Accolades, “Best of,” and Book of the Year Citations
See also: Recent Awards | The Virginia and Warren Stone Prize | The Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize
2023
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Getting to Diversity: What Works and What Doesn’t
A Next Big Idea Club Top Book on Boosting Diversity and Inclusion at Work, 2023
How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States
A Mental Floss “Incredible Books by Stonewall Book Award Winners” Selection, 2023
China’s Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism
A Wall Street Journal “Best Books on the Changing World Order” Selection, 2023
2022
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In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas
A Boston Globe “Books That Can Help You Understand the Crisis in Ukraine” Selection, 2022
Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance
A Fodor’s Travel “Great New Books by Diverse Travelers” Selection, 2022
The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena
A Foreign Policy “Books on Black History and Foreign Policy Everyone Should Read” Selection, 2022
Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
A PopMatters “Contemporary Books That Will Have You Rethinking Music History” Selection, 2022
A Teen Vogue “Books about the Impact of Black Music on Pop Culture” Selection, 2022
Taxi from Another Planet: Conversations with Drivers about Life in the Universe
A New Scientist “Best Science Non-Fiction Books to Savour on Your Holiday” Selection, 2022
A Next Big Idea Club “Joyful Books That Capture the Magic of the Holidays” Selection, 2022
Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine
A STAT Summer Recommendations Best Book on Health and Science, 2022
Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s
A BBC History Magazine Best Book of the Year, 2022
The Race between Education and Technology
A Foreign Affairs Best Economic, Social, and Environmental Book for the Century Ahead, 2022
The Bridge: Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe
A Bloomberg News “What We’re Reading This Summer” Selection, 2022
Guru to the World: The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda
The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States
A CrimeReads Best Critical Nonfiction/Biography Book of 2022
To ’Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors after the Civil War
A Literary Hub “Books That Reveal the True Source of Collective Power” Selection, 2022
Imagining the End: Mourning and Ethical Life
A Chronicle of Higher Education Best Scholarly Book of 2022
The Burnout Challenge: Managing People’s Relationships with Their Jobs
A Fast Company “Best New Business Books CEOs Read in 2022” Selection
When Children Feel Pain: From Everyday Aches to Chronic Conditions
A Columbia Magazine “Lion’s Guide to Parenting” Selection, 2022
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, 2022
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
An Atlantic “Books That Will Make You Smarter” Selection, 2022
A Los Angeles Times “Books to Help You Understand Inequality—and Possible Solutions” Selection, 2022
The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine’s Past and Present
A Boston Globe “Books That Can Help You Understand the Crisis in Ukraine” Selection, 2022
The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance
A Bloomberg News “What We’re Reading This Summer” Selection, 2022
An Economist “What to Read to Understand Central Banking” Selection, 2022
Asian Power and Politics: The Cultural Dimensions of Authority
A Foreign Affairs Best Asia and Pacific Book for Understanding the Past Century, 2022
The Strategy of Conflict: With a New Preface by the Author
A Foreign Affairs Best Military, Scientific, and Technological Book for the Century Ahead, 2022
The Elephant in the Universe: Our Hundred-Year Search for Dark Matter
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness
A Telegraph Best Non-fiction Book of 2022
What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics
A First Things Most Memorable Book of 2022
A New York Times “Ten Books to Understand the Abortion Debate in the United States” Selection, 2022
Growth for Good: Reshaping Capitalism to Save Humanity from Climate Catastrophe
A Financial Times Summer Reading Favorite (Economics), 2022
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2022
A France Inter (Radio France) Best Economics Book of 2022
A Hospodářské Noviny “Books to Help You Understand 2022” Selection
2021
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The Power of Creative Destruction: Economic Upheaval and the Wealth of Nations
An Economist Best Book of 2021
A Fast Company “5 Books That Inspired Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella This Year” Selection, 2021
The Original Meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment: Its Letter and Spirit
Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance
A Book Riot Essential Book about Black Identity and History, March 2021
A Book Riot Thought-Provoking Road Trip Book, June 2021
Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
A Pitchfork Best Music Book of 2021
A Rolling Stone Best Music Book of 2021
A Boston Globe Summer Reading Selection, 2021
A Los Angeles Times “Favorite Literary Escapes of 2021” Selection
Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
