The Top 75 Community College Titles: June 2026 Edition

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

Posted on June 18, 2026 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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American history, 1850–1918: war, peace & growth, ed. by Michael J. O’Neal. Salem Press, 2025. 2v index ISBN 9798891791640, $245.00; ISBN 9798891791671 ebook, $245.00; 63-1875

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Humanities

Baynes, Leslie. Between interpretation and imagination: C. S. Lewis and the Bible. Eerdmans, 2025. 367p bibl index ISBN 9780802874009, $38.99; ISBN 9781467469708 ebook, $38.99; 63-1900

Birch, Alexandra. Hitler’s twilight of the gods: music and the orchestration of war and genocide in Europe. Toronto, 2025. 216p bibl index ISBN 9781487549190, $95.00; ISBN 9781487549206 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9781487549251 ebook, $34.95; 63-1915

Chuk, Natasha. Photo obscura: the photographic in post-photography. Intellect, 2025. 198p bibl index ISBN 9781835952863 pbk, $44.95; ISBN 9781835951507, $114.95; ISBN 9781835951514 ebook, $89.95; 63-1884

Cofer, Judith Ortiz. Peach pit corazón: a Judith Ortiz Cofer reader, ed. by Rafael Ocasio. Georgia, 2025. 258p bibl index ISBN 9780820374109, $119.95; ISBN 9780820374116 pbk, $35.95; ISBN 9780820374130 ebook, $35.95; 63-1901

Communicating disability: expanding diversity, equity, and inclusion in health communication and mass media, ed. by Erin Willis and Chad Painter. Routledge, 2025. 207p index ISBN 9781032776620, $190.00; ISBN 9781032766997 pbk, $54.99; ISBN 9781003484240 ebook, $54.99; 63-1886

Davis, Laura K. Alice Munro and the art of time. University of Alberta Press, 2025. 236p bibl index ISBN 9781772128017 pbk, $32.99; ISBN 9781772128208 ebook, $32.99; 63-1902

Detwyler, Anatoly. Seeing through abstraction: literary encounters with information in modern China. Columbia, 2025. 272p bibl index ISBN 9780231219891, $140.00; ISBN 9780231219884 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780231562959 ebook, $34.99; 63-1897

Hart, David Bentley. Light of Tabor: toward a monistic Christology. Notre Dame, 2025. 150p bibl index ISBN 9780268210410, $28.00; ISBN 9780268210441 ebook, $21.99; 63-1934

Gautama Buddha. How to Feel: an ancient guide to minding our emotions, ed. and tr. by Maria Heim. Princeton, 2025. 230p bibl index ISBN 9780691267395, $17.95; ISBN 9780691267401 ebook, $17.95; 63-1921

Kuo, Rachel. Movement media: in pursuit of solidarity. Oxford, 2025. 248p bibl index ISBN 9780197695371, $132.00; ISBN 9780197695401 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1889

Looser, Devoney. Wild for Austen: a rebellious, subversive, and untamed Jane. St. Martin’s, 2025. 326p ISBN 9781250361332, $30.00; ISBN 9781250361349 ebook, $15.99; 63-1906

Marshall, Helen. Story thinking and the real-world applications of sci-fi and fantasy writing, by Helen Marshall, Kim Wilkins, and Lisa Bennett. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 203p bibl index ISBN 9781350359253, $75.00; ISBN 9781350359260 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9781350359284 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1894

Myjak-Pycia, Anna. Another modernism: home economics and the design of domestic space in the US, 1900–1960. Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2025. 256p index ISBN 9781350416383, $115.00; ISBN 9781350416406 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1883

Open casket: philosophical meditations on the lynching of Emmett Till, ed. by George Yancy and A. Todd Franklin. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 313p index ISBN 9798881806378, $110.00; ISBN 9798881806385 pbk, $40.00; ISBN 9798765165218 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1924

Pratt, Tia Noelle. Black and Catholic: racism, identity, and religion. Notre Dame, 2025. 208p bibl index ISBN 9780268210175, $35.00; ISBN 9780268210199 ebook, $27.99; 63-1940

Sandler, Stephanie. The freest speech in Russia: poetry unbound, 1989–2022. Princeton, 2024. 408p index ISBN 9780691261904, $120.00; ISBN 9780691169965 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9780691261898 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1911

Somers, Carry. The nature of fashion: a botanical story of our material lives. Chelsea Green, 2025. 288p bibl index ISBN 9781915294791, $29.95; ISBN 9781915294807 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1878

Tabet, Sam. Beyond the lesbian vampire: reclaiming the violent lesbian in contemporary queer horror. University of Wales Press, 2025. 282p bibl index ISBN 9781837722884, $94.00; 63-1914

