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 2641–2688 of 4371

2018Nonfiction

1947: Where Now Begins

Elisabeth Åsbrink, translated by Fiona Graham

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2018Science fiction & fantasy

84K

Claire North

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2018Poetry

A Carnival Of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety

Donald Hall

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2018Nonfiction

A Common Table: 80 Recipes And Stories From My Shared Cultures

Cynthia Chen McTernan

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2018Poetry

A Cruelty Special To Our Species: Poems

Emily Jungmin Yoon

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2018Fiction & literature

A Duke By Default: Reluctant Royals

Alyssa Cole

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2018Nonfiction

A Gift From Darkness

Patience Ibrahim and Andrea C. Hoffmann

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2018Nonfiction

A Hard Rain: America In The 1960s, Our Decade Of Hope, Possibility, And Innocence Lost

Frye Gaillard

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2018Nonfiction

A Life Of My Own: A Memoir

Claire Tomalin

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2018Poetry

A Lucky Man: Stories

Jamel Brinkley

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2018Nonfiction

A New Reality: Human Evolution For A Sustainable Future

Jonas Salk and Jonathan Salk

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2018Fiction & literature

A Place For Us: A Novel

Fatima Farheen Mirza

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2018Fiction & literature

A River Of Stars: A Novel

Vanessa Hua

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2018Young readers

A Room Away From The Wolves

Nova Ren Suma

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2018Young readers

A Stitch In Time

Daphne Kalmar

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2018Poetry

A Thousand Beginnings And Endings

Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman (editors)

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2018Nonfiction

Achtung Baby: An American Mom On The German Art Of Raising Self-Reliant Children

Sara Zaske

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2018Young readers

All The Animals Where I Live

Philip C. Stead

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2018Graphic novels

All The Answers

Michael Kupperman

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2018Poetry

All The Names They Used For God

Anjali Sachdeva

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2018Nonfiction

All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir

Nicole Chung

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2018Young readers

Amal Unbound

Aisha Saeed

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2018Nonfiction

America Is Not The Heart: A Novel

Elaine Castillo

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2018Poetry

American Hate: Survivors Speak Out

Arjun Singh Sethi

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2018Nonfiction

American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey Into The Business Of Punishment

Shane Bauer

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2018Fiction & literature

An American Marriage: A Novel

Tayari Jones

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2018Young readers

Ana Maria Reyes Does Not Live In A Castle

Hilda Eunice Burgos

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2018Nonfiction

And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready

Meaghan O'Connell

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2018Nonfiction

Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us And Undermines Democracy

Siva Vaidhyanathan

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2018Nonfiction

Arthur Ashe: A Life

Raymond Arsenault

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2018Fiction & literature

Asymmetry: A Novel

Lisa Halliday

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2018Nonfiction

Bachelor Nation: Inside The World Of America's Favorite Guilty Pleasure

Amy Kaufman

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2018Poetry

Back Talk: Stories

Danielle Lazarin

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2018Nonfiction

Bad Blood: Secrets And Lies In A Silicon Valley Startup

John Carreyrou

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2018Nonfiction

Ball Lightning

Cixin Liu, translated by Joel Martinsen

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2018Nonfiction

Barracoon: The Story Of The Last "Black Cargo"

Zora Neale Hurston

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2018Young readers

Be Prepared

Vera Brosgol

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2018Nonfiction

Becoming

Michelle Obama

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2018Graphic novels

Belonging: A German Reckons With History And Home

Nora Krug

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2018Nonfiction

Beneath A Ruthless Sun: A True Story Of Violence, Race, And Justice Lost And Found

Gilbert King

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2018Nