The Top 75 Community College Titles: October 2025 Edition

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

Posted on October 16, 2025 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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Wells, Ira. On book banning: or, how the new censorship consensus trivializes art and undermines democracy.   Biblioasis, 2025.  185p bibl index  ISBN 9781771966634 pbk, $21.95;   63-0209

Humanities

Applied theatre: voice: performance and social justice, ed. by Sarah Weston.   Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2025.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9781350371392, $115.00;   ISBN 9781350371408 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0251

Borg, Emma. Meaning: a very short introduction, by Emma Borg and Sarah A. Fisher.   Oxford, 2025.  144p bibl index  ISBN 9780192866547 pbk, $12.99;   63-0257

Carter, Greg. I’d just as soon kiss a wookiee: uncovering racialized desire in the Star wars galaxy.   Texas, 2025.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9781477331583, $105.00;   ISBN 9781477331590 pbk, $34.95;   ISBN 9781477331606 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0246

Chopra, Samir. Anxiety: a philosophical guide.   Princeton, 2024.  208p bibl index  ISBN 9780691210674, $27.95;   ISBN 9780691246130 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0258

Fishkin, Shelley Fisher. Jim: the life and afterlives of Huckleberry Finn’s comrade.   Yale, 2025.  464p bibl index  ISBN 9780300268324, $28.00;   63-0234

Gerrard, Ysabel. The kids are online: confronting the myths and realities of young digital life.   California, 2025.  309p bibl index  ISBN 9780520388079, $95.00;   ISBN 9780520416093 pbk, $27.95;   ISBN 9780520388086 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0223

Goodby, John. Dylan Thomas, by John Goodby and Chris Wigginton.   Reaktion Books, 2024.  270p bibl index  ISBN 9781789149326, $20.89;   ISBN 9781789149692 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0235

Knapp, Jeffrey. Shakespeare high and low: character, audience, career.   Edinburgh University Press, 2025.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9781399543699, $115.00;   63-0254

Kretz, Valerie Ellen. Romantic relationships and media: research at their intersections.   Lexington Books, 2025.  184p bibl index  ISBN 9781666932423, $105.00;   ISBN 9781666932430 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0227

Markovits, Stefanie. The number sense of nineteenth-century British literature.   Oxford, 2025.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9780198937791, $99.99;   63-0237

Marx, William. Libraries of the mind.   Princeton, 2025.  200p bibl index  ISBN 9780691267425, $24.95;   ISBN 9780691273884 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0230

Mingo, AnneMarie. Have you got good religion?: Black women’s faith, courage, and moral leadership in the Civil Rights Movement.   Illinois, 2024.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9780252045653, $110.00;   ISBN 9780252087769 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780252055348 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0272

The Moral vision of Pope Francis: expanding the US reception of the first Jesuit pope, ed. by Conor M. Kelly and Kristin E. Heyer.   Georgetown University, 2024.  270p bibl index  ISBN 9781647124557, $104.95;   ISBN 9781647124564 pbk, $34.95;   ISBN 9781647124571 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0273

The New Testament in color: a multiethnic Bible commentary, ed. by Esau McCaulley et al.   IVP Academic, 2024.  792p bibl index  ISBN 9780830814091, $64.99;   ISBN 9780830818297 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0274

Pritchard, William H. On Frost and Eliot. Paul Dry, 2025.  244p bibl index  ISBN 9781589882027, $25.95;   63-0239

Reenvisioning histories of American art: transforming museum practice, ed. by Michael Hartman and Jami C. Powell.   Washington, 2025.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9780295753386 pbk, $35.00;   ISBN 9780295753393 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0217

Revisiting Richardson, ed. by Rebecca Anne Barr and Bonnie Latimer.   Bucknell, 2025.  200p bibl index  ISBN 9781684485666, $150.00;   ISBN 9781684485659 pbk, $39.95;   ISBN 9781684485673 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0240

Singer, Julie. Out of the mouths of babes: infant voices in medieval French literature.   Chicago, 2025.  325p bibl index  ISBN 9780226838014, $110.00;   ISBN 9780226838021 pbk, $35.00;   ISBN 9780226838038 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0244

Usher, M. D. Following nature’s lead: ancient ways of living in a dying world.   Princeton, 2025.  232p bibl index  ISBN 9780691249209, $27.95;   ISBN 9780691249612 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0232

Vincent, Robert Hudson. The English Baroque in early modern literature.   Edinburgh University Press, 2025.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9781399534444, $115.00;  63-0241

