The Top 75 Community College Titles: January 2026 Edition

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

Posted on January 29, 2026 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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Bartrop, Paul R. Genocide and propaganda: a primary source collection.   Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9781440876899, $130.00;   ISBN 9781440876905 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0834

Principles of graphic design and typography, ed. by Joy Crelin.   Salem Press, 2025.  500p bibl index  ISBN 9798891791817, $165.00;   ISBN 9798891791824 ebook, $165.00;   63-0833

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Humanities

Ancient slavery and its New Testament contexts, ed. by Christy Cobb and Katherine A. Shaner. Eerdmans, 2025. 288p bibl index ISBN 9780802884138, $28.99; ISBN 9781467468251 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0893

Henry, Gabe. Enough is enuf: our failed attempts to make English easier to spell. Dey Street, 2025. 304p index ISBN 9780063360211, $28.00; 63-0859

Hughes, Richard T. Christian America and the kingdom of God: white Christian nationalism from the Puritans through January 6, 2021, by Richard T. Hughes & Christina Littlefield. Updated and expanded edition. Illinois, 2025. 406p bibl index ISBN 9780252046346, $125.00; ISBN 9780252088414 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780252047626 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0898

Indigenous poetics, ed. by Inés HernándezÁvila and Molly McGlennen. Michigan State, 2025. 237p bibl index ISBN 9781611865264, $79.95; ISBN 9781611865271 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781628955422 ebook, $39.95; 63-0861

Massa, Mark Stephen. Catholic fundamentalism in America. Oxford, 2025. 240p bibl index ISBN 9780197759998, $29.99; 63-0900

Noggle, Robert. Manipulation: its nature, mechanisms, and moral status. Oxford, 2025. 288p bibl index ISBN 9780198924890, $115.00; ISBN 9780198924920 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0888

Park, J. P. The forger’s creed: reinventing art history in early modern China. California, 2025. 240p bibl index ISBN 9780520403802, $49.95; ISBN 9780520403819 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0838

Pasternak, Avia. No justice, no peace: the ethics of violent protests. Oxford, 2025. 288p bibl index ISBN 9780197556689, $34.95; ISBN 9780197556696 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0889

Reassembling the social interior: historical spaces from contemporary viewpoints, ed. by Helen McCormack, Jennifer Gray, and Anne Nellis Richter. Manchester University Press, 2025. 264p bibl index ISBN 9781526176912, $140.00; ISBN 9781526176905 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0840

Sanchez-Taylor, Joy. Dispelling fantasies: authors of color reimagine a genre. Ohio State, 2025. 184p bibl index ISBN 9780814215906, $99.95; ISBN 9780814259498 pbk, $32.95; ISBN 9780814284193 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0867

Santana, M. Myrta Leslie. Transformismo: performing trans/queer Cuba. Michigan, 2025. 224p bibl index ISBN 9780472077168, $80.00; ISBN 9780472057160 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780472221974 ebook, $29.95; 63-0878

Taylor, James C. The superhero blockbuster: adaptation, style, and meaning. University Press of Mississippi, 2025. 280p bibl index ISBN 9781496856777, $110.00; ISBN 9781496856784 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781496856814 ebook, Contact publisher for price; 63-0848

Thomas-Reid, Matthew. Queering Mayberry: an exploration of sexuality and gender in the Andy Griffith show. Routledge, 2025. 136p bibl index ISBN 9781032758275, $190.00; ISBN 9781032756592 pbk, $54.99; ISBN 9781003475828 ebook, $49.49; 63-0849

Wood, Alexander. Building the metropolis: architecture, construction, and labor in New York City, 1880–1935. Chicago, 2025. 496p bibl index ISBN 9780226836966, $35.00; ISBN 9780226836973 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0841

Yetter-Chappell, Helen. The view from everywhere: realist idealism without God. Oxford, 2025. 216p bibl index ISBN 9780197795026, $99.00; ISBN 9780197795057 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0892

Zipprodt, Patricia. If the song doesn’t work, change the dress: the illustrated memoirs of Broadway costume designer Patricia Zipprodt, by Patricia Zipprodt with Arnold Wengrow. Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2025. 216p index ISBN 9781350430655, $35.00; ISBN 9781350430662 pbk, contact publisher for price; ISBN 9781350430679 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0879

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Science & Technology

Afshordi, Niyayesh. Battle of the big bang: the new tales of our cosmic origins, by Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper. Chicago, 2025. 360p index ISBN 9780226830476, $32.50; ISBN 9780226830483 ebook, $31.99; 63-0907

