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 1825–1872 of 4371

2021Nonfiction

The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA’s Double Helix

Howard Markel

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2021Graphic novels

The Secret to Superhuman Strength

Alison Bechdel

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2021Science fiction & fantasy

The Sentence: A Novel

Louise Erdrich

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2021Fiction & literature

The Startup Wife: A Novel

Tahmima Anam

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2021Nonfiction

The State Must Provide: Why America's Colleges Have Always Been Unequal – And How to Set Them Right

Adam Harris

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2021Poetry

The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void

Jackie Wang

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2021Fiction & literature

The Sweetness of Water: A Novel

Nathan Harris

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2021Nonfiction

The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest

Mark Synnott

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2021Nonfiction

The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation

Anna Malaika Tubbs

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2021Mystery & crime

The Trees: A Novel

Percival Everett

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2021Mystery & crime

The Turnout: A Novel

Megan Abbott

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2021Fiction & literature

The Twilight Zone: A Novel

Nona Fernández, translated by Natasha Wimmer

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2021Nonfiction

The Twisted Soul Cookbook: Modern Soul Food with Global Flavors

Deborah VanTrece

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2021Poetry

The Uncollected Stories of Allan Gurganus

Allan Gurganus

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2021Mystery & crime

The Vixen: A Novel

Francine Prose

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2021Graphic novels

The Waiting

Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, translated by Janet Hong

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2021Nonfiction

The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans – And How We Can Fix It

Dorothy A. Brown

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2021Science fiction & fantasy

The Wolf and the Woodsman: A Novel

Ava Reid

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2021Mystery & crime

The Woman in the Purple Skirt: A Novel

Natsuko Imamura, translated by Lucy North

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2021Poetry

These Precious Days: Essays

Ann Patchett

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2021Mystery & crime

These Toxic Things: A Thriller

Rachel Howzell Hall

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2021Nonfiction

This is Your Mind on Plants

Michael Pollan

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2021Mystery & crime

This Thing Between Us: A Novel

Gus Moreno

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2021Poetry

Today a Woman Went Mad in the Supermarket: Stories

Hilma Wolitzer

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2021Young readers

Too Bright to See

Kyle Lukoff

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2021Young readers

Too Small Tola

Atinuke, illustrated by Onyinye Iwu

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2021Fiction & literature

Trust: A Novel

Domenico Starnone, translated by Jhumpa Lahiri

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2021Poetry

Twice Alive

Forrest Gander

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2021Nonfiction

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

Elizabeth Kolbert

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2021Young readers

Unsolved Case Files: Escape at 10,000 Feet: D.B. Cooper and the Missing Money

Tom Sullivan

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2021Young readers

Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre

Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Floyd Cooper

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2021Nonfiction

Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction

Kate Masur

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2021Nonfiction

Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine

Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley

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2021Mystery & crime

Velvet Was the Night

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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2021Young readers

Victories Greater Than Death

Charlie Jane Anders

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2021Graphic novels

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martinez

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2021Poetry

Walking on Cowrie Shells: Stories

Nana Nkweti

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2021Nonfiction

Want Me: A Sex Writer's Journey Into the Heart of Desire

Tracy Clark-Flory

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2021Young readers

Watercress

Andrea Wang, illustrated by Jason Chin

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2021Nonfiction

We Are Bridges: A Memoir

Cassandra Lane

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2021Mystery & crime

We Are Watching Eliza Bright: A Novel

A.E. Osworth

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2021Poetry

We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

Mariame Kaba

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2021Nonfiction

We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans & Comedy

Kliph Nesteroff

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2021Mystery & crime

We Run the Tides: A Novel

Vendela Vida

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2021Mystery & crime

We Were Never Here: A Novel

Andrea Bartz

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2021Fiction & literature

What Storm, What Thunder

Myriam J.A. Chancy

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2021Fiction & literature

What Strange Paradise: A Novel

Omar El Akkad

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2021Nonfiction

When Evil Lived in Laurel: The "White Knights" and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer

Curtis Wilkie

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