The Top 75 Community College Titles: December 2025 Edition

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

Posted on December 18, 2025 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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Reference

South America: from European contact to independence, ed. by H. Micheal Tarver and Carlos E. Márquez Petit. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 2v bibl index ISBN 9781440879135, $305.00; ISBN 9798765118207 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0627

Wakin, Michele. Teen runaways in America: a reference handbook. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.  248p bibl  index  ISBN 9781440880568, $75.00;   ISBN 9798765116517 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0628

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Humanities

Avilés Santiago, Manuel Gerardo. Spanish-language television: cultural and industrial transformations, by Manuel G. Avilés Santiago and Jillian M. Báez.  Texas, 2025. 208p bibl index ISBN 9781477331156, $114.00;  ISBN 9781477331163 pbk, $34.95;  ISBN 9781477331170 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-0637

Baum, Robert M. Ancient African religions: a history.  Oxford, 2024. 314p bibl index ISBN 9780197747070, $125.00;  ISBN 9780197747063 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780197747094 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-0684

Brunson, Samuel D. Between the temple and the tax collector: the intersection of Mormonism and the state. Illinois, 2025. 278p bibl index ISBN 9780252046322, $113.00;  ISBN 9780252088391 pbk, $28.00;  ISBN 9780252047602 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0685

Connors, Sean P. Neoliberalism and young adult fiction: exceptionalism, exploitation, and erasure, by Sean P. Connors and Roberta Seelinger Trites. University Press of Mississippi, 2025. 286p bibl index ISBN 9781496855794, $110.00;  ISBN 9781496855800 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9781496855831 ebook, Contact publisher for price;  63-0647

Erkkila, Catherine Boland. Spaces of immigration: American ports, railways, and settlements.  Pittsburgh, 2025. 272p bibl ISBN 9780822948490, $65.00;  63-0634

Holroyd, Jules. Oppressive praise.  Oxford, 2025. 224p bibl index ISBN 9780192883162, $98.00;  ISBN 9780192883179 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-0676

Irwin, Mary. Love wars: television romantic comedy.  Bloomsbury, 2025. 240p bibl index ISBN 9781784533465, $115.00;  ISBN 9781350120143 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-0639

Kalaidjian, Andrew. Spectacle Earth: media for planetary change.  Virginia, 2025. 222p bibl index ISBN 9780813952710, $115.00;  ISBN 9780813952727 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9780813952734 ebook, $35.00;  63-0640

Kontje, Todd. Global Germany circa 1800: a revisionist literary history. Pennsylvania State, 2025. 266p bibl index ISBN 9780271099668, $59.95;  ISBN 9780271099774 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-0661

Lopez, Alyssa. Reel freedom: Black film culture in early twentieth-century New York City.  Temple, 2025. 197p bibl index ISBN 9781439924129, $110.00;  ISBN 9781439924136 pbk, $32.95;  ISBN 9781439924143 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-0665

Lundgren, Adrienne. Magnificent intentions: John Wood, first federal photographer, 1856–1863. Smithsonian Institution Press, 2024.  ISBN 9781588347619, $55.00;  63-0635

Maitra, Ishani. Words in action: an introduction to the social philosophy of language, by Ishani Maitra and Mary Kate McGowan. Oxford, 2025. 360p bibl index ISBN 9780190929015, $99.00;  ISBN 9780190929022 pbk, $29.99;  ISBN 9780190929053 ebook, Contact publisher for price;  63-0643

Malzkuhn, Matt. Home movies hardly silent: unlocking our deaf folklife films, by Matt Malzkuhn and Ted Supalla. Oxford, 2025. 168p bibl index ISBN 9780197663172, $125.00;  ISBN 9780197663189 pbk, $39.95;  ISBN 9780197663219 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-0666

Martineau, Paul. Queer lens: a history of photography, by Paul Martineau and Ryan Linkof. Getty Publications, 2025. 342p bibl index ISBN 9781606069691, $65.00;  63-0636

Menrisky, Alexander. Everyday ecofascism: crisis and consumption in American literature. Minnesota, 2025. 304p bibl index ISBN 9781517918682, $28.00;  ISBN 9781452972831 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-0655

Meyer, Michael A. Above all, we are Jews: a biography of Rabbi Alexander Schindler.  CCAR, 2025. 274p bibl index ISBN 9780881236583 pbk, $25.95; ISBN 9780881236590 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-0688

Moores, JR. Off the ground: Paul McCartney in the 1990s.  Reaktion Books, 2025. 320p index ISBN 9781789149425, $27.50;  ISBN 9781789149821 ebook, $27.50;  63-0667

