At the end of each year I’ve posted a list of academic books I liked (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018). The criteria was simply that they were published in that year (or late the previous year), and that I read and liked them. Some of these are books I reviewed or endorsed, and some are by friends and colleagues. It’s of course biased by my interests and prejudices. I’m sure I’ve missed loads of other great books, but I can at least say that these are all worth reading.

• Trevor Barnes and Eric Sheppard (eds.). Spatial Histories of Radical Geography (Wiley-Blackwell)
• Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart, The Hundreds (Duke)
• Neil Brenner, New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question (OUP)
• Arthur Bradley, Unbearable Life: A Genealogy of Political Erasure (Columbia)
• Michael Bravo, The North Pole: Nature and Culture (Reaktion)
• Wendy Brown, In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West (Columbia)
• Dan Bulley, Jenny Edkins and Nadine El-Enany eds., After Grenfell: Violence, Resistance and Response (Pluto)
• Clare Carlisle, Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard (Allen Lane)
• Brett Christophers, The New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain (Verso)
• Olga Demetriou and Rozita Dimova eds., The Political Materialities of Borders (Manchester)
• Jacques Derrida, La vie la mort: Séminaire (1975-1976) (Seuil)
• Klaus Dodds & Mark Nuttall, The Arctic: What Everyone Needs to Know (OUP)
• Dominique Eddé, Edward Said: His Thought as a Novel, translated by by Ros Schwartz and Trista Selous (Verso)
• Jenny Edkins, Change and the Politics of Certainty (Manchester)
• Katherine Fennelly, An Archaeology of Lunacy: Managing Madness in Early Nineteenth-century Asylums (Manchester)
• Michel Foucault, Folie, Language, Littérature, edited by Henri-Paul Fruchaud, Daniele Lorenzini and Judith Revel (Vrin)
• Mirko Grmek, Pathological Realities: Essays on Disease, Experiments and History, edited and translated by Pierre-Olivier Méthot (Fordham)
• Kaitlin Heller, Suzanne Conklin Akbari eds. How we Read: Tales, Fury, Nothing, Sound (Punctum) – open access
• Tariq Jazeel and Stephen Legg eds. Subaltern Geographies (Georgia)
• Kate Kirkpatrick, Becoming Beauvoir: A Life (Bloomsbury)
• Adam Knowles, Heidegger’s Fascist Affinities: A Politics of Silence (Stanford)
• Colin Koopman, How we became our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person (Chicago)
• Christian C. Lentz, Contested Territory: Ðien Biên Phu and the Making of Northwest Vietnam (Yale) – which I endorsed
• Thomas Lemke, Foucault’s Analysis of Modern Governmentality: A Critique of Political Reason, translated by Erik Butler (Verso) – which I endorsed
• Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, translated by Steve Corcoran (Duke)
• Karen M. Morin, Carceral Space, Prisoners and Animals (Routledge)
• Brett Neilson and Sandro Mezzadra, The Politics of Operations: Excavating Contemporary Capitalism (Duke)
• Brett Story, Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America (Minnesota)
• Elaine Stratford, Home, Nature and the Feminine Ideal (Rowman)
• Couze Venn, After Capital (Sage)
• Simeon Wade, Foucault in California (Heyday) – which I endorsed
• Kathryn Yusoff, A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (Minnesota)
• Thanos Zartaloudis, The Birth of Nomos (Edinburgh)

Other 2019 books that I’m planning to read, but either don’t yet have a copy or haven’t yet had time for, include…

• Rosi Braidotti, Posthuman Knowledge (Polity)
• Grégoire Chamayou, La société ingouvernable : Une généalogie du libéralisme autoritaire (La Fabrique)
• Sophie Chiari, Shakespeare’s Representation of Climate, Weather and Environment: The Early Modern ‘Fated Sky’ (Edinburgh University Press)
• Matthew H. Edney, Cartography: The Ideal and its History (Chicago)
• Sara Fregonese, War and the City: Urban Geopolitics in Lebanon (IB Tauris)
• Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Vols 1 and 2 (Duke)
• Marcelo Hoffman, Militant Acts: The Role of Investigations in Radical Political Struggles (SUNY)
• Martin Jones, Cities and Regions in Crisis: The Political Economy of Sub-National Economic Development (Edward Elgar)
• Corine Pelluchon, Nourishment: A Philosophy of the Political Body, translated by Justin Smith (Bloomsbury)
• Stuart Schrader, Badges without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing (California)
• Samuel Talcott, Georges Canguilhem and the Problem of Error (Palgrave)

And then there are some books I had some involvement with, mainly as author of a chapter, and so have excluded from the above list:

• Andrea Bagnato, Marco Ferrari and Elisa Pasqual (eds.), A Moving Border – Alpine Cartographies of Climate Change (Columbia Books on Architecture and the City/ZKM)
• Kélina Gotman and Tony Fisher (eds.), Foucault’s Theatres (Manchester)
• Nancy Luxon (ed.), Archives of Infamy: Foucault on State Power in the Lives of Ordinary Citizens (Minnesota)
• David Macey, The Lives of Michel Foucault (second edition, Verso) – afterword
• Clara Olóriz Sanjuán (ed.), Landscape as Territory (Actar)
• Martina Tazzioli, The Making of Migration: The Biopolitics of Mobility at Europe’s Borders (Sage) – series editor

I should also say that some other very good things I’ve read this year have been in manuscript, and will hopefully be out in 2020.