America, América: A New History of the New World, by Greg Grandin (Penguin Press)
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins, by Barbara Demick (Random House)
Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI, by Karen Hao (Penguin Press)
The Intermediaries: A Weimar Story, by Brandy Schillace (W.W. Norton)
King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution, a Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation, by Scott Anderson (Doubleday)
Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays & Writings, by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (Harper)
No More Tears: The Dark Secrets of Johnson & Johnson, by Gardiner Harris (Random House)
A Return to Self: Excursions in Exile, Aatish Taseer (Catapult)
Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness, by Michael Koresky (Bloomsbury)
Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America, by Michael Luo (Doubleday)