Percy, Martyn. The crisis of colonial Anglicanism: empire, slavery and revolt in the Church of England.  Hurst & Company, 2025. 352p bibl index ISBN 9781911723585, $34.99;  ISBN 9781805261964 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-0690

Refskou, Anne Sophie. Shakespeare’s compassion: emotion and the classics on the early modern stage. Bloomsbury, 2025. 208p bibl index ISBN 9781350497580, $110.00;  ISBN 9781350497603 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-0670

Rollyson, Carl E. Faulkner on and off the page: essays in biographical criticism. University Press of Mississippi, 2025. 248p bibl index ISBN 9781496856043, $99.00; ISBN 9781496856050 pbk, $30.00;  ISBN 9781496856401 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-0659

Smith, Andrea. Shakespeare on the radio: a century of BBC plays.  Edinburgh University Press, 2025. 224p bibl index ISBN 9781399547260, $115.00;  ISBN 9781399547284 pbk, $19.95;  ISBN 9781399547291 ebook, Contact publisher for price;  63-0671

Stacks, Stephen. The resounding revolution: freedom song after 1968. Illinois, 2025. 264p bibl index ISBN 9780252046599, $110.00;  ISBN 9780252088704 pbk, $27.95;  ISBN 9780252047909 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-0668

The Virtue of endurance, ed. by Nathan L. King.  Oxford, 2025. 376p bibl index ISBN 9780197543849, $132.00;  ISBN 9780197543856 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780197543863 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-0680

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Science & Technology

Amrith, Sunil S. The burning Earth: a history.  W. W. Norton, 2024. 432p bibl ISBN 9781324007180, $35.00;  ISBN 9781324007197 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-0695

Eipper, Tie. Snakes of Australia, by Tie Eipper and Scott Eipper. Princeton, 2025. 364p bibl index ISBN 9780691269931, $45.00;  63-0698

Harris, Stephen A. 50 plants that changed the world. Bodleian Library, 2025. 320p bibl index ISBN 9781851246526, $40.00;  63-0697

Kamper, David. Rezballers and skate elders: joyful futures in Indian country. Nebraska, 2025. 272p bib ISBN 9781496213167, $60.00; ISBN 9781496243294 ebook, $60.00;  63-0714

Loury, Sharon. Appalachian nursing: a history, 1890–1960.  McFarland, 2025. 203p bibl index ISBN 9781476675411 pbk, $39.95;  ISBN 9781476654942 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-0709

Meyer, R. O. Bell Telephone System’s preeminent role in the growth of industrial design, by Ralph O. Meyer and Russell A. Flinchum.  Purdue, 2025. 216p bibl index ISBN 9781626711082, $95.99;  ISBN 9781626711099 pbk, $27.99;  63-0704

Packer, Melina. Toxic sexual politics: toxicology, environmental poisons, and queer feminist futures.  New York University, 2025. 352p bibl index ISBN 9781479828616, $99.00;  ISBN 9781479828623 pbk, $35.00;  ISBN 9781479828630 ebook, $35.00;  63-0710

Peterson, Erik L. The shortest history of eugenics: from “science” to atrocity—how a dangerous movement shaped the world, and why it persists.  The Experiment, 2024. 304p index ISBN 9781891011887 pbk, $16.95;  ISBN 9781891011870 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-0696

Vaughn, Jacqueline. Water in the West: a reference handbook. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 280p bibl index ISBN 9798216182627, $75.00;  ISBN 9798216182634 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-0706

Wagner, David L. Moths of the world: a natural history.  Princeton, 2025. 240p bibl index ISBN 9780691248288, $29.95;  ISBN 9780691248295 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-0699

Wertz, Jean-Luc. Plastics in the oceans: toward sustainable solutions, by Jean-Luc Wertz, Olivier Bédué, and Serge Perez.  CRC Press, 2024. 154p bibl index ISBN 9781032869964, $74.99;  ISBN 9781032873954 pbk, $29.99; ISBN 9781003532477 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-0702

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Social & Behavioral Sciences

Araque, Juan Carlos. Leadership with impact: preparing health and human service practitioners in the age of innovation and diversity, by Juan Carlos Araque and Eugenia L. Weiss. 2nd ed.  Oxford, 2024. 688p bibl index ISBN 9780197753392 pbk, $164.00;  ISBN 9780197753415 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0715

Becker, Adam. More everything forever: AI overlords, space empires, and Silicon Valley’s crusade to control the fate of humanity.  Basic Books, 2025. 384p bibl index ISBN 9781541619593, $32.00; ISBN 9781541619609 ebook, $18.99;  63-0732

