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 1153–1200 of 4371

2022Nonfiction

Babel, or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

R.F. Kuang

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2022Nonfiction

Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution

Nona Willis Aronowitz

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2022Young readers

Ballad & Dagger (An Outlaw Saints Novel)

Daniel José Older

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2022Poetry

Balladz

Sharon Olds

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2022Fiction & literature

Before All the World: A Novel

Moriel Rothman-Zecher

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2022Fiction & literature

Before I Let Go

Kennedy Ryan

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2022Young readers

Berry Song

Michaela Goade

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2022Fiction & literature

Best of Friends

Kamila Shamsie

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2022Fiction & literature

Better Than Fiction

Alexa Martin

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2022Graphic novels

Birds of Maine

Michael DeForge

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2022Mystery & crime

Black Cake: A Novel

Charmaine Wilkerson

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2022Nonfiction

Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945

Richard Overy

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2022Young readers

Blue: A History of the Color as Deep as the Sea and as Wide as the Sky

Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond, illustrated by Daniel Minter

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2022Poetry

Body Language: Writers on Identity, Physicality, and Making Space for Ourselves

Nicole Chung and Matt Ortile (editors)

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2022Poetry

Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative

Melissa Febos

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2022Poetry

Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives

Mary Laura Philpott

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2022Fiction & literature

Book Lovers

Emily Henry

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2022Fiction & literature

Booth: A Novel

Karen Joy Fowler

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2022Nonfiction

Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

David Quammen

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2022Fiction & literature

Bronze Drum: A Novel of Sisters and War

Phong Nguyen

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2022Nonfiction

By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners

Margaret A. Burnham

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2022Nonfiction

Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century

Dana Stevens

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2022Poetry

Canopy: Poems

Linda Gregerson

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2022Fiction & literature

Carrie Soto Is Back: A Novel

Taylor Jenkins Reid

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2022Fiction & literature

Chilean Poet: A Novel

Alejandro Zambra, translated by Megan McDowell

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2022Nonfiction

Chinese-Ish: Home Cooking Not Quite Authentic, 100% Delicious

Rosheen Kaul and Joanna Hu

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2022Nonfiction

Colu Cooks: Easy Fancy Food

Colu Henry

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2022Fiction & literature

Companion Piece: A Novel

Ali Smith

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2022Nonfiction

Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

Margo Jefferson

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2022Mystery & crime

Cruz: A Novel

Nicolás Ferraro, translated by Mallory N. Craig-Kuhn

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2022Poetry

Customs: Poems

Solmaz Sharif

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2022Nonfiction

Dark Goals: How History’s Worst Tyrants Have Used and Abused the Game of Soccer

Luciano Wernicke

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2022Nonfiction

Davos Man: How the Billionaires Devoured the World

Peter S. Goodman

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2022Poetry

Dead-End Memories: Stories

Banana Yoshimoto, translated by Asa Yoneda

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2022Nonfiction

Dear Denise: Letters to the Sister I Never Knew

Lisa McNair

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2022Nonfiction

Delicious Gatherings: Recipes to Celebrate Together

Tara Teaspoon

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2022Fiction & literature

Demon Copperhead: A Novel

Barbara Kingsolver

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2022Nonfiction

Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery

Casey Parks

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2022Fiction & literature

Diary of a Void: A Novel

Emi Yagi, translated by David Boyd and Lucy North

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2022Nonfiction

Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?: A Memoir

Séamas O'Reilly

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2022Fiction & literature

Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta

James Hannaham

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2022Young readers

Different Kinds of Fruit

Kyle Lukoff

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2022Nonfiction

Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm

Dan Charnas

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2022Fiction & literature

Dinosaurs: A Novel

Lydia Millet

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2022Fiction & literature

Disorientation: A Novel

Elaine Hsieh Chou

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2022Mystery & crime

Dr. No: A Novel

Percival Everett

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2022Graphic novels

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

Kate Beaton

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2022Fiction & literature

Either/Or

Elif Batuman

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