Selected by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., as an AARP “Must-Read,” 2021
The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World
A Bloomberg Opinion Best Nonfiction Book of 2021
A Financial Times Best History Book of 2021
A Five Books Best History Book of 2021
No Enemies, No Hatred: Selected Essays and Poems
A Los Angeles Public Library Banned Books Week Selection, 2021
What Stars Are Made Of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
A Mighty Girl “Stories of Mighty Women” Recommended Book, 2021
Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge
A Los Angeles Public Library Banned Books Week Selection, 2021
The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets
A Financial Times “Reading List to Prepare for a Post-Pandemic Age” Selection, 2021
The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance
An Economist Best Book of 2021
A Financial Times Best Economics Book of 2021
A ProMarket Best Political Economy Book of 2021
A The Week Best Business Book of 2021
An L.A. World Affairs Council Holiday Reading List Selection, 2021
Six Faces of Globalization: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why It Matters
The Fairest of Them All: Snow White and 21 Tales of Mothers and Daughters
A Times Literary Supplement Summer Reading Recommendation, 2021
Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote
A Mighty Girl “Stories of Mighty Women” Recommended Book, 2021
Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global Supremacy
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2021
A Foreign Policy “Situation Report” Holiday Reading List Selection, 2021
2020
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The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
A Lifehacker “Read These Books to Learn about Systemic Racism” Selection, 2020
A Morning Brew “Learning about Race in America” Selection, 2020
How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy
A BookAuthority “100 Best Economic Policy Books of All Time” Selection, 2020
The Selected Letters of John Berryman
A Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) “Good Reads for Winter” Selection, 2020
From Here to There: The Art and Science of Finding and Losing Our Way
A Maclean’s “Books to Get You through This Summer” Selection, 2020
Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
A Black Perspectives (African American Intellectual History Society) Best Black History Book of 2020
A Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Best Book of 2020
A CounterPunch Best Book of 2020
Unsustainable Inequalities: Social Justice and the Environment
A Financial Times Best Economics Book of 2020
A Science “Reading List for Uncertain Times” Selection, 2020
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
An Independent Institute “Best Books on the Folly of Socialism” Selection, 2020
Violent Land: Single Men and Social Disorder from the Frontier to the Inner City
A Five Books Best Book on the Decline of Violence (selected by Steven Pinker), 2020
Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration
An ARTnews Best Art Book of 2020
An Art Newspaper Best Art Book of 2020
A Financial Times Readers’ Choice Best Book of 2020
A National Book Foundation “Literature for Justice” Reading List Selection, 2020
A New York Magazine Approval Matrix “Brilliant/Highbrow” Selection, 2020
A New York Review of Books “Best of 2020” Selection
A New York Times Best Art Book of 2020
A New York Times Most Important Moment in Art in 2020 [MoMA PS1 Exhibition]
A New Yorker “Best Art of 2020” Selection [MoMA PS1 Exhibition]
Awakening: How Gays and Lesbians Brought Marriage Equality to America
A Book Riot “Beautiful Rainbow Books for Pride” Selection, 2020
Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
A Code Switch (NPR) Choice for “Books, Films, and Podcasts about Racism,” 2020
A Curbed “Essential Books…on Making Cities Anti-Racist” Selection, 2020
An Electric Lit “Reading List for Understanding the Prison Industrial Complex” Selection, 2020
A Harvard Gazette “Reading List on Issues of Race” Selection, 2020
A Harvard Magazine Racial Justice Reading List Selection, 2020
A New York Magazine Best Book on the American Prison System, 2020
A New York Public Library “2020 Election Reading List” Selection
An Oprah Magazine “Books to Better Understand the History of Racism in America” Selection, 2020
American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony
A New York Times “What Books Should Biden Read?” Selection, 2020
The Rule of Five: Making Climate History at the Supreme Court
A Buzzfeed News “Understand the Key Issues of This Election” Reading Guide Selection, 2020
A New York Public Library “2020 Election Reading List” Selection
Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America’s First Gilded Age
A BookAuthority “100 Best Economic Policy Books of All Time” Selection, 2020
The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernity
Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization
An i-D (Vice Magazine) “Pussy Riot’s Quarantine Reading List” Selection, March 2020
What Stars Are Made Of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
A New Scientist Best Science and Technology Book of 2020
A Physics Today Book of the Year, 2020
The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It
A Guardian “Books to Help Us Understand the World in 2020” Selection
