The Top 75 Community College Titles: November 2025 Edition

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

Posted on November 25, 2025 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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Reference

Overton Index. Overton. contact publisher for pricing. URL: https://www.overton.io/overtonindex 63-0412

Perplexity. Perplexity. contact publisher for pricing.URL: https://www.perplexity.ai/ 63-0411

Pomante, Michael J., II. Historical dictionary of the Donald Trump administration, by Michael J. Pomante II and Austin Trantham. Rowman & Littlefield, 2024. 268p bibl index ISBN 9781538157275, $150.00; ISBN 9781538157282 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0413

ProQuest One Education. ProQuest. Contact publisher for price. URL: https://about.proquest.com/en/products-services/proquest-oneeducation/ 63-0414

Selassie, W. Gabriel. Ethiopian Americans: history, culture, and experiences. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 152p bibl index ISBN 9781440880278, $75.00; ISBN 9798765110720 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0415

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Humanities

Allsop, Jon. What is journalism for?. Bristol University Press, 2025. 180p bibl index  ISBN 9781529238556, $14.99; ISBN 9781529238570 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0421

Atravesados: essays on queer Latinx young adult literature, ed. by Trevor Boffone and Cristina Herrera.   University Press of Mississippi, 2025. 242p bibl index ISBN 9781496854483, $110.00; ISBN 9781496854490 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781496854537 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0434

Bergholtz, Benjamin. Swallowing a world: globalization and the maximalist novel. Nebraska, 2024. 252p bibl index ISBN 9781496231284, $55.00; ISBN 9781496241122 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0428

Chambers, J. K. A tone parallel to Duke Ellington: the man in the music.  University Press of Mississippi, 2025. 274p bibl index ISBN 9781496855701, $110.00; ISBN 9781496855749 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781496855756 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0450

Coppola, William J. Egotism, elitism, and the ethics of musical humility. Oxford, 2025. 336p bibl index  ISBN 9780197692943, $99.00; ISBN 9780197692974 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0451

Facciani, Matthew. Misguided: where misinformation starts, how it spreads, and what to do about it. Columbia, 2025. 376p bibl index ISBN 9780231205047, $160.00; ISBN 9780231555814 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0423

Fitzgerald, Robert. Hardcore punk in the age of Reagan: the lyrical lashing of an American presidency. North Carolina, 2025. 252p bibl index ISBN 9781469685441, $99.00; ISBN 9781469685458 pbk, $34.95;   ISBN 9781469685465 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0452

French, Jade Elizabeth. Modernist poetics of ageing: the late lives and late styles of Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, and H.D. Oxford, 2025.  208p bibl index ISBN 9780198919971, $100.00; ISBN 9780198920007 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0435

Gayk, Shannon Noelle. Apocalyptic ecologies: from creation to doom in Middle English literature. Chicago, 2024. 304p bibl index ISBN 9780226837604, $115.00; ISBN 9780226837611 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780226837628 ebook, $34.99; 63-0436

Gibb, Lorna. Rare tongues: the secret stories of hidden languages. Princeton, 2025. 352p bibl index ISBN 9780691274171, $29.95; ISBN 9780691275703 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0429

Granquist, Mark Alan. A history of Christianity in America. Baker Academic, 2025. 400p bibl index  ISBN 9781540963314, $44.99; ISBN 9781493441495 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0472

Hall, Edith. Sophocles: a very short introduction. Oxford, 2025. 176p bibl index ISBN 9780192897800, $12.99; ISBN 9780192652508 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0432

Hankins, Laurel V. The art of retreat: domestic romanticisms in the early United States. Bucknell, 2025.  188p bibl index ISBN 9781684485635, $150.00; ISBN 9781684485642 ebook, Contact publisher for price;   ISBN 9781684485628 pbk, $34.95; 63-0437

The Harlem Renaissance and transatlantic modernism, ed. by Denise Murrell. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2024. 332p bibl index  ISBN 9781588397737, $48.00; 63-0417

Lethbridge, Robert. Émile Zola: a determined life. Reaktion Books, 2025. 304p bibl index ISBN 9781836390176, $38.00; ISBN 9781836390169 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0446

