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 1777–1824 of 4371

2021Nonfiction

The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion

Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell

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2021Fiction & literature

The Dating Playbook

Farrah Rochon

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2021Nonfiction

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

David Graeber and David Wengrow

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2021Mystery & crime

The Death of Jane Lawrence: A Novel

Caitlin Starling

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2021Nonfiction

The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became a National Catastrophe

Josh Mitchell

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2021Fiction & literature

The Ex Talk: A Novel

Rachel Lynn Solomon

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2021Nonfiction

The Family Roe: An American Story

Joshua Prager

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2021Mystery & crime

The Final Girl Support Group: A Novel

Grady Hendrix

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2021Fiction & literature

The Final Revival of Opal and Nev

Dawnie Walton

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2021Fiction & literature

The Five Wounds: A Novel

Kristin Valdez Quade

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2021Nonfiction

The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War

Louis Menand

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2021Young readers

The Genius Under the Table: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain

Eugene Yelchin

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2021Young readers

The Gilded Ones

Namina Forna

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2021Poetry

The Glass Constellation: New and Collected Poems

Arthur Sze

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2021Nonfiction

The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing

Sonia Faleiro

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2021Nonfiction

The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero

Peter S. Canellos

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2021Nonfiction

The Grizzly in the Driveway: The Return of Bears to a Crowded American West

Robert Chaney

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2021Fiction & literature

The Guncle: A Novel

Steven Rowley

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2021Nonfiction

The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story

Kate Summerscale

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2021Fiction & literature

The Heart Principle: A Novel

Helen Hoang

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2021Nonfiction

The Isolation Artist: Scandal, Deception, and the Last Days of Robert Indiana

Bob Keyes

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2021Nonfiction

The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease

Daisy Hernández

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2021Young readers

The Legend of Auntie Po

Shing Yin Khor

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2021Fiction & literature

The Liar's Dictionary: A Novel

Eley Williams

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2021Fiction & literature

The Life of the Mind: A Novel

Christine Smallwood

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2021Nonfiction

The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos

Judy Batalion

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2021Fiction & literature

The Lincoln Highway: A Novel

Amor Towles

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2021Young readers

The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess

Tom Gauld

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2021Nonfiction

The Loneliest Americans

Jay Caspian Kang

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2021Mystery & crime

The Lost Village: A Novel

Camilla Sten, translated by Alexandra Fleming

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2021Fiction & literature

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Novel

Honorée Fannone Jeffers

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2021Fiction & literature

The Magician: A Novel

Colm Tóibín

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2021Nonfiction

The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: Five Hundred Years of Women's Self Portraits

Jennifer Higgie

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2021Science fiction & fantasy

The Morning Star: A Novel

Karl Ove Knausgaard

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2021Poetry

The Most Fun Thing: Dispatches from a Skateboard Life

Kyle Beachy

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2021Nonfiction

The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood

Krys Malcom Belc

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2021Young readers

The One Thing You'd Save

Linda Sue Park, illustrated by Robert Sae-Heng

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2021Mystery & crime

The Other Black Girl: A Novel

Zakiya Dalila Harris

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2021Fiction & literature

The Paper Palace: A Novel

Miranda Cowley Heller

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2021Fiction & literature

The Personal Librarian: A Novel

Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray

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2021Mystery & crime

The Postscript Murders

Elly Griffiths

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2021Nonfiction

The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make

Rob Lieber

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2021Nonfiction

The Prisoner: A Memoir

Hwang Sok-yong, translated by Sora Kim-Russell and Anton Hur

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2021Fiction & literature

The Prophets: A Novel

Robert Jones, Jr.

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2021Young readers

The Raconteur's Commonplace Book: A Greenglass House Story

Kate Milford, illustrated by Nicole Wong

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2021Nonfiction

The Red Boat Fish Sauce Cook Book: Beloved Recipes from the Family Behind the Purest Fish Sauce

Cuong Pham with Tien Nguyen and Diep Tran

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2021Poetry

The Rock Eaters: Stories

Brenda Peynado

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2021Nonfiction

The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live

Danielle Dreilinger

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