A New York Times “What Books Should Biden Read?” Selection, 2020
A Fast Company “Important Books for Building an Anti-Racist Workplace” Selection, 2020
A Harvard Gazette “Reading List on Issues of Race” Selection, 2020
A Harvard Magazine Racial Justice Reading List Selection, 2020
An Oprah Magazine “Books to Better Understand the History of Racism in America” Selection, 2020
Theory of the Gimmick: Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form
Burning the Books: A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge
A Sunday Times Best Philosophy and Ideas Book of the Year, 2020
New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI
A Teach Privacy Notable Privacy and Security Book of the Year, 2020
A Wired “Best Books about Artificial Intelligence to Read Now” Selection, 2020
The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets
A BookAuthority “100 Best Economic Policy Books of All Time” Selection, 2020
A Global Public Square with Fareed Zakaria (CNN) Book of the Week, 2020
A City Limits “Isolation Booklist” Top Pick, 2020
A GQ “Best Books to Read This March” Selection, 2020
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
An i-D (Vice Magazine) “Pussy Riot’s Quarantine Reading List” Selection, March 2020
Miscellanies, Volume 1 and Volume 2
An Open Letters Review Best Literature in Translation Work of 2020
Dreamers: How Young Indians Are Changing the World
A Wall Street Journal “Five Best (Books on India Today)” Selection, 2020
The Living Presidency: An Originalist Argument against Its Ever-Expanding Powers
A New York Times “What Books Should Biden Read?” Selection, 2020
Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education
A Science “Reading List for Uncertain Times” Selection, 2020
Why We Act: Turning Bystanders into Moral Rebels
A Notre Dame Deloitte Center for Ethical Leadership Favorite Book of 2020
What It Means to Be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics
Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote
A Book Riot “Great Biographies of U.S. Suffragists” Selection, 2020
2019
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Prisoners of Politics: Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2019
A CounterPunch Best Book of 2019
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
A Bustle “Books about White Supremacy & How to Combat It” Selection, 2019
Unbound: How Inequality Constricts Our Economy and What We Can Do about It
A Financial Times Best Economics Book of 2019
An MIT Technology Review Best Book on the Economy We Live In, 2019
Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital
A Financial Times Best Economics Book of 2019
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2019
A Global Public Square with Fareed Zakaria (CNN) Book of the Week, 2019 [episode transcript]
Gravity’s Century: From Einstein’s Eclipse to Images of Black Holes
A Discover Best Science Book for Summer, 2019
A Forbes “Holiday Gift Guide for Space, Astronomy, and Science Lovers” Selection, 2019
The Shenzhen Experiment: The Story of China’s Instant City
An Architect’s Newspaper “Must-Reads for the Holiday Season” Selection, 2019
Our Universe: An Astronomer’s Guide
A BBC Sky at Night Best Astronomy and Space Book of 2019
A Forbes “Holiday Gift Guide for Space, Astronomy, and Science Lovers” Selection, 2019
The Creativity Code: Art and Innovation in the Age of AI
A Financial Times Summer Reading Favorite (Technology), 2019
The Missing Course: Everything They Never Taught You about College Teaching
An Inside Higher Ed “Books to Give the Educator in Your Life for the Holidays” Selection, 2019
A Library Babel Fish blog (Inside Higher Ed) Recommended Book, 2019
Wheel of Fortune: The Battle for Oil and Power in Russia
An Energy Reporters Top Ten Book on Energy History, Policy and Geopolitics, 2019
Zwicky: The Outcast Genius Who Unmasked the Universe
A Forbes “Holiday Gift Guide for Space, Astronomy, and Science Lovers” Selection, 2019
City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present
An ArchDaily Best Architecture Book, 2019
An Architect’s Newspaper “Must-Reads for the Holiday Season” Selection, 2019
A Chicago Tribune “Architecture Books for the Holidays” Selection, 2019
In Search of Deeper Learning: The Quest to Remake the American High School
A Facing History and Ourselves Recommended Summer Read, 2019
Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World
An Economist Best Economics Book of 2019
A Financial Times Best Economics Book of 2019
A Prospect Best Economics Book of 2019
2019 “Globie” Award for Globalization Book of the Year, Angry Bear
The Cigarette: A Political History
A BookAuthority “Best New Capitalism Books” Selection, 2019
A BookAuthority “Best New Economic Development Books” Selection, 2019
The Thirty-Year Genocide: Turkey’s Destruction of Its Christian Minorities, 1894–1924
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2019
A Financial Times Best History Book of 2019
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2019
The Confounding Island: Jamaica and the Postcolonial Predicament
A Bloomberg Opinion “Best Nonfiction Books for Contrarians and the Curious” Selection, 2019
A BookAuthority “Best New Economic Development Books” Selection, 2019
The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets
The Revolution That Wasn’t: How Digital Activism Favors Conservatives
