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 193–240 of 402

2022Fiction & literature

Nightcrawling: A Novel

Leila Mottley

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2022Nonfiction

Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World

Gaia Vince

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2022Science fiction & fantasy

Nona the Ninth

Tamsyn Muir

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2022Young readers

Noor and Bobby

Praline Gay-Para, illustrated by Lauranne Quentric, and translated by Alyson Waters

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2022Fiction & literature

Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance: A Novel

Alison Espach

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2022Poetry

Now Do You Know Where You Are

Dana Levin

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2022Fiction & literature

Nuclear Family: A Novel

Joseph Han

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2022Fiction & literature

Olga Dies Dreaming: A Novel

Xochitl Gonzalez

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2022Fiction & literature

On the Rooftop: A Novel

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

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2022Young readers

One for All: A Novel

Lillie Lainoff

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2022Fiction & literature

One True Loves

Elise Bryant

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2022Young readers

Ophelia After All

Racquel Marie

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2022Science fiction & fantasy

Ordinary Monsters: A Novel

J.M. Miro

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2022Nonfiction

Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas

Jennifer Raff

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2022Nonfiction

Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Extra Good Things

Noor Murad and Yotam Ottolenghi

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2022Fiction & literature

Our Last Days in Barcelona

Chanel Cleeton

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2022Fiction & literature

Our Missing Hearts: A Novel

Celeste Ng

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2022Science fiction & fantasy

Our Wives Under the Sea: A Novel

Julia Armfield

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2022Fiction & literature

Paradais

Fernanda Melchor, translated by Sophie Hughes

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2022Fiction & literature

Partners in Crime: A Novel

Alisha Rai

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2022Science fiction & fantasy

Patricia Wants to Cuddle: A Novel

Samantha Allen

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2022Nonfiction

Persiana Everyday

Sabrina Ghayour

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2022Nonfiction

Plant-Based India: Nourishing Recipes Rooted in Tradition

Sheil Shukla

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2022Nonfiction

Portrait of a Thief: A Novel

Grace D. Li

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2022Science fiction & fantasy

Present Tense Machine: A Novel

Gunnhild Øyehaug, translated by Sophie Hughes

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2022Poetry

Punks: New & Selected Poems

John Keene

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

2022Poetry

Rainbow Rainbow: Stories

Lydia Conklin

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2022Fiction & literature

Ramón and Julieta

Alana Quintana Albertson

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2022Fiction & literature

Recitatif: A Story

Toni Morrison

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2022Nonfiction

Red Paint: An Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe

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2022Young readers

Red Scare: A Graphic Novel

Liam Francis Walsh

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2022Mystery & crime

Reputation: A Novel

Sarah Vaughan

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2022Poetry

Reward System: Stories

Jem Calder

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2022Nonfiction

River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

Candice Millard

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2022Poetry

Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

Patrick Radden Keefe

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2022Fiction & literature

Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion: A Novel

Bushra Rehman

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2022Nonfiction

Runaway: Notes on the Myths That Made Me

Erin Keane

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2022Young readers

Rust in the Root

Justina Ireland

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2022Nonfiction

Salmon P. Chase: Lincoln's Vital Rival

Walter Stahr

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2022Science fiction & fantasy

Scattered All Over the Earth

Yoko Tawada, translated by Margaret Mitsutani

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2022Nonfiction

Scenes from My Life: A Memoir

Michael K. Williams and Jon Sternfeld

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2022Nonfiction

Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free

Sarah Weinman

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2022Science fiction & fantasy

Sea of Tranquility: A Novel

Emily St. John Mandel

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2022Nonfiction

Search: A Novel

Michelle Huneven

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2022Mystery & crime

Secret Identity: A Novel

Alex Segura

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2022Nonfiction

Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop

Danyel Smith

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2022Poetry

Shit Cassandra Saw: Stories

Gwen E. Kirby

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2022Mystery & crime

Shutter: A Novel

Ramona Emerson

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