The Stackies 2025 Finalists
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Jonestown
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Directly relevant to the nominated book 'Death in the Jungle: Murder, Betrayal, and the Lost Dream of Jonestown' by Candace Fleming. The Peoples Temple and the 1978 mass murder-suicide is a significant historical event that readers may know superficially but not in depth.
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Robert Smalls
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Subject of the nominated book 'Defiant: The Story of Robert Smalls' by Rob Edwards. Smalls was an enslaved African American who commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War and later became a U.S. Congressman - a remarkable historical figure whose story provides rich educational context.
The nominations have been tallied and your 2025 finalists for The Stackies are here. Thanks to everyone who nominated books, we had our largest turnout for nominations ever, and that is reflected in the wide ranging list of books below. The finalists are the five books that received the most votes in each category.
Voting will open up on January 6th for all paid subscribers to Unstacked and run through January 12th. The winners of this year’s Stackies will be announced on Friday, January 16th.
Without any further ado, the nominees are…
Dominion by Addie C. Citchens
The Devil Three Times by Rickey Fayne
Homeseeking by Karissa Chen
The Lilac People by Milo Todd
Woodworking by Emily St. James
Audition by Katie Kitamura
Dominion by Addie C. Citchens
The Emperor of Gladness by Ocean Vuong
These Heathens Mia McKenzie
The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy
Black in Blues: How a Color Tells a Story of My People by Imani Perry
A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children by Haley Cohen Gilliland
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism by Eve L. Ewing
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America by Brian Goldstone
Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success by Jeff Hiller
Matriarch: A Memoir by Tina Knowles
Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything: A Memoir by Alyson Stoner
Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li
The Trouble of Color: An American Family Memoir by Martha S. Jones
Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil V.E. Schwab
Death of the Author Nnedi Okafor
Sunrise on the Reaping Suzanne Collins
The River Has Roots Amal El-Mohtar
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins-Reid
Back After This by Linda Holmes
Can’t Get Enough by Kennedy Ryan
A Tropical Rebel Gets the Duke by Adriana Herrera
A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping Sangu Mandanna
The Bewitching by Silvia Morena Garcia
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
The Grand Paloma Resort by Cleyvis Natera
King of Ashes by S.A. Cosby
Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito
A Bird in the Air Means We Can Still Breathe by Mahogany L. Browne
Exit Zero: Stories by Marie Helene-Bertino
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