The Top 75 Community College Titles: July 2026 Edition

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

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

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A Cultural history of magic, ed. by Louise Nyholm Kallestrup and Stephen A. Mitchell. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.  1630p 6v. bibl index  ISBN 9781350124073, $610.00; 63-2076

Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. Business and professional women of Colonial America: 146 biographies, 1585–1781. McFarland, 2025.  269p bibl index  ISBN 9781476697734, $49.95; ISBN 9781476655437 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2077

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Humanities

Altieri, Christopher R. Leo XIV: the new pope and Catholic reform. Bloomsbury Continuum, 2025.  212p  ISBN 9781399430890, $28.00; ISBN 9781399430906 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2134

Anjirbag, Michelle Anya. Appropriated tales: race and the Disney fairy-tale mode. Wayne State, 2026.  258p bibl index  ISBN 9780814351093, $96.99; ISBN 9780814351086 pbk, $36.99; ISBN 9780814351109 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2083

Bhagwat, Ashutosh. Killing the messenger: the war on social media. Cambridge, 2025.  202p index  ISBN 9781009547680, $95.00; ISBN 9781009547659 pbk, $31.00; ISBN 9781009547703 ebook, open access; 63-2084

The Bloomsbury handbook to F. Scott Fitzgerald, ed. by Laura Rattray and Linda Wagner-Martin. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.  425p bibl index  ISBN 9781350429635, $190.00; ISBN 9781350429642 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2100

Cancer and young adult literature, ed. by Stephen M. Zimmerly. Lexington Books, 2025.  180p index  ISBN 9781666927566, $105.00; ISBN 9781666927580 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781666927573 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2092

Crawford, Joseph. Killer bodies: the rise and fall of “bad girl” comics. Rutgers, 2026.  193p bibl index  ISBN 9781978841970, $130.00; ISBN 9781978841963 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9781978841987 ebook, $34.95; 63-2086

Del Rosario, Mikel. Did Jesus really say he was God?: making sense of his historical claims. IVP Academic, 2025.  259p bibl index  ISBN 9781514011010 pbk, $24.99; ISBN 9781514011027 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2136

Enfield, N. J. What is truth for?. Bristol University Press, 2025.  128p index  ISBN 9781529249385 pbk, $13.95; ISBN 9781529249392 ebook, $14.95; 63-2124

Homer. The Iliad, tr. by Emily Wilson. W. W. Norton, 2025.  816p  ISBN 9781324102076 pbk, $9.50; ISBN 9781324102090 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2097

Lincoln, Bruce. On ritual: a microhistorical approach. Brill, 2025.  172p bibl index (Supplements to method & theory in the study of religion, 23)  ISBN 9789004723924, $118.00; ISBN 9789004723948 pbk, $60.00; ISBN 9789004723931 ebook, $118.00; 63-2138

McDowell, Felice. 1960s model girl: narrative identities in fashion, time and history. Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2025.  189p bibl index  ISBN 9781350076297, $115.00; ISBN 9781350076310 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2079

Morgan, Alaina M. Atlantic crescent: building geographies of Black and Muslim liberation in the African diaspora. North Carolina, 2025.  274p bibl index  ISBN 9781469688701, $99.00; ISBN 9781469688718 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781469683874 ebook, $23.99; 63-2141

Parsley, Samantha. Minor keys: gender, inequality and work in electronic music. Bristol University Press, 2025.  206p bibl index  ISBN 9781529240412, $119.95; ISBN 9781529240429 pbk, $22.95; ISBN 9781529240436 ebook, $22.50; 63-2118

The Princeton companion to Jewish studies, ed. by Leora Batnitzky, Eve Krakowski, and Steven Weitzman. Princeton, 2025.  578p index  ISBN 9780691215198, $49.95; ISBN 9780691220826 ebook, $49.95; 63-2142

Shin, K. Ian. Imperial stewards: Chinese art and the making of America’s Pacific Century. Stanford, 2025.  345p bibl index  ISBN 9781503642195, $130.00; ISBN 9781503643178 pbk, $32.00; ISBN 9781503643185 ebook, $32.00; 63-2081

Vine, Angus Edmund. Early modern merchants and their books. Oxford, 2025.  408p bibl index  ISBN 9780198881636, $145.00; ISBN 9780198881698 ebook, $145.00; 63-2112

