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 49–96 of 253

2014Nonfiction

Delancey: A Man, A Woman, A Restaurant, A Marriage

Molly Wizenberg

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2014Nonfiction

Do Not Sell At Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt For The World's Rarest 78rpm Records

Amanda Petrusich

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2014Mystery & crime

Do Or Die: A Reluctant Heroes Novel

Suzanne Brockmann

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2014Nonfiction

Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism And Wrecked The Middle Class

Ian Haney López

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2014Young readers

Draw!

Raúl Colón

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2014Nonfiction

Duty: Memoirs Of A Secretary At War

Robert M. Gates

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2014Young readers

El Deafo

Cece Bell

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2014Nonfiction

Electric City: A Novel

Elizabeth Rosner

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2014Fiction & literature

Emeralds Included: A Jana Bibi Adventure

Betsy Woodman

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2014Nonfiction

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Jung Chang

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2014Nonfiction

Euphoria

Lily King

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

2014Fiction & literature

Every Day Is For The Thief: Fiction

Teju Cole

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2014Mystery & crime

Everything I Never Told You: A Novel

Celeste Ng

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2014Fiction & literature

F: A Novel

Daniel Kehlmann, translated by Carol Janeway

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2014Poetry

Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014

Alice Munro

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2014Mystery & crime

Famous Writers I Have Known: A Novel

James Magnuson

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2014Graphic novels

Fatale Deluxe Edition, Vol. 1

Ed Brubaker and Sean Philips

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2014Young readers

Firebird

Misty Copeland and Christopher Myers

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2014Young readers

Flashlight

Lizi Boyd

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2014Fiction & literature

Florence Gordon

Brian Morton

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2014Fiction & literature

Foreign Gods, Inc.

Okey Ndibe

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2014Young readers

Found

Salina Yoon

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2014Fiction & literature

Fourth Of July Creek: A Novel

Smith Henderson

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2014Nonfiction

Fresh From The Farm: A Year Of Recipes And Stories

Susie Middleton

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2014Nonfiction

Friendswood: A Novel

René Steinke

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2014Young readers

Gaston

Kelly DiPucchio and Christian Robinson

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2014Nonfiction

Geek Sublime: The Beauty Of Code, The Code Of Beauty

Vikram Chandra

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2014Young readers

Girl In Reverse

Barbara Stuber

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2014Nonfiction

Gottland: Mostly True Stories From Half Of Czechoslovakia

Mariusz Szczygieł, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones

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2014Fiction & literature

Gray Mountain: A Novel

John Grisham

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2014Young readers

Half A World Away

Cynthia Kadohata

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2014Young readers

Heap House: The Iremonger Trilogy: Book One

Edward Carey

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2014Graphic novels

Here

Richard McGuire

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2014Fiction & literature

Heroes Are My Weakness: A Novel

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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2014Nonfiction

Hijacking The Runway: How Celebrities Are Stealing The Spotlight From Fashion Designers

Teri Agins

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2014Nonfiction

Hold Tight Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, And The Battlefield of AIDS

Martin Duberman

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2014Young readers

Hooray For Hat!

Brian Won

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2014Mystery & crime

Horrorstör: A Novel

Grady Hendrix

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2014Young readers

How I Discovered Poetry

Marilyn Nelson

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2014Graphic novels

How The World Was: A California Childhood

Emmanuel Guibert

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2014Nonfiction

How To Be A Victorian: A Dawn-To-Dusk Guide To Victorian Life

Ruth Goodman

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2014Fiction & literature

How To Be Both: A Novel

Ali Smith

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2014Graphic novels

How To Be Happy

Eleanor Davis

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2014Fiction & literature

How To Build A Girl: A Novel

Caitlin Moran

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2014Fiction & literature

I Am China: A Novel

Xiaolu Guo

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2014Poetry

I Don't Know Do You

Roberto Montes

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2014Young readers

I'll Give You The Sun

Jandy Nelson

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2014Poetry

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Amy Scholder (editor)

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