Paddison, Joshua. Unholy sensations: a story of sex, scandal, and California’s first cult scare. Oxford, 2025. 280p bibl index ISBN 9780197775325, $29.99; ISBN 9780197775349 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0478

Participatory culture wars: controversy, conflict, and complicity in fandom, ed. by Simone Driessen, Bethan Jones, and Benjamin Litherland. Iowa, 2025. 248p bibl index ISBN 9781685970086 pbk, $85.00;   ISBN 9781685970093 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0426

Petro, Anthony Michael. Provoking religion: sex, art, and the culture wars. Oxford, 2025. 328p bibl index  ISBN 9780190938437, $34.99; ISBN 9780190938451 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0418

Rushdy, Ashraf H. A. Forgiveness of others. Oxford, 2025. 264p bibl index ISBN 9780197800362, $99.99;   ISBN 9780197800386 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0469

Shakespeare, William. Twelfth night: a Norton critical edition, ed. by Natasha Korda. W. W. Norton, 2024. 400p bibl index  ISBN 9780393264258 pbk, $17.50; ISBN 9780393270143 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0458

Turney, Joanne. In private: interior design as lifestyle in the 1970s home. Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2025.  304p bibl index ISBN 9781350062122, $115.00; ISBN 9781350062146 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0419

Wannamaker, Annette. How to read like an anti-fascist: storytelling and narrative literacy for young people. Fordham, 2025. 224p bibl index  ISBN 9781531509798, $90.00; ISBN 9781531509804 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0445

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Science & Technology

Bekker, Sheree. Open play: the case for feminist sport, by Sheree Bekker and Stephen Mumford. Reaktion Books, 2025. 180p bibl index ISBN 9781836390534, $22.50; 63-0503

De Roode, Jaap. Doctors by nature: how ants, apes, and other animals heal themselves. Princeton, 2025. 264p bibl index ISBN 9780691239248, $27.99; ISBN 9780691239255 ebook, $27.99; 63-0491

Kang, Lydia. Pseudoscience: an amusing history of crackpot ideas and why we love them, by Lydia Kang  and Nate Pedersen. Workman Publishing, 2025. 320p bibl index ISBN 9781523524259, $25.00; ISBN 9781523524273 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0486

Källén, Anna. The trouble with ancient DNA: telling stories of the past with genomic science. Chicago, 2025. 160p bibl index ISBN 9780226821672, $115.00; ISBN 9780226835570 pbk, $20.00; ISBN 9780226835563 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0488

Krell, David. 1978: baseball and America in the disco era. Nebraska, 2025. 224p bibl index ISBN 9781496239600, $34.95; ISBN 9781496243669 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0504

Lloyd, Karen G. Intraterrestrials: discovering the strangest life on earth. Princeton, 2025. 248p bibl index  ISBN 9780691236117, $27.95; ISBN 9780691236124 ebook, $27.99; 63-0494

Long, Pamela O. Technology in Mediterranean and European lands, 600–1600. Johns Hopkins, 2025.  294p bibl index  ISBN 9781421451220 pbk, $49.95; ISBN 9781421451237 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0487

Murillo-Hiller, Luis Ricardo. Butterflies and moths of Costa Rica. Comstock Publishing Associates, 2025.  328p bibl index ISBN 9781501781605 pbk, $34.95; 63-0493

Susskind, Richard. How to think about AI: a guide for the perplexed. Oxford, 2025. 224p bibl index ISBN 9780198941927, $13.99; 63-0502

Thomas, Russell. Tofu: a culinary history. Reaktion Books, 2024. 272p bibl index  ISBN 9781789149531, $16.95; ISBN 9781789149906 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0499

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Social & Behavioral Sciences

Anderson, Kevin B. A political sociology of twenty-first century revolutions and resistances: from the Arab world and Iran to Africa, Ukraine, and France. Routledge, 2025. 286p bibl index ISBN 9781032771380, $190.00; ISBN 9781032761503 pbk, $55.99; ISBN 9781003481447 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0615

Benes, Ross. 1999: the year low culture conquered America and kickstarted our bizarre times. University Press of Kansas, 2025. 296p bibl index  ISBN 9780700638574, $32.99; ISBN 9780700638581 ebook, Contact publisher for price; 63-0506

