New Books for Geographers: Spring 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.

3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool, by James Kaplan (Penguin 2025)

After Savagery: Gaza, Genocide, and the Illusion of Western Civilization, by Hamid Dabashi (Haymarket 2025)

The AI Paradox: How to Make Sense of a Complex Future, by Virginia Dignum (Princeton Press 2026)

The Archaeology of Seafaring in Small-Scale Societies: Negotiating Watery Worlds, edited by Alberto Garcia-Piquer, Mikael Fauvelle, and Colin Grier (University Press of Florida 2025)

Beyond Sanctuary: The Humanism of a World in Motion, edited by Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky (Duke University Press 2025)

The Chosen and the Damned: Native Americans and the Making of Race in the United States, by David J. Silverman (Bloomsbury 2026)

Cities in Action: Organizations, Institutions, and Urban Climate Strategies, by Christof Brandtner (Columbia University Press 2026)

Climate Change and Disadvantaged Communities: Challenges and Opportunities, by Sk Ajim Ali, Quoc Bao Pham, and Yunqing Xuan (Routledge 2025)

Commons and Public Partnership: Legitimizing a Commons Political Sphere, by Torange Khonsari (Bloomsbury 2026)

Deficit: How Feminist Economics Can Change Our World, by Emma Holten (WH Allen 2026)

Dissident Peace: Autonomous Struggles and the State in Colombia, by Anthony Dest (Stanford University Press 2025)

Ecological Explosions: The History of Biological Invasions and Invasion Science, by Daniel Simberloff (University of Chicago Press 2025)

Environments of Power: Vibrant Terrain and Landscapes of Resistance, by Holly Randell-Moon (Manchester University Press 2026)

Feed the People! Why Industrial Food is Good and How to Make It Even Better, by Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel N. Rosenberg (Basic Books 2026)

The Fire of Defiance, by Purnima Tammireddy (transl.), S. Katyayini, Vimala Morthala, and Uma Chakravarti (Zubaan 2025)

Global Land-Ocean Geospatial Applications, by Charla M. Burnett and Biswajeet Pradhan (Routledge 2025)

Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right, by Quinn Slobodian (Princeton University Press 2025)

How Africa Works: Success and Failure on the World’s Last Developmental Frontier, by Joe Studwell (Profile Books 2026)

Islands in Infinity: Galaxies 3-D, by Derek Ward-Thompson, edited by Brian May, illustrated by J-P Metsavainio (University of Arizona Press 2026)

Modeling Cities and Regions as Complex Systems, by Roger White, Guy M. Robinson, and Inge Uljee (MIT Press 2024)

On Loop: Black Sonic Politics in Oakland, by Alex Werth (University of California Press 2025)

Postcapitalist Cities: Towards a Common Urban Future, by Oli Mould (Manchester University Press 2026)

Prince’s Minneapolis: A Biography of Sound and Place, by Rashad Shabazz (University of North Carolina Press, 2026)

The Race Variable: How Statistical Practices Reinforce Inequality, by Jay S. Kaufman (Columbia University Press 2025)

Spatial Futures: Difference and the Post-Anthropocene, edited by LaToya Eaves, Heidi J. Nast, and Alex G. Papadopoulous (Palgrave 2024)

Toward a Global History of Soil: Sciences, Practices, and Materialities, 1300-1750, edited by Justin-Niermeir-Dohoney and Aleksandar Shopov (Brill 2026)

Tricontinental, Havana 1966: Speeches and Documents of the First Solidarity Conference of the Peoples for Africa, Asia, and Latin America, edited by Manolo De Los Santos (1804 Books 2026)

Violent Saviors: The West’s Conquest of the Rest, by William Easterly (Basic 2025)

What Now Is Now Is Now, by Nóra Ružičková (Seagull Books 2025)

Wildfires in America, by Jacqueline Vaughn (Bloomsbury 2026)