As with previous years, these are a list of academic books published this year which I read and appreciated. This means that good books which I haven’t yet read don’t feature, and I will of course miss many. Several of these are books I reviewed or endorsed, and some are by friends and colleagues. Certain publishers feature disproportionately. It’s of course biased by my interests and prejudices. So while there are doubtless many other good books this year, I can at least say that these are all worth reading.

• Louis Althusser, History and Imperialism: Writings, 1963-1986, edited and translated by G.M. Goshgarian (Polity) 
• Louise Amoore, Cloud Ethics: Algorithms and the Attributes of Ourselves and Others (Duke)
• Martin Arboleda, Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism (Verso) 
• Teo Ballvé, The Frontier Effect: State Formation and Violence in Colombia (Cornell)  
• Catherine Besteman, Militarized Global Apartheid (Duke)
• Francesco Biagi, Henri Lefebvre’s Critical Theory of Space (Palgrave)
• Franck Billé ed., Voluminous States: Sovereignty, Materiality, and the Territorial Imagination (Duke) – which I endorsed
• Judith Butler, The Force of Non-Violence: The Ethical in the Political (Verso) 
• Brett Christophers, Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It? (Verso)
• Heliana de Barros Conde Rodrigues, Michel Foucault au Brésil: Présence, effets, résonances, translated by Anthony David Taïeb (Harmattan)
• Rosemary-Claire Collard, Animal Traffic: Lively Capital in the Global Exotic Pet Trade (Duke)
• Veronica della Dora, The Mantle of the Earth: Genealogies of a Geographical Metaphor (Chicago) – which I endorsed
• Nadine Ehlers and Shiloh Krupar, Deadly Biocultures: The Ethics of Life-Making (Minnesota) 
• François Ewald, The Birth of Solidarity: The History of the French Welfare State, edited by Melinda Cooper and translated by Timothy Scott Johnson (Duke)
• Pierre Hadot, The Selected Writings of Pierre Hadot: Philosophy as Practice, translated by Matthew Sharpe and Federico Testa (Bloomsbury)
• Marcelo Hoffman, Militant Acts: The Role of Investigations in Radical Political Struggles (SUNY 2019; paperback 2020)
• Lynne Huffer, Foucault’s Strange Eros (Columbia)
• Alice Jardine, At the Risk of Thinking: An Intellectual Biography of Julia Kristeva (Bloomsbury)
• Laleh Khalili, Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula (Verso)
• Marnia Lazreg, Foucault’s Orient: The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan, (Berghahn 2017, paperback 2020)
• Alison Mountz, The Death of Asylum: Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago (Minnesota)
• Andrea Mubi Brighenti and Mattias Kärrholm, Animated Lands: Studies in Territoriology (Nebraska)
• Peter Salmon, An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida (Verso)
• Peter Sloterdijk, Infinite Mobilization, translated by Sandra Berjan (Polity) – which I endorsed
• Łukasz Stanek, Architecture in Global Socialism: Eastern Europe, West Africa and the Middle East in the Cold War (Princeton)

Here are the lists from 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019