don’t think I read as many new books this year as previous years, and the ‘to read’ piles get ever higher… But these are the academic books published in 2017 which I particularly liked: don’t think I read as many new books this year as previous years, and the ‘to read’ piles get ever higher… But these are the academic books published in 2017 which I particularly liked:

Update: the lists for previous years are here – 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013

Such a lot of good books, it gives me faith in academic publishing and intellectual work. Books not on the above list, but published this year and which I’m looking forward to reading, include Bruno Latour, Facing Gaia: Eight Lectures on the New Climatic Regime (Polity); Ernst Jünger, The Worker: Dominion and Form (Northwestern); Eyal Weizman, Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability (Zone); Peggy McCracken, In the Skin of a Beast: Sovereignty and Animality in Medieval France (Chicago); Ethan Kleinberg, Haunting History: For a Deconstructive Approach to the Past (Stanford); Clive Barnett, The Priority of Injustice: Locating Democracy in Critical Theory (Georgia); Charles Withers, Zero Degrees: Geographies of the Prime Meridian (Harvard) and Catherine M. Soussloff, Foucault on Painting (Minnesota).

I should also mention Marcus Doel, Geographies of Violence (Sage), which is not on the list simply because it’s in a series I edit. More to look out for in 2018.