Tolan, John Victor. Islam: a new history from Muhammad to the present. Princeton, 2025. 304p bibl index ISBN 9780691263533, $29.95; ISBN 9780691265803 pbk, $21.95; ISBN 9780691265797 ebook, $29.95; 63-1942

Woods, Fred E. Ports to posts: Latter-day Saint gathering in the nineteenth century. Bison Books, 2025. 279p bibl index ISBN 9781496230706 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9781496242365 ebook, $24.95; 63-1944

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Science & Technology

Bishop, Ellen Morris. Living with thunder: exploring the geologic past, present, and future of the Pacific Northwest. Oregon State, 2025. 301p bibl index ISBN 9781962645409 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9781962645416 ebook, $14.99; 63-1952

Chiles, Marvin T. Playing for power: Black resistance in amateur basketball and football in Jim Crow Virginia. Alabama, 2025. 223p bibl index ISBN 9780817322380, $120.00; ISBN 9780817362102 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9780817395650 ebook, $34.95; 63-1961

Hall, Marcus. Our bodies, our planet: a parasite’s history of us. Reaktion Books, 2025. 331p bibl index ISBN 9781836391074, $30.00; ISBN 9781836391463 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1948

Jaffe, Andrew H. The random universe: how models and probability help us make sense of the cosmos. Yale, 2025. 272p index ISBN 9780300250503, $32.50; ISBN 9780300285925 ebook, $32.50; 63-1959

Monteleone, Rebecca. The double bind of disability: how medical technology shapes bodily authority. Minnesota, 2025. 209p bibl index ISBN 9781517917678, $100.00; ISBN 9781517917685 pbk, $25.00; ISBN 9781452974064 ebook, $25.00; 63-1955

The Nursing Clio reader, ed. by the Nursing Clio Editorial Collective. Rutgers, 2025. 330p bibl index ISBN 9781978838604, $130.00; ISBN 9781978838598 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9781978838611 ebook, $34.95; 63-1956

Roscher, Ellie. Fair game: trans athletes and the future of sports, by Ellie Roscher and Anna Baeth. New Press, 2026. 304p index ISBN 9781620979785, $29.99; ISBN 9798893850055 ebook, $29.99; 63-1964

Summers, Jodi. We dig ammonites: fact, folklore, and history. Columbia, 2025. 416p bibl index ISBN 9780231213929, $59.95; ISBN 9780231560108 ebook, $58.99; 63-1953

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Social & Behavioral Sciences

The future of archaeology, ed. by Gary M. Feinman and T. Douglas Price. Eliot Werner, 2025. 175p bibl index ISBN 9798991226493 pbk, $32.95; 63-1974

Barrera, Mario. Race and class in the Southwest and other essays: studies in political economy, ed. by Rodolfo D. Torres and William I. Robinson. Routledge, 2026. 432p bibl index ISBN 9781032982922, $200.00; ISBN 9781032982878 pbk, $55.99; ISBN 9781003597919 ebook, $55.99; 63-2068

Berman, Marc G. Nature and the mind: the science of how nature improves cognitive, physical, and social well-being. Simon Element, 2025. 324p bibl index ISBN 9781668058770, $30.00; ISBN 9781668058787 pbk, $19.00; ISBN 9781668058794 ebook, $14.99; 63-2062

Berry, Jeffrey M. Everyday democracy: liberals, conservatives, and their routine political lives, by Jeffrey M. Berry, James M. Glaser, and Deborah J. Schildkraut. Chicago, 2025. 248p bibl index ISBN 9780226845081, $115.00; ISBN 9780226845104 pbk, $32.50; ISBN 9780226845098 ebook, $31.99; 63-2051

Burns, Peter F. Disneyland politics: how a medium-size city and corporate giant coexist, by Peter F. Burns, Matthew O. Thomas, and Max R. Bieganski. Temple, 2026. 250p bibl index ISBN 9781439926857, $110.50; ISBN 9781439926864 pbk, $37.95; ISBN 9781439926871 ebook, $37.95; 63-2052

Campaign of chaos: Trump, Biden, Harris, and the 2024 American election, ed. by Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik, J. Miles Coleman. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 256p index ISBN 9798765151365, $80.00; ISBN 9798765151358 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9798765151341 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2053

Caverly, Nicholas L. Demolishing Detroit: how structural racism endures. Stanford, 2026. 268p bibl index ISBN 9781503640252, $28.00; ISBN 9781503644687 ebook, $28.00; 63-1967