Wang, Qun. The tech-media hybrid: Google’s news ambition. Columbia, 2026.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9780231207263, $140.00; ISBN 9780231207270 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780231556897 ebook, $34.99; 63-2088

Wartenberg, Thomas E. Thoughtful cinema: illustrating philosophy through film. Oxford, 2025.  197p bibl index  ISBN 9780197793671, $125.00; ISBN 9780197793688 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780197793701 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2117

Wilder, Sara Franssen. Writing groups in the writing center: negotiating authority and expertise in collaborative learning. Utah State, 2025.  216p bibl index  ISBN 9781646427659, $95.00; ISBN 9781646427666 pbk, $26.95; ISBN 9781646427673 ebook, $21.95; 63-2094

Winberg, Oscar. Archie Bunker for president: how one television show remade American politics. North Carolina, 2025.  257p bibl index  ISBN 9781469690896, $99.00; ISBN 9781469690902 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781469686462 ebook, $23.99; 63-2089

Wojciechowski, Jennifer Hornyak. Tending the garden: a history of Christian mysticism. Fortress, 2025.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9781506497020 pbk, $39.00; ISBN 9781506497037 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2145

Zukowski, John A. The only music that mattered: a guide to punk, post-punk and second wave ska, 1976–1983. McFarland, 2025.  234p bibl index  ISBN 9781476697673 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781476655659 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-211944

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Science & Technology

Arens, Nan Crystal. The Princeton field guide to Mesozoic plants. Princeton, 2025.  208p index  ISBN 9780691272436, $35.00; ISBN 9780691272498 ebook, $35.00; 63-2148

Hampton, Hunter M. The gridiron gospel: faith and college football in twentieth-century America. Illinois, 2025.  205p bibl index (Sport and society)  ISBN 9780252046872, $110.00; ISBN 9780252088995 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9780252048432 ebook, $14.95; 63-2163

Konradova, Natalia Hacking the iron curtain: a media archaeology of the Russian internet. Wisconsin, 2026.  208p bibl index  ISBN 9780299354008, $79.95; ISBN 9780299354084 ebook, $99.95; 63-2157

Kucharski, Adam. Proof: the art and science of certainty. Basic Books, 2025.  357p index  ISBN 9781541606692, $32.00; ISBN 9781541606708 ebook, $19.99; 63-2160

Lamb, Simon. The oldest rocks on Earth: a search for the origins of our world. Columbia, 2026.  336p bibl index  ISBN 9780231222228, $120.00; ISBN 9780231222235 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9780231564113 ebook, $29.99; 63-2151

Lazris, Andrew. A return to healing: Flexner, Osler, and how American medicine went astray, by Andy Lazris and Alan Roth. Toronto, 2025.  372p bibl index  ISBN 9781487562861, $34.95; ISBN 9781487562885 ebook, $34.95; 63-2154

Morton, Liza. Beyond the medical gaze: practicing psychologically informed healthcare. Oxford, 2025.  352p index  ISBN 9780197804964, $39.95; ISBN 9780197804988 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2156

New perspectives in ornithology: 21st century dispatches across the world of birds, ed. by Scott V. Edwards and J. Michael Reed. Oxford, 2025.  576p index  ISBN 9780197787670, $45.00; ISBN 9780197787694 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2150

Scheinerman, Edward R. A guide to infinity: ten mathematical journeys. Yale, 2026.  192p bibl index  ISBN 9780300284799, $28.00; ISBN 9780300289626 ebook, $28.00; 63-2161

Scherling, Laura. The future of hacking: the rise of cybercrime and the fight to keep us safe. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.  227p bibl index  ISBN 9781538186619, $34.00; ISBN 9781538186626 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2158

Sweet, Christopher. A history of bicycling in Illinois: 160 years of booms and busts. 3 Fields Books, 2026.  293p index  ISBN 9780252046988, $125.00; ISBN 9780252089138 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9780252048630 ebook, $14.95; 63-2166

Tkalčić, Hrvoje. When worlds quake: the quest to understand the interior of Earth and beyond. Princeton, 2026.  292p bibl index  ISBN 9780691271477, $29.95; ISBN 9780691271538 ebook, $29.95; 63-2152