Wessel-McCoy, Colleen. Freedom church of the poor: Martin Luther King Jr’s Poor People’s Campaign.   Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2021.  222p bibl index  ISBN 9781978710238, $100.00; ISBN 9781978710245 ebook, $45.00;   63-0277

Wills, Vanessa Christina. Marx’s ethical vision.   Oxford, 2024.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9780197688144, $45.00;   ISBN 9780197688151 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0265

Zehme, Bill. Carson the Magnificent, by Bill Zehme and Mike Thomas.   Simon & Schuster, 2024.  336p bibl index  ISBN 9781451645279, $30.00;   63-0229

Science & Technology

Dasgupta, Shoumita. Where biology ends and bias begins: lessons on belonging from our DNA.   California, 2025.  285p bibl index  ISBN 9780520397156, $95.00;   ISBN 9780520397149 pbk, $29.95;   ISBN 9780520397163 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0281

Ellis, Jack D. Physicians for the people: Black doctors and the struggle for health-care equality in Alabama, 1870–1970.   Alabama, 2025.  244p bibl  index  ISBN 9780817322236, $110.00;   ISBN 9780817361860 pbk, $34.95;   ISBN 9780817395452 ebook, $34.95;   63-0289

Hejtmanek, Katie Rose. The cult of CrossFit: Christianity and the American exercise phenomenon.   New York University, 2025.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9781479831784, $89.00;   ISBN 9781479831814 pbk, $30.00;   ISBN 9781479831784 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0295

Hoffmann, Hillary. American grasslands: reckoning with the law and policy that shaped agriculture in the West.   Cambridge, 2025.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9781009573917, $125.00;   ISBN 9781009573948 pbk, $41.99;   ISBN 9781009573894 ebook, contact publisher for pricing;   63-0288

Hurst, Laurence D. The evolution of imperfection: the science of why we aren’t and can’t be perfect.   Princeton, 2025.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9780691247397, $29.95;   ISBN 9780691247410 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0283

Kennedy, Pagan. The secret history of the rape kit: a true crime story.   Vintage Books, 2025.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9780593314715 pbk, $19.99;   ISBN 9780593314722 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0279

Seaton, Philip. Saving orchids: stories of species survival in a changing world, by Philip Seaton and Lawrence W. Zettler.   Chicago, 2025.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9780226839417, $35.00;   ISBN 9780226839424 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0285

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Ziedrich, Linda. First fruits: the Lewellings and the birth of the Pacific Coast fruit industry.   Oregon State, 2025.  320p bibl index  ISBN 9781962645300, $29.95;   ISBN 9781962645317 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0286

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Social & Behavioral Sciences

Armstrong, Michael. How to manage people: fast, effective management skills that really get results.   Kogan Page, 2025.  240p  ISBN 9781398621220, $64.00;   ISBN 9781398621206 pbk, $16.99;   ISBN 9781398621213 ebook, $16.99;   63-0313

Bounds, Anna Maria. Urban preppers and the pandemic in New York City: class, resilience and sheltering in place.   Routledge, 2025.  162p bibl index  ISBN 9781032509426, $190.00;   ISBN 9781032509440 pbk, $52.99;   ISBN 9781003400356 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0402

Brands, H. W. America first: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the shadow of war.   Doubleday, 2024.  464p bibl index  ISBN 9780385550413, $35.00;   ISBN 9780385550420 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0362

Bunnell, Gene. Buffalo’s waterfront renaissance: citizen activists, NGOs, and the Canalside project.   Excelsior Editions/SUNY Press, 2024.  316p bibl index  ISBN 9781438499086, $99.00;   ISBN 9781438499093 pbk, $29.95;   ISBN 9781438499109 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0297

Costanzo, Mark. Dismantling the death penalty: research-based answers to the essential questions.   Oxford, 2025.  200p bibl index  ISBN 9780197515556, $35.00;   63-0403

Cottrell, Robert C. Revolution, counterrevolution and assassination after World War II: a global history.   McFarland, 2025.  251p bibl index  ISBN 9781476696416, $49.95;   ISBN 9781476654300 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0335

Dincer, Oguzhan. Corruption in America: a fifty-ring circus, by Oguzhan Dincer and Michael Johnston.   Cambridge, 2025.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9781009423373, $100.00;   ISBN 9781009423427 pbk, $35.00;   ISBN 9781009423380 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0394

Drake, H. A. The wisdom of the ancients: four ideas that changed the world.   Oxford, 2025.  176p bibl index  ISBN 9780197777374, $27.95;   ISBN 9780197777398 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0345

