Readers' Most Anticipated Books for Fall 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Craig Cunningham (13 Lists)



The Jazz Theory Book by Mark LevineHow to Play from a Real Book by Robert RawlinsJazzology – The Encyclopedia of Jazz Theory for All Musicians... by Robert RawlinsImprovisation by Derek BaileyThe Jazz Piano Book by Mark Levine
Best Books for Learning to Improvise Music/Improvisation
12 books — 8 voters
Music Theory in One Lesson by Ross TrottierJazzology – The Encyclopedia of Jazz Theory for All Musicians... by Robert RawlinsClassical Form by William E. CaplinHow to Play from a Real Book by Robert RawlinsThe Shaping Forces in Music by Ernst Toch
Music Theory
17 books — 10 voters

The Jazz Standards by Ted GioiaHard Bop by the late David H. Rosenthal
Books on Jazz (nonfiction)
231 books — 66 voters
The Odyssey by HomerMuch Ado About Nothing by William ShakespeareJulius Caesar by William ShakespeareAntony and Cleopatra by William ShakespeareGreat Expectations by Charles Dickens
Academic Decathlon
27 books — 11 voters

Thurgood Marshall by Mark V. TushnetOliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. by G. Edward WhiteThe Brethren by Bob WoodwardThe Nine by Jeffrey ToobinThe Supreme Court by William H. Rehnquist
Supreme Court (History & Fiction)
117 books — 113 voters
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XThe Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du BoisNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick DouglassThe Collected Poems by Langston HughesBlack Boy by Richard Wright
Best African American Books
991 books — 1,136 voters

The Histories by HerodotusUndaunted Courage by Stephen E. AmbrosePlutarch's Lives by Plutarch
History as Literature
728 books — 536 voters
The Prize by Daniel YerginThe Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard RhodesLenin's Tomb by David RemnickGulag by Anne ApplebaumBeautiful Swimmers by William W. Warner
Pulitzer Winners: General Non-fiction
85 books — 341 voters

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du BoisBlack Boy by Richard WrightThe Big Sea by Langston HughesDreams from My Father by Barack ObamaThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
African American Lives
455 books — 202 voters
Lord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Stranger by Albert CamusAtlas Shrugged by Ayn RandThe Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienOf Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,788 books — 49,735 voters

A People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnRace Matters by Cornel WestThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerBlack Like Me by John Howard GriffinWomen, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class
2,066 books — 1,510 voters
The Black Image in the White Mind by George M. FredricksonSlavery and Social Death by Orlando PattersonThe Crisis of the Negro Intellectual by Harold CruseW.E.B. Du Bois by David Levering LewisUplifting the Race by Kevin K. Gaines
US Intellectual History
255 books — 103 voters

Parting the Waters by Taylor BranchThe Federalist Papers by Alexander HamiltonThe Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund MorrisFounding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis
Best American History Books
2,101 books — 2,463 voters