A Library Babel Fish blog (Inside Higher Ed) Recommended Book, 2019
The Number of the Heavens: A History of the Multiverse and the Quest to Understand the Cosmos
A Forbes “Holiday Gift Guide for Space, Astronomy, and Science Lovers” Selection, 2019
A GeekWire Holiday Gift Guide Selection, 2019
Bloc by Bloc: How to Build a Global Enterprise for the New Regional Order
A Management Today “Books CEOs Should Be Reading” Selection, 2019
American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom in the Second World War
2018
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Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality
A Chronicle of Higher Education Most Influential Book of the Last 20 Years, 2018
The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization
An Economist “Buttonwood’s Notebook” Best Book on Finance and Economics, 2018
How the Other Half Banks: Exclusion, Exploitation, and the Threat to Democracy
An American Banker “12 Books for Bankers This Summer” Selection, 2018
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America
A Guardian Best Book of the Year, 2018
A PopMatters Best Book of the Year, 2018
A PopMatters “50 Best Books of 2018 So Far” Selection
The Law of Blood: Thinking and Acting as a Nazi
A Financial Times Critics’ Pick for Best Book of the Year, 2018
Is Capitalism Obsolete?: A Journey through Alternative Economic Systems
A Telegraph [India] “Nonfiction Books That Should Be on Your FOMO List” Selection, 2018
Blockchain and the Law: The Rule of Code
A BTCManager “13 Best Blockchain Books You Should Consider Reading” Selection, 2018
Law and Legitimacy in the Supreme Court
A Green Bag Almanac & Reader Exemplary Legal Writing Honoree, 2018
Supreme Injustice: Slavery in the Nation’s Highest Court
A Green Bag Almanac & Reader Exemplary Legal Writing Honoree, 2018
Exoplanets: Hidden Worlds and the Quest for Extraterrestrial Life
A Forbes Science, Space, and Physics Holiday Gift Guide Selection, 2018
Universe in Creation: A New Understanding of the Big Bang and the Emergence of Life
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2018
A Forbes Science, Space, and Physics Holiday Gift Guide Selection, 2018
The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: The Complete Annotated Edition
Selected by the Los Angeles Times’s Michael Hiltzik as a Best Book of the Year, 2018
Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century
A VIBE “5 Books on Slavery That Kanye West Needs to Read” Selection, 2018
The Known Citizen: A History of Privacy in Modern America
A Green Bag Almanac & Reader Exemplary Legal Writing Honoree, 2018
A Financial Times Best History Book of the Year, 2018
A Gulf News [United Arab Emirates] Best History Book of the Year, 2018
An Independent [Ireland] Critics’ Choice Best Book of the Year, 2018
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year, 2018
A New Statesman Best Book of the Year, 2018
A Prospect Best History Book of the Year, 2018
A Spectator Best Book of the Year, 2018
A Telegraph [UK] Best History Book for Christmas, 2018
Hearing Things: The Work of Sound in Literature
A First Things Favorite Book of the Year, 2018
A Guardian “Best Summer Books 2018, as Picked by Writers” Selection
Pandora’s Box: A History of the First World War
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2018
A Globe and Mail Top Recommended Book for Remembrance Day, 2018
Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America
A Chronicle of Higher Education Most Influential Book of the Last 20 Years, 2018
The Embattled Vote in America: From the Founding to the Present
A Colorlines “Race-Focused Books We’re Reading This Fall” Selection, 2018
Butterfly Politics: Changing the World for Women, With a New Preface
A Seminary Co-op Notable Book of 2017
A Telegraph [India] “Nonfiction Books That Should Be on Your FOMO List” Selection, 2018
The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas
A Colorlines “Race-Focused Books We’re Reading This Fall” Selection, 2018
First in Fly: Drosophila Research and Biological Discovery
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2018
The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It
An American Interest Top Book of 2018
An Entertainment Weekly “Juiciest Political Books to Come in 2018” Selection
A Financial Times Summer Reading Favorite (Politics), 2018
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, 2018
A Newsweek “50 Coolest Books to Read This Summer” Selection, 2018
Boundaries of the International: Law and Empire
A Green Bag Almanac & Reader Exemplary Legal Writing Honoree, 2018
Dreamers: How Young Indians Are Changing the World
A Financial Times Best Politics Book of the Year, 2018
A Hindu Top Non-fiction Book of the Year, 2018
A PopMatters Best Book of the Year, 2018
A Telegraph [India] “Voices We Most Needed to Hear in 2018” Selection
The Right of Publicity: Privacy Reimagined for a Public World
A Green Bag Almanac & Reader Exemplary Legal Writing Honoree, 2018
Carving Up the Globe: An Atlas of Diplomacy
A Wall Street Journal “What to Give: Reference Books” Selection, 2018
A Green Bag Almanac & Reader Exemplary Legal Writing Honoree, 2018
A Water Street Bookstore (Exeter, NH) Best of New Hampshire Authors Selection, 2018
Political Violence in Ancient India
A Telegraph [India] “Nonfiction Books That Should Be on Your FOMO List” Selection, 2018
Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2018