Forth, Aidan. Camps: a global history of mass confinement.   Toronto, 2024.  280p bibl index  ISBN 9781487588281, $32.95;   ISBN 9781487588311 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0336

Fullbrook, Mary. Berlin.   Cambridge, 2025.  300p bibl index  ISBN 9781009160940, $75.00;   ISBN 9781009160933 pbk, $22.99; ISBN 9781009184601 ebook, contact publisher for pricing;   63-0351

Ginsburg, Herbert. Young children’s amazing math: a guide to understanding and supporting early learning.   Teachers College Press, 2025.  216p bibl  index  ISBN 9780807786529, $111.00;   ISBN 9780807786512 pbk, $36.95;   ISBN 9780807782798 ebook, $36.95;   63-0327

Goldhill, Simon. Queer Cambridge: an alternative history.   Cambridge, 2025.  316p bibl index  ISBN 9781009528061, $29.95;   ISBN 9781009528085 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0371

Gramm, Phil. The triumph of economic freedom: debunking the seven great myths of American capitalism, by Phil Gramm and Donald J. Boudreaux.   Rowman & Littlefield, 2025.  280p bibl  index  ISBN 9798881808365, $29.95;   ISBN 9798881808372 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0319

Hadley, Dawn. Life in the Viking Great Army: raiders, traders, and settlers, by Dawn Hadley and Julian Richards.   Oxford, 2025.  416p bibl index  ISBN 9780198848554, $32.99;   ISBN 9780192588159 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0307

Isenberg, Andrew C. The age of the borderlands: Indians, slaves, and the limits of manifest destiny, 1790–1850.   North Carolina, 2025.  304p bibl index  ISBN 9781469685052, $35.00;   ISBN 9781469683843 ebook, Contact publisher for price;   63-0364

Juravich, Nick. Para power: how paraprofessional labor changed education.   Illinois, 2024.  366p bibl index  ISBN 9780252046155, $125.00;   ISBN 9780252088230 pbk, $30.00;   ISBN 9780252047411 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0329

Kisseloff, Jeff. Rewriting hisstory: a fifty-year journey to uncover the truth about Alger Hiss.   University Press of Kansas, 2025.  392p bibl index  ISBN 9780700638338, $34.99;   ISBN 9780700638345 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0366

Kurien, Prema A. Claiming citizenship: race, religion, and political mobilization among new Americans.   Oxford, 2025.  360p bibl index  ISBN 9780197784082, $110.00;   ISBN 9780197784099 pbk, $29.95;   ISBN 9780197784112 other, contact publisher for price;   63-0397

Lawless, Jennifer L. It takes more than a candidate: why women don’t run for office, by Jennifer L. Lawless and Richard L. Fox.  3rd ed.   Cambridge, 2025.  192p bibl index  ISBN 9781009598231, $95.00;   ISBN 9781009598262 pbk, $30.99;   ISBN 9781009598224 ebook, contact publisher for pricing;   63-0398

Lynch, Michael Patrick. On truth in politics: why democracy demands it.   Princeton, 2025.  264p bibl index  ISBN 9780691231938, $29.95;   ISBN 9780691231945 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0392

Maguire, Brendan. Sociological analysis of incipient totalitarianism in the United States: uncle Sam meets big brother.   Routledge, 2025.  164p bibl index  ISBN 9781032861982, $180.00;   ISBN 9781032850085 pbk, $52.99;   ISBN 9781003521778 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0406

McCoy, Patricia A. Sharing risk: the path to economic well-being for all.   California, 2025.  312p bibl index  ISBN 9780520390140, $27.95;   ISBN 9780520390157 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0321

Modern Chinese foodways, ed. by JiaChen Fu, Michelle T. King, and Jakob A. Klein.   MIT, 2025.  360p bibl index  ISBN 9780262551311, $60.00;   ISBN 9780262381659 ebook, open access;   63-0349

Mogilner, Marina B. A new imperial history of Northern Eurasia, 1700–1918: from Russian to global history, by Marina B. Mogilner et al.   Bloomsbury, 2025.  504p bibl index  ISBN 9781350196865, $115.00;   ISBN 9781350196872 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0353

More human: how the power of AI can transform the way you lead, by Rasmus Hougaard et al.   Harvard, 2025.  176p bibl index  ISBN 9798892790628, $32.00;   ISBN 9798892790635 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0315

The Oxford handbook of W. E. B. Du Bois, ed. by Aldon D. Morris et al.   Oxford, 2024.  1048p bibl index  ISBN 9780190062767, $205.00;   ISBN 9780190062798 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0408 October 2025

