The Top 75 Community College Titles: April 2026 Edition

The best of all the titles appropriate for two-year colleges reviewed in the April issue of Choice.

Posted on April 16, 2026 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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History and historiography in Greece: recent trends, ed. by Nikos Christofis.  Berghahn Books, 2025.  350p bibl index (Making sense of history, 49)  ISBN 9781805399865, $135.00;  ISBN 9781805399872 ebook, $24.95;  63-1457

Information: a short history, ed. by Ann Blair et al.  Princeton, 2024.  424p bibl index  ISBN 9780691261553 pbk, $24.95;  ISBN 9780691263694 ebook, $24.95;  63-1455

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Humanities

Alexander, Neta. Interface frictions: how digital debility reshapes our bodies.  Duke, 2025.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9781478028925, $119.95;  ISBN 9781478032168 pbk, $28.95;  ISBN 9781478061120 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-1468

Bode, Leticia. Observed correction: how we can all respond to misinformation on social media, by Leticia Bode and Emily K. Vraga.  Oxford, 2025.  239p bibl index  ISBN 9780197565896, $99.00;  ISBN 9780197565902 pbk, $27.95;  ISBN 9780197565933 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-1469

Brady, Miranda J. Mother trouble: mediations of white maternal angst after second wave feminism.  Toronto, 2024.  148p bibl index  ISBN 9781487556938, $40.00;  ISBN 9781487556952 ebook, $40.00;  63-1470

Brookes, Lucy. Convention and the individual in medieval English romance.  D. S. Brewer, 2025.  222p bibl index (Studies in medieval romance, 26)  ISBN 9781843846895, $120.00;  ISBN 9781805435730 ebook, $24.00;  63-1478

DiPiero, Dan. Big feelings: queer and feminist indie rock after Riot Grrrl.  Michigan, 2025.  225p index  ISBN 9780472077700, $100.00;  ISBN 9780472057702 pbk, $24.95;  ISBN 9780472222346 ebook, $24.95;  63-1496

A first-class fool: Mark Twain and humor, featuring the collection of Susan Jaffe Tane, ed. by Susan Jaffe Tane.  The Grolier Club, 2025.  255p bibl index  ISBN 9781605831107, $45.00;  63-1479

Frey, Benjamin E. Rising above: language revitalization in the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.  Nebraska, 2025.  248p bibl index  ISBN 9781496235701, $60.00;  ISBN 9781496243126 ebook, $60.00;  63-1472

Gehring, John. Reclaiming American Catholicism: faith, politics, and the future of the Catholic Church.  Georgetown University, 2025.  416p bibl index  ISBN 9781647126049, $89.95;  ISBN 9781647126056 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9781647126063 ebook, $29.95;  63-1515

Great, Artel. The Black pack: comedy, race, and resistance.  Rutgers, 2025.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9781978838147, $69.95;  ISBN 9781978838130 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781978838154 ebook, $30.00;  63-1492

Hip-hop archives: the politics and poetics of knowledge production, ed. by Mark V. Campbell and Murray Forman.  Intellect, 2025.  330p index  ISBN 9781835951064, $29.95;  63-1497

Ignorance unmasked: essays in the new science of agnotology, ed. by Robert N. Proctor and Londa Schiebinger.  Stanford, 2025.  302p bibl index  ISBN 9781503643406, $105.00;  ISBN 9781503643956 pbk, $26.00;  ISBN 9781503643963 ebook, $26.00;  63-1506

Ivakhiv, Adrian J. The new lives of images: digital ecologies and Anthropocene imaginaries in more-than-human worlds.  Stanford, 2025.  414p bibl index  ISBN 9781503643505, $140.00;  ISBN 9781503643987 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9781503643994 ebook, $35.00;  63-1507

Kant and Stoic ethics, ed. by Melissa Merritt.  Cambridge, 2025.  261p bibl index  ISBN 9781009321334, $120.00;  ISBN 9781009321372 ebook, $120.00;  63-1508

Leonardo/Dürer: Renaissance master drawings on colored ground, ed. by Ralph Gleis, Achim Gnann, and Christof Metzger.  Hirmer, 2025.  399p bibl index  ISBN 9783777444680, $60.00;  63-1465

Magnus, Shulamit S. Jewish marital captivity: the past, present, and end of a historic abuse.  New York University, 2025.  376p bibl index  ISBN 9781479835546, $45.00;  ISBN 9781479835553 ebook, $45.00;  63-1519

Political theology reimagined: itineraries, ruptures, experiments, ed. by Alex Dubilet and Vincent W. Lloyd.  Duke, 2025.  377p bibl index  ISBN 9781478028932, $119.95;  ISBN 9781478032205 pbk, $31.95;  ISBN 781478061144 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-1521

