New Books for Geographers: Fall 2026

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.

American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail, by Sarah Keyes (University of Pennsylvania Press 2026)

Apartment City: Redevelopment, Planning, and High-Rise Housing in Post-war Toronto, by Paul Hess and Robert Lewis (University of Toronto Press 2026)

Are We There Yet?: The Geography of Black Progress, by Jessica Lynn Stewart (Oxford University Press 2026)

Berlin Shuffle, by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz; translated by Philip Boehm (MacMillan Publishers 2025)

Border enclaves: An ethnography of a contested territory in Europe’s southern periphery, by Laia Soto Soto Bermant (Manchester University Press 2026)

Cinematic Ethnography: Experiencing cultures through some audiovisual practices, by Laurent Van Lancker (Manchester University Press 2026)

Cinematic nightscapes: Documentary and ethnographic filmmaking in Cuba, by Eleonora Diamanti and Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier (Manchester University Press 2026)

Coastal Futures: Life Between and at the Edges of the Sea, edited by Arne Harms and Lukas Ley (University of Toronto Press 2026)

Displacement Urbanism: Politics of Bodies and Spaces of Abandonment and Endurance, edited by Giovanna Astolfo and Camillo Boano (Bristol University Press 2026)

Eating the Mountain, Eating the Sea: A History of Food in China, by Piotr Gibas (Reaktion Books 2026)

Eating the Urban Wild: Food and Foraging in Montreal, by Natalie Doonan (McGill-Queen’s University Press 2026)

Enduring Austerity: The Uneven Geographies of the Post-Welfare State, by Julie MacLeavy (Bristol University Press 2026)

Extra/ordinary Johannesburg, by Lindsay Blair Howe (University of Chicago Press 2026)

From Bauhaus to Ecohouse: A History of Ecological Design, by Peder Anker (LSU Press 2026)

Heaven Has a Wall: Religion, Borders, and the Global United States, by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd (University of Chicago Press 2025)

Homeplaces, by João Biehl and Federico Neiburg (Duke University Press 2026)

Informal Cities Histories of Governance and Inequality in Latin Europe, Latin America, and Colonial North Africa, edited by Charlotte Vorms and Brodwyn Fischer (University of Chicago Press 2025)

Instead: Indigenous Stewardship of Environment and Alternative Development, edited by Colin Scott, Evodia Silva Rivera and Katie Sinclair (University of Toronto Press 2026)

Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China, by Tristan G. Brown (Princeton University Press 2025)

Louisiana Healing Garden: Medicinal Plants for a Sustainable Future, by Corinne Martin (LSU Press 2026)

Mapping the North: Myth, Exploration, Encounter, by Charlotta Forss (University of Chicago Press 2025)

Mapping Urban Environmental Risks Using Open Source GIS, by David Rain (CRC Press 2026)

Modern Jewish Worldmaking Through Yiddish Children’s Literature, by Miriam Udel (Princeton University Press 2025)

Omeros, by Derek Walcott (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2026)

Parcels: How Property Shapes Geography, by Jerry Paffendorf and Nancy von Meyer (Esri Press 2026)

Pierogi: An American Story of Polish Food, by Anna D. Jaroszyńska-Kirchmann (Columbia University Press 2026)

Plant Space: Territories, Architectures and Technologies of the Vegetal, edited by Carmen Lael Hines, Adam Hudec and Michelle Howard (MIT Press 2026)

Precarious Accumulation: Fast Fashion Bosses in Transnational Guangzhou, by Nellie Chu (Duke University Press 2026)

Romanticizing masculinity in Baathist Syria: Gender, identity, and ideology, by Rahaf Aldoughli (Manchester University Press 2026)

Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History, by Caroline Tracey (W. W. Norton 2026)

Samurai: A Biography in Twelve Lives, by Constantine Nomikos Vaporis (Oxford University Press 2026)

Social Resilience and the Urban Migrant Experience, by Valerie Preston, John Shields, and Tara Bedard (McGill-Queen’s University Press 2025)

Somatic States: On Cartography, Geobodies, Bodily Integrity, by Franck Billé (Duke University Press 2025)

Southern Imagining: A Literary and Cultural History of the Far Southern Hemisphere, by Elleke Boehmer (Princeton University Press 2026)

Spatial Planning and Building Control in Germany, by Robin Ganser, Alexander Kukk (Routledge 2026)

Telling Stories with Maps: Lessons from a Lifetime of Creating Place-Based Narratives, by Allen Carroll (Esri Press 2025)

Territorial Imaginaries: Beyond the Sovereign Map, edited by Kären Wigen (University of Chicago Press 2025)

The Environmental Republic: Why Citizens Will Save the World, by Giulio Boccaletti (Princeton University Press 2026)

The Great Wherever, by Shannon Sanders (MacMillan Publishers 2026)

The Guelaguetza: Transborder Indigeneity, Music, and Festival in Greater Oaxaca, by Xóchitl C. Chavez (Oxford University Press 2026)

The Last House on the Block, by Sharon Cornelissen (University of Chicago Press 2025)

The Pickled City, by Paul van Ravestein and Monique Mulder (Princeton Architectural Press 2026)

The Spatial Edge: The Strategic Advantage of GIS Skills Across Higher Education, by Thomas Fisher and Len Kne (Esri Press 2026)

The Squander and Salvage of Global Urban Waterfronts, by Kate Shaw (Palgrave MacMillan 2026)

The Thin Edge of Innovation: Metro Vancouver’s Evolving Economy, by Roger Hayter, Jerry Patchell, and Kevin Rees (University of Chicago Press 2025)

The Urban Grotesque: Life and Debt in Jakarta, by Doreen Lee (Duke University Press 2026)

Truly Tribal: Contemporary Indigenous Tattooing, by Dion Kaszas (Fernwood Publishing 2026)

Who Cares? The Unequal Geographies of Healthcare, by Anthony C. Gatrell (Edinburgh University Press 2026)