Some of the academic books I’m looking forward to in 2025:

• Ben Anderson and Anna Secor, The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism (Goldsmiths Press/PERC Papers)
• Georges Bataille, Critical Essays Volume 2: 1949-1951, trans. Chris Turner, ed. Alberto Toscano and Benjamin Noys (Seagull)
• Madeleine Chalmers, French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn (Edinburgh)
• Juliet Fall, Bornées: Une histoire illustrée de la frontière (Mētis)
• Fernanda Gallo, Hegel and Italian Political Thought: The Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900 (Cambridge)
• Lynne Huffer, These Survivals: Autobiography of an Extinction (Duke)
• André Leroi-Gourhan on Technology: A Selection of Writings from the 1930s to the 1960s, ed. Nathan Schlanger, trans. Nils F. Schott (Hau)
• Nitzan Itzhak Lebovic, Homo Temporalis: German Jewish Thinkers on Time (Cornell)
• Noam Leshom, Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man’s Land (Chicago)
• Ingrid A. Medby, Arctic State Identity: Geography, History, and Geopolitical Relations (Manchester)
• Mark Neocleous, Pacification: Social War and the Power of Police (Verso)
• Patricia Owens, Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men (Princeton)
• John Protevi, Regimes of Violence: Towards a Political Anthropology (Minnesota)
• Danielle Rosvally, Theatres of Value: Buying and Selling Shakespeare in Nineteenth-Century New York City (SUNY)
• Michael J. Shapiro, Negotiating Civic Life: Literature, Film, Politics (Edinburgh) – which I endorsed
• Quentin Skinner, Liberty as Independence (Cambridge) 
• Quinn Slobodian, Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right (Zone)
• Lyndsey Stonebridge, We are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience – Penguin (US; UK)
• Elaine Stratford, The Drowned (Palgrave)
• Federico Testa, On the Politics of the Living: Foucault and Canguilhem on Normativity and Biopolitical Resistance (Bloomsbury) – which I endorsed
• Georgios Varouxakis, The West: The History of an Idea (Princeton)
• Richard Wilson, Shakespeare’s Fascist Followers (Bloomsbury)

Some of these were published in late 2024 but I haven’t seen them yet, or come out in paperback in 2025. Here are the lists of books I liked from previous years – 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.