The Society is pleased to announce the finalists for its 2025 Book Awards:
Shortlisted for the Award in Science
· Crisis Averted: The Hidden Science of Fighting Outbreaks by Caitlin Rivers
· Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It by Christof Koch
· What If We Get It Right? Visions of Climate Futures by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson
· Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory’s Power to Hold on to What Matters by Charan Ranganath
· Wicked Problems: How to Engineer a Better World by Guru Madhavan
Shortlisted for the Christian Gauss Award
· Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s Messiah by Charles King (ΦBK, University of Arkansas)
· Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson (ΦBK, Brown University)
· The Black Box: Writing the Race by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (ΦBK, Yale University)
· The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture by Tricia Romano
· The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War by James Shapiro
Shortlisted for the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
· Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer (ΦBK, Columbia University)
· Native Nations: A Millennium in North America by Kathleen DuVal
· Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s Hidden Histories by Amitav Ghosh
· Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling by Jason De León
· The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins by Stefanos Geroulanos (ΦBK, Princeton University)
Winners will be announced in late October and will appear in the winter issue of The Key Reporter.