Blix, Hagen. Why we fear AI: on the interpretation of nightmares, by Hagen Blix and Ingeborg Glimmer. Common Notions, 2025. 208p bibl index ISBN 9781945335174 pbk, $20.00; ISBN 9781945335426 ebook, $16.00; 63-0923

Dacey, Mike. Seven challenges for the science of animal minds. Oxford, 2025. 256p bibl index ISBN 9780198928072, $100.00; ISBN 9780198928102 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0912

Fuentes, Agustin. Sex is a spectrum: the biological limits of the binary. Princeton, 2025. 216p bibl index ISBN 9780691249414, $24.95; ISBN 9780691249421 ebook, $24.95; 63-0910

Hadley, Alison. Teenage pregnancy and young parenthood: effective policy and practice. Routledge, 2025. 236p bibl index ISBN 9781032525112, $180.00; ISBN 9781032530871 pbk, $46.99; ISBN 9781003410225 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0920

How that robot made me feel, ed. by Ericka Johnson. MIT, 2025. 268p bibl index ISBN 9780262550949 pbk, $55.00; ISBN 9780262381420 ebook, open access; 63-0924

Princen, Thomas. Fire and flood. MIT, 2025. 200p bibl index ISBN 9780262552127 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780262382663 ebook, Contact publisher for price; 63-0916

Ratcliff, Jessica. Monopolizing knowledge: the East India Company and Britain’s second scientific revolution. Cambridge, 2025. 306p bibl index ISBN 9781009379496, $120.00; ISBN 9781009379502 pbk, contact publisher for price; ISBN 9781009379526 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0906

Schartmann, Andrew. Keiji Inafune: Mega Man, Soul Sacrifice, Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 160p bibl index ISBN 9798765120576, $80.00; ISBN 9798765120569 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9798765120606 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0929

Trefil, James. Supermassive: black holes at the beginning and end of the universe, by James Trefil and Shobita Satyapal. Smithsonian Books, 2025. 256p bibl index ISBN 9781588347893, $29.95; 63-0908

Vera, Héctor. Yardstick nation: the metric system in America. Vanderbilt, 2025. 298p bibl index ISBN 9780826507846, $99.95; ISBN 9780826507839 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9780826507853 ebook, $19.99; 63-0918

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Social & Behavioral Sciences

Adsit, Janelle. Writing and health care: creative and critical approaches.   Bloomsbury, 2025. 296p bibl index  ISBN 9781350417076, $100.00;   ISBN 9781350417083 pbk, $34.56; ISBN 9781350417090 ebook, Contact publisher for price;   63-1029

The Art of flourishing: conversations on disability, ed. by Liz Bowen et al.   Oxford, 2025.  232p bibl index  ISBN 9780197625705, $132.00; ISBN 9780197625712 pbk, $19.95;   ISBN 9780197625736 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0930

Bar-Gill, Oren. Algorithmic harm: protecting people in the age of artificial intelligence, by Oren Bar-Gill and Cass R. Sunstein.   Oxford, 2025.  200p bibl index  ISBN 9780197778197, $99.00;   ISBN 9780197778203 pbk, $29.95; 63-0954

Berenson, Edward. Perfect communities: Levitt, Levittown, and the dream of white suburbia.   Yale, 2025.  424p bibl index  ISBN 9780300259544, $32.00;   ISBN 9780300281224 ebook, Contact publisher for price;   63-0985

Bernier, Julia Wallace. Freedom’s currency: slavery, capitalism, and self-purchase in the United States.   Pennsylvania, 2024.  225p bibl index  ISBN 9781512826470, $49.95;   ISBN 9781512826487 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0986

Biglari, Mattin. Nationalising oil and knowledge in Iran: labour, decolonisation and colonial modernity, 1933–51.   Edinburgh University Press, 2025.  336p bibl index  ISBN 9781474489638 ebook, Contact publisher for price;   63-0982

Boyce, Dave. Freemium: how Zoom, HubSpot, Atlassian, and other top companies use product-led growth for low-cost customer acquisition and expansion.   Stanford Business Books, 2025.  336p index  ISBN 9781503640399, $35.00;   ISBN 9781503643055 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0947

Briggs, Daniel. Sheltering strangers: critical memoirs from hosting Ukrainian refugees.   Bristol University Press, 2025.  158p bibl  index  ISBN 9781447373612, $120.00; ISBN 9781447373629 pbk, $41.99;   ISBN 9781447373643 ebook, $41.99;   63-1035