Return of the Western: refracting genre, representing gender in the twenty-first century, ed. by Sue Matheson.  Edinburgh University Press, 2025.  351p bibl index  ISBN 9781399524728, $115.00;  ISBN 9781399524759 ebook, $125.00;  63-1494

Ripollés, Carmen. Josefa de Óbidos.  Getty Publications, 2025.  160p index  ISBN 9781606069851, $45.00;  63-1466

Scott-Baumann, Elizabeth. Sex and style: literary criticism and gender in early modern England.  Princeton, 2025.  216p bibl index  ISBN 9780691272016, $99.95;  ISBN 9780691272023 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780691272030 ebook, $29.95;  63-1486

The State of American Jewry: new insights and scholarship, ed. by Frederick E. Greenspahn.  New York University, 2025.  312p index  ISBN 9781479813117, $89.00;  ISBN 9781479813124 pbk, $32.00;  ISBN 9781479813179 ebook, $23.00;  63-1524

Tally, Robert T. The mismeasure of orcs: a critical reassessment of Tolkien’s demonized creatures.  McFarland, 2025.  201p bibl index  ISBN 9781476694351 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9781476655635 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-1487

Vanhaelen, Angela. Opacity: Blackness and the art of the Dutch Republic.  Pennsylvania State, 2025.  204p bibl index  ISBN 9780271099965, $94.95;  63-1467

Vecsey, Christopher. Catholicism in the eyes of The New York Times: the epoch of Pope John Paul II.  Lexington Books, 2025.  412p bibl index  ISBN 9781666966411, $135.00;  63-1525

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Science & Technology

Adib-Moghaddam, Arshin. The myth of good AI: a manifesto for critical artificial intelligence.  Manchester University Press, 2025.  184p bibl index  ISBN 9781526189493, $130.00;  ISBN 9781526189509 pbk, $21.95;  ISBN 9781526189516 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-1545

Berry, Nicole S. Good Intentions in global health: medical missions, emotion, and health care across borders.  New York University, 2024.  200p bibl index  ISBN 9781479825363, $89.00;  ISBN 9781479825370 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781479825400 ebook, $21.00;  63-1543

Carter, Iain. Golf wars: LIV and golf’s bitter battle for power and identity.  Bloomsbury Sport, 2024.  272p  ISBN 9781399410168, $28.00;  ISBN 9781399410199 ebook, $28.00;  63-1550

Crnic, Meghan L. The beach cure: a history of healing on northeastern shores.  Washington, 2025.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9780295753942, $110.00;  ISBN 9780295753959 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9780295753966 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-1544

Foletta, Marshall. Purge and bleed: Philadelphia’s yellow fever epidemic and the stagnation of American medicine.  Virginia, 2025.  270p bibl index  ISBN 9780813953113, $120.00;  ISBN 9780813953120 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9780813953137 ebook, $35.00;  63-1530

Freestone, Victor CM. Chemical thermodynamics: an introduction.  CRC Press, 2025.  334p index  ISBN 9781041001546, $375.00;  ISBN 9781041001539 pbk, $140.00;  ISBN 9781003608400 ebook, $140.00;  63-1538

Gander, Philippa H. Life in sync: the science of internal clocks and how we’re disrupting them.  Princeton, 2025.  148p index  ISBN 9780691271941, $22.95;  ISBN 9780691271965 ebook, $22.95;  63-1533

Keiter, Robert B. Conserving nature in Greater Yellowstone: controversy and change in an iconic ecosystem.  Chicago, 2025.  314p index  ISBN 9780226841243, $115.00;  ISBN 9780226841250 ebook, $12.50;  ISBN 9780226841267, $29.00;  63-1541

Lovejoy, Alice. Tales of militant chemistry: the film factory in a century of war.  California, 2025.  243p bibl index  ISBN 9780520402935, $27.95;  ISBN 9780520402959 ebook, $27.95;  63-1539

McCray, W. Patrick. README: a bookish history of computing from electronic brains to everything machines.  MIT, 2025.  382p bibl index  ISBN 9780262553483 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9780262384841 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-1546

Remillard, Arthur. Bodies in motion: a religious history of sports in America.  Oxford, 2025.  224p index  ISBN 9780197789766, $150.00;  ISBN 9780197789773 pbk, $25.00;  63-1551

Willis, Jon. The pale blue data point: an Earth-based perspective on the search for alien life.  Chicago, 2025.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9780226822402, $26.00;  ISBN 9780226822419 ebook, $25.99;  63-1531

Winters of discontent: the Winter Olympics and a half century of protest and resistance, ed. by Russell Field.  Illinois, 2025.  231p bibl index  ISBN 9780252046377, $110.00;  ISBN 9780252088445 pbk, $28.00;  ISBN 9780252047664 ebook, $19.95;  63-1552

