Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by DJ Yossarian (17 Lists)



Our Band Could Be Your Life by Michael AzerradRip It Up and Start Again by Simon ReynoldsA Power Stronger Than Itself by George E. LewisSounds Like London by Lloyd BradleyAs Serious As Your Life by Val Wilmer
Music Books
110 books — 22 voters
Race and Reunion by David W. BlightBattle Cry of Freedom by James M. McPherson
Best American Civil War Books
1,002 books — 977 voters

Last Gang in Town by Marcus GrayRoute 19 Revisited by Marcus GrayRedemption Song by Chris Salewicz
Joe Strummer And The Clash
29 books — 3 voters
The Brother Gardeners by Andrea WulfLatin for Gardeners by Royal Horticultural SocietySeeing Flowers by Teri Dunn ChaceSeeing Trees by Nancy Ross Hugo
Nonfiction Books about Plants
416 books — 141 voters

The Legacy of Conquest by Patricia Nelson Limerick
Best Books Concerning American History (fiction and nonfiction)
346 books — 150 voters
The Legacy of Conquest by Patricia Nelson Limerick
Best History Books
3,687 books — 3,724 voters

Cartographies of Time by Daniel RosenbergThe Map that Changed the World by Simon WinchesterThe Ghost Map by Steven Johnson
Cartography: Maps
184 books — 85 voters
A History of the World in 12 Maps by Jerry BrottonThe Printing Press as an Agent of Change by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein1968 by Mark KurlanskyThe Map That Changed the World by Simon WinchesterThe Ten-Cent Plague by David Hajdu
Microhistory: Social Histories of Just One Thing
1,863 books — 2,215 voters

The Promised Land by Nicholas LemannThe Legacy of Conquest by Patricia Nelson LimerickCharles Sumner and the Conscience of the North by Frederick J. BlueCommon Ground by J. Anthony LukasConstitutional Interpretation by Craig R. Ducat
Best American History Books
2,113 books — 2,481 voters
Seize the Time by Bobby Seale
1968 - The year that rocked the world (fiction and nonfiction)
235 books — 75 voters

Europe and the People Without History by Eric R. Wolf
Best Popular Anthropology Books
359 books — 270 voters
Baseball's Great Experiment by Jules Tygiel
Best Baseball Books
749 books — 655 voters

The Last Tenement by Sean M. Fisher
Top Urban Planning Books of All Time
115 books — 157 voters
Please Kill Me by Legs McNeilRip it Up and Start Again. Post-punk 1978-1984 by Simon Reynolds
Three Chords, A Black Leather Jacket, and a Pawn Shop Guitar - Your Punk Rock Identikit
199 books — 98 voters

Please Kill Me by Legs McNeilOur Band Could Be Your Life by Michael AzerradRip it Up and Start Again. Post-punk 1978-1984 by Simon ReynoldsRedemption Song by Chris SalewiczUptight by Gerard Malanga
Best Non Fiction About Music
1,419 books — 1,336 voters