Wohl, Ellen E. Following the bend: how to read a river and understand its nature. Princeton, 2025.  290p bibl index  ISBN 9780691272474, $29.95; ISBN 9780691272481 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2153

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Social & Behavioral Sciences

Adams, Ellen. The Minoans. Reaktion Books, 2025.  200p index  ISBN 9781836390473, $25.00; ISBN 9781836390480 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2176

Amoroso, Edward G. Reaching the chasm: how to drive your early-stage start-up to scale. Columbia Business School, 2025.  240p index  ISBN 9780231219839, $26.00; ISBN 9780231562928 ebook, $25.99; 63-2183

Berman, Greg. The nonprofit crisis: leadership through the culture wars. Oxford, 2025.  209p bibl index  ISBN 9780197786307 pbk, $27.99; ISBN 9780197786291, $110.00; 63-2184

Bernt-Santy, Heather. Using schema play theory to advocate for free play in early childhood. Teachers College Press, 2025.  144p index  ISBN 9780807787250, $105.00; ISBN 9780807787243 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9780807783177 ebook, $34.95; 63-2195

Bhopal, Kalwant. White privilege: the myth of a post-racial society. Policy Press, 2025.  253p bibl index  ISBN 9781447372035 pbk, $19.95; ISBN 9781447372059 ebook, $19.50; 63-2168

Blume, Laura R. The art of trafficking: how politics shape narco-strategies and violence in Central America. Oxford, 2025.  352p bibl index  ISBN 9780197818183, $132.00; ISBN 9780197818190 pbk, $29.99; ISBN 9780197818220 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2241

Burns, Mila. Dictatorship across borders: Brazil, Chile, and the South American Cold War. North Carolina, 2025.  237p bibl index  ISBN 9781469689623, $99.00; ISBN 9781469689630 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781469688039 ebook, $23.99; 63-2217

Cannadine, David. Queen Elizabeth II: a concise biography of an exceptional sovereign. Oxford, 2025.  177p index  ISBN 9780198902300, $16.99; ISBN 9780198902324 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2230

Casey, Kathleen B. The things she carried: a cultural history of the purse in America. Oxford, 2025.  228p bibl index  ISBN 9780197587829, $34.99; ISBN 9780197587843 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2222

Cheshire, James. The library of lost maps: an archive of a world in progress. Bloomsbury, 2025.  384p index  ISBN 9781639734283, $40.00; ISBN 9781639734290 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2198

Cunliffe, Barry W. Driven by the monsoons: through the Indian Ocean and the seas of China. Oxford, 2025.  375p index  ISBN 9780198886815, $38.99; ISBN 9780198886839 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2210

Davidson, Jason. NATO after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: threat perceptions and their consequences. Georgetown University, 2026.  251p bibl index  ISBN 9781647126704, $134.95; ISBN 9781647126711 pbk, $44.95; ISBN 9781647126728 ebook, $44.95; 63-2246

Dayton-Johnson, Jeff. Understanding Latin America’s economy in the twenty-first century. New Mexico, 2025.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9780826368614, $95.00; ISBN 9780826368621 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780826368638 ebook, $21.99; 63-2188

Dempsey, Corinne G. A view from life’s edge: discovering what really matters with older women across the globe. Rutgers, 2025.  198p bibl index  ISBN 9781978844650, $130.00; ISBN 9781978844643 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781978844667 ebook, $29.95; 63-2169

Foner, Eric. Our fragile freedoms: essays. W. W. Norton, 2025.  466p index  ISBN 9781324110613, $35.00; ISBN 9781324110620 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2225

Goldthree, Reena N. Democracy’s foot soldiers: World War I and the politics of empire in the greater Caribbean. Princeton, 2025.  368p bibl index  ISBN 9780691272511, $39.95; ISBN 9780691272535 ebook, $39.95; 63-2219

Grant, Lindy. Eleanor of Aquitaine: woman, queen and legend. Reaktion Books, 2025.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9781836390862, $25.00; ISBN 9781836391340 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2231

Grummitt, David. A short history of the Wars of the Roses. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.  240p index  ISBN 9781350457980, $61.00; ISBN 9781350457997 pbk, $19.95; ISBN 9781350458000 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2232

Heggeness, Misty L. Swiftynomics: how women mastermind and redefine our economy. California, 2026.  236p bibl index  ISBN 9780520403116, $26.95; ISBN 9780520403123 ebook, $26.95; 63-2189