A Guardian “Best Summer Books 2018, as Picked by Writers” Selection
Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizens United
A New York Times “Newsbook” Top Book on Government Corruption, 2018
Elements of Surprise: Our Mental Limits and the Satisfactions of Plot
A PopMatters Best Book of the Year, 2018
The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump
A Yale Climate Connections Holiday Gift Guide Selection, 2018
Triumphs of Experience: The Men of the Harvard Grant Study
A The Week “7 Great Books That Will Improve Your Life” Selection, 2018
America’s Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation
A Publishers Weekly “11 Essential Books about Billy Graham” Selection, 2018
No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding
2017
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The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History
A Washington Post/Monkey Cage blog “Middle East Politics Summer Reading Picks” Selection, 2017
Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America
A Saveur “Essential Food Books That Define New York City” Selection, 2017
The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization
A Fast Company “7 Books Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Says You Need to Lead Smarter” Selection, 2017
A Five Books Best Book on Globalization According to Larry Summers, 2017
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
A Huffington Post “Books That Will Help You Understand America” Selection, 2017
Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Financial Times Summer Reading Favorite (Literary Non-Fiction), 2017
Pious Fashion: How Muslim Women Dress
A Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics and Ritual “WATER Recommends” Selection, 2017
The Regulars: The American Army, 1898–1941
A U.S. Army Chief of Staff’s Professional Reading List Selection, 2017
The Confederate Battle Flag: America’s Most Embattled Emblem
An Independent “17 Books That Could Fix Donald Trump’s Ignorance of US History” Selection, 2017
The Meaning of Belief: Religion from an Atheist’s Point of View
A Jersey Journal (Hudson County, NJ) Recommended Christmas Book, 2017
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, 2017
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2017
A Religion News Service “Fall Religion Reading: Heavy-Duty Edition” Selection, 2017
Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession
A Financial Times Best Book of 2017 (Art, Architecture, and Cinema category)
Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum
Shortlist, Apollo Magazine Books of the Year, 2017
A Daily Mail Book of the Week, 2017
A Guardian Book of the Week, 2017
A Times Book of the Week, 2017
A The Week Book of the Week, 2017
The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women’s Quest for the American Presidency
A New York Times “Casting a Literary Lens on Women and Power” Selection, 2017
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2017
A Guardian “Best Holiday Reads 2017, Picked by Writers” Selection
A Literary Hub “16 Books to Read This April” Selection, 2017
Awakening: How Gays and Lesbians Brought Marriage Equality to America
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2017
A New York Magazine Approval Matrix “Highbrow/Brilliant” Selection, 2017
The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: The Complete Annotated Edition
A Literary Hub “Overlooked Books from 2017, as Chosen By Booksellers” Selection
Wheel of Fortune: The Battle for Oil and Power in Russia
A Time “9 Books That Can Help You Understand Russia Right Now” Selection, 2017
Just around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination
A PopMatters “10 Conversation-Shifting Contemporary Books About Music” Selection, October 2017
Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2017
A Time “6 Queens You Should Know About for Women’s History Month” Selection, 2017
A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life
A Paris Review “What Our Writers Are Reading This Summer” Selection, 2017
Marvellous Thieves: Secret Authors of the Arabian Nights
A North Shore News (Vancouver, Canada) Favourite Non-Fiction Book of 2017
The Soldier and the State: The Theory and Politics of Civil–Military Relations
A U.S. Army Chief of Staff’s Professional Reading List Selection, 2017
This Vast Southern Empire: Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy
A Huffington Post “Seven Notable New Books on Slavery” Selection, 2017
Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation
A Happening “What All Art Students Should Be Reading Right Now” Selection, 2017
Butterfly Politics: Changing the World for Women, With a New Preface
An America: The Jesuit Review Best Christmas Gift, 2017
A Book Riot “Essay Collections to Look For This Fall” Selection, 2017
A Boston.com “16 Books That Local Experts Say You Should Read on Your Study Breaks” Selection, 2017
A Bust “12 New Books By Women To Read This September” Selection, 2017
A Bustle “11 New Essay Collections For Your Fireside Reading This Fall” Selection, October 2017
An Elle “Best Books to Read This Fall” Selection, 2017
An Entertainment Tonight “Fall 2017’s Most Buzzworthy Books” Selection
An Irish Times Best Book of 2017
A The Millions “Most Anticipated” Book, 2017
An NBC News NBCBLK Fall Reading Guide Selection, 2017
A PBS NewsHour “13 Fall Books That Will Make You Think” Selection, 2017
