New Books for Geographers: Fall 2025

The AAG compiles a quarterly list of newly published geography books and books of interest to geographers. The list includes a diversity of books that represents the breadth of the discipline (including key sub-disciplines), but also recognizes the work which takes place at the margins of geography and overlap with other disciplines. While academic texts make up most of the books, we also include popular books, novels, books of poetry, and books published in languages other than English, for example.
Some of these books are selected for review in the AAG Review of Books. Publishers are welcome to contact the AAG Review of Books Editor-in-Chief Joshua L. Conver, as well as anyone interested in reviewing these or other titles.
Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South, by Jarvis C. McInnis. (Columbia University Press 2025)
Atlantic Crescent: Building Geographies of Black and Muslim Liberation in the African Diaspora, by Alaina M. Morgan (University of North Carolina Press 2025)
Computing Geographically: Bridging Giscience and Geography, by David O’Sullivan (Guilford Press 2024)
Controlling Contagion: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid, by Sheilagh Ogilvie (Princeton University Press 2025)
Crisis Cycle: Challenges, Evolution, and the Future of the Euro, by John Cochrane, Luis Garicano, and Klaus Masuch (Princeton Universty Press 2025)
Earth Shapers: How We Mapped and Mastered the World, from the Panama Canal to the Baltic Way, by Maxim Samson (Profile Books 2025)
Exile: Chronicle of the Border, by Didier Fassin and Anne-Claire Defossez (Polity Books 2025)
Explosivity: Following What Remains, by Javier Arbona-Homar (University of Minnesota Press 2025)
I Can Imagine It For Us: A Palestinian Daughter’s Memoir, by Mai Serhan (American University in Cairo Press 2025)
Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and Structures of Dispossession, by Jodi A. Byrd (Duke University Press 2025)
Indigenous Tattoo Traditions: Humanity through Skin and Ink, by Lars Krutak (Princeton University Press 2025)
Inlands: Empires, Contested Interiors, and the Connection of the World, Eds. Robert S.G. Fletcher and Alec Zuercher Reichardt (Columbia University Press 2025)
It’s Not That Radical: Climate Action to Transform Our World, by Mikaela Loach (Haymarket Books 2025)
Learning to Live in the Dark: Essays in a Time of Catastrophe, by Wen Stephenson (Haymarket Books 2025)
Let Geography Die: Chasing Derwent’s Ghost at Harvard, by Alison Mountz and Kira Williams (MIT Press 2025)
More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity, by Adam Becker (Basic Books 2025)
Native Nations: A Millenium in North America, by Kathleen DuVal (Random House 2025)
Novel Ecologies: Nature Remade and the Illusions of Tech, by Allison Carruth (University of Chicago Press 2025)
Peril and Promise: College Leadership in Turbulent Times, by Beverly Daniel Tatum (Basic Books 2025)
Picnic: Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July Tradition, by Dave Dalton Thomas (Texas A&M Press 2025)
Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore, by Ashley D. Farmer (Pantheon Press 2025)
Science and Inequality: A Political Sociology, by Scott Frickel and Kelly Moore (Polity 2025)
Scorched Earth: A Global History of World War II, by Paul Thomas Chamberlin (Basic Books 2025)
Seattle in the Great Depression: A History of Business, Labor, and Politics Drawn from Local Chronicles, by Bruce A. Ramsey (WSU Press 2025)
Shifting Sands: A Human History of the Sahara, by Judith Scheele (Profile Books 2025)
Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History, by David McNally (University of California Press 2025)
The Economic Consequences of Mr. Trump: What the Trade War Means for the World, by Phillip Coggan (Profile 2025)
The Field Guide to Mixing Social and Biophysical Methods in Environmental Research, Eds. Rebecca Lave and Stuart Lane (Open Book 2025)
The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West, by Martha A. Sandweiss (Princeton University Press 2025)
The Land is Our Community: Aldo Leopold’s Environmental Ethic for the New Millenium, by Roberta L. Millstein (University of Chicago Press 2024)
The University Unfettered: Public Higher Education in an Age of Disruption, by Ian F. McNeely (Columbia Press 2025)
Turner and Constable: Art, Life, and Landscape, by Nicola Moorby (Yale University Press 2025)
What Is Critical Environmental Justice?, by David Naguib Pellow (Polity 2025)