The following books were written by faculty and emeritus faculty. They are organized by year and listed alphabetically by the faculty member’s last name.

Published in 2023

• Matthew Desmond, Sociology, "Poverty, by America"
• Aleksandar Hemon, Creative Writing, "The World and All That It Holds: A Novel"
• Harold James, History, "Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization"
• Kevin Kruse, History and Julian Zelizer, Public and International Affairs, "Myth America: Historians Take On the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past"
• Melissa Lane, Politics, "Of Rule and Office: Plato's Ideas of the Political"
• Philip Pettit, Center for Human Values, "The State"
• Ekaterina Pravilova, History, "The Ruble: A Political History"

Published in 2022

• Rhae Lynn Barnes, History, After Life: A Collective History of Loss and Redemption in Pandemic America"
• Mark R. Beissinger, Politics, “The Revolutionary City: Urbanization and the Global Transformation of Rebellion”
• Ruha Benjamin, African American Studies, "Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want"
• Alan S. Blinder, Economics, “A Monetary and Fiscal History of the United States, 1961–2021”
• Leah Boustan, Economics, "Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success"
• Aaron L. Friedberg, Politics and International Affairs, "Getting China Wrong"
• J. Richard Gott, Astrophysical Sciences, and Robert J. Vanderbei, Operations Research and Financial Engineering, “Welcome to the Universe in 3D: A Visual Tour”
• Gene A. Jarrett, English, "Paul Laurence Dunbar: The Life and Times of a Caged Bird"
• Simon Morrison, Music, "Mirror in the Sky: The Life and Music of Stevie Nicks"
• Imani Perry, African American Studies, "South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation"
• Yiyun Li, Creative Writing, “The Book of Goose: A Novel”
• Nick Nesbitt, French and Italian, "The Price of Slavery: Capitalism and Revolution in the Caribbean"
• Max Weiss, History and Near Eastern Studies, "Revolutions Aesthetic: A Cultural History of Ba'thist Syria"
• Autumn Womack, African American Studies and English, "The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880–1930"
• Julian Zelizer, History and Public Affairs, "The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: A First Historical Assessment"

Published in 2021

• Mark Aguiar, Economics and International Finance, "The Economics of Sovereign Debt and Default"
• Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Art and Archaeology and African American Studies, "Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World"
• Markus Brunnermeier, Economics, "The Resilient Society"
• Anne Cheng, English, “Ornamentalism”
• Linda Colley, History, "The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World"
• Angela N. H. Creager, History, “Risk on the Table: Food Production, Health, and the Environment”
• Michael D. Gordin, History, “On the Fringe: Where Science Meets Pseudoscience”
• Allen C. Guelzo, Politics, "Robert E. Lee: A Life"
• Harold James, History, “The War of Words: A Glossary of Globalization”
• Emmanuel Kreike, History, “Scorched Earth: Environmental Warfare as a Crime against Humanity and Nature”
• Yiyun Li, Creative Writing, “Tolstoy Together”
• Beth Lew-Williams, History, The Chinese Must Go: Violence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America
• Paul Muldoon, Creative Writing, “The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present”
• Jan-Werner Muller, Politics, "Democracy Rules"
• Keith Wailoo, History, “Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette”

Published in 2020

• Yelena Baraz, Classics, “Reading Roman Pride (Emotions of the Past)” 
• David A. Bell, History, “Men on Horseback:  The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution”
• Anne Case and Angus Deaton, Economics, “Deaths of Despair”
• J.C. de Swaan, Economics, “Seeking Virtue in Finance: Contributing to Society in a Conflicted Industry”
• Jacob S. Dlamini, History, “The Terrorist Album:  Apartheid’s Insurgents, Collaborators, and the Security Police”
• Hal Foster, Art and Archaeology, “What Comes after Farce”
• Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., African American Studies, “Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own”
• Michael D. Gordin, History, “The Age of Hiroshima” and “Einstein in Bohemia”
• Anthony T. Grafton, History, “Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe”
• G. John Ikenberry, Politics and International Affairs, "A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order"
• Harold James, History, “Making a Modern Central Bank: The Bank of England 1979-2003”
• Claudia Johnson, English Literature, “30 Great Myths about Jane Austen”
• Frances E. Lee, Politics and Public Affairs, "The Limits of Party: Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era "
• Joyce Carol Oates, Creative Writing, “Cardiff, by the Sea:  Four Novellas of Suspense”
• Lyman Page, Physics, “The Little Book of Cosmology”
• James Peebles, Science and Physics, “Cosmology’s Century: An Inside History of Our Modern Understanding of the Universe”
• Laurence Ralph, Anthropology, “The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence”
• Marina Rustow, Near Eastern Studies, “The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue”
• D. Vance Smith, English, “Arts of Dying: Literature and Finitude in Medieval England”
• LaFleur Stephens-Dougan, Politics, “Race to the Bottom: How Racial Appeals Work in American Politics”
• Robert Wuthnow, Sociology, “What Happens When We Practice Religion? Textures of Devotion in Everyday Life”
• Julian Zelizer, History and Public Affairs, “Burning Down the House: Newt Gingrich, the Fall of a Speaker, and the Rise of the New Republican Party”

Published in 2019

• Ruha Benjamin, African American Studies, “Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life”
• Carles Boix, Politics and Public Affairs, “Democratic Capitalism at the Crossroads: Technological Change and the Future of Politics”
• Marina Brownlee, Spanish and Portuguese, “Cervantes’ Persiles and the Travails of Romance”
• Anne Cheng, English and American Studies, “Ornamentalism”
• Katie Chenoweth, French and Italian, “The Prosthetic Tongue: Printing Technology and the Rise of the French Language”
• Chih-p’ing Chou, East Asian Studies, “Eyes on China: An Intermediate-Advanced Reader of Modern Chinese”
• Jo Dunkley, Physics and Astrophysical Sciences, “Our Universe: An Astronomerp’s Guide”
• Yaacob Dweck, History, “Dissident Rabbi: The Life of Jacob Sasportas”
• Harry Frankfurt, Philosophy, “The Reasons of Love”
• Paul Frymer, Politics, “Building an American Empire: The Era of Territorial and Political Expansion”
• Tod Hamilton, Sociology, “Immigration and the Remaking of Black America”
• Agustin Fuentes, Anthropology, “Why We Believe: Evolution and the Human Way of Being”
• Tera W. Hunter, History, “Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century”
• William Chester Jordan, History, “The Apple of His Eye: Converts from Islam in the Reign of Louis IX"
• Atul Kohli, Politics and International Affairs, “Imperialism and the Developing World: How Britain and the United States Shaped the Global Periphery”
• Kevin M. Kruse and Julian E. Zelizer, History, “Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974”
• Yiyun Li, Creative Writing, “Where Reasons End: A Novel”
• Michael Oppenheimer, Geosciences and International Affairs, “Discerning Experts: The Practices of Scientific Assessment for Environmental Policy”
• Imani Perry, African American Studies, “Breathe: A Letter to my Sons”
• Markus Prior, Politics and Public Affairs, “Hooked: How Politics Captures People’s Interest”
• Laurence Ralph, Anthropology, “Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence”
• Ken Steiglitz, Computer Science, “The Discrete Charm of the Machine: Why the World Became Digital”
• Paul Steinhardt, Physics, “The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter”
• Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, African American Studies, “Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership”
• Frederick Wherry, Sociology, “Credit Where It’s Due: Rethinking Financial Citizenship”
• Keith Whittington, Politics, "Repugnant Laws: Judicial Review of Acts of Congress from the Founding to the Present
• Stacy Wolf, Theater, “Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America”