Readers' Most Anticipated Books for Fall 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Benjamin Fasching-Gray (42 Lists)



Survival Is a Promise by Alexis Pauline GumbsFor Women and Girls Only by Jessica RodaSuperheroes in the Streets by Kimberly Wedeven SegallAfrican Possibilities by Ifi AmadiumeHousewife by Lisa Selin Davis
Feminist Interest 2024
164 books — 23 voters
Freedom Dreams by Robin D.G. KelleyDomination and the Arts of Resistance by James C. ScottCaliban and the Witch by Silvia FedericiDirect Action by David GraeberA Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
Joyful Militancy | Towards a Holistic Radical Left
37 books — 3 voters

Walking with the Wind by John LewisNigger by Dick GregoryElla Baker and the Black Freedom Movement by Barbara RansbyRadio Free Dixie by Timothy B. TysonElla Baker and the Black Freedom Movement by Barbara Ransby
Black biography
235 books — 59 voters
A Door Into Ocean by Joan Slonczewski
The Women's Press Science Fiction
36 books — 7 voters

Paris Babylon by Rupert Christiansen
The Paris Commune
43 books — 3 voters
A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
Mentioned in Lost Children Archive: On Landscape, Love, and History
50 books — 2 voters

The Library as Place by John BuschmanHumanism and Libraries by André CossetteOur Enduring Values Revisited by Michael E. GormanQuestioning Library Neutrality by Alison Lewis
Advancing the Field of Librarianship
38 books — 9 voters
This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed by Charles E. Cobb Jr.
Wheeling Perambulators "Violently" Along The Precipice
323 books — 11 voters

The Noonday Demon by Andrew SolomonMarbles by Ellen ForneyThe Plague by Albert CamusA Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel DefoeThe Stockholm Paradigm by Daniel R. Brooks
Illness As Narrative
228 books — 19 voters
The Black Dahlia by James EllroyThe Black Cat by Edgar Allan PoeThe Black Tower by P.D. JamesThe Black Moth by Georgette HeyerBlack Sheep by Georgette Heyer
The Black...
794 books — 44 voters

Blues People by Amiri BarakaDeep Blues by Robert PalmerBlues Legacies and Black Feminism by Angela Y. DavisEscaping the Delta by Elijah WaldThe Blues by Elijah Wald
Blues Music
135 books — 18 voters
Spinning Blues into Gold by Nadine Cohodas
Illinois Music Museum on Route 66: The Road to Rock
52 books — 5 voters

Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. DavisThe Black Panthers Speak by Philip S. FonerBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesGender Trouble by Judith ButlerBut Some of Us Are Brave by Akasha Gloria Hull
Social Justice Warfare
96 books — 20 voters
Silver Birch, Blood Moon by Ellen DatlowFairy Tales by Hans Christian AndersenAt the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonaldThe Snow Queen by Joan D. VingeSnow White, Blood Red by Ellen Datlow
Hans Christian Andersen inspired
15 books — 1 voter

The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu and Their Race to Save the... by Joshua HammerCasanova Was a Librarian by Kathleen LowIrrepressible Reformer by Wayne A. WiegandThe Librarian of Basra by Jeanette WinterThe Librarian Who Measured the Earth by Kathryn Lasky
Book Riot's 13 Nonfiction Books About Real, Live Librarians
14 books — 4 voters
Choose Your Own Disaster by Dana Schwartz
Adult Choose Your Own Adventure Books
180 books — 141 voters

Strike! by Jeremy BrecherWobblies! A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the ... by Paul M. Buhle
Books about Strikes
96 books — 41 voters
Don't Kiss Me by Louise Downie
Strange Flowers
21 books — 4 voters

Maida Springer by Yevette RichardsRaising Expectations (and Raising Hell) by Jane F. McAleveySecrets of a Successful Organizer by Alexandra BradburyJames Connolly by Lorcan CollinsWobbly by Ralph Chaplin
American Labor Leaders: A Reading List (nonfiction)
92 books — 9 voters
Assata by Assata ShakurOutlaw Woman by Roxanne Dunbar-OrtizElla Baker and the Black Freedom Movement by Barbara RansbyGoddess of Anarchy by Jacqueline A. JonesZami by Audre Lorde
Memoirs of Badass Ladies
48 books — 11 voters

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. ButlerParable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler
Cli-Fi: Climate Change Fiction
417 books — 615 voters
The Soprano State by Bob IngleThis Music Leaves Stains by James Greene Jr.The Radium Girls by Kate MooreWhen Death Comes Stealing by Valerie Wilson WesleyGhetto Schooling by Jean Anyon
Gitoutahe'! The Garden State in Fact and Fiction
208 books — 57 voters

The Female Man by Joanna RussCall It Sleep by Henry Roth
Samuel R. Delany's literary pillars
103 books — 25 voters
The Life by Dennis WepmanWhat's the Use of Walking If There's a Freight Train Going Yo... by Paul Garon
Flat Jets
123 books — 5 voters

Fire on the Mountain by Terry Bisson
Jo Walton's What Makes This Book So Great Recommendations
128 books — 20 voters
Merchanter's Luck by C.J. CherryhSlow River by Nicola Griffith
Obscure but awesome science fiction and fantasy
88 books — 31 voters

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du BoisThe Black Panthers Speak by Philip S. FonerWomen, Race & Class by Angela Y. DavisA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnWhat is Anarchism? by Alexander Berkman
Rage Against The Machine's Recommended Reading List
132 books — 27 voters
Dada and Surrealism by Dawn AdesDada Gedichte der Gründer by Hans ArpAvantgarde und Anarchismus. Dada in Zürich und Berlin. by Hubert van den BergThe Import of Nothing by Hubert F. Van Den BergDada Berlin by Hanne Bergius
Literaturhinweise aus "DADA Total" Reclam Verlag
48 books — 2 voters

The Manhattan Ghost Story Trilogy by T.M. WrightValley of Lights by Stephen GallagherToady by Mark MorrisStitch by Mark MorrisConjure House by Gary Fry
Scribbled on the back of an H&M tag I found mixed in with some old pictures
11 books — 1 voter
The Problems of Icelandic Saga Origins by Theodore Murdock AnderssonThe Icelandic Family Saga by Theodore Murdock AnderssonLaw and Literature in Medieval Iceland by Theodore Murdock AnderssonThe Book of Settlements by Hermann PálssonThe Viking ships by A.W. Brøgger
Further Reading from "The Sagas of the Icelanders"
51 books — 1 voter


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