Berman, Jillian. Sunk cost: who’s to blame for the nation’s broken student loan system and how to fix it. Chicago, 2025. 320p bibl index  ISBN 9780226821153, $27.50; ISBN 9780226838953 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0534

Black citizens and American democracy: fighting for the soul of a nation, ed. by Reginald K. Ellis, Jeffrey L. Littlejohn, and Peter B. Levy. University Press of Florida, 2025. 216p bibl index ISBN 9780813079301, $110.00; ISBN 9780813080987 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780813070988 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0595

Bojar, Karen. The evolution of socialist feminism from Eleanor Marx to AOC. Routledge, 2025. 302p bibl index ISBN 9781032824673, $180.00; ISBN 9781032819570 pbk, $49.99; ISBN 9781003504634 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0507

Borg, Emma. Acting for reasons: in defence of common-sense psychology. Oxford, 2025. 304p bibl index  ISBN 9780198929000, $115.00; 63-0609

Brisbois, Ben. Banana capital: science, stories, and poison at the equator. University of Regina, 2025.  368p bibl index  ISBN 9781779400345 pbk, $34.95; 63-0525

The Cambridge companion to US first ladies, ed. by Lisa M. Burns and Teri Finneman. Cambridge, 2025.  428p bibl index ISBN 9781009502795, $110.00; ISBN 9781009502832 pbk, $35.99; ISBN 9781009502801 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0566

Chengpang, Lee. The rise of Tzu Chi: the making of a global Buddhist movement. UBC Press, 2025.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9780774871099, $110.00; ISBN 9780774871105 pbk, $37.95; ISBN 9780774871129 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0618

Davis, Steven. The other public lands: preservation, extraction, and politics on the fifty states’ natural resource lands. Temple, 2025. 279p bibl index ISBN 9781439925539, $110.00; ISBN 9781439925546 pbk, $29.95;   ISBN 9781439925553 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0598

Death and institutions: processes, places and the past, ed. by Kate Woodthorpe, Helen Frisby, and Bethan Michael-Fox. Bristol University Press, 2025. 224p bibl  index ISBN 9781529236668, $120.00; ISBN 9781529236675 ebook, $41.99; 63-0619

Dinan, Desmond. A concise history of the European Union. L. Rienner, 2025. 251p bibl index  ISBN 9781962551397, $76.00; ISBN 9781962551403 pbk, $28.50; ISBN 9781962551410 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0581

Eleff, Zev. Greatest of all time: a history of an American obsession. Cambridge, 2025. 238p bibl  index  ISBN 9781009572736, $39.99; ISBN 9781009572767 ebook, $39.99; 63-0568

Falk, Dean. The botanic age: planting the seeds of human evolution. Toronto, 2025. 272p bibl index  ISBN 9781487546649, $29.95; ISBN 9781487547745 ebook, $29.95; 63-0516

Gillis, Don. Battle for Boston: how mayor Ray Flynn and community organizers fought racism and downtown power brokers. Fordham, 2025. 432p bibl index ISBN 9781531509835, $34.99; ISBN 9781531509859 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0599

Glover, William J. Reformatting agrarian life: urban history from the countryside in colonial India. Stanford, 2025. 306p bibl index ISBN 9781503642263, $130.00; ISBN 9781503642263 pbk, $32.00; ISBN 9781503642270 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0552

Halliday, Aria S. Black girls and how we fail them. North Carolina, 2025. 200p bibl index  ISBN 9781469686103, $99.00;   ISBN 9781469686110 pbk, $22.00; ISBN 9781469683058 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0511

Instruments of international order: internationalism and diplomacy, 1900–50, ed. by Th. W. Bottelier and Jan Stöckmann. Manchester University Press, 2024. 264p bibl index ISBN 9781526172556, $90.00; ISBN 9781526169082 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0588

Jacobs, Nicholas F. Subverting the republic: Donald J. Trump and the perils of presidentialism, by Nicholas F. Jacobs and Sidney M. Milkis. University Press of Kansas, 2025. 328p bibl index  ISBN 9780700638840, $69.99; ISBN 9780700638857 ebook, Contact publisher for price; 63-0600

Kampourakis, Kostas. Trusting science: why we need to reconsider school science teaching. Oxford, 2025. 248p bibl index  ISBN 9780197787106, $39.95; ISBN 9780197787120 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0536

