The Top 75 Community College Titles: March 2026 Edition

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

Posted on March 19, 2026 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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Compact Atlas of Global Christianity, ed. by Kenneth R. Ross, Gina A. Zurlo, and Todd M. Johnson. Edinburgh University Press, 2025. 432p bibl index ISBN 9781399550079, $195.00; ISBN 9781399550086 ebook, $195.00; 63-1252

Geography in the 21st century: defining moments that shaped society, ed. by Jayson D. Funke et al. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 2v bibl index ISBN 9781440873249, $340.00; ISBN 9798765118122 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1254

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Humanities

Amoruso, Michael. Moved by the dead: haunting and devotion in São Paulo, Brazil. North Carolina, 2025. 202p bibl index ISBN 9781469685168, $99.00; ISBN 9781469685175 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781469685182 ebook, $23.99; 63-1308

Anreus, Alejandro. Modern art in 1940s Cuba: Havana’s artists, critics, and exhibitions. University Press of Florida, 2025. 325p bibl index ISBN 9781683405153, $125.00; ISBN 9781683405306 pbk, $35.00; 63-1258

Barnett, Lisa D. Peyote politics: the making of the Native American Church, 1880–1937. Oklahoma, 2025. 246p bibl index (New directions in Native American studies, 24) ISBN 9780806195384, $45.00; ISBN 9780806195667 ebook, $36.95; 63-1309

Bassett, John Earl. Rachel Crothers: Broadway innovator, feminist pioneer. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 191p index ISBN 9798881804916, $36.00; ISBN 9798881804923 ebook, $32.40; 63-1294

Borenstein, Eliot. The politics of fantasy: magic, children’s literature, and fandom in Putin’s Russia. Wisconsin, 2025. 206p bibl index ISBN 9780299353506, $32.95; ISBN 9780299353582 ebook, $52.95; 63-1288

Brann, Ross. Moses Maimonides: a very short introduction. Oxford, 2025. 168p bibl index ISBN 9780197536988 pbk, $12.99; ISBN 9780197537008 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1310

Bratt Carle, Jessica. Children, theology, and bioethics: beyond autonomy. Lexington Books, 2025. 228p bibl index ISBN 9781666952612, $110.00; ISBN 9781666952629 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1298

Caspar David Friedrich: the soul of nature, by Alison Hokanson and Joanna Sheers Seidenstein. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2025. (Dist. by Yale) 295p bibl index ISBN 9781588397898, $50.00; 63-1260

Chandler, David. Succeeding Puccini: the operatic career of Italo Montemezzi, 1875–1952, by David Chandler and Raffaele Mellace. Oxford, 2025. 366p bibl index ISBN 9780197761342, $132.00; ISBN 9780197761366 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1291

Dodds, Lara. Early modern women’s writing and the future of literary history, by Lara Dodds and Michelle M. Dowd. Oxford, 2025. 190p bibl index ISBN 9780198941286, $100.00; 63-1277

Droth, Martina. Tracey Emin: I loved you until the morning. Yale Center for British Art, 2025. 126p ISBN 9780300279726, $40.00; 63-1261

Dwyer, Michael D. Tinsel and rust: how Hollywood manufactured the Rust Belt. Oxford, 2025. 228p bibl index ISBN 9780197612798, $125.00; ISBN 9780197612804 pbk, $45.00; ISBN 9780197613580 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1289

Edmonds, David. Death in a shallow pond: a philosopher, a drowning child, and strangers in need. Princeton, 2025. 288p bibl index ISBN 9780691254029, $27.95; ISBN 9780691254043 ebook, $27.95; 63-1299

Filomeno, Felipe Amin. Christian cosmopolitanism: faith communities talk immigration. Temple, 2025. 216p bibl index ISBN 9781439925980, $104.50; ISBN 9781439925997 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781439926000 ebook, $29.95; 63-1315

Gardner, Nathanial Eli. A companion to Latin American photography. Tamesis, 2025. 221p bibl index (Tamesis companions, 4) ISBN 9781855663855, $120.00; ISBN 9781805437338 ebook, $24.00; 63-1265

Gilbert, Richard. Theatrical violence design: safety, illusion, and story in stage combat choreography, by Richard Gilbert and David Bareford. Routledge, 2025. 252p index ISBN 9781032746555, $180.00; ISBN 9781032746548 pbk, $48.99; ISBN 9781003470267 ebook, $48.99; 63-1295