Blanc, Jacob. Searching for memory: Aluízio Palmar and the shadow of dictatorship in Brazil.  North Carolina, 2025. 296p bibl index ISBN 9781469681023, $99.00;  ISBN 9781469681030, $34.95;  ISBN 9781469681047 ebook, $27.99;  63-0769

Bunton, Martin. The end of the Ottoman Empire and the forging of the modern Middle East: a short history with documents, by Martin Bunton and Andrew Wender. Hackett, 2025. 248p bibl index ISBN 9781647922078 pbk, $18.00;  ISBN 9781647922085 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-0772

Burge, Ryan P. The American religious landscape: facts, trends, and the future. Oxford, 2025. 280p bibl index ISBN 9780197762837, $150.00;  ISBN 9780197762844 pbk, $24.95;  63-0823

Casey, Emma. The return of the housewife: why women are still cleaning up. Manchester University Press, 2025. 224p bibl index ISBN 9781526170972, $29.95;  63-0824

Chamberlain, Jacob P. Migrant justice in the age of removal: rights, law, and resistance against territory’s exclusions.  Georgia, 2025. 298p bibl ISBN 9780820369907, $119.95; ISBN 9780820369914 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780820369938 ebook, $29.95;  63-0811

Dalrymple, William. Golden road: how Ancient India transformed the world. Bloomsbury, 2025. 496p bibl index ISBN 9781639734146, $32.99;  ISBN 9781408864432 pbk, contact publisher for price;  63-0763

Dunn, Daisy. The missing thread: a women’s history of the ancient world. Viking, 2024. 480p bibl index ISBN 9780593299661, $25.00;  ISBN 9780593299678 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-0759

Encarnación, Omar Guillermo. Framing equality: the politics of gay marriage wars.  Oxford, 2025. 216p bibl index ISBN 9780190880309, $30.00;  ISBN 9780190880323 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-0797

Fallace, Thomas. You are not a kinesthetic learner: the troubled history of the learning style idea. Chicago, 2025. 232p bibl index ISBN 9780226841366, $115.00;  ISBN 9780226841373 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-0745

Farnsworth, Cacey Bowen. Atlantic crossroads in Lisbon’s new golden age, 1668–1750. Pennsylvania, 2024. 228p bibl index ISBN 9780271098869, $124.95;  ISBN 9780271099095 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-0790

Fat on campus: the voices and images of fat college students and the impacts of fatphobia, by Roshaunda L. Breeden et al.  Myers Education Press, 2025. 175p bibl index ISBN 9781975506773 pbk, $42.95;  63-0746

Friend, Craig Thompson. Becoming Lunsford Lane: the lives of an American Aeneas. North Carolina, 2025. 432p bibl index ISBN 9781469685342, $37.50;  ISBN 9781469683867 pbk, contact publisher for price;  ISBN 9781469687766 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-0775

Fullerton, Lindsay. Ephemeral city: a people’s history of Chicago’s century of Progress World’s Fair.  Illinois, 2025. 340p bibl index ISBN 9780252046438, $125.00;  ISBN 9780252088520 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9780252047749 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-0776

Graham, Aaron. Tropical Leviathan: slavery, society, and security in Jamaica, 1770–1840. Oxford, 2025. 448p bibl index ISBN 9780198819165, $155.00;  63-0770

Hahn, Peter L. Libya and the West: what everyone needs to know®.  Oxford, 2025. 312p bibl index ISBN 9780190223021, $74.00;  ISBN 9780190223038 pbk, $18.99;  ISBN 9780190223052 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-0773

Harvey, Hope. Doubled up: shared households and the precarious lives of families. Princeton, 2025. 280p bibl index ISBN 9780691247021, $32.00;  ISBN 9780691247045 ebook, $32.00;  63-0741

Jackson, Ashley. Superpower Britain: the 1945 vision and why it failed, by Ashley Jackson and Andrew Stewart.  Oxford, 2025. 480p bibl index ISBN 9780192863706, $45.00;  ISBN 9780192678591 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-0786

Khiterer, Victoria. Bitter war of memory: the Babyn Yar massacre, aftermath, and commemoration.  Purdue, 2025. 322p bibl index ISBN 9781626711129, $99.99;  ISBN 9781626711136 pbk, $44.99;  ISBN 9781626711150 ebook, $44.99;  63-0767

Lewis, Michael John. Beneath our feet: everyday discoveries reshaping history, by Michael Lewis and Ian Richardson.  Thames & Hudson, 2025. 240p index ISBN 9780500027523, $40.00;  63-0725