Parr, Patrick. Malcolm before X.   Massachusetts, 2024.  352p bibl index  ISBN 9781625348173, $99.00;   ISBN 9781625348166 pbk, $29.95;   ISBN 9781685750879 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0367

Rabil, Robert G. Lebanon and Turkey: historical contexts and contemporary realities.   Rowman & Littlefield, 2024.  272p bibl index  ISBN 9781538177501, $95.00;   ISBN 9781538177518 pbk, $36.00;   ISBN 9781538177525 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0359

Rahman, Tahir. Extreme overvalued beliefs: clinical and forensic psychiatric dimensions, by Tahir Rahman and Jeffrey Abugel.   Oxford, 2024.  152p bibl index  ISBN 9780197612552, $39.99;   ISBN 9780197612583 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0400

The Recasting of the Latin American Right: polarization and conservative reactions, ed. by André Borges, Ryan Lloyd, and Gabriel Vommaro.   Cambridge, 2024.  292p bibl index  ISBN 9781009427449, $120.00;   ISBN 9781009427401 pbk, $39.99;   ISBN 9781009427418 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0380

Reeves, Martin. Like: the button that changed the world, by Martin Reeves and Robert Goodson.   Harvard Business Review Press, 2025.  288p bibl index  ISBN 9798892790451, $32.00;   ISBN 9798892790468 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0316

Rethinking religion and radicalization: terrorism and violence twenty years after 9/11, ed. by Michele Grossman and H. A. Hellyer.   Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.  312p bibl index  ISBN 9781350350083, $90.00;   ISBN 9781350350076 pbk, $29.95;   63-0388

Rogers, Jr., William Warren. The battle for the University of Alabama: the perilous path of higher education in the Reconstruction South.   Alabama, 2025.  286p bibl index  ISBN 9780817322281, $110.00;   ISBN 9780817362003 pbk, $34.95;   ISBN 9780817395520 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0331

Schipper, Janine. Conservation is not enough: rethinking relationships with water in the arid Southwest.   Wyoming, 2025.  206p bibl index  ISBN 9781646426706, $95.00;   ISBN 9781646427017 pbk, $23.95;   ISBN 9781646427024 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0409

Schumer, Charles E. Antisemitism in America: a warning.   Grand Central Publishing, 2025.  256p bibl index  ISBN 9781538771624, $28.00;   ISBN 9781538771648 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0341

Schwartzstein, Peter. The heat and the fury: on the frontlines of climate violence.   Island Press, 2024.  328p bibl index  ISBN 9781642833010, $28.90;   63-0302

Snider, Idrissa N. Unmasking authentic Black female identity: the power of selfdefining and shattering stereotypes.   Lexington Books, 2025.  150p bibl index  ISBN 9781666953480, $100.00;   ISBN 9781666953497 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0304

Souto-Manning, Mariana. Reading, writing, and talk: teaching for equity and justice in the early grades, by Mariana Souto-Manning, Jessica Martell, and Benelly Alvarez.  2nd ed.   Teachers College Press, 2024.  240p bibl index  ISBN 9780807786314, $111.00;   ISBN 9780807786307 pbk, $36.95;   ISBN 9780807782699 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0332

Soutter, Madora. Transformative social and emotional learning: centering equity and social justice in pre-K-6 classrooms, by Madora Soutter, Alessandra E. Ward, and Chu N. Ly.   Teachers College Press, 2025.  224p bibl index  ISBN 9780807787076, $120.00;   ISBN 9780807787069 pbk, $39.95;   ISBN 9780807783061 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0333

Stewart, Ian. The Celts: a modern history.   Princeton, 2025.  576p bibl index  ISBN 9780691222516, $39.95;   ISBN 9780691222530 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0373

Wilson, Douglas C. The historical archaeology of the Pacific Northwest.   University Press of Florida, 2024.  316p bibl index  ISBN 9780813079172, $90.00;   ISBN 9780813070858 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0311

Xu, Jing. “Unruly” children: historical fieldnotes and learning morality in a Taiwan village.   Cambridge, 2025.  258p bibl index  ISBN 9781009416276, $90.00;   ISBN 9781009416252 pbk, $29.99;   ISBN 9781009416245 ebook, contact publisher for pricing;   63-0312

Zagorsky, Jay L. The power of cash: why using paper money is good for you and society.   Wiley-Blackwell, 2025.  384p bibl index  ISBN 9781394299911, $29.95;   ISBN 9781394299935 ebook, contact publisher for price;   63-0324

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