Hargittai, Eszter. Wired wisdom: how to age better online, by Eszter Hargittai and John Palfrey. Chicago, 2025. 275p bibl index ISBN 9780226823454, $115.00; ISBN 9780226841397 pbk, $20.00; ISBN 9780226823461 ebook, $19.99; 63-1268

Hopkins, Owen. The manifesto house: buildings that changed the future of architecture. Yale, 2025. 240p bibl index ISBN 9780300260540, $40.00; 63-1264

Horror and comics, ed. by Barbara Chamberlin, Kom Kunyosying, and Julia Round. University of Wales Press, 2025. 322p bibl index ISBN 9781837722556, $75.00; 63-1269

Jahanbegloo, Ramin. Hannah Arendt: the illegitimacy of violence. Routledge, 2025. 112p bibl index ISBN 9781032960234, $190.00; ISBN 9781032968117 pbk, $54.99; ISBN 9781003590781 ebook, $54.99; 63-1301

Lagapa, Jason. Unimportant clerks: the New York School poets and the culture of bureaucracy. SUNY Press, 2025. 207p bibl index ISBN 9798855803341, $120.00; ISBN 9798855803358 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1281

MacCulloch, Diarmaid. Lower than the angels: a history of sex and Christianity. Viking, 2025. 688p bibl index ISBN 9781984878670, $40.00; ISBN 9781984878687 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1316

Miller, Monica L. Superfine: tailoring Black style, photographs by Tyler Mitchell. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2025. 370p ISBN 9781588397997, $75.00; 63-1256

Moorby, Nicola. Turner and Constable: art, life, landscape. Yale, 2025. 339p bibl index ISBN 9780300266481, $35.00; ISBN 9780300290363 pbk, $25.00; ISBN 9780300281521 ebook, $35.00; 63-1262

Padilla Peralta, Dan-el. Classicism and other phobias. Princeton, 2025. 216p bibl index ISBN 9780691266183, $27.95; ISBN 9780691269771 ebook, $27.95; 63-1275

Parker, Kendra R. Understanding Octavia E. Butler. South Carolina, 2025. 186p bibl index ISBN 9781643365763, $114.99; 63-1283

Pezzini, Giuseppe. Tolkien and the mystery of literary creation. Cambridge, 2025. 456p bibl index ISBN 9781009479677, $39.99; ISBN 9781009479714 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1284

Pope, Lavar. American rap scenes: an analysis of 25 locations. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 320p bibl index ISBN 9798765118931, $100.00; ISBN 9798765118962 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9798765118948 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1293

Rothwell, J. Dan. Communication myths: what we know that isn’t so and what we need to know. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 224p index ISBN 9798881806262, $32.00; ISBN 9798881806279 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1271

Turner, John G. Joseph Smith: the rise and fall of an American prophet. Yale, 2025. 464p bibl index ISBN 9780300255164, $34.55; 63-1317

The Witch studies reader, ed. by Soma Chaudhuri and Jane Ward. Duke, 2025. 507p bibl index ISBN 9781478028130, $119.95; ISBN 9781478031352 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781478060369 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1255

Young, Francis. Silence of the gods: the untold history of Europe’s last pagan peoples. Cambridge, 2025. 456p bibl index ISBN 9781009586573, $32.95; ISBN 9781009586535 ebook, $32.95; 63-1319

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Science & Technology

Bozeman, Barry. Science competes: informing policy in a time of distrust, fracture, and chaos. MIT, 2025. 250p index ISBN 9780262552431 pbk, $55.00; ISBN 9780262383295 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1320

Bunk, Brian D. Beyond the field: how soccer built community in the United States. Illinois, 2025. 224p bibl index ISBN 9780252046681, $110.00; ISBN 9780252088780 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780252048265 ebook, $14.95; 63-1335

Harland, Gail. Peony. Reaktion Books, 2025. 216p index ISBN 9781836390589, $27.00; ISBN 9781836390572 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1327

Hicks, Kenneth Harrison. Nature’s balancing act: how small quirks of physics makes life possible. Oxford, 2025. 154p bibl index ISBN 9780197771440, $34.95; 63-1334

Hill, Roderick J. Space to live: the search for an alternative home for humanity. Prometheus Books, 2025. 369p bibl index ISBN 9781633889507, $29.95; ISBN 9781633889514 ebook, $19.99; 63-1323

