Readers' Most Anticipated Books for Fall 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Liked by Appalachian Liberation Library (12 Lists)



Les Misérables by Victor HugoThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck1984 by George OrwellHUSH MONEY by Deborah HarrisGerminal by Émile Zola
Social novels
153 books — 40 voters
North and South by Elizabeth GaskellLysistrata (Aurora Metro Press) by AristophanesIn Dubious Battle by John SteinbeckMary Barton by Elizabeth GaskellGerminal by Émile Zola
Books about Strikes
96 books — 41 voters

Women Without Men by Shahrnush ParsipurInfidel by Ayaan Hirsi AliThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane SatrapiCensoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriar MandanipourAnatomy of a Disappearance by Hisham Matar
Books from countries under the US entry ban
104 books — 20 voters
Decolonizing Methodologies by Linda Tuhiwai SmithWomen, Race & Class by Angela Y. DavisSister Outsider by Audre LordeAll About Love by bell hooksPrecolonial Black Africa by Cheikh Anta Diop
Decolonize List
10 books — 14 voters

Elatsoe by Darcie Little BadgerSovereign Erotics by Qwo-Li DriskillOff the Reservation by Paula Gunn AllenLove Beyond Body, Space & Time by Hope NicholsonA Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger
Queer Indigenous Literature
40 books — 12 voters
Capital by Karl MarxA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnCapital by Karl MarxCapital by Karl MarxDiscipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
Praxis Without Theory is Meaningless
20 books — 13 voters

Black Marxism by Cedric J. RobinsonThe East Is Black by Robeson Taj FrazierThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderBlack Skin, White Masks by Frantz FanonWomen, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
Black History Month 2017 reading list for radicals
18 books — 3 voters
Set the Night on Fire by Mike DavisBuses Are a Comin' by Charles PersonThe Wounded World by Chad L. WilliamsBlack Folk by Blair L.M. KelleyTWAS The Year 2020 by Karl Wiggins
Race Rebels, Black Power, & Community Organizing (nonfiction)
67 books — 39 voters

Fun Home by Alison BechdelAnd the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsStone Butch Blues by Leslie FeinbergThe Mayor of Castro Street by Randy ShiltsOdd Girls and Twilight Lovers by Lillian Faderman
Best Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Non-Fiction
804 books — 447 voters
Kettle Bottom by Diane GilliamHammer and Hoe by Robin D.G. KelleyTransnational West Virginia by Ken Fones-Wolf
Cornbread Communism: THE LIST
3 books — 3 voters


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