Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Bakari (12 Lists)



Moving to Higher Ground by Wynton MarsalisThelonious Monk by Robin D.G. KelleyBlue Note by Graham MarshKind Of Blue by Ashley Kahn
Books on Jazz (nonfiction)
231 books — 59 voters
Writing Away by Lavinia SpaldingThe New Diary by Tristine Rainer
best journal books
28 books — 26 voters

The Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxThe Other America by Michael HarringtonHow Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America by Manning MarableNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichHegemony or Survival by Noam Chomsky
How Capitalism Destroys Everything
205 books — 92 voters
The Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirThe Feminine Mystique by Betty FriedanCunt by Inga MuscioFeminism Is for Everybody by bell hooksThe Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
Best Feminist Books
2,498 books — 3,505 voters

Before the Dawn by Nicholas WadeGenes, Peoples, and Languages by Luigi Luca Cavalli-SforzaLife by Richard ForteyBully for Brontosaurus by Stephen Jay GouldThe Theory of Evolution by Edward J. Larson
On Evolution - Love It Or Hate It
201 books — 105 voters
The God Delusion by Richard DawkinsGod Is Not Great by Christopher HitchensLetter to a Christian Nation by Sam HarrisThe End of Faith by Sam HarrisBreaking the Spell by Daniel C. Dennett
Notable Atheist Books
543 books — 937 voters

Design Basics Index by Jim KrauseD.I.Y. by Ellen LuptonThe Design of Dissent by Milton Glaser
Best Design Books
118 books — 94 voters
Black Power by Stokely CarmichaelLies My Teacher Told Me by James W. LoewenNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichRace Matters by Cornel WestCunt by Inga Muscio
Social Justice: Books on Racism, Sexism, and Class
2,091 books — 1,530 voters

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine HansberryAssata by Assata ShakurSong of Solomon by Toni MorrisonThe Collected Poems by Langston HughesParable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
Best African American Books
1,002 books — 1,137 voters
The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du BoisBeloved by Toni MorrisonAin't I a Woman by bell hooksThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XEarly Novels & Stories by James Baldwin
African American Cultural Studies
182 books — 60 voters