A Philadelphia Inquirer “Fall’s Big Books” Selection, 2017
A PopSugar “Favorite Books of the Year (So Far)” Selection, 2017
A Refinery29 “Best Reads of September” Selection, 2017
A San Diego Magazine “5 Books to Read in September” Selection, 2017
A Shondaland “Books You’ll Want on Your Nightstand This Fall” Selection, 2017
A Vanity Fair “What to Read This Month” Selection, 2017
A Vulture “New Books to Read This Fall” Selection, 2017
A W Magazine “10 Fall Books to Read Right Now” Selection, 2017
A WBUR/The ARTery “Fall Books To Look Forward To” Selection, 2017
Safe Passage: The Transition from British to American Hegemony
A Washington Post/The Monkey Cage Holiday Gift Guide Pick, 2017
The Strategy of Conflict: With a New Preface by the Author
A U.S. Army Chief of Staff’s Professional Reading List Selection, 2017
Ripples in Spacetime: Einstein, Gravitational Waves, and the Future of Astronomy
A BBC Sky at Night Top 12 Christmas Book, 2017
A Forbes “Gift Guide for the Physics and Astronomy Lover in Your Life” Selection, 2017
Basic Income: A Radical Proposal for a Free Society and a Sane Economy
2016
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Mansfield Park: An Annotated Edition
A Star Tribune [Minneapolis, MN] “50 Best Books for Holiday Giving” Selection, 2016
The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization
An Economist Best Book of 2016
The Poem Is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them
Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them
An Irish Times Favourite Book of 2016
The Banjo: America’s African Instrument
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title “Top 25” Selection, 2016
The Menorah: From the Bible to Modern Israel
A Parade “Chanukah Gifts to Light Up Their Lives” Selection, 2016
The Highest Glass Ceiling: Women’s Quest for the American Presidency
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, 2016
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book, 2016
A Berry “Top 16 Books You Need to Read before Summer’s Over” Selection, 2016
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America
A New York Times Notable Book, 2016
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, 2016
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016
A Publishers Weekly Favorite Book of 2016
A Wall Street Journal “Who Read What in 2016” Favorite Book
An AAIHS “5 Must Read Books of 2016 by Black Millennials” Selection
The Habsburg Empire: A New History
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016
A EuropeNow Editor’s Pick, 2016
A Telegraph “Best History Books for Christmas” Selection, 2016
Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization
An Economist Best Book of 2016
Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
An Entropy Best Non-Fiction Book of 2016
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2016
A Listener [New Zealand] Best Book of 2016
A Los Angeles Times Holiday Books Gift Guide Selection, 2016
A New York Times Book Review “The Year in Reading” Selection, 2016
A Seminary Co-op Notable Book of 2016
A South China Morning Post “Top 10 Asian Books of 2016” Selection
Newton’s Apple and Other Myths about Science
A Guardian “Favourite Reads—as Chosen by Scientists” Selection, 2016
Renunciation: Acts of Abandonment by Writers, Philosophers, and Artists
The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
A New York Times “The United States in Literature” Selection, 2016
Bone Rooms: From Scientific Racism to Human Prehistory in Museums
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title “Top 25” Selection, 2016
Achieving Our Country: Leftist Thought in Twentieth-Century America
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016
A Marginal Revolution Best Non-Fiction Book of 2016
A Seminary Co-op Notable Book of 2016
Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion
An Economist Best Book of 2016
2015
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The Ransom of the Soul: Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity
An Evening Standard “Best Books about London” and Best Holiday Gift Books Selection, 2015
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, 2015
A Telegraph Editor’s Choice and “Best 100 Books for Christmas” Selection, 2015
The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland
A Books & Culture Favorite Book of 2015
After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information
An East Bay Express Best Nonfiction Book of 2015
A Flavorwire “10 Best Books by Academic Publishers” Selection, 2015
Beyond Freedom’s Reach: A Kidnapping in the Twilight of Slavery
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
A Forbes Best Graphic Novel of 2015
An Independent Best Graphic Novel of 2015
A New York Observer “Ten Best Books on Innovation” Selection, 2015
A Panels “Favorite Comics of 2015 (So Far)” Selection
Stuff and Money in the Time of the French Revolution
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
A Financial Times Best History Book of 2015
2014
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Northanger Abbey: An Annotated Edition
An Austenprose.com Best Austen-inspired Scholarly Book of 2014
The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume V: The Twentieth Century, Part 1: The Impact of Africa
A Minneapolis Star-Tribune Best Art Book, 2014
