Selector archive · 2013—2025

NPR Books We Love

NPR Books We Love selections, presented by recognition year. Each entry links to the selector’s first-party record.

Selections: 4371
Authors: 3585
Lists & prizes: 9

Showing 625–672 of 4371

2024Nonfiction

The Backyard Bird Chronicles

Amy Tan

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2024Young readers

The Bad Ones

Melissa Albert

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2024Mystery & crime

The Bog Wife

Kay Chronister

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2024Science fiction & fantasy

The Book of Love

Kelly Link

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2024Young readers

The Book That Almost Rhymed

Omar Abed, illustrated by Hatem Aly

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2024Mystery & crime

The Briar Club

Kate Quinn

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2024Mystery & crime

The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, Book 5)

Nghi Vo

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2024Science fiction & fantasy

The Bright Sword: A Novel of King Arthur

Lev Grossman

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2024Mystery & crime

The Bullet Swallower

Elizabeth Gonzalez James

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2024Nonfiction

The Burning Earth: A History

Sunil Amrith

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2024Science fiction & fantasy

The Butcher of the Forest

Premee Mohamed

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2024Science fiction & fantasy

The Cemetery of Untold Stories

Julia Alvarez

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2024Science fiction & fantasy

The City and Its Uncertain Walls

Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel

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2024Science fiction & fantasy

The City in Glass

Nghi Vo

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2024Mystery & crime

The Cliffs

J. Courtney Sullivan

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2024Science fiction & fantasy

The Dead Cat Tail Assassins

P. Djèlí Clark

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2024Young readers

The Dictionary Story

Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston

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2024Science fiction & fantasy

The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years

Shubnum Khan

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2024Young readers

The Enigma Girls: How Ten Teenagers Broke Ciphers, Kept Secrets, and Helped Win World War II

Candace Fleming

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2024Mystery & crime

The Extinction of Irena Rey

Jennifer Croft

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2024Science fiction & fantasy

The Familiar

Leigh Bardugo

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2024Nonfiction

The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport

Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg

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2024Mystery & crime

The Fox Wife

Yangsze Choo

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2024Nonfiction

The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

Griffin Dunne

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2024Mystery & crime

The God of the Woods

Liz Moore

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2024Young readers

The Greatest

Veera Hiranandani, illustrated by Vesper Stamper

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2024Poetry

The History of Sound: Stories

Ben Shattuck

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2024Fiction & literature

The Horse

Willy Vlautin

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2024Mystery & crime

The Hunter

Tana French

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2024Science fiction & fantasy

The Husbands

Holly Gramazio

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2024Young readers

The Judgment of Yoyo Gold

Isaac Blum

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2024Nonfiction

The Kamogawa Food Detectives

Hisashi Kashiwai, translated by Jesse Kirkwood

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2024Nonfiction

The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History

Manjula Martin

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2024Science fiction & fantasy

The Last Hour Between Worlds

Melissa Caruso

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2024Poetry

The Letters of Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson, edited by Cristanne Miller and Domhnall Mitchell

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2024Fiction & literature

The Lion Women of Tehran

Marjan Kamali

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2024Mystery & crime

The Lost Story

Meg Shaffer

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2024Nonfiction

The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony

Annabelle Tometich

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2024Nonfiction

The Manicurist's Daughter: A Memoir

Susan Lieu

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2024Nonfiction

The Mesmerist

Caroline Woods

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2024Nonfiction

The Message

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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2024Mystery & crime

The Midnight Feast

Lucy Foley

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2024Fiction & literature

The Mighty Red

Louise Erdrich

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2024Young readers

The Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science

Kate McKinnon

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2024Science fiction & fantasy

The Ministry of Time

Kaliane Bradley

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2024Fiction & literature

The Most

Jessica Anthony

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2024Nonfiction

The Mountains Are High

Alec Ash

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2024Mystery & crime

The Murder of Mr. Ma

SJ Rozan and John Shen Yen Nee

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