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 1585–1632 of 4371

2021Fiction & literature

Darryl: A Novel

Jackie Ess

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2021Fiction & literature

Dear Miss Metropolitan: A Novel

Carolyn Ferrell

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2021Nonfiction

Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to be an Ally

Emily Ladau

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2021Graphic novels

Destroy All Monsters: A Reckless Book

Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips

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2021Fiction & literature

Detransition Baby: A Novel

Torrey Peters

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2021Mystery & crime

Dial A for Aunties

Jesse Q. Sutanto

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2021Mystery & crime

Dream Girl: A Novel

Laura Lippman

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2021Nonfiction

Driving While Brown: Sheriff Joe Arpaio Versus the Latino Resistance

Terry Greene Sterling and Jude Joffe-Block

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2021Graphic novels

E.X.O.: The Legend of Wale Williams, Volume One

Roye Okupe, illustrated by Sunkanmi Akinboye and Raphael Kazeem

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2021Nonfiction

Eat, Habibi, Eat!: Fresh Recipes for Modern Egyptian Cooking

Shahir Massoud

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2021Fiction & literature

Edge Case: A Novel

YZ Chin

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2021Graphic novels

Elegy for Mary Turner: An Illustrated Account of a Lynching

Rachel Marie-Crane Williams

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2021Nonfiction

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Patrick Radden Keefe

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2021Young readers

Eyes that Kiss in the Corners

Joanna Ho, illustrated by Dung Ho

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2021Nonfiction

Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II

Daniel James Brown

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2021Young readers

Fat Chance, Charlie Vega

Crystal Maldonado

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2021Fiction & literature

Fight Night: A Novel

Miriam Toews

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2021Poetry

Filthy Animals

Brandon Taylor

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2021Young readers

Finding Junie Kim

Ellen Oh

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2021Young readers

Firebreak

Nicole Kornher-Stace

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2021Young readers

Firekeeper's Daughter

Angeline Boulley

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2021Fiction & literature

First Comes Like: A Novel

Alisha Rai

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2021Poetry

Five Tuesdays in Winter: Stories

Lily King

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2021Nonfiction

Flight of the Diamond Smugglers: A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa

Matthew Gavin Frank

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2021Poetry

Floaters: Poems

Martín Espada

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2021Nonfiction

Flying Blind: The 737 Max Tragedy and the Fall of Boeing

Peter Robison

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2021Nonfiction

Folklorn

Angela Mi Young Hur

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2021Nonfiction

Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age

Annalee Newitz

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2021Young readers

From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial That Galvanized the Asian American Movement

Paula Yoo

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2021Nonfiction

Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America

Alec MacGillis

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2021Nonfiction

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

Mary Roach

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2021Young readers

Garlic and the Vampire

Bree Paulsen

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2021Nonfiction

Gay Bar: Why We Went Out

Jeremy Atherton Lin

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2021Nonfiction

Gentrifier: A Memoir

Anne Elizabeth Moore

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2021Fiction & literature

Ghosts: A Novel

Dolly Alderton

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2021Poetry

Girlhood

Melissa Febos

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2021Fiction & literature

Gold Diggers: A Novel

Sanjena Sathian

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2021Poetry

Goldenrod: Poems

Maggie Smith

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2021Poetry

Gordo: Stories

Jaime Cortez

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2021Fiction & literature

Great Circle: A Novel

Maggie Shipstead

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2021Nonfiction

Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration

Reuben Jonathan Miller

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2021Fiction & literature

Happy Hour: A Novel

Marlowe Granados

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2021Fiction & literature

Hard Like Water

Yan Lianke, translated by Carlos Rojas

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2021Mystery & crime

Harlem Shuffle: A Novel

Colson Whitehead

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2021Literary fiction

Hell of a Book

Jason Mott

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

2021Poetry

Hoarders

Kate Durbin

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2021Fiction & literature

Honey Girl

Morgan Rogers

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2021Nonfiction

House of Sticks: A Memoir

Ly Tran

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