Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Liked by Tanisha Dees (12 Lists)



The New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderBetween the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XInvisible Man by Ralph EllisonThe Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
#BlackLivesMatter Reading List
624 books — 291 voters
The Rose That Grew From Concrete by Tupac ShakurBig Freedia by Big FreediaDecoded by Jay-ZBook of Rhymes by Adam BradleyFor The Love by Kevin McDormand
The Definitive List of Hip-Hop Books
145 books — 43 voters

The Giver by Lois LowryHoles by Louis SacharA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleNumber the Stars by Lois LowryBridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
The Most Deserving Newbery
112 books — 2,997 voters
Charlotte’s Web by E.B. WhiteElla Enchanted by Gail Carson LevineBecause of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamilloHatchet by Gary PaulsenRamona Quimby, Age 8 by Beverly Cleary
Newbery Medal Honor Books
340 books — 442 voters

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe NumeroffAmazing Grace by Mary HoffmanA Chair for My Mother by Vera B. WilliamsMufaro's Beautiful Daughters by John SteptoeThe Magic School Bus Inside the Earth by Joanna Cole
Reading Rainbow Featured Books
164 books — 77 voters
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow RowellThe Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil GaimanThe Fault in Our Stars by John GreenWhere'd You Go, Bernadette by Maria Semple11.22.63 by Stephen King
2013: Women Born In The 1970s 5 Star Reads As Read in 2013
178 books — 14 voters

Me Before You by Jojo MoyesThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Secret Keeper by Kate MortonThe House at Riverton by Kate MortonThe Distant Hours by Kate Morton
2013: The Over 35s favourite books of 2013
480 books — 107 voters
Orfeo by Richard PowersAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrAn Unnecessary Woman by Rabih AlameddineThe Invention of Wings by Sue Monk KiddStation Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
2014 NPR Books Podcast
51 books — 13 voters

The Collected Poems by Langston HughesThe Complete Collected Poems by Maya AngelouThe Poetry of Pablo Neruda by Pablo NerudaSelected Poems by Gwendolyn BrooksThe Collected Poems of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde
Favorite Poets of Color
600 books — 199 voters
Kindred by Octavia E. ButlerTheir Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale HurstonBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerParable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Best African American Authors
189 books — 125 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeePride and Prejudice by Jane AustenThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George Orwell
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,404 books — 119,673 voters
Les Misérables by Victor HugoWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyDon Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes SaavedraThe Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
745 books — 1,814 voters