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, 2014
A Publishers Weekly Best Illustrated Gift Books Selection, 2014
Envisioning Freedom: Cinema and the Building of Modern Black Life
A Slate “Great Books You Should’ve Heard About” Selection, 2014
Emily Dickinson Archive (open-access electronic resource)
A Choice Outstanding Academic Titles “Top 10 Internet Resources” Selection, 2014
Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist
An Elle Decoration [UK] “Best of Dickens” Selection, 2014
The Letters of Robert Frost, Volume 1: 1886–1920
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2014
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, 2014
American Railroads: Decline and Renaissance in the Twentieth Century
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title “Top 25” Selection, 2014
Dictionary of American Regional English, Digital Edition (electronic resource)
A Choice Outstanding Academic Titles “Top 10 Internet Resources” Selection, 2014
A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life
A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, 2014
A Root “Best 15 Nonfiction Books by Black Authors in 2014” Selection
Political Emotions: Why Love Matters for Justice
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title “Top 25” Selection, 2014
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
An Amazon.com Best Book of 2014, Business & Investing Category
A Barnes & Noble Review “Words of the Year” Selection, 2014
A BBC News Magazine “Big Ideas of 2014” Selection
A Bloomberg News Favorite Book of 2014
A Bloomberg View Best Book of 2014
A Boing Boing Gift Guide Selection, 2014
A Business Insider Best Business Book of 2014
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title “Top 25” Selection, 2014
A Daily Beast Top 10 “Big Ideas” Book of 2014
An Economist Book of the Year, 2014
An Esquire [UK] Best Book of 2014
A Financial Review “Top Page-Turner” of 2014
A Financial Times Best Book of 2014, Economics
A Flavorwire “10 Best Books by Academic Publishers in 2014” Selection
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2014
A Fortune Favorite Book of 2014
A Gates Notes Best Book of 2014
A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2014
A Google Trends Top Search of 2014
A History Today Book of the Year, 2014
A Hudson Booksellers Best Business Book of 2014
An Inc. “7 Most Thought-Provoking Books of 2014” Selection
An Independent Book of the Year, 2014
A Kirkus Reviews “Best Books of 2014 for Informed Americans” Selection
A Los Angeles Times Holiday Book Guide Selection, 2014
A Library Journal Best Book of 2014
A Los Angeles Times Holiday Book Guide Selection, 2014
A Mother Jones Best Book of 2014
A Moyers & Company Best Book of 2014
An Observer Book of the Year, 2014
An Ozy Biggest, Wildest Idea of 2014
A PopMatters Best Book of 2014
A Post and Courier [Charleston, SC] Holiday Gift Guide Selection, 2014
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2014
A Scotsman Best Non-Fiction Book of 2014
A strategy + business Best Book of 2014
A Sunday Times “Book That Best Explained the World in 2014” Selection
A Times Higher Education Best Book of 2014
A Wall Street Journal #1 Best Seller and Favorite Read of 2014
A Washington Post #1 Best Seller and Top 50 Nonfiction Book of 2014
A Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Best Holiday Gift Books Selection, 2014
A New Statesman Book of the Year, 2014
An Open Letters Monthly Best Nonfiction Book of 2014
An Open Letters Monthly Favorite Read, 2014
A Scotsman Best Non-Fiction Book of 2014
America’s Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a Nation
A Booklist Top 10 Religion & Spirituality Book of 2014
A Church Times Best Christmas Books Selection, 2014
A Gospel Coalition Best Book of 2014
A Sunday Herald [Glasgow, Scotland] Best Biography of 2014
2013
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Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants
A Lowy Institute for International Policy Book of the Year, 2013
Sense and Sensibility: An Annotated Edition
A Christian Science Monitor Holiday Gift Pick, 2013
A Minneapolis Star-Tribune “Beautiful Books for Gift-Giving” Selection, 2013
Emily Dickinson Archive (open-access electronic resource)
A New York Times Book Review “Most Interesting Literary Developments of the Year” Selection, 2013
The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy
The Collaboration: Hollywood’s Pact with Hitler
A Herald [Glasgow, Scotland] “Best Books for Christmas” Selection, 2013
2012
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Worlds of Dissent: Charter 77, The Plastic People of the Universe, and Czech Culture under Communism
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2012 on Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Republics
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society
An Australian Broadcasting Corporation Religion & Ethics blog Best Book of 2012
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, 2012
Wheel of Fortune: The Battle for Oil and Power in Russia
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2012 on Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Republics
Planning Armageddon: British Economic Warfare and the First World War
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2012
A Guardian Best History Book of 2012
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year, 2012