Kerr, Natalie. Our new social life: science-backed strategies for creating meaningful connection, by Natalie Kerr and Jaime Kurtz. Oxford, 2025. 184p bibl index  ISBN 9780197749951, $29.99; ISBN 9780197749975 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0612

Litman, Leah. Lawless: how the Supreme Court runs on conservative grievance, fringe theories, and bad vibes.  Atria, 2025. 311p index  ISBN 9781668054628, $29.99; 63-0602

Lynn, John A. Leaving the fight: surrender, prisoners of war, and detainees in Western warfare. Cambridge, 2025. 346p bibl index ISBN 9781107020511, $105.00; ISBN 9781107638044 pbk, $34.99;   ISBN 9781139104203 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0584

Magness, Jodi. Jerusalem through the ages: from its beginnings to the Crusades. Oxford, 2024. 624p bibl index  ISBN 9780190937805, $39.99; ISBN 9780197674994 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0519

Materialising the Roman Empire, ed. by Jeremy Tanner and Andrew Gardner. UCL Press, 2024. 324p bibl index  ISBN 9781800084001, $55.00; ISBN 9781800083998 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781800083981 ebook, open access; 63-0520

Merrett, Christopher. Myth and reality in South Africa’s history: a conflicted past. Best Red, 2025. 304p bibl index ISBN 9781928246695 pbk, $38.50; ISBN 9781928246749 ebook, $38.50; 63-0549

Michals, Debra. She’s the boss: the rise of women’s entrepreneurship since World War II. Rutgers, 2025.  242p bibl index ISBN 9781978818170, $140.00; ISBN 9781978818163 pbk, $32.95; ISBN 9781978818187 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0530

Patch, Robert. An outpost of colonialism: the Hispanic community of Mérida, Yucatán, 1690–1730. Stanford, 2025. 282p bibl index  ISBN 9781503641907, $70.00; ISBN 9781503642089 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0561

Radforth, Ian. Deadly swindle: an 1890 murder in backwoods Ontario that gripped the world. Toronto, 2024. 314p bibl index ISBN 9781487560232, $80.00; ISBN 9781487560249 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0570

Rand, Erin J. Minor troubles: racial figurations of youth sexuality and childhoods queerness. Ohio State, 2025. 240p bibl index ISBN 9780814215814, $99.95; ISBN 9780814284001 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0513

Robinson, Paul. Russia’s world order: how civilizationism explains the conflict with the West. Northern Illinois, 2025. 168p bibl  index  ISBN 9781501780011, $28.95; ISBN 9781501780028 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0555

Samuel, Lawrence R. The American private school: a cultural history. Rowman & Littlefield, 2025. 210p bibl index  ISBN 9798881803780, $38.00; ISBN 9798881803797 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0538

Schmader, Matthew F. Uncovering America’s first war: contact, conflict, and Coronado’s expedition to the Rio Grande. New Mexico, 2025. 376p bibl index ISBN 9780826367938, $85.00; ISBN 9780826367945 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0571

Shearing, Lois. Pink-pilled: women and the far right. Manchester University Press, 2025. 288p bibl  index  ISBN 9781526170699 pbk, $19.95; 63-0514

Shook, John R. Bioethics and brains: a disciplined and principled neuroethics, by John R. Shook and James Giordano. MIT, 2025. 252p bibl index  ISBN 9780262549998 pbk, $60.00; ISBN 9780262380997 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0614

Staunton, Michael. Thomas Becket and his world. Reaktion Books, 2025.  208p bibl index ISBN 9781836390701, $16.95; 63-0575

Vagle, Ben A. Command of commerce: America’s enduring economic power advantage over China, by Ben A. Vagle and Stephen G. Brooks. Oxford, 2025. 296p bibl index  ISBN 9780197802304, $29.99; ISBN 9780197802335 ebook, contact publisher for price; 63-0533

Women and the army in the Roman Empire, ed. by Lee L. Brice and Elizabeth Marie Greene. Cambridge, 2024. 360p bibl index  ISBN 9781107068575, $135.00; ISBN 9781009623704 ebook, contact publisher for pricing; 63-0551

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