Readers' Most Anticipated Books for Fall 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Sean (10 Lists)



Huey Long by T. Harry WilliamsRiver of Dark Dreams by Walter JohnsonAfricans In Colonial Louisiana by Gwendolyn Midlo HallThe Accidental City by Lawrence N. PowellKingfish by Richard D. White Jr.
Best Louisiana History Books (Nonfiction)
228 books — 35 voters
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleThe Accidental City by Lawrence N. PowellBienville's Dilemma by Richard CampanellaLords of Misrule by James GillGeographies of New Orleans by Richard Campanella
Best New Orleans Books
421 books — 346 voters

Black Flame by Michael SchmidtThe Spanish Anarchists by Murray BookchinOrganizational Platform of the Libertarian Communists by Nestor MakhnoAnarchism by Daniel GuérinSocial Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism by Murray Bookchin
Anarchist books
468 books — 370 voters
Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonApostles of Disunion by Charles B. DewThe Fall of the House of Dixie by Bruce LevineThe Free State of Jones by Victoria E. BynumRace and Reunion by David W. Blight
Best American Civil War Books
998 books — 975 voters

Battle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPhersonApostles of Disunion by Charles B. Dew1861 by Adam GoodheartRace and Reunion by David W. BlightThe Free State of Jones by Victoria E. Bynum
Civil War Essentials
114 books — 16 voters
River of Dark Dreams by Walter JohnsonThe Many-Headed Hydra by Peter LinebaughReconstruction by Eric FonerThe Nation's Crucible by Peter J. KastorA People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
U.S. History Reading List
436 books — 134 voters

Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon NorthupThe Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel WilkersonA Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
#BlackLivesMatter Reading List
623 books — 291 voters
The Many-Headed Hydra by Peter LinebaughThe Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel WilkersonRiver of Dark Dreams by Walter JohnsonTwelve Years a Slave by Solomon NorthupThe Wars of Reconstruction by Douglas R. Egerton
Books White People Need to Read
1,302 books — 1,549 voters

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel WilkersonParting the Waters by Taylor BranchPillar of Fire by Taylor Branch
Southern History
193 books — 22 voters
Animal Farm by George OrwellOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Best Books Ever
74,783 books — 277,552 voters