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Social & Behavioral Sciences

Andrien, Kenneth J. The Spanish Atlantic world, 1492–1825: from kingdoms to colonies to independence.  Oxford, 2025.  278p bibl index  ISBN 9780190238827, $132.00;  ISBN 9780190238834 pbk, $30.00;  63-1605

Apekaum, Charles E. Autobiography of a Kiowa Indian, by Charles E. Apekaum with Weston LaBarre; ed. by Benjamin R. Kracht.  Nebraska, 2025.  242p bibl index  ISBN 9781496243188, $65.00;  ISBN 9781496243638 ebook, $65.00;  63-1562

Black movement: African American urban history since the Great Migration, ed. by Jeffrey O. G. Ogbar.  North Carolina, 2025.  380p index  ISBN 9781469684338, $120.00;  ISBN 9781469684345 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9781469684352 ebook, $23.99;  63-1610

Brady, David W. From dominance to parity: America’s political parties and the new era of electoral instability, by David W. Brady and Brett Parker.  Stanford, 2026.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9781503644212, $70.00;  ISBN 9781503644588 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-1642

Buccola, Nicholas. One man’s freedom: Goldwater, King, and the struggle over an American ideal.  Princeton, 2025.  465p bibl index  ISBN 9780691230306, $35.00;  ISBN 9780691230320 ebook, $35.00;  63-1643

Burciaga, Edelina M. Life undocumented: Latinx youth navigating place and belonging.  Arizona, 2025.  188p bibl index  ISBN 9780816553044, $100.00;  ISBN 9780816553037 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9780816553051 ebook, $30.00;  63-1655

Carley, Sanya. Power lines: the human costs of American energy in transition, by Sanya Carley and David Konisky.  Chicago, 2025.  336p bibl index  ISBN 9780226825625, $30.00;  ISBN 9780226843667 ebook, $29.99;  63-1569

Carroll, Jonathan. Beyond Black Hawk Down: intervention, nation-building, and insurgency in Somalia, 1992–1995.  University Press of Kansas, 2025.  483p bibl index  ISBN 9780700638888, $54.99;  ISBN 9780700638895 ebook, $54.99;  63-1634

Cherry, John F. Human dispersal, human evolution, and the sea: the Palaeolithic seafaring debate, by John F. Cherry and Thomas P. Leppard.  University Press of Colorado, 2025.  238p bibl index  ISBN 9781646426904, $67.00;  ISBN 9781646426911 ebook, $53.00;  63-1563

Christiansen, John B. Vibrant mosaic: a deaf sociologist explores issues impacting deaf and hard of hearing people.  Gallaudet, 2025.  302p bibl index  ISBN 9781954622654 pbk, $34.95;  ISBN 9781954622661 ebook, $34.95;  63-1656

Daminger, Allison. What’s on her mind: the mental workload of family life.  Princeton, 2025.  233p bibl index  ISBN 9780691245386, $29.95;  ISBN 9780691245393 ebook, $29.95;  63-1657

Deblinger, Rachel. Saving our survivors: how American Jews learned about the Holocaust.  Indiana, 2025.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9780253072696, $85.00;  ISBN 9780253072702 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9780253072726 ebook, $34.99;  63-1586

Denby, David. Eminent Jews: Bernstein, Brooks, Friedan, Mailer.  H. Holt, 2025.  400p bibl index  ISBN 9781250193407, $32.00;  ISBN 9781250393609 pbk, $19.99;  ISBN 9781250193414 ebook, $16.99;  63-1615

Denoël, Yvonnick. Vatican spies: from the Second World War to Pope Francis.  Hurst & Company, 2024.  384p index  ISBN 9781911723400, $29.99;  ISBN 9781805261841 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-1622

Disrupting political science: Black women re-imagining the discipline, ed. by Angela K. Lewis-Maddox.  SUNY Press, 2025.  289p index  ISBN 9798855800869, $130.00;  ISBN 9798855800876 pbk, $37.95;  ISBN 9798855800883 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-1627

Draycott, Jane. Fulvia: the woman who broke all the rules in ancient Rome.  Yale, 2025.  266p index  ISBN 9780300278040, $30.00;  ISBN 9780300288605 pbk, $20.00;  ISBN 9780300283136 ebook, $20.00;  63-1592

Feagin, Joe R. Racist America: roots, current realities, and future reparations, by Joe R. Feagin and Kimberley Ducey.  5th ed.  Routledge, 2025.  602p bibl index  ISBN 9781032678672, $190.00;  ISBN 9781032678696 pbk, $54.99;  ISBN 9781032678689 ebook, $54.99;  63-1658

Free speech and incitement in the twenty-first century, ed. by Eric T. Kasper and JoAnne Sweeny.  SUNY Press, 2025.  274p index  ISBN 9798855802023, $120.00;  ISBN 9798855802030 pbk, $35.95;  ISBN 9798855802047 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-1645