Coleman, Major G. The cost of racial equality. Cascade Books, 2025. 414p bibl index ISBN 9798385220335, $70.00; ISBN 9798385220328 pbk, $50.00; ISBN 9798385220342 ebook, $50.00; 63-2054

Davis, Joshua Clark. Police against the movement: the sabotage of the civil rights struggle and the activists who fought back. Princeton, 2025. 412p index ISBN 9780691238838, $27.95; ISBN 9780691238845 ebook, $27.95; 63-2020

Davis, Matthew Justin. A biography of a mountain: the making and meaning of Mount Rushmore. St. Martin’s, 2025. 313p index ISBN 9781250285102, $30.00; ISBN 9781250285119 ebook, $15.99; 63-2021

Dimmock, Matthew. Mapping the world at the dawn of the British Empire: a traveller’s guide, by Matthew Dimmock and Andrew Hadfield. Oxford, 2025. 207p bibl index ISBN 9780198942511, $35.00; ISBN 9780198942542 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2030

Douglass, James W. Martyrs to the unspeakable: the assassinations of JFK, Malcolm, Martin, and RFK. Orbis Books, 2025. 590p index ISBN 9781626986268, $38.00; ISBN 9798888660812 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2022

Dunn, Thomas R. The pink scar: how Nazi persecution shaped the struggle for LGBTQ+ rights. Pennsylvania State, 2025. 206p bibl index ISBN 9780271100159, $99.99; ISBN 9780271100166 pbk, $24.99; 63-1998

Empathy in clinical psychiatry and mental health care: clinical, conceptual, and scientific perspectives, ed. by Alvaro Barrera. Oxford, 2026. 298p index ISBN 9780198917328 pbk, $70.00; ISBN 9780198917342 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2063

English, Charlie. The CIA book club: the secret mission to win the Cold War with forbidden literature. Random House, 2025. 341p bibl index ISBN 9780593447901, $35.00; ISBN 9780593447918 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2010

Galsworthy, Tim. Republican house divided: Civil War memory, civil rights, and the transformation of the GOP. South Carolina, 2025. 338p bibl index ISBN 9781643365084, $44.99; ISBN 9781643366524 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2055

Garlick, Alex. Pre-existing conditions: how lobbying makes American health care more expensive. Oxford, 2025. 177p index ISBN 9780197813898, $99.00; ISBN 9780197813904 pbk, $29.99; ISBN 9780197813911 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2056

Griffiths, Ryan D. The disunited states: threats of secession in red and blue America and why they won’t work. Oxford, 2025. 189p bibl index ISBN 9780197816257, $29.99; ISBN 9780197816264 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2058

Hanley, Catherine. Nemesis: medieval England’s greatest enemy. Osprey, 2025. 304p bibl index ISBN 9781472867445, $35.00; ISBN 9781472867490 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2033

Henriques, Peter R. George Washington: his quest for honor and fame. Virginia, 2025. 164p index ISBN 9780813954189, $24.95; ISBN 9780813954196 ebook, $24.95; 63-2024

Hinterleitner, Markus. Blaming bureaucracy: reckoning with a problematic political activity. Oxford, 2025. 112p bibl index ISBN 9780198980155, $110.00; ISBN 9780198980179 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2038

If colors could be heard: narratives about racial identity in music education, ed. by Christopher Cayari, Jason D. Thompson, and Rekha S. Rajan. Intellect, 2025. 282p index ISBN 9781835951675, $124.95; ISBN 9781835951682 ebook, $99.95; 63-1992

Jones, Christopher F. The invention of infinite growth: how economists came to believe a dangerous delusion. Chicago, 2025. 368p bibl index ISBN 9780226722047, $32.50; ISBN 9780226722184 ebook, $31.99; 63-1987

Jones, Seth G. The American edge: the military tech nexus and the sources of great power dominance. Oxford, 2025. 415p index ISBN 9780197764602, $32.99; ISBN 9780197764626 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2044

Lender, Mark Edward. War without mercy: liberty or death in the American Revolution, by Mark Edward Lender and James Kirby Martin. Osprey, 2025. 298p bibl index ISBN 9781472872678, $32.00; ISBN 9781472872661 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2025

Malek, Amy. Culture beyond country: strategies of inclusion in the global Iranian diaspora. New York University, 2025. 349p bibl index ISBN 9781479831739, $89.00; ISBN 9781479831753 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781479831760 ebook, $21.00; 63-1977

McMaster, James. Racial care: the Asian American case. Duke, 2025. 184p bibl index ISBN 9781478029397, $89.00; ISBN 9781478032830 pbk, $25.95; ISBN 9781478061595 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1968