Buechler, Sandra. Erich Fromm: a contemporary introduction.   Routledge, 2025.  162p bibl  index  ISBN 9781032693514, $180.00; ISBN 9781032613437 pbk, $28.99;   ISBN 9781032693521 ebook, $28.99;   63-1030

Busch, Andrew. The comeback: the 2024 elections and American politics, by Andrew Busch and John J. Pitney, Jr.   Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.  200p index  ISBN 9781538197578, $85.00;   ISBN 9781538197585 pbk, $32.00; ISBN 9781538197592 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-1021

Chapman, Allan. The Victorians and the Holy Land: adventurers, tourists, and archaeologists in the lands of the Bible.   Eerdmans, 2025.  266p bibl index  ISBN 9780802884091 pbk, $34.99; ISBN 9781467468206 ebook, $34.99;   630941

Charnock, Hannah. Teenage intimacies: young women, sex and social life in England, 1950–80. Manchester University Press, 2025.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9781526173157, $130.00;   ISBN 9781526173157 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0993

Chesterley, Nicholas. Future-generation Government: how to legislate for the long term.   McGill-Queen’s, 2025.  300p bibl index  ISBN 9780228024750, $34.95;   63-1000

Chislett, William. Spain: what everyone needs to know.   Oxford, 2025.  232p bibl index  ISBN 9780197806173, $74.00;   ISBN 9780197806180 pbk, $18.98; ISBN 9780197806197 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0996

Choi, Vivian Y. Disaster nationalism: tsunami and civil war in Sri Lanka.   Duke, 2025.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9781478028468, $125.00; ISBN 9781478031635 pbk, $30.00;   ISBN 9781478060673 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0942

City, Elizabeth A. Leading strategically: achieving ambitious goals in education, by Elizabeth A. City and Rachel E. Curtis.   Harvard Education Press, 2025.  272p index  ISBN 9781682539880 pbk, $34.00;   63-0959

Clayton, Mike. How to negotiate: practical and proven skills to help you strike better deals.   Kogan Page, 2025.  224p index  ISBN 9781398620933, $64.00;   ISBN 9781398620926 pbk, $16.99; ISBN 9781398620940 ebook, $16.99;   630949

Coleman, Patrick. The Orange Order: a global history.   Edinburgh University Press, 2025.  280p bibl  index  ISBN 9781399518147, $115.00; ISBN 9781399518154 pbk, $24.95;   ISBN 9781399518178 ebook, $24.95;   63-0964

Culinary mestizaje: racial mixing and foodways across the United States, ed. by Felipe Hinojosa and Rudy P. Guevarra Jr.   Texas, 2025.  216p bibl index  ISBN 9781477332566, $34.95;   ISBN 9781477331675 ebook, $34.95;   63-0932

Drake, Helen. Understanding France.   Bristol University Press, 2025.  288p bibl index ISBN 9781529229943, $120.00;   ISBN 9781529229974 ebook, Contact publisher for price;   ISBN 9781529229950 pbk, $38.50; 63-0997

Dwidar, Maraam A. Power to the partners: organizational coalitions in social justice advocacy.   Chicago, 2025.  225p bibl index ISBN 9780226840369, $115.00;   ISBN 9780226840383 pbk, $30.00;   ISBN 9780226840376 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0933

Flaws, Jacob. Spaces of Treblinka: retracing a death camp.   Nebraska, 2024.  314p bibl  index  ISBN 9781496239730, $60.00;   ISBN 9781496241160 ebook, $60.00;   63-0977

Garland, Robert. What to expect when you’re dead: an ancient tour of death and the afterlife.   Princeton, 2025.  344p bibl index ISBN 9780691266176, $29.95;   ISBN 9780691268538 ebook, $29.95;   63-0973

Gerges, Fawaz A. The great betrayal: the struggle for freedom and democracy in the Middle East.   Princeton, 2025.  384p bibl index  ISBN 9780691176635, $35.00;   ISBN 9780691189598 ebook, Contact publisher for pricing;   63-0983

Gustafson, Thane. Perfect storm: Russia’s failed economic opening, the hurricane of war and sanctions, and the uncertain future.   Oxford, 2025. 328p bibl index  ISBN 9780197795682, $29.99;   ISBN 9780197795705 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0956

Higham, Charles. Early Southeast Asia: from first humans to first civilizations.   National University of Singapore, 2025.  376p bibl index  ISBN 9789813252936 pbk, $45.00;   63-0943

King, Anthony. AI, automation, and war: the rise of a military-tech complex.   Princeton, 2025. 240p bibl index  ISBN 9780691265148, $32.00;   ISBN 9780691265155 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-1013

