Elizabeth's votes on the list 2025 National Book Awards Longlist

Listopia > Elizabeth's votes on the list 2025 National Book Awards Longlist (50 Books)

1	The True True Story of Raja the Gullible by Rabih Alameddine 4.03 avg rating — 15,296 ratings	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	Flashlight by Susan Choi (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 32,735 ratings	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 Wilderness by Angela Flournoy (Goodreads Author) 3.46 avg rating — 12,359 ratings	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	The Sisters by Jonas Hassen Khemiri 3.98 avg rating — 15,140 ratings	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	A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar (Goodreads Author) 3.74 avg rating — 41,992 ratings	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	Only Son by Kevin Moffett 3.95 avg rating — 485 ratings	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	The Antidote by Karen Russell (Goodreads Author) 3.85 avg rating — 20,879 ratings	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	North Sun, or The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther by Ethan Rutherford (Goodreads Author) 3.99 avg rating — 2,887 ratings	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	Palaver by Bryan Washington 3.63 avg rating — 7,044 ratings	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	The Pelican Child: Stories by Joy Williams 3.39 avg rating — 764 ratings	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	One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad (Goodreads Author) 4.55 avg rating — 81,153 ratings Elizabeth rated it 5 stars 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
12	Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State by Caleb Gayle 3.91 avg rating — 327 ratings	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	Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy by Julia Ioffe 4.51 avg rating — 3,282 ratings	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	For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran's Women-Led Uprising by Fatemeh Jamalpour 4.32 avg rating — 1,437 ratings	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	Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li 4.32 avg rating — 19,071 ratings	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	The Autobiography of H. Lan Thao Lam by Lana Lin 4.11 avg rating — 120 ratings	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	Run the Song: Writing About Running About Listening by Ben Ratliff 3.32 avg rating — 145 ratings	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	Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care by Claudia Rowe (Goodreads Author) 4.37 avg rating — 1,883 ratings	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	When It All Burns: What Megafires Reveal About Our Transformed World by Jordan Thomas 4.36 avg rating — 1,864 ratings	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	The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd's Life by Helen Whybrow (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 2,432 ratings	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	Death Does Not End at the Sea (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry) by Gbenga Adesina 4.56 avg rating — 81 ratings	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 New Economy by Gabrielle Calvocoressi 4.42 avg rating — 222 ratings	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	Becoming Ghost: Poetry by Cathy Linh Che (Goodreads Author) 4.14 avg rating — 359 ratings	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	Scorched Earth: Poems by Tiana Clark (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 637 ratings Elizabeth added it 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
25	Death of the First Idea: Poems by Rickey Laurentiis 3.99 avg rating — 67 ratings Elizabeth added it 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
26	Cold Thief Place by Esther Lin 4.27 avg rating — 90 ratings	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
27	Stay Dead by Natalie Shapero 4.28 avg rating — 199 ratings	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
28	I Do Know Some Things by Richard Siken 4.27 avg rating — 1,490 ratings	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
29	The Intentions of Thunder: New and Selected Poems by Patricia Smith (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 274 ratings	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
30	Terror Counter by Fargo Nissim Tbakhi 4.43 avg rating — 69 ratings	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
31	On the Calculation of Volume III by Solvej Balle 4.08 avg rating — 10,800 ratings	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
32	The Queen of Swords by Jazmina Barrera 3.93 avg rating — 840 ratings	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
33	We Are Green and Trembling by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara 3.53 avg rating — 2,853 ratings	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
34	The Remembered Soldier by Anjet Daanje (Goodreads Author) 4.09 avg rating — 4,434 ratings	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
35	Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa 3.33 avg rating — 22,480 ratings	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
36	We Computers: A Ghazal Novel by Hamid Ismailov (Goodreads Author) 3.55 avg rating — 251 ratings	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
37	We Do Not Part by Han Kang 3.84 avg rating — 41,874 ratings	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
38	Sleep Phase by Mohamed Kheir (Goodreads Author) 3.84 avg rating — 128 ratings	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
39	Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico 3.66 avg rating — 56,777 ratings	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
40	Sad Tiger by Neige Sinno 4.20 avg rating — 19,066 ratings	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
41	A Sea of Lemon Trees: The Corrido of Roberto Alvarez by María Dolores Águila 4.24 avg rating — 1,011 ratings	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
42	The Corruption of Hollis Brown by K. Ancrum (Goodreads Author) 4.21 avg rating — 2,944 ratings	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
43	The Incredibly Human Henson Blayze by Derrick Barnes 3.82 avg rating — 624 ratings	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
44	A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe by Mahogany L. Browne (Goodreads Author) 3.62 avg rating — 420 ratings	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
45	A World Worth Saving by Kyle Lukoff 3.84 avg rating — 846 ratings	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
46	The Leaving Room by Amber McBride (Goodreads Author) 4.01 avg rating — 1,546 ratings	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
47	The Teacher of Nomad Land: A World War II Story by Daniel Nayeri 4.14 avg rating — 4,347 ratings	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
48	Truth Is: A Novel in Verse by Hannah V. Sawyerr (Goodreads Author) 4.43 avg rating — 446 ratings	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
49	Song of a Blackbird: A Graphic Novel by Maria van Lieshout (Goodreads Author) 4.27 avg rating — 1,662 ratings	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
50	(S)Kin by Ibi Zoboi (Goodreads Author) 3.80 avg rating — 1,193 ratings	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