The Top 75 Community College Titles: September 2026 Edition

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

Posted on September 24, 2026 in Top 75 Community College Titles

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Humanities

Bander, Elaine. Reading with Jane Austen. Bucknell, 2026. 196p bibl index ISBN 9781684485864, $150.00; ISBN 9781684485857 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781684485871 ebook, $29.95; 64-0025

Barash, David P. The soul delusion. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 209p bibl index ISBN 9798881805685, $32.00; ISBN 9798881805692 ebook, $28.80; 64-0062

Bowie, Steven C. Concerto for Cootie: the life and times of Cootie Williams. University Press of Mississippi, 2025. 443p bibl index ISBN 9781496859433, $120.00; ISBN 9781496859440 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781496859457 ebook, contact publisher for price; 64-0046

Carmicheal, David W. Organizing archival records: a guide for both physical and digital collections, by David W. Carmicheal and Adam T. Bentz. 5th ed. Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. 162p bibl index ISBN 9781538182376, $130.00; ISBN 9781538182383 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9781538182390 ebook, $35.95; 64-0004

Cladis, Mark Sydney. Radical romanticism: democracy, religion, and the environmental imagination. Columbia, 2025. 358p bibl index ISBN 9780231213325, $150.00; ISBN 9780231213332 pbk, $37.00; ISBN 9780231559836 ebook, $36.99; 64-0026

Coome, Christopher. The foundations of re-enchantment: Freemasonry, Theosophy, and the occult revival. Oxford, 2025. 374p bibl index ISBN 9780197809570, $99.00; ISBN 9780197809600 ebook, contact publisher for price; 64-0064

The Edinburgh critical history of early modern and Enlightenment philosophy, ed. by Stephen Howard and Jack Stetter. Edinburgh University Press, 2026. 380p index ISBN 9781399519298, $210.00; ISBN 9781399519328 ebook, $210.00; 64-0057

Evans, Jonathan. Fan translations, by Jonathan Evans and Ting Guo. Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. 128p bibl index ISBN 9798765113653, $75.00; ISBN 9798765113691 pbk, $19.95; ISBN 9798765113660 ebook, contact publisher for price; 64-0014

Falola, Toyin. Yorùbá metaphysics: spirituality and supernaturality. Ohio University, 2025. 402p bibl index ISBN 9780821426296, $120.00; ISBN 9780821426302 pbk, $39.95; ISBN 9780821426319 ebook, $39.99; 64-0058

Garvey, T. Gregory. Emerson and the defense of equality. Massachusetts, 2025. 264p index ISBN 9781625348944, $99.00; ISBN 9781625348937 pbk, $34.95; 64-0028

Goldberg, Nathaniel Jason. Philosophy of the history of philosophy. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 256p bibl index ISBN 9781666976885, $115.00; ISBN 9781978765252 ebook, contact publisher for price; 64-0059

Holroyd, Amy Twigger. Fashion fictions: imagining sustainable worlds. Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2026. 304p bibl index ISBN 9781350435629, $90.00; ISBN 9781350435636 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9781350435667 ebook, open access; 64-0010

Jury, David. Type designers of the twentieth century. Bodleian Library, 2025. 416p bibl index ISBN 9781851245819, $50.00; 64-0011

Lasser, Michael. Sweet freedom’s song: how music of patriotism, protest, and persistence shapes American identity. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 328p bibl index ISBN 9798765149157, $38.00; ISBN 9798765149171 ebook, $34.20; 64-0048

Lomperis, Ekaterina N. The reformations of medicine: early modern beginnings and contemporary possibilities. Fortress, 2025. 250p bibl index ISBN 9781506491172 pbk, $44.00; ISBN 9781506491189 ebook, contact publisher for price; 64-0066

Márquez, Alejandra. Lenchitudes: sapphic representation in contemporary Mexican narrative. SUNY Press, 2026. 232p bibl index ISBN 9798855805147, $120.00; ISBN 9798855805161 ebook, contact publisher for price; 64-0042

Meyers, Jeffrey. Forty-three ways of looking at Hemingway. Louisiana State, 2025. 330p bibl index ISBN 9780807185094, $39.95; ISBN 9780807185681 ebook, $19.95; 64-0034

Nadel, Ira. The American sentence: from pulpit to pulp fiction. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 228p bibl index ISBN 9781350473096, $75.00; ISBN 9781350473089 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9781350473119 ebook, $22.45; 64-0037

Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish. The blazing world and other writings, ed. by Lisa Walters. Oxford, 2025. 397p bibl ISBN 9780192862907 pbk, $13.99; ISBN 9780192677440 ebook, contact publisher for price; 64-0038

Homer. The Odyssey, tr. by Daniel Mendelsohn. Chicago, 2025. 549p ISBN 9780226604428, $39.00; 64-0023

