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 769–816 of 4371

2023Fiction & literature

Berlin

Bea Setton

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2023Mystery & crime

Better the Blood

Michael Bennett

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2023Mystery & crime

Beware the Woman

Megan Abbott

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2023Young readers

Big

Vashti Harrison

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2023Fiction & literature

Big Swiss

Jen Beagin

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2023Nonfiction

Biography of X

Catherine Lacey

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2023Mystery & crime

Birnam Wood

Eleanor Catton

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2023Poetry

Birth Canal

Dias Novita Wuri

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2023Science fiction & fantasy

Black River Orchard

Chuck Wendig

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2023Literary fiction

Blackouts

Justin Torres

On 2 lists: NPR Books We Love, National Book Award for Fiction

2023Graphic novels

Boys Weekend

Mattie Lubchansky

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2023Mystery & crime

Bright Young Women

Jessica Knoll

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2023Nonfiction

Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity

Ryan Donovan

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2023Mystery & crime

Brooklyn Crime Novel

Jonathan Lethem

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2023Fiction & literature

Brotherless Night

V.V. Ganeshananthan

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2023Mystery & crime

Brutes

Dizz Tate

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2023Nonfiction

Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

Maureen Ryan

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2023Poetry

But She Is Also Jane

Laura Read

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2023Nonfiction

But Will You Love Me Tomorrow: An Oral History of the '60s Girl Groups

Laura Flam and Emily Sieu Liebowitz

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2023Science fiction & fantasy

Cassandra in Reverse

Holly Smale

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2023Science fiction & fantasy

Chain Gang All Stars

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

On 2 lists: NPR Books We Love, The New York Times — 10 Best Books

2023Young readers

Check & Mate

Ali Hazelwood

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2023Nonfiction

Chetna's Indian Feasts: Everyday meals and easy entertaining

Chetna Makan

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2023Nonfiction

Choosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance

Francesca T. Royster

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2023Nonfiction

Comedy Book: How Comedy Conquered Culture – and the Magic That Makes It Work

Jesse David Fox

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2023Nonfiction

Company: The Radically Casual Art of Cooking for Others

Amy Thielen

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2023Poetry

Congratulations, The Best Is Over!: Essays

R. Eric Thomas

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2023Fiction & literature

Cousins

Aurora Venturini, translated by Kit Maude

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2023Mystery & crime

Crook Manifesto

Colson Whitehead

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2023Young readers

Curlfriends: New in Town

Sharee Miller

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2023Young readers

Damned If You Do

Alex Brown

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2023Fiction & literature

Day

Michael Cunningham

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2023Fiction & literature

Dayswork

Chris Bachelder and Jennifer Habel

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2023Nonfiction

Deliver Me From Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

Warren Zanes

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2023Poetry

Disruptions: Stories

Steven Millhauser

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2023Poetry

Dragon Palace

Hiromi Kawakami, translated by Ted Goossen

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2023Young readers

Eagle Drums

Nasuġraq Rainey Hopson

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2023Nonfiction

Easily Slip into Another World: A Life in Music

Henry Threadgill and Brent Hayes Edwards

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2023Nonfiction

Ed Mitchell's Barbeque

Ed Mitchell and Ryan Mitchell with Zella Palmer

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2023Mystery & crime

Edith Holler

Edward Carey

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2023Nonfiction

Egg: A Dozen Ovatures

Lizzie Stark

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2023Science fiction & fantasy

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries

Heather Fawcett

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2023Fiction & literature

Empty Theatre: A Novel: or The Lives of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and Empress Sisi of Austria (Queen of Hungary), Cousins, in Their Pursuit of Connection and Beauty...

Jac Jemc

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2023Fiction & literature

Every Rising Sun

Jamila Ahmed

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2023Fiction & literature

Evil Eye

Etaf Rum

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2023Science fiction & fantasy

Family Lore

Elizabeth Acevedo

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2023Fiction & literature

Family Meal

Bryan Washington

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2023Young readers

Family Style: Memories of an American From Vietnam

Thien Pham

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