Capitalism from Below: Markets and Institutional Change in China
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
The Revolution in Venezuela: Social and Political Change under Chávez
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Routes of War: The World of Movement in the Confederate South
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
A Civil War Memory Best of 2012 Selection
A Civil War Monitor Best Book of 2012
Arthropod Brains: Evolution, Functional Elegance, and Historical Significance
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet
A Booklist Top 10 Religion and Spirituality Title of 2012
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2012 on the United States
Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
A Gates Notes Top Read of 2012
An Esquire China Book of the Year
Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights
A Barnes & Noble Review Best Nonfiction of 2012 Selection
A Guardian “Authors’ Favourites” Book of the Year
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
2011
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Florence and Baghdad: Renaissance Art and Arab Science
A Big Think Best Art Book of 2011
A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of 2011
Field Notes on Science & Nature
A Barnes & Noble Review Editors’ Pick for Best Reading of 2011
A Barnes & Noble Best Book of 2011, ‘Quirky, Beautiful, Different’ Category
Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist
An Irish Times Book of the Year, 2011
A Library Journal Best Book of 2011
A New Statesman Book of the Year, 2011
A Sunday Times Best Book of 2011
A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of 2011
Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition
A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of 2011
The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination
A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of 2011
The Age of Equality: The Twentieth Century in Economic Perspective
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2011 on Economic, Social, and Environmental Subjects
Listed: Dispatches from America’s Endangered Species Act
A Mother Nature Network Best Green and Environmental Book of 2011
The Collapse of American Criminal Justice
A Green Bag Almanac & Reader Selection for Exemplary Legal Writing, 2011
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
An Economist Best Book of 2011
A Financial Times Best Book of 2011
2010
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Quest for Equality: The Failed Promise of Black-Brown Solidarity
A Huffington Post Best Social and Political Awareness Book of the Year
In the Shadow of Du Bois: Afro-Modern Political Thought in America
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
The Spirit of the Law: Religious Voices and the Constitution in Modern America
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero
A New Republic Best Book of 2010
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year
Desert Kingdom: How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi Arabia
A Vancouver Sun Top 10 Business Book of 2010
The Evolution of Childhood: Relationships, Emotion, Mind
An Amazon.com Best Science Book of 2010
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year
Patriotic Pluralism: Americanization Education and European Immigrants
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
The Two Faces of American Freedom
A Huffington Post Top 18 Book of the Year on Social and Political Awareness
The Birth of Feminism: Woman as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and England
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Race, Rigor, and Selectivity in U.S. Engineering: The History of an Occupational Color Line
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries
A Lapham’s Quarterly ‘Best Books We Read This Year’ Selection
Facing Catastrophe: Environmental Action for a Post-Katrina World
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
2009
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Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands
A Pima County Public Library Best Southwest Book of 2009
On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction
A New Zealand Listener Best Book of 2009
Becoming African Americans: Black Public Life in Harlem, 1919–1939
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding
A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2009
An Irish Times Best Book of 2009
Charisma and Compassion: Cheng Yen and the Buddhist Tzu Chi Movement
A Strategy + Business Best Business Book of 2009
Democracy Denied, 1905–1915: Intellectuals and the Fate of Democracy
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
A New Literary History of America
An Amazon.com Editors’ Pick Best Book of 2009
A Boston Phoenix Gift Book of 2009
An East Bay Express Best Book of 2009
An Entertainment Weekly “Shelf-Life” Best Nonfiction Book of 2009
An NPR Best Gift Book Selection
A Salon Best Nonfiction Book of 2009
A Seminary Co-op Top 20 Book of 2009
A Time Out New York Gift Book Selection
Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington
A Library Journal Best Book of 2009
A Booklist Top 10 Black History Nonfiction Books of 2009 Selection
Reading Tao Yuanming: Shifting Paradigms of Historical Reception (427–1900)
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