Osuna, Celina. Desert distortion: revealing the abundance of contemporary borderlands ecologies. Texas Tech, 2025. 233p bibl index ISBN 9781682832622 pbk, $34.95; ISBN 9781682832639 ebook, $19.99; 64-0006

Samuels, Shirley. Haunted by the Civil War: cultural testimony in the nineteenth-century United States. Princeton, 2025. 217p bibl index ISBN 9780691248578, $32.00; ISBN 9780691248646 ebook, $32.00; 64-0040

Sartain, Marie. Team up: how collaboration powers superhero comics. University Press of Mississippi, 2026. 162p bibl index ISBN 9781496860972, $99.00; ISBN 9781496860989 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781496860996 ebook, contact publisher for price; 64-0017

Scott, Mark S. M. The beauty of souls: aesthetic encounters with Marilynne Robinson. Fortress, 2025. 211p bibl index ISBN 9781506495644 pbk, $36.00; ISBN 9781506495651 ebook, contact publisher for price; 64-0069

Sensory rhetorics: sensation, persuasion, and the politics of feeling, ed. by Steph Ceraso and Jonathan W. Stone. Pennsylvania State, 2026. 180p bibl index ISBN 9780271101231, $99.99; ISBN 9780271101248 pbk, $29.99; ISBN 9780271101736 ebook, contact publisher for price; 64-0018

Siviter, Clare. Theatre and censorship in France from revolution to restoration. Cambridge, 2026. 281p bibl index ISBN 9781009645966, $130.00; ISBN 9781009645942 ebook, $130.00; 64-0053

Snaith, Anna. Writing noise in interwar Britain: literature and the politics of sound. Oxford, 2025. 323p bibl index ISBN 9780198951476, $115.00; ISBN 9780198951490 ebook, contact publisher for price; 64-0041

Swigger, Jessie. Please touch: a history of the first four children’s museums in the United States (1899–1965). Massachusetts, 2026. 216p index ISBN 9781625349101, $99.00; ISBN 9781625349095 pbk, $32.95; ISBN 9781685751913 ebook, contact publisher for price; 64-0008

Verdejo, Eva-Rosa Ferrand. Contemporary Chilean filmmaking: the aesthetics of trauma. Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. 216p bibl index ISBN 9781350528024, $115.00; ISBN 9781350528031 ebook, contact publisher for price; 64-0044

Ward, Pete. Bluegrass and religion. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 211p bibl index ISBN 9781350175686, $115.00; ISBN 9781350175709 ebook, contact publisher for price; 64-0049

Williams, Daniel K. The search for a rational faith: reason and belief in the history of American Christianity. Oxford, 2026. 504p bibl index ISBN 9780197748039, $39.99; ISBN 9780197748060 ebook, contact publisher for price; 64-0071

Williamson, Colin. Drawn to nature: American animation in the age of science. Minnesota, 2025. 221p index ISBN 9781517914875, $112.00; ISBN 9781517914882 pbk, $28.00; ISBN 9781452974255 ebook, $28.00; 64-0045

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Science & Technology

Carbone, Larry. The hidden lives of lab animals: a vet’s vision for a more humane future. California, 2026. 350p bibl index ISBN 9780520403963, $26.95; ISBN 9780520403970 ebook, $26.95; 64-0077

Hone, David. Spinosaur tales: the biology and ecology of the Spinosaurs, by David Hone and Mark P. Witton. Bloomsbury Sigma, 2025. 320p bibl index ISBN 9781399412469, $28.00; ISBN 9781399412445 ebook, $19.60; 64-0078

Karamanski, Theodore J. Great lake: an unnatural history of Lake Michigan. Michigan, 2026. 291p bibl index ISBN 9780472040063 pbk, $24.95; ISBN 9780472222377 ebook, $9.99; 64-0072

Lynch, John Alexander. Space monkeys!: remembering the nonhuman astronauts in US space exploration. Alabama, 2026. 188p bibl index ISBN 9780817322618, $110.00; ISBN 9780817362522 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780817395926 ebook, $29.95; 64-0073

Stuart, Diana. Rejecting climate doomism. Michigan, 2026. 128p bibl ISBN 9780472077977, $80.00; ISBN 9780472057979 pbk, $24.95; 64-0082

Trejo, Sam. What we inherit: how new technologies and old myths are shaping our genomic future, by Sam Trejo and Daphne O. Martschenko. Princeton, 2026. 272p bibl index ISBN 9780691237756, $29.95; ISBN 9780691237749 ebook, $29.95; 64-0075

Woods, Christopher. In botanical time: the extraordinary lifespans of the world’s oldest living plants. Chelsea Green, 2026. 238p ISBN 9781645023159, $40.00; ISBN 9781645023166 ebook, contact publisher for price; 64-0076