Loendorf, Lawrence L. Ten steps for recording pictographs and petroglyphs: methods and technologies, by Lawrence L. Loendorf and Nancy Medaris Stone.   Utah, 2025.  114p bibl index ISBN 9781647691905 pbk, $34.95;   ISBN 9781647691912 ebook, $27.95;   63-0945

McKenna, T. J. Making sense of sensemaking: designing authentic K–12 STEM learning experiences.   Teachers College Press, 2025.  258p bibl index  ISBN 9780807786871, $117.00;   ISBN 9780807782965 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0961 January 2026

Morrell, Andrea R. Prison town: making the carceral state in Elmira, New York.   Nebraska, 2025.  178p bibl index  ISBN 9781496239020, $99.00;   ISBN 9781496243119 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781496243256 ebook, $30.00;   631039

Motomura, Hiroshi. Borders and belonging: toward a fair immigration policy.   Oxford, 2025. 216p bibl index  ISBN 9780197743720, $34.95;   ISBN 9780197743744 ebook, Contact publisher for price;   63-1025

Moving from trendy to transformative socialemotional learning, ed. by Linsay DeMartino and Lisa Fetman.   Myers Education Press, 2025.  236p index  ISBN 9781975506896 pbk, $42.95;   ISBN 9781975506919 ebook, $42.95;   63-0962

Murphy, Ryan Patrick. Teamsters metropolis.   Michigan, 2025.  258p bibl index ISBN 9780472077533, $75.00;   ISBN 9780472057535 pbk, $29.95;   ISBN 9780472222278 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0951

On the move: migration policies in Latin America and the Caribbean, by Andrew Selee et al.   Stanford, 2025.  208p bibl index  ISBN 9781503635142, $105.00;   ISBN 9781503643291 pbk, $26.00; ISBN 9781503643307 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-1007

Pollock, Sarah H. Sex, risk, and society: when is sex dangerous?.   Berghahn Books, 2025.  175p bibl index  ISBN 9781805399414, $120.00; ISBN 9781805399896 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-1040

Risen, Clay. Red scare: blacklists, McCarthyism and the making of modern America.   Scribner, 2025.  480p bibl index  ISBN 9781982141806, $31.00;   ISBN 9781982141820 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0991

Roht-Arriaza, Naomi. Fighting grand corruption: transnational and human rights approaches in Latin America and beyond.   Cambridge, 2025.  286p bibl index  ISBN 9781009550581, $99.99; ISBN 9781009550574 ebook, Contact publisher for price;   63-1008

Rojas, Rochelle. Bad Christians and hanging toads: witch crafting in northern Spain, 1525–1675.   Cornell, 2025.  216qp bibl index  ISBN 9781501779718, $43.95;   ISBN 9781501779732 ebook, $27.99;   63-0998

Roman, Meredith L. The Black Panthers and the Soviets: a comparative history of human rights movements.   Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 232p bibl  index  ISBN 9781350436138, $115.00;   ISBN 9781350436145 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0967

Rust, Nicole C. Elusive cures: why neuroscience hasn’t solved brain disorders—and how we can change that.   Princeton, 2025.  296p bibl index  ISBN 9780691243054, $28.90;   ISBN 9780691243078 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-1034

Sagás, Ernesto. Latino Colorado: the struggle for equality in the Centennial State.   University Press of Colorado, 2025.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9781646427253, $34.95;   ISBN 9781646427260 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0936

Simmons, Cécile. Ctrl hate delete: the new anti-feminist backlash and how we fight it. Policy Press, 2025.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9781447374848, $14.99;   63-0937

Smith, Adam I. P. Gettysburg.   Oxford, 2025. 320p bibl index  ISBN 9780199671274, $24.99;   ISBN 9780199671274 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0992

Smith, Rogers M. America’s new racial battle lines: protect versus repair, by Rogers M. Smith and Desmond King.   Chicago, 2024.  456p bibl index  ISBN 9780226834023, $115.00; ISBN 9780226834047 pbk, $30.00;   ISBN 9780226834030 ebook, $29.99;   63-1028

Toro-Morn, Maura I. Puerto Ricans in Illinois, by Maura I. Toro-Morn and Ivis García. Southern Illinois, 2024.  220p bibl index ISBN 9780809338160 pbk, $24.50;   ISBN 9780809338177 ebook, $15.99;   63-1041

Wilson, Annie. The growth dilemma: managing your brand when different customers want different things, by Annie Wilson and Ryan Hamilton.   Harvard Business Review Press, 2025.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9781647829735, $32.00;   ISBN 9781647829742 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0953

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