The holiday season is book season. Maybe it is the winter weather, but the holidays are a good time to get cozy and read. With that endeavor in mind, we’re sharing a reading list of excerpts from a handful of the wonderful titles we’ve published in 2019. From the inequality of dental care to the history of cognac, the origins of the Second Amendment to the gripping story of an elderly slave’s daring escape from a plantation in Martinique, fiction to nonfiction, a wide-range of books to dip into.

Next month, The New Press is pleased to publish Mike German’s Disrupt, Discredit, and Divide: How the New FBI Damages Democracy, an engaging and unsettling contemporary history of the FBI and a bold call for reform, told by a longtime counterterrorism undercover agent who has become a widely admired whistleblower and critic for civil liberties and accountable government. In a starred review, Kirkus calls the book “Important reading for our current time” and Publishers Weekly says “impassioned .