Kemp, Steve. An exaltation of parks: John D. Rockefeller Jr.’s crusade to save America’s wonderlands. Utah, 2025. 384p bibl index ISBN 9781647692230, $70.00; ISBN 9781647692247 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781647692254 ebook, $22.95; 63-1328

Maxwell, Lida. Rachel Carson and the power of queer love. Stanford, 2025. 165p index ISBN 9781503640535, $25.00; ISBN 9781503641228 ebook, $25.00; 63-1329

Rodriquez, Jason. On the frontlines of crisis: intensive care and the challenge of COVID-19. Rutgers, 2025. 192p index ISBN 9781978842380, $120.00; ISBN 9781978842380, $29.95; 63-1332

Smith, Ronald A. Walter Byers and the NCAA: power, amateurism, and growing controversy in big-time college sport. Tennessee, 2025. 320p index ISBN 9781621909491, $45.00; ISBN 9781621909514 ebook, $36.00; 63-1337

Stahnisch, Frank. Great minds in despair: the forced migration of German-speaking neuroscientists to North America, 1933 to 1989. McGill-Queen’s, 2025. 626p bibl index ISBN 9780228024590, $75.00; 63-1321

Zminda, Don. Justice batted last: Ernie Banks, Minnie Miñoso, and the unheralded players who integrated Chicago’s major league teams. Illinois, 2025. 263p bibl index ISBN 9780252046414, $110.00; ISBN 9780252088490 pbk, $22.95; ISBN 9780252047725 ebook, $14.95; 63-1339

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Social & Behavioral Sciences

Adebajo, Adekeye. The Black Atlantic’s triple burden: slavery, colonialism, and reparations. Manchester University Press, 2025. 564p bibl index ISBN 9781526193025, $160.00; ISBN 9781526193032 pbk, $44.95; ISBN 9781526193018 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1372

Ahmed, Saladdin. Fascism in the Middle East: nationalism, Islamism, and imagining other futures. Routledge, 2025. 140p bibl index ISBN 9781032398006, $69.99; ISBN 9781003351429 ebook, $28.99; 63-1395

Aldous, Michael. The CEO: the rise and fall of Britain’s captains of industry, by Michael Aldous and John D. Turner. Cambridge, 2025. 282p bibl index ISBN 9781009489522, $29.95; ISBN 9781009489546 ebook, $29.95; 63-1359

Alexander, Amir. Liberty’s grid: a founding father, a mathematical dreamland, and the shaping of America. Chicago, 2024. 304p bibl index ISBN 9780226820729, $30.00; ISBN 9780226820736 ebook, $29.99; 63-1397

Boudreaux, Corrie. Hope, community, and visibility among Venezuelan migrants at the Juárez-El Paso border. Lexington Books, 2025. 194p bibl index ISBN 9781666962086, $105.00; ISBN 9781666962093 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1393

Campbell, John L. Pay up!: conservative myths about tax cuts for the rich. Cambridge, 2025. 234p bibl index ISBN 9781009595131, $35.00; ISBN 9781009595148 ebook, $35.00; 63-1360

Canizales, Stephanie L. Everyday futures: language as survival for Indigenous youth in diaspora, by Stephanie L. Canizales and Brendan H. O’Connor. Stanford, 2025. 240p bibl index ISBN 9781503636545, $105.00; ISBN 9781503643352 pbk, $26.00; ISBN 9781503643369 ebook, $26.00; 63-1350

Chan, Steve. Fuses, chains, and backlashes: China, the United States, and the dynamics of conflict contagion and escalation. Oxford, 2025. 220p bibl index ISBN 9780197812860, $99.00; ISBN 9780197812877 pbk, $29.99; ISBN 9780197812884 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1423

Culkin, Kate. Emerson’s daughters: Ellen Tucker Emerson, Edith Emerson Forbes, and their family legacy. Massachusetts, 2025. 298p bibl index ISBN 9781625348777, $99.00; ISBN 9781625348760 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9781685751586 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1398

The elections of 2024, ed. by Michael Nelson. University of Virginia Press, 2025. 290p bibl ISBN 9780813952840, $115.00; ISBN 9780813952864 ebook, $32.50; ISBN 9780813952857, $32.50; 63-1433

Ezell, Jason. For a spell: sissie collectivism and radical witchery in the Southeast. North Carolina, 2025. 263p bibl index ISBN 9781469690438, $99.00; ISBN 9781469690445 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781469683089 ebook, $23.99; 63-1399