Zuk, Marlene. Outsider animals: how the creatures at the margins of our lives have the most to teach us. Princeton, 2026. 312p bibl index ISBN 9780691264240, $29.95; ISBN 9780691264226 ebook, $29.95; 64-0079

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Social & Behavioral Sciences

Alvarez, Alex. Lethal elites: the institutions and professionals that made the Holocaust possible, by Alex Alvarez and Richard R. Fernández. Bloomsbury Academic, 2026. 299p bibl index ISBN 9798765157015, $120.00; ISBN 9798765157008 pbk, $40.00; ISBN 9798765157022 ebook, contact publisher for price; 64-0193

Andrew, Rod, Jr. The Marines’ fight for survival: war, politics, and institutional crisis, 1945–1952. University Press of Kansas, 2025. 480p bibl index ISBN 9780700640485, $59.99; ISBN 9780700640492 ebook, contact publisher for price; 64-0155

Āghā, Husayn. Tomorrow is yesterday: life, death, and the pursuit of peace in Israel/Palestine, by Hussein Agha and Robert Malley. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025. 260p ISBN 9780374617127, $30.00; ISBN 9780374617134 ebook, $15.99; 64-0150

Baxa, Paul. Fascism in Europe and beyond: a history of the first hundred years. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. 305p bibl index ISBN 9781350242241, $95.00; ISBN 9781350242234 pbk, $30.95; ISBN 9781350242258 ebook, contact publisher for price; 64-0131

Benson, Brett V. The window before: the politics of alliance implementation, by Brett V. Benson and Bradley C. Smith. Oxford, 2025. 233p bibl index ISBN 9780197806722, $132.00; ISBN 9780197806739 pbk, $29.99; 64-0176

Braude, Mark. The typewriter and the guillotine: an American journalist, a German serial killer, and Paris on the eve of WWII. Grand Central Publishing, 2026. 415p bibl ISBN 9781538767115, $32.50; ISBN 9781538783146 pbk, $34.50; ISBN 9781538767139 ebook, $14.99; 64-0166

Brown-Saracino, Japonica. The death and life of gentrification: a new map of a persistent idea. Princeton, 2026. 297p bibl index ISBN 9780691244358, $29.95; ISBN 9780691244365 ebook, $29.95; 64-0194

Carnegie, Allison. Global governance under fire: how international organizations resist the Populist wave, by Allison Carnegie and Richard Clark. Princeton, 2026. 260p bibl index ISBN 9780691276205, $99.95; ISBN 9780691276212 pbk, $32.95; ISBN 9780691276229 ebook, contact publisher for price; 64-0179

​Cheta, Omar Youssef. How commerce became legal: merchants and market governance in nineteenth-century Egypt. Stanford, 2025. 250p bibl index ISBN 9781503643390, $70.00; ISBN 9781503644083 ebook, $70.00; 64-0151

Cortese, Delia. The Fatimids: portrait of a dynasty. Reaktion Books, 2025. 439p bibl index ISBN 9781836390190, $35.00; ISBN 9781836390183 ebook, contact publisher for price; 64-0152

Davenport, Alexander. Unfulfilled electoral potential of west European liberal parties. Oxford, 2026. 224p bibl index ISBN 9780198978817, $110.00; ISBN 9780198978824 ebook, contact publisher for price; 64-0173

Dobrowolska, Anna. Polish sexual revolutions: negotiating sexuality and modernity behind the Iron Curtain. Oxford, 2025. 272p bibl index ISBN 9780198962885, $130.00; ISBN 9780198962854 ebook, contact publisher for price; 64-0145

Ellis, Joseph J. The great contradiction: the tragic side of the American founding. Knopf, 2025. 226p index ISBN 9780593801413, $31.00; ISBN 9780593801420 ebook, contact publisher for price; 64-0156

The ethics of uncivil protest and resistance, ed. by Candice Delmas and Avia Pasternak. Oxford, 2025. 218p index ISBN 9780197754986, $105.00; ISBN 9780197754993 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9780197755013 ebook, contact publisher for price; 64-0184

Feder, Kenneth L. Native America: the story of the first peoples. Princeton, 2025. 405p bibl index ISBN 9780691220451, $39.95; ISBN 9780691220475 ebook, $39.95; 64-0157

Green, Toby. The heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the struggle over life in seventeenth-century West Africa. Chicago, 2025. 333p bibl index ISBN 9780226844763, $35.00; ISBN 9780226844770 ebook, $34.99; 64-0137

Hudson, Leila. Lines of flight, assemblages of home: Syrian women displaced. Syracuse, 2025. 334p bibl index ISBN 9780815611950, $69.95; ISBN 9780815657545 ebook, $69.95; 64-0153