Maloney, Erik S. Imprisoned minds: lost boys, trapped men, and solutions from within the prison, by Erik S. Maloney and Kevin A. Wright. Rutgers, 2025. 210p bibl index ISBN 9781978837270, $120.00;  ISBN 9781978837263 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9781978837287 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-0825

Martin, James I. Sexual and gender minority history: a counter-narrative. Oxford, 2025. 224p bibl index ISBN 9780197765470, $99.00;  ISBN 9780197765500 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-0721

Meier, William M. Terror’s triumph: the British Empire and the origins of modern terrorism.  Rowman & Littlefield, 2025. 342p bibl index ISBN 9798881801953, $105.00;  ISBN 9798881801960 pbk, $40.00;  ISBN 9798881802004 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-0789

Merkel, Angela. Freedom: memoirs 1954–2021, by Angela Merkel and Beate Baumann. St. Martin’s, 2024. 720p bibl index ISBN 9781250319906, $40.00;  ISBN 9781250319913 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-0768

Musher, Sharon Ann. Promised lands: Hadassah Kaplan and the legacy of American Jewish women in early twentieth-century Palestine. New York University, 2025. 280p bibl index ISBN 9781479832743, $35.00;  ISBN 9781479832781 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-0753

Pippenger, Nathan. A common country: solidarity in the making of American democracy.  Oxford, 2025. 216p bibl index ISBN 9780197811733, $99.00;  ISBN 9780197811740 pbk, $29.99; ISBN 9780197811771 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0815

Porwancher, Andrew. American Maccabee: Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews. Princeton, 2025. 368p bibl index ISBN 9780691203669, $35.00;  ISBN 9780691271637 ebook, Contact publisher for price; 63-0778

Riehle, Kevin P. Counterintelligence at its core: assessing and preventing foreign espionage. L. Rienner, 2025. 211p bibl index ISBN 9781962551489, $105.00;  ISBN 9781962551496 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-0806

Sandweiss, Martha A. The girl in the middle: a recovered history of the American West.  Princeton, 2025. 368p bibl index ISBN 9780691238418, $32.00;  ISBN 9780691238425 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0779

Schwartzberg, Steven J. Arguments over genocide: the war of words in the Congress and the Supreme Court over Cherokee removal. Ethics Press, 2023. 346p bibl index ISBN 9781804411070, $110.00;  ISBN 9781804413609 pbk, $42.00;  ISBN 9781804411087 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-0782

Selgin, George A. False dawn: the New Deal and the promise of recovery, 1933–1947. Chicago, 2025. 384p bibl index ISBN 9780226832937, $35.99;  ISBN 9780226838991 ebook, $34.99; 63-0742

Shaul, David Leedom. Piros and prehistory: a study in Tanoan. Utah, 2024. 240p bibl index ISBN 9781647691585, $70.00; ISBN 9781647691592 ebook, $55.95;  63-0730

Soderberg, Susan Cooke. “My name is not Tom”: the life of the Reverend Josiah Henson. Georgetown University, 2025. 235p bibl index ISBN 9781647126100 pbk, $29.95;  ISBN 9781647125370 ebook, $29.95;  63-0783

STEM to STREAMS: toward a more equitable vision of STEM education, ed. by Douglas Huffman, Kelli R. Feldman, and Imogen R. Herrick. Rowman & Littlefield, 2025. 164p bibl index ISBN 9781475874235, $85.00;  ISBN 9781475874242 pbk, $34.00;  ISBN 9781475874259 ebook, contact publisher for price;  63-0749

Stitt, Mary Ellen. Trial by treatment: punishing illness in an age of criminal legal reform.  Chicago, 2025. 249p bibl index ISBN 9780226840406 pbk, $115.00; ISBN 9780226840413 ebook, Contact publisher for price;  63-0829

The two Georges: parallel lives in an age of revolution, ed. by Susan Reyburn and Zach Klitzman. Library of Congress, 2025. 256p bibl index ISBN 9780844495927, $49.95; ISBN 9780844495903 pbk, $24.95; 630756

Vega, Irene I. Bordering on indifference: immigration agents negotiating race and morality. Princeton, 2025. 232p bibl index ISBN 9780691262093, $29.95;  ISBN 9780691262109 ebook, $29.95; 63-0817

Whitt, Sarah A. Bad medicine: settler colonialism and the institutionalization of American Indians. Duke, 2025. 288p bibl index ISBN 9781478028048, $110.00; ISBN 9781478031260 pbk, $27.95;  ISBN 9781478060253 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0784

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