profit than global security.
Dial
Nowhere Girl: Life as a Member of ADHD’s Lost Generation by Carla Ciccone (Sept. 9, $29, ISBN 978-0-593-72951-9) examines the experiences of a generation of women whose ADHD was ignored while their male peers received treatment.
Diversion
Gold Bar Bob: The Downfall of the Most Corrupt U.S. Senator by Isabel Vincent and Thomas Jason Anderson (Oct. 14, $29.99, ISBN 979-8-89515-011-5) traces how New Jersey senator Bob Menendez went from anticorruption crusader to taking bribes and masterminding fraud schemes.
Dutton
Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy by Joyce Vance (Oct. 21, $28, ISBN 979-8-217-17811-7). The constitutional law scholar and author of the Civil Discourse newsletter lays out ways in which average people can fight back against the erosion of democracy under Trump.
Retribution: Donald Trump and the Campaign That Changed America by Jonathan Karl (Oct. 28, $32, ISBN 979-8-217-04700-0) is an account of the 2024 presidential campaign, with new revelations about key behind-the-scenes moments.
Gallery
Disney Adults: Exploring (and Falling in Love with) a Magical Subculture by A.J. Wolfe (Aug. 5, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-6680-6921-9) delves into the much maligned Disney Adult subculture and finds that it offers insights into contemporary notions of pleasure and passion.
Harmony
Before They Were Men: Essays on Manhood, Compassion, and What Went Wrong by Jacob Tobia (Aug. 26, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-79794-5). The nonbinary author reflects on how their own experiences of masculinity have led them to see men as suffering under patriarchy as much as women.
Haymarket
After Savagery: Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization by Hamid Dabashi (Sept. 30, $19.95 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-88890-450-3) indicts the Western system of ethics as having revealed itself to be morally bankrupt in its response to mass death in Gaza.
Displaced in Gaza: Stories from the Gaza Genocide by Yousef M. Aljamal et al. (Aug. 19, $19.95 trade paper, ISBN 979-8-88890-520-3) collects personal testimonies from Gaza that foreground resilience in the face of unimaginable suffering.
Little, Brown
American Reich: A Murder in Orange County and the New Age of Hate by Eric Lichtblau (Dec. 9, $30, ISBN 978-0-316-56471-7). The Pulitzer-winning author of the The Nazis Next Door reports on the resurgence of white supremacy in suburban L.A. through the lens of the 2018 murder of a gay Jewish college student by his former high school classmate.
Mariner
Firestorm: The Great Los Angeles Fires and America’s New Age of Disaster by Jake Soboroff (Jan. 6, $30, ISBN 978-0-06-346796-5) recounts the 2025 L.A. fires, which the author covered live as an NBC correspondent, with a focus on how the disaster presages the world to come in global warming’s wake.
Melville House
DILF: Did I Leave Feminism? by Jude Ellison S. Doyle (Oct. 14, $19.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-68589-215-9) reflects on the gap between feminist and trans politics, drawing on the author’s own experience transitioning as a prominent feminist commentator.
New York Review Books
Radical Universalism by Omri Boehm (Sept. 9, $17.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-68137-985-2) urges the return of universalism as a vital political force, arguing that it alone can resolve the polarization between an identity-obsessed left and right.
Norton
Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism by Thea Riofrancos (Sept. 23, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-324-03676-0) spotlights exploitative lithium mining operations that prop up the renewables industry.
Olive Branch
We Are Not Numbers: The Voices of Gaza’s Youth, edited by Ahmed Alnaouq and Pam Bailey (Sept. 2, $25, ISBN 978-1-62371-581-6). These firsthand accounts from young people were collected during a 10-year project that began in 2014 and continued through the horrors of the current conflict.
One World
Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age by Ibram X. Kendi (Oct. 7, $32, ISBN 978-0-593-97802-3). The author of How to Be an Antiracist returns with an examination of the authoritarian and xenophobic movements threatening democracies around the globe today.
Three or More Is a Riot: Notes on How We Got Here: 2012–Present by Jelani Cobb (Oct. 14, $32, ISBN 978-0-593-97820-7).
The Pulitzer finalist weaves original work into more than a decade’s worth of profiles and reports that explore, among other developments, how America has been convulsed by new social movements since 2014’s Black Lives Matter protests.
Other Press
City on Trial: Tolerance and Fear in New York by Michael Greenberg (Nov. 18, $15.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-63542-548-2) investigates the 2023 subway killing of Jordan Neely for what the episode reveals about how an atmosphere of mounting fear leads to violence.
Pantheon
Across the Universe: The Past, Present, and Future of the Crossword Puzzle by Natan Last (Nov. 25, $27, ISBN 978-0-553-38770-4). A New Yorker crossword maker analyzes recent debates over the political and cultural norms propagated by major media outlets’ word games.
For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran’s Women-Led Uprising by Fatemeh Jamalpour and Nilo Tabrizy (Sept. 16, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-70144-7). Two journalists recap the 2022 women-led protests against Iran’s patriarchal police state through the lens of their correspondence at the time, when one was reporting on the ground and the other in exile.