Hyland, John O. Persia’s Greek campaigns: kingship, war, and spectacle on the Achaemenid frontier. Oxford, 2025. 453p bibl index ISBN 9780197660485, $140.00; ISBN 9780197660508 ebook, contact publisher for price; 64-0140

Jieyu, Liu. Embedded generations: family life and social change in contemporary China. Princeton, 2025. 275p bibl index ISBN 9780691258393, $99.95; ISBN 9780691258409 pbk, $29.95; ISBN 9780691258416 ebook, $29.95; 64-0196

Kaufman, Alexander. Democracy, liberty, and judicial review. Cambridge, 2025. 330p bibl index ISBN 9781009661560, $135.00; ISBN 9781009661614 pbk, $45.00; ISBN 9781009661584 ebook, $45.00; 64-0189

Kim, Jiye. The future of the South China Sea: disputes and negotiations. Michigan, 2026. 226p bibl index ISBN 9780472077786, $100.00; ISBN 9780472057788 pbk, $34.95; 64-0181

Lambert, Cath. Troubling adoption: heartbreak and hope. Policy Press, 2026. 224p bibl index ISBN 9781447371946, $119.95; ISBN 9781447371953 pbk, $41.95; ISBN 9781447371960 ebook, $41.95; 64-0197

Leng, Kirsten. Pleasure, play, and politics: a history of humor in U.S. feminism. Nebraska, 2026. 263p bibl index ISBN 9781496239532, $99.00; ISBN 9781496244789 pbk, $35.00; ISBN 9781496245748 ebook, $35.00; 64-0190

McCoy, Alfred W. Cold War on five continents: a global history of empire and espionage. Haymarket Books, 2025. 590p index ISBN 9798888905029, $34.95; ISBN 9798888904824 ebook, $9.99; 64-0135

McCullough, David G. History matters, ed. by Dorie McCullough Lawson and Michael Hill. Simon & Schuster, 2025. 169p ISBN 9781668098998, $27.00; ISBN 9781668099001 pbk, $18.00; ISBN 9781668099018 ebook, $12.99; 64-0158

Miller, Paul D. Choosing defeat: the twenty-year saga of how America lost Afghanistan. Cambridge, 2025. 529p bibl index ISBN 9781009614375, $45.00; ISBN 9781009614399 ebook, $45.00; 64-0182

Moyer-Nocchi, Karima. The epic history of macaroni and cheese: from ancient Rome to modern America. Columbia, 2026. 354p bibl index ISBN 9780231215312, $28.95; ISBN 9780231560733 ebook, $27.99; 64-0136

Nimrod, Galit. Seniorland: aging in a retirement metropolis. Cambridge, 2025. 216p bibl index ISBN 9781009608855, $110.00; ISBN 9781009608879 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781009608848 ebook, $30.00; 64-0198

Olmsted, Brett T. Making Michigan home: Mexican Americans bridging the rural-urban experience. Illinois, 2025. 238p bibl index ISBN 9780252046889, $110.00; ISBN 9780252089008 pbk, $28.00; ISBN 9780252048449 ebook, $19.95; 64-0159

Richards, Thomas. The unfinished business of 1776: why the American Revolution never ended. New Press, 2026. 368p index ISBN 9781620979242, $29.99; ISBN 9781620979976 ebook, $29.99; 64-0160

Schermerhorn, Calvin. The plunder of Black America: how the racial wealth gap was made. Yale, 2025. 290p index ISBN 9780300258950, $30.00; ISBN 9780300292299 pbk, $20.00; ISBN 9780300281552 ebook, $30.00; 64-0161

Sims, Stephen Patrick. The city among cities: Aristotle on war and peace. SUNY Press, 2025. 207p bibl index ISBN 9798855804454, $120.00; ISBN 9798855804461 pbk, $35.95; ISBN 9798855804478 ebook, contact publisher for price; 64-0186

Tanenhaus, Sam. Buckley: the life and the revolution that changed America. Random House, 2025. 1018p index ISBN 9780375502347, $40.00; ISBN 9780593733554 pbk, $26.00; ISBN 9780593733547 ebook, contact publisher for price; 64-0162

Trujillo-Pagán, Nicole E. Detroit never left: Black space, white borders, Latino crossings. New York University, 2026. 296p bibl index ISBN 9781479826803, $99.00; ISBN 9781479826810 pbk, $30.00; ISBN 9781479826827 ebook, $21.00; 64-0200

Ward, Geoffrey C. The American Revolution: an intimate history, by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns. Knopf, 2025. 581p bibl index ISBN 9780525658672, $80.00; ISBN 9780525658689 ebook, contact publisher for price; 64-0163

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