McMillan, Uri. Mavericks of style: the seventies in color. Duke, 2025. 248p bibl index ISBN 9781478029168, $125.00; ISBN 9781478032519 pbk, $34.00; ISBN 9781478061373 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1969

Musliu, Vjosa. Girlhood at war: interpreting war and liberation in Kosovo. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 232p index ISBN 9798881800970, $115.00; ISBN 9798881800987 pbk, $32.00; ISBN 9798881800994 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2011

O’Connor, Joe. Do more in four: why it’s time for a shorter work week, by Joe O’Connor and Jared Lindzon. Harvard Business Review Press, 2026. 224p index ISBN 9798892791458, $32.00; ISBN 9798892791465 ebook, $32.00; 63-1984

Opderbeck, David W. Faithful exchange: the economy as it’s meant to be. Fortress, 2025. 286p bibl index ISBN 9781506467023 ebook, $36.99; ISBN 9781506467016 pbk, $39.00; 63-1988

Paces, Cynthia. Prague: the heart of Europe. Oxford, 2025. 379p bibl index ISBN 9780197554838, $34.99; ISBN 9780197554852 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2012

Parkin, Katherine J. The abortion market: buying and selling access in the era before Roe. Pennsylvania, 2025. 307p index ISBN 9781512828207, $39.95; ISBN 9781512828214 ebook, $39.95; 63-2026

Potter, David. Master of Rome: a life of Julius Caesar. Oxford, 2025. 374p bibl index ISBN 9780190867188, $29.99; ISBN 9780190867201 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2006

Schub, Robert. Wars of ignorance: silenced advisers and international crises. Oxford, 2025. 303p bibl index ISBN 9780197809297, $99.00; ISBN 9780197809303 pbk, $29.99; ISBN 9780197809310 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2047

Schumm, Darla Y. Healing ableism: stories about disability and religious life. Rutgers, 2025. 192p bibl ISBN 9781978842212, $120.00; ISBN 9781978842205 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9781978842229 ebook, $27.95; 63-1971

Shannon, Jennifer A. Posterity is now: practicing museum anthropology, collections care, and collaborative research with Indigenous peoples. University of Wyoming Press, 2025. 278p bibl index ISBN 9781646427383, $95.00; ISBN 9781646427390 pbk, $32.95; ISBN 9781646427406 ebook, $25.95; 63-1979

Sheehan-Dean, Aaron Charles. Fighting with the past: how seventeenth-century history shaped the American Civil War. North Carolina, 2025. 210p bibl index ISBN 9781469690742, $99.00; ISBN 9781469690759 pbk, $27.95; ISBN 9781469688107 ebook, $22.99; 63-2001

Sheffield, Ric S. False promises: the struggle for Black voting rights in 1800s Ohio. Ohio University, 2025. 192p bibl index ISBN 9780804012577 pbk, $26.95; ISBN 9780804012584 ebook, $26.99; 63-2061

Smith, Steven D. The godless Constitution and the providential republic. Eerdmans, 2025. 223p bibl index ISBN 9780802885227, $32.99; ISBN 9781467469746 ebook, $32.99; 63-2028

Spaces of creative resistance: social change projects in twenty-first century East Asia, ed. by Andrea Gevurtz Arai. Rutgers, 2025. 187p bibl index ISBN 9781978842502, $120.00; ISBN 9781978842496 pbk, $32.95; ISBN 9781978842519 ebook, $32.95; 63-2008

Stuart, David E. Ancient women gardeners: prelude to the Chacoan world. New Mexico, 2025. 232p bibl index ISBN 9780826368461, $75.00; ISBN 9780826368478 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780826368317 ebook, $19.99; 63-1980

Suarez, Fatima. Latino fathers: what shapes and sustains their parenting. New York University, 2025. 239p bibl index ISBN 9781479826285, $89.00; ISBN 9781479826322 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781479826353 ebook, $21.00; 63-2071

Wells, Jeremy C. Managing the magic of old places: crafting public policies for people-centered historic preservation. Tennessee, 2025. 266p bibl index ISBN 9781621909774 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781621909798 ebook, $20.97; 63-1972

Wright, Thomas C. Latin America in the era of the Cuban Revolution and beyond. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 312p index ISBN 9798765131022, $140.00; ISBN 9798765131015 pbk, $44.95; ISBN 9798765131046 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-2016

Yom, Sean L. Jordan: politics in an accidental crucible. Oxford, 2025. 288p bibl index ISBN 9780190097264, $29.95; ISBN 9780190097288 ebook, $19.99; 63-2040

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