Penguin Press
Dead and Alive: Essays by Zadie Smith (Oct. 28, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-83468-8). This new collection from bestselling novelist and essayist Smith examines the divisions and fault lines of modern life and seeks new grounds for solidarity.
The Future of Truth by Werner Herzog, trans. by Michael Hofmann (Sept. 30, $28, ISBN 978-0-593-83367-4). The filmmaker urges viewers in the era of deepfakes and AI-generated videos to be vigilant about their pursuit of the truth.
Pushkin
The Hour of the Predator: Encounters with the Autocrats and Tech Billionaires Taking Over the World by Giuliano Da Empoli, trans. by Sam Taylor (Oct. 7, $16.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-80568-016-1). A former Italian government official outlines a global political landscape in which tech tycoons and strongmen have gained startling power.
Reaktion
The Age of Hitler and How We Will Survive It by Alec Ryrie (Aug. 12, $24, ISBN 978-1-83639-082-4) ruminates on how Nazi imagery dominates the modern cultural imagination, from Star Wars to Harry Potter, and questions what that will entail as memory of the real Nazis fades.
Repeater
Confidence Men: Peterson, Musk, Tate and the Duping of the American Mind by Harrison Fluss and Landon Frim (Jan. 20, $16.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-914420-66-5) pinpoints how the philosophies peddled by modern online gurus like Jordan Peterson and Andrew Tate share a common strain of irrational self-aggrandizement.
Stealing the Future: Sam Bankman-Fried and the Tech Utopians by David Morris (Nov. 11, $14.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-917516-08-2) considers how effective altruism, the philosophy that inspired FTX’s $11 billion fraud, continues to influence Silicon Valley elites like the heads of OpenAI while also inspiring the global far right.
Scribe US
The Devil Takes Bitcoin: Cryptocurrency Crimes and the Japanese Connection by Jake Adelstein (Oct. 14, $22 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-964992-17-4) questions whether the collapse of Tokyo’s Mt. Gox, the world’s largest bitcoin exchange, really was due to an alleged heist, and probes bitcoin’s connections to the Japanese criminal underworld.
Scribner
You Will Not Kill Our Imagination: A Memoir of Palestine and Writing in Dark Times by Saeed Teebi (Sept. 30, $25.95,
ISBN 978-1-6680-8466-3) reflects on what it means to be part of the Palestinian diaspora at a time when Palestinian identity is being erased.
Semiotext(e)
The Revolt Eclipses Whatever the World Has to Offer by Idris Robinson (Sept. 9, $16.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-63590-243-3). The philosopher ruminates on what it means to be Black in America today, when endless advice is on offer from people of all stripes, none of whom have read much philosophy.
Sourcebooks
The New Age of Sexism: How Emerging Technologies Are Reinventing Misogyny by Laura Bates (Aug. 19, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-4642-3436-1) surveys ways in which cutting-edge tech, from AI to the metaverse, is also at the cutting edge of misogyny, and warns that backsliding on women’s rights will be baked into the internet without an intervention.
Steerforth
Last Night in San Francisco: Tech’s Lost Promise and the Killing of Bob Lee by Scott Alan Lucas (Aug. 5, $19.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-58642-399-5) investigates the 2023 slaying of CashApp developer Lee, whose death was portrayed as evidence of San Francisco’s supposed descent into anarchy before it was revealed to have been a revenge killing.
Thesis
Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile by Sarah Goodyear, Doug Gordon, and Aaron Naparstek (Oct. 21, $28, ISBN 978-0-593-85072-5). The hosts of The War on Cars podcast survey the damage cars have done to society and strategize about how to challenge the automobile’s dominance.
Univ. of Chicago
Wild Fictions: Essays on Literature, Empire, and the Environment by Amitav Ghosh (Nov. 19, $29, ISBN 978-0-226-84532-6) collects 25 years of the author’s writings on human relationships with land.
Univ. of Michigan
Dispatches from the Land of Erasure: Essays and Conversations by Philip Metres (Sept. 16, $29.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-472-03999-9). The poet gathers other writers for conversations about the struggle for a just peace in Palestine.
Verso
Gaza: The Story of a Genocide, edited by Fatima Bhutto and Sonia Faleiro (Oct. 7, $19.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-83674-224-1), combines firsthand accounts of the Gaza genocide with expert testimonials and war reportage.
The Long Heat: Climate Politics When It’s Too Late by Andreas Malm and Wim Carton (Oct. 7, $39.95, ISBN 978-1-83674-030-8) critiques hypothetical geoengineering solutions to global warming as wishful thinking, and explores what can actually be done to halt climate change’s advance.
Viking
Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century by W. David Marx (Nov. 18, $32, ISBN 978-0-593-83399-5) analyzes the recent rise of trends that prioritize virality over innovation, connecting it to a backlash against the snobbery of 1990s counterculture, but also the supplanting of critics by elites and industry plants.