Fruchterman, Jim. Technology for good: how nonprofit leaders are using software and data to solve our most pressing social problems. MIT, 2025. 232p bibl index ISBN 9780262050975, $29.95; ISBN 9780262385244 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1354

Goodman, Matthew. Paris undercover: a wartime story of courage, friendship, and betrayal. Ballantine Books, 2025. 430p bibl index ISBN 9780593358924, $30.00; ISBN 9780593358931 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1410

Guttmann, Aviva. Operation Wrath of God: the secret history of European intelligence and Mossad’s assassination campaign. Cambridge, 2025. 336p bibl index ISBN 9781009503075, $29.95; ISBN 9781009503020 ebook, $29.95; 63-1424

Harrison, Stephen. Alexander the Great: lives and legacies. Reaktion Books, 2025. 240p bibl index ISBN 9781789149975, $22.50; 63-1382

Ho, Mingxiu. Be water: collective improvisation in Hong Kong’s anti-extradition protests. Temple, 2025. 258p bibl index ISBN 9781439924846, $110.50; ISBN 9781439924853 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9781439924860 ebook, $34.95; 63-1447

Horn, Jonathan. The fate of the generals: MacArthur, Wainwright, and the epic battle for the Philippines. Scribner, 2025. 427p index ISBN 9781668010075, $30.99; ISBN 9781668010082 pbk, $21.00; ISBN 9781668010099 ebook, $16.99; 63-1385

Horsford, Sonya Douglass. The politics of education policy in an era of inequality: possibilities for democratic schooling, by Sonya Douglass, Janelle T. Scott, and Gary L. Anderson. 2nd ed. Routledge, 2025. 263p bibl index ISBN 9781032320892, $180.00; ISBN 9781032328140 pbk, $52.99; ISBN 9781003316886 ebook, $52.99; 63-1367

Johnson, James H. Paris concealed: masks in the city of light. Chicago, 2025. 392p bibl index ISBN 9780226836461, $45.00; ISBN 9780226836478 ebook, $44.99; 63-1412

Lee, Ching Kwan. Forever Hong Kong: a global city’s decolonization structure. Harvard, 2025. 344p index ISBN 9780674290198, $45.00; ISBN 9780674300729 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1449

Lemus, Sergio. Los yarderos: Mexican yard workers in transborder Chicago. Illinois, 2025. 216p bibl index ISBN 9780252046551, $110.00; ISBN 9780252088667 pbk, $26.00; ISBN 9780252047862 ebook, $19.95; 63-1352

Leslie-Rule, Michaela Maria. How we see us: young people imagining a path to their futures. Harvard Education Press, 2025. 168p index ISBN 9781682539798 pbk, $36.00; ISBN 9781682539804 ebook, $29.00; 63-1343

Loewe, Michael. Imperial institutions in ancient Rome and early China: a comparative analysis, ed. by T. Corey Brennan and Michael Nylan. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 256p bibl index ISBN 9781350445116, $100.00; ISBN 9781350445123 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9781350445130 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1383

Lynn, Denise. Women march for peace: Black radical women’s anti-Korean War activism. Massachusetts, 2025. 240p bibl index ISBN 9781625349040, $99.00; ISBN 9781625349033 pbk, $34.95; 63-1344

Manz, Eve. Productive uncertainty in science education: engaging students in meaningful science practice. Teachers College Press, 2025. 209p bibl index ISBN 9780807786857, $120.00; ISBN 9780807786840 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9780807782958 ebook, $39.95; 63-1368

Mart, Michelle. Six women who shaped what Americans eat: food choice in an age of abundance. Alabama, 2025. 314p bibl index ISBN 9780817322434, $110.00; ISBN 9780817362140 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9780817395711 ebook, $34.95; 63-1401

Mota, Isadora Moura. Freedom’s horizon: Black abolitionism in nineteenth-century Brazil. Pennsylvania, 2025. 248p index ISBN 9781512827613, $39.95; ISBN 9781512827620 ebook, $39.95; 63-1394

Nierobisz, Annette Marie. American idle: late-career job loss in a neoliberal era, by Annette Nierobisz and Dana Sawchuk. Rutgers, 2025. 194p bibl index ISBN 9781978835870, $120.00; ISBN 9781978835863 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781978835887 ebook, $29.95; 63-1356