Hidden histories of unauthorized migrations from Europe to the United States, ed. by Danielle Battisti and S. Deborah Kang. Illinois, 2025.  304p index  ISBN 9780252046469, $125.00; ISBN 9780252088551 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9780252047770 ebook, $19.95; 63-2226

Jukic, Luka Ivan. Central Europe: the death of a civilization and the life of an idea. Hurst & Company, 2025.  435p bibl index  ISBN 9781911723981, $34.99; ISBN 9781805263593 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2213

Kent, Susan Kingsley. British settler colonialism since 1530: Indigenous peoples in an imperial world. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.  241p index  ISBN 9781350291676, $100.00; ISBN 9781350291669 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9781350291690 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2200

Lofthouse, Jordan. An economist’s guide to environmentalism: a toolkit for understanding and solving ecological problems. Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.  236p bibl index  ISBN 9781538189856, $36.00; ISBN 9781538189863 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2190

Lu, Lerong. Towards financial superpower: China’s financial industry and its road to internationalization. Oxford, 2025.  255p bibl index  ISBN 9780198948537, $110.00; ISBN 9780198948544 ebook, $109.99; 63-2191

Luckhurst, Roger. Graveyards: a history of living with the dead. Princeton, 2025.  239p bibl index  ISBN 9780691278377, $39.95; ISBN 9780691291581 ebook, $39.95; 63-2178

Mansoor, Peter R. Redemption: MacArthur and the campaign for the Philippines. Cambridge, 2025.  581p index  ISBN 9781009541190, $34.95; 63-2201

Matsumoto, Mallory. The Maya myths: a guide to the gods, heroes and ancestors. Thames & Hudson, 2025.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9780500026540, $25.95; ISBN 9780500780985 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2179

Mitter, Rana. Modern China: a very short introduction. Oxford, 2025.  149p index  ISBN 9780198931102 pbk, $12.99; ISBN 9780198931126 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2211

Pepera, Luke. Motherland: a journey through 500,000 years of African culture and identity. Pegasus Books, 2025.  254p bibl index  ISBN 9781639368839, $35.00; ISBN 9781639368846 ebook, $15.99; 63-2205

Sigler, Lora Ann. Women at work from ancient Egypt through the Middle Ages. McFarland, 2025.  210p bibl index  ISBN 9781476696928, $49.95; ISBN 9781476654980 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2202

Sloss, David. People v. the court: the next revolution in constitutional law. Cambridge, 2025.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9781009651233, $110.00; ISBN 9781009651257 pbk, $34.99; ISBN 9781009651219 ebook, $34.99; 63-2258

Spadoni, Paolo. The Cuban tourism industry: evolutions, challenges, and prospects, by Paolo Spadoni and José Luis Perelló Cabrera. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.  336p bibl index  ISBN 9781498590433, $130.00; ISBN 9781498590440 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2172

Stuckey, Mary E. Remembering Jefferson: who he was, who we are. University Press of Kansas, 2025.  235p bibl index  ISBN 9780700639991, $34.99; ISBN 9780700640003 ebook, $34.99; 63-2227

Swist, Jeremy. Julian Augustus: Platonism, myth, and the refounding of Rome. Oxford, 2025.  376p bibl index  ISBN 9780197787519, $132.00; ISBN 9780197787533 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2209

Tanner, Harry R. The queer thing about sin: why the West came to hate queer love. Bloomsbury Continuum, 2025.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9781399422291, $28.00; ISBN 9781399422321 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2173

Turpin, Annemarie. Introduction to hospitality and tourism: a contemporary approach. Kogan Page, 2026.  440p index  ISBN 9781398622272, $85.00; ISBN 9781398622258 pbk, $52.00; ISBN 9781398622265 ebook, $52.00; 63-2186

Werth, Paul W. How Russia got big: a territorial history. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.  184p bibl index  ISBN 9781350284012, $61.00; ISBN 9781350284005 pbk, $17.95; ISBN 9781350284036 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2216

Zavattaro, Staci M. Equity at the end: the new American way of death, by Staci M. Zavattaro and Jennifer L. Wright-Berryman. Emerald, 2026.  183p index  ISBN 9781836623816, $105.00; ISBN 9781836623809 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-21743-2040

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