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Selector archive · 2013—2025
NPR Books We Love selections, presented by recognition year. Each entry links to the selector’s first-party record.
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A Book of Maps for You by Lourdes Heuer, illustrated by Maxwell Eaton III appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Feast for the Eyes by Alex Crespo appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, young adult, the dark side, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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 appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, eye-opening reads, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, book club ideas, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck by Sophie Elmhirst appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, staff picks, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A New New Me by Helen Oyeyemi appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, book club ideas, funny stuff, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Rare Find by Joanna Lowell appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around historical fiction, love & romance, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Silent Treatment: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Truce That Is Not Peace by Miriam Toews appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around book club ideas, seriously great writing, biography & memoir, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, staff picks, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A World Without Summer: A Volcano Erupts, a Creature Awakens, and the Sun Goes Out by Nicholas Day, illustrated by Yas Imamura appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, kids’ books, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A/S/L by Jeanne Thornton appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, staff picks, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, book club ideas, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success by Jeff Hiller appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, nonfiction, biography & memoir, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
After Life by Gayle Forman appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around seriously great writing, young adult, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Alabama Village: Faith, Hope, and Survival in a Southern Town by J. Malcolm Garcia appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, the states we’re in, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
All of Us Murderers by KJ Charles appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around historical fiction, love & romance, mysteries & thrillers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
All the Other Mothers Hate Me by Sarah Harman appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, book club ideas, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
American Grammar: Race, Education, and the Building of a Nation by Jarvis R. Givens appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, eye-opening reads, for history lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback by Seth Wickersham appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, staff picks, for sports lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Among Friends by Hal Ebbott appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, book club ideas, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
An Oral History of Atlantis: Stories by Ed Park appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around short stories, essays & poetry, fiction, seriously great writing, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Animal Instinct by Amy Shearn appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, book club ideas, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Archipelago of the Sun by Yoko Tawada, translated by Margaret Mitsutani appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, tales from around the world, rather short, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Atavists: Stories by Lydia Millet appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around short stories, essays & poetry, fiction, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Atmosphere: A Love Story by Taylor Jenkins Reid appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, book club ideas, science!, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Audition by Katie Kitamura appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, book club ideas, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Audition for the Fox by Martin Cahill appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, seriously great writing, rather short, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
August Lane by Regina Black appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around love & romance, for music lovers, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, book club ideas, it’s all geek to me, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Baldwin: A Love Story by Nicholas Boggs appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Beasts of Carnaval by Rosália Rodrigo appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around rather long, tales from around the world, the dark side, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Beautiful Ugly by Alice Feeney appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, book club ideas, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Becoming Ghost: Poetry by Cathy Linh Che appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, short stories, essays & poetry, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People by Imani Perry appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, eye-opening reads, for history lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Black Woods, Blue Sky by Eowyn Ivey, illustrated by Ruth Hulbert appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, book club ideas, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Blessings and Disasters: A Story of Alabama by Alexis Okeowo appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, staff picks, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Blood in the Water by Tiffany D. Jackson appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, mysteries & thrillers, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Brave by Weshoyot Alvitre appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around family matters, identity & culture, kids’ books, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Bread of Angels: A Memoir by Patti Smith appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Breadcrumbs: Coming of Age in Post-Soviet Poland by Kasia Babis appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around eye-opening reads, identity & culture, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future by Dan Wang appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, staff picks, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Bring the House Down by Charlotte Runcie appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, book club ideas, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Broken by X. Fang appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Buckeye by Patrick Ryan appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around historical fiction, fiction, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around let’s talk about sex, the dark side, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
By Heart: Recipes to Hold Near and Dear by Hailee Catalano appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around cookbooks & food, family matters, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Can't Get Enough by Kennedy Ryan appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, family matters, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