Not just green, not just white: race, justice, and environmental history, ed. by Mary E. Mendoza and Traci Brynne Voyles. Nebraska, 2025. 536p bibl index ISBN 9781496204202, $99.00; ISBN 9781496241733 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781496241856 ebook, $35.00; 63-1402

Oren, Neta. Israel under Netanyahu: Populism and democratic decline. L. Rienner, 2025. 169p bibl index ISBN 9781962551427, $95.00; ISBN 9781962551434 pbk, $95.00; 63-1416

Page, Joshua. Legal plunder: the predatory dimensions of criminal justice, by Joshua Page and Joe Soss. Chicago, 2025. 458p bibl index ISBN 9780226841151, $115.00; ISBN 9780226841168 pbk, $26.00; ISBN 9780226841175 ebook, $12.50; 63-1450

Porter, Patrick. How to survive a hostile world: power, politics, and the case for realism. Stanford, 2025. 192p bibl index ISBN 9781503641839, $95.00; ISBN 9781503644076 ebook, $24.00; ISBN 9781503644069, $24.00; 63-1427

Poznansky, Michael. Great power, great responsibility: how the liberal international order shapes US foreign policy. Oxford, 2025. 262p index ISBN 9780197812914, $99.00; ISBN 9780197812921 pbk, $29.99; ISBN 9780197812938 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1428

Pugh, Tison. Southerners acting Southern: on celebrities and their star personas in the imagined South. Louisiana State, 2025. 276p bibl ISBN 9780807183984, $69.95; ISBN 9780807184011 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9780807184653 ebook, $19.95; 63-1404

Rogak, Lisa. Propaganda girls: the secret war of the women in the OSS. St. Martin’s, 2025. 225p bibl index ISBN 9781250275592, $23.95; ISBN 9781250275608 ebook, $14.99; 63-1376

Schaffer, Gavin. An unorthodox history: British Jews since 1945. Manchester University Press, 2025. 272p bibl index ISBN 9781526165473, $29.95; ISBN 9781526165466 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1407

Singerman, David. Unrefined: how capitalism reinvented sugar. Chicago, 2025. 352p bibl index ISBN 9780226837376, $35.00; ISBN 9780226837383 ebook, $34.99; 63-1357

STEAM education: intersections and thresholds, ed. by Yichien Cooper and Alice Lai. Brill, 2025. 296p bibl index ISBN 9789004714731, $157.00; ISBN 9789004714724, $66.00; ISBN 9789004714748 ebook, $157.00; 63-1370

Storey, William Kelleher. The colonialist: the vision of Cecil Rhodes. Oxford, 2025. 528p bibl index ISBN 9780199811359, $39.99; ISBN 9780190940072 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1381

Tanenbaum, Leora. Sexy selfie nation: standing up for yourself in today’s toxic, sexist culture. Rowman & Littlefield, 2025. 240p bibl index ISBN 9781538194003, $27.95; ISBN 9781538194010 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1346

Thelen, Kathleen Ann. Attention, shoppers!: American retail capitalism and the origins of the Amazon economy. Princeton, 2025. 325p bibl index ISBN 9780691266510, $99.00; ISBN 9780691266527 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780691266558 ebook, $29.95; 63-1362

Traphagan, J. W. The myth of organizational culture: how leaders misunderstand the role of paradigms and power. Toplight Books, 2025. 170p bibl index ISBN 9781476696997 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781476656342 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1358

Tsang, Eileen Yuk-Ha. Unlocking the red closet: gay male sex workers in China. New York University, 2025. 240p bibl index ISBN 9781479821174, $89.00; ISBN 9781479821228 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781479821235 ebook, $30.00; 63-1451

Uchida, Craig D. Policing the streets of Los Angeles: controversies, change, and continuity. Lexington Books, 2025. 194p bibl index ISBN 9781666976434, $110.00; ISBN 9781666976441 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-1452

Williams, Liz. Rough music: folk customs, transgression and alternative Britain. Reaktion Books, 2025. 336p bibl index ISBN 9781836390602, $27.50; 63-1408

Williams, Robert B. Funding white supremacy: federal wealth policies and the modern racial wealth gap. Cambridge, 2025. 253p bibl index ISBN 9781009367844, $110.00; ISBN 9781009367868 pbk, $35.99; ISBN 9781009367837 ebook, $35.99; 63-1363

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