Hansen, Brooke. Sustainable tourism and hospitality management: business practices, global platforms, and reporting.  Kogan Page, 2026.  296p index  ISBN 9781398620445, $85.00;  ISBN 9781398620438 pbk, $52.00;  ISBN 9781398620452 ebook, $52.00;  63-1571

Hess, Earl J. Civil War cavalry: waging mounted warfare in nineteenth-century America.  Louisiana State, 2025.  448p bibl index  ISBN 9780807184448, $49.95;  ISBN 9780807184998 ebook, $19.95;  63-1616

Hines, Terence. The psychology and science of pseudoscience.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2025.  364p bibl index  ISBN 9781538194652, $115.00;  ISBN 9781538194669 pbk, $46.00;  ISBN 9781538194676 ebook, $41.40;  63-1653

Hyde, Janet Shibley. The psychology of gun violence: how smart choices can save lives.  Prometheus Books, 2025.  242p bibl index  ISBN 9781493089970, $29.95;  ISBN 9781493089987 ebook, $28.50;  63-1654

Lind, Jennifer M. Autocracy 2.0: how China’s rise reinvented tyranny.  Cornell, 2025.  244p index  ISBN 9781501784149, $29.95;  ISBN 9781501784163 ebook, $20.99;  63-1629

Luce, Edward. Zbig: the life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America’s great power prophet.  Simon & Schuster, 2025.  545p bibl index  ISBN 9781982173647, $35.00;  ISBN 9781982173661 ebook, $16.99;  63-1647

Madoff, Ray D. The second estate: how the tax code made an American aristocracy.  Chicago, 2025.  223p index  ISBN 9780226835204, $25.00;  ISBN 9780226835211 ebook, $24.99;  63-1577

McCann, Bryan. Rio de Janeiro.  Cambridge, 2025.  325p bibl index  ISBN 9781316515440, $75.00;  ISBN 9781009012041 pbk, $22.99;  ISBN 9781009027281 ebook, $22.99;  63-1606

McGrady, Deborah. Joan of Arc: the life of a French cultural icon.  Boydell Press, 2025.  306p bibl index  ISBN 9781783277759, $120.00;  ISBN 9781805436560 ebook, $24.00;  63-1625

Moshkin, Alex. Dual diaspora: post-Soviet culture in search of Israeli identity.  McGill-Queen’s, 2025.  204p bibl index  ISBN 9780228024552, $39.95;  ISBN 9780228025399 ebook, $39.95;  63-1602

Nasr, Seyyed Vali Reza. Iran’s grand strategy: a political history.  Princeton, 2025.  388p bibl index  ISBN 9780691268927, $35.00;  ISBN 9780691268934 ebook, $35.00;  63-1607

Pandian, Anand. Something between us: the everyday walls of American life, and how to take them down.  Redwood Press, 2025.  304p index  ISBN 9781503637870, $28.00;  ISBN 9781503642324 ebook, $28.00;  63-1558

Poverty and plenty in Scandinavia and the North Atlantic: later historical archaeologies of material excess and scarcity, ed. by Gavin Lucas et al.  Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9781350455832, $120.00;  ISBN 9781350455863 ebook, open access;  63-1568

Rodriguez Carey, Rebecca M. Birth behind bars: the carceral control of pregnant women in prison.  New York University, 2025.  280p bibl index  ISBN 9781479815791, $89.00;  ISBN 9781479815814 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781479815838 ebook, $30.00;  63-1660

Salomoni, Antonella. The ashes of Babi Yar: the massacre of Jews in Kyiv, tr. by Antony Shugaar.  Wisconsin, 2025.  308p bibl index  ISBN 9780299351205, $79.95;  ISBN 9780299351281 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-1603

Schramm, Madison. Why democracies fight dictators.  Oxford, 2025.  263p bibl index  ISBN 9780197807446, $99.00;  ISBN 9780197807453 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780197807460 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-1637

Williams, Terry. Life underground: encounters with people below the streets of New York.  Columbia, 2024.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9780231177924, $120.00;  ISBN 9780231177931 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9780231556941 ebook, $29.99;  63-1662

Witt, John Fabian. The radical fund: how a band of visionaries and a million dollars upended America.  Simon & Schuster, 2025.  712p index  ISBN 9781476765877, $35.00;  ISBN 9781476766355 ebook, $16.99;  63-1578

Zion, Shelley. Transformative student voice: partnering with young people for equitable school improvement, by Shelley Zion, Ben Kirshner, and Carlos P. Hipolito-Delgado.  Harvard Education Press, 2025.  248p bibl index  ISBN 9781682539828 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9781682539835 ebook, $28.00;  63-1584

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