Explore our list of bestselling titles of the year, just in time for the holiday season!
Learn more about our gift guide, which offers suggestions for every reader on your list. From sweeping histories to lavish art books, compelling biographies to books for young minds, and more.
The Rediscovery of America
Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History
Ned Blackhawk
A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America
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Murakami
Unfamiliar People—Swelling of Monsterized Human Ego
Edited by Laura W. Allen
This fresh look at artist Takashi Murakami takes on the “monstrous” themes of rampant consumerism, human fallibility, and the perils of life in the digital fast lane, in works from the past decade
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Why Empires Fall
Rome, America, and the Future of the West
Peter Heather and John Rapley
A new perspective on parallels between ancient Rome and the modern world, and what comes next
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Annie Ernaux
A revelatory meditation on class and consumer culture, from 2022 Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux
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Mixed Signals
How Incentives Really Work
Uri Gneezy
An informative and entertaining account of how actions send signals that shape behaviors and how to design better incentives for better results in our life, our work, and our world
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Homelands
A Personal History of Europe
Timothy Garton Ash
Drawing on half a century of firsthand experience and exemplary scholarship, Timothy Garton Ash tells the story of postwar Europe’s triumphs and tragedies
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Karl Lagerfeld
A Line of Beauty
Andrew Bolton
“The Met’s latest tome expertly narrates the journey that earned Lagerfeld his seat at the hallowed throne of modern high fashion.”—V Magazine
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The Tragic Mind
Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power
Robert D. Kaplan
A moving meditation on recent geopolitical crises, viewed through the lens of ancient and modern tragedy
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Stephan Wolohojian and Ashley Dunn
The first publication on the personal and professional relationship between Manet and Degas, two giants of nineteenth-century French art
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Tudor England
A History
Lucy Wooding
A compelling, authoritative account of the brilliant, conflicted, visionary world of Tudor England
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Liberalism against Itself
Cold War Intellectuals and the Making of Our Times
Samuel Moyn
The Cold War roots of liberalism’s present crisis
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Roe
The History of a National Obsession
Mary Ziegler
The leading U.S. expert on abortion law charts the many meanings associated with Roe v. Wade during its fifty-year history
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Psychonauts
Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind
Mike Jay
A provocative and original history of the scientists and writers, artists and philosophers who took drugs to explore the hidden regions of the mind
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Golda Meir
Israel’s Matriarch
Deborah E. Lipstadt
A balanced biography of Golda Meir, who was both adored and abhorred, from award-winning author Deborah E. Lipstadt
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The Art of Colour
The History of Art in 39 Pigments
Kelly Grovier
A captivating new history of art told through the storied biographies of colors and pigments
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Robert Philip
A lively, engaging guide to music around the world, from prehistory to the present
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The Wounded Storyteller
The Traumatic Tales of E. T. A. Hoffmann
E. T. A. Hoffmann
E. T. A. Hoffmann’s classic tales of Gothic horror and fantasy are presented in a new translation accompanying the beguiling drawings of Natalie Frank
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Remedios Varo
Science Fictions
Edited by Caitlin Haskell and Tere Arcq
An exploration of the captivating work and mystical outlook of the modern artist Remedios Varo, focusing on her years in Mexico City
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Armada
The Spanish Enterprise and England’s Deliverance in 1588
Colin Martin and Geoffrey Parker
The definitive history of the Spanish Armada, lavishly illustrated and fully revised
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Risky Business
Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to Do About It
Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein and Ray Fisman
An engaging and accessible examination of what ails insurance markets—and what to do about it—by three leading economists
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Enheduana
The Complete Poems of the World’s First Author
Sophus Helle
The complete poems of the priestess Enheduana, the world’s first known author, newly translated from the original Sumerian
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How States Think
The Rationality of Foreign Policy
John J. Mearsheimer and Sebastian Rosato
A groundbreaking examination of a central question in international relations: Do states act rationally?
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They Flew
A History of the Impossible
Carlos M. N. Eire
An award-winning historian’s examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their enduring significance
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The Year That Broke Politics
Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968
Luke A. Nichter
The unknown story of the election that set the tone for today’s fractured politics
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Art of the Grimoire
An Illustrated History of Magic Books and Spells
Owen Davies
A copiously illustrated global history of magic books, from ancient papyri to pulp paperbacks
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Moving Mountains in Nineteenth-Century France