Over 5.5 million commuters can now read New Press books right on their phones. A project of the Literacy Partners and the New York City MTA, Subway Reads provides free access to excerpts of over two hundred books via wi-fi. The New Jim Crow, Lighting the Fires of Freedom, People Like Us, and Reclaiming Gotham are just a few of the fifteen New Press titles with excerpts available until October 19 through this new program, with New Press titles featured prominently in ads throughout the New York City subway system.

Available books include:

Lighting the Fires of Freedom

The New Jim Crow

A Perilous Path

Chokehold

Lies My Teacher Told Me

Pushout

Becoming Ms. Burton

In a Day’s Work

People Like Us

We Too Sing America

A Bite-Sized History of France

The Tropic of Football

Reclaiming Gotham

The Climate Swerve

Out of Sight