New Books for Geographers: Summer 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.

A Precarious Balance: Firearms, Race, and Community in North Carolina, 1715-1865, by Antwain K. Hunter (University of North Carolina Press 2025)

Beating Heart of the World: The Taos Art Colony, the Pueblo Resistance, and the Battle for Indigenous America, by Steven L. Davis (University of New Mexico Press 2026)

Days of Dissent: Revolts, Strikes, and Rebel Histories, by Gabriel San Roman (PM Press 2026)

Disorienting Phenomenology: Queer Space and Trans Life, by Eden Kinkaid (University of Minnesota Press 2026)

Does Marxism Support Decolonization? An Indigenous Analysis of a Eurocentric Theory, edited by Tolomeo Miller (Landline 2026)

Dream Road to Pan America: A Century in Pursuit of the World’s Longest Highway, by Shawn William Miller (University of California Press 2026)

Escaping Babylon: An Intimate History of Black British Music, by Jesse Bernard (Profile Books 2026)

Ethnic Studies at the Crossroads, by George Lipsitz (University of California Press 2026)

Geohistory of Galicia: 1772-1918 Studies and Materials, edited by Tomaz Kargol (Jagiellonian University Press 2025)

Growing Papaya Trees: Nurturing Indigenous Roots During Climate Displacement, by Jessica Hernandez (North Atlantic Books 2025)

Here Beside the Rising Tide: Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and an American Awakening, by Jim Newton (Random House 2025)

Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World, by Sara C. Bronin (W.W. Norton 2026)

Landkeeping: Restoring Indigenous Fire Stewardship and Ecological Partnerships, by Jared D. Aldern and Theresa Lynn Gregor (Oregon State University Press 2026)

Loving Black Boys: A Black Feminist Bible on Racism and Revolutionary Mothering, by Tamura Lomax (Duke University Press 2026)

Migrant Midwest: The Case for Immigration and Economic Growth in the American Heartland, by Jonathan Mann Burkham (Bloomsbury 2026)

Mobilizing Data for Justice: A Guide to Activism in the Digital Age, by Chris Hurl, Elena Rowan, Marius Senneville, and Kevin Walby (Between the Lines Books 2026)

Non-Aligned: Art, Decolonization, and the Third World Project in India, by Atreyee Gupta (Yale University Press 2025)

Relegated: One American’s Pints-and-Pies Journey from the Top to the Bottom of English Football, by Todd Smith (Simon and Schuster 2026)

Science of Science: Understanding the Foundations and Limits of Science from an Interdisciplinary Perspective, by Alexander Krauss (Oxford University Press 2024)

Segregating Cities: An Arnold R. Hirsch Reader, edited by Thomas J. Sugrue (Chicago University Press 2026)

The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy: Why the Right Blames the Frankfurt School for the Decline of the West, by A.J.A. Woods (Verso 2026)

The Islands and the Stars: A History of Japan’s Space Programs, by Subodhana Wijeyeratne (Stanford University Press 2026)

The Living Green Myth: The Promise and Limits of Lifestyle Environmentalism, by Michael Maniates (Polity Books 2025)

The Routledge Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Science after Kant, edited by Flavia Padovani and Adam Tamas Tuboly (Routledge 2025)

The Sound Atlas: A Guide to Strange Sounds across Landscapes and Imagination, by Michaela Vieser and Isaac Yuen (Reaktion Books 2025)

The Urban Questions: Interdisciplinary and Multiscalar Approaches to Investigating the Ancient Mesoamerican City, edited by Lisa Johnson and Arianna Campiani (University of Utah Press 2025)