Michelle Ma Belle's votes on the list 2025 National Book Award Finalists

Listopia > Michelle Ma Belle's votes on the list 2025 National Book Award Finalists (25 Books)

1	The True True Story of Raja the Gullible by Rabih Alameddine 4.07 avg rating — 8,288 ratings "Fiction Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar (Goodreads Author) 3.80 avg rating — 22,959 ratings "Fiction Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Antidote by Karen Russell (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 15,364 ratings "Fiction Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	North Sun: Or, The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther by Ethan Rutherford (Goodreads Author) 4.03 avg rating — 1,616 ratings "Fiction Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Palaver by Bryan Washington 3.69 avg rating — 4,188 ratings "Fiction Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad (Goodreads Author) 4.59 avg rating — 52,533 ratings "Nonfiction Finalist" Michelle added it to interested See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy by Julia Ioffe 4.56 avg rating — 1,453 ratings "Nonfiction Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li 4.35 avg rating — 9,125 ratings "Nonfiction Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care by Claudia Rowe (Goodreads Author) 4.39 avg rating — 1,095 ratings "Nonfiction Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World by Jordan Thomas 4.36 avg rating — 1,297 ratings "Nonfiction Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	The New Economy by Gabrielle Calvocoressi 4.48 avg rating — 126 ratings "Poetry Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Becoming Ghost: Poetry by Cathy Linh Che (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 254 ratings "Poetry Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Scorched Earth: Poems by Tiana Clark (Goodreads Author) 4.19 avg rating — 522 ratings "Poetry Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	I Do Know Some Things by Richard Siken 4.33 avg rating — 907 ratings "Poetry Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems by Patricia Smith (Goodreads Author) 4.53 avg rating — 149 ratings "Poetry Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	On the Calculation of Volume III by Solvej Balle 4.10 avg rating — 6,133 ratings "Translated Literature Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	We Are Green and Trembling by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara 3.66 avg rating — 1,738 ratings "Translated Literature Finalist" Michelle added it to interested See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje (Goodreads Author) 4.10 avg rating — 3,045 ratings "Translated Literature Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	We Computers: A Ghazal Novel by Hamid Ismailov (Goodreads Author) 3.62 avg rating — 150 ratings "Translated Literature Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Sad Tiger by Neige Sinno 4.20 avg rating — 16,269 ratings "Translated Literature Finalist"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	A World Worth Saving by Kyle Lukoff 3.86 avg rating — 691 ratings "Young People's Literature"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	The Leaving Room by Amber McBride (Goodreads Author) 4.06 avg rating — 1,072 ratings "Young People's Literature" Michelle added it to interested See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story by Daniel Nayeri 4.18 avg rating — 2,705 ratings "Young People's Literature"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Truth Is: A Novel in Verse by Hannah V. Sawyerr (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 320 ratings "Young People's Literature"	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	(S)Kin by Ibi Zoboi (Goodreads Author) 3.84 avg rating — 1,014 ratings "Young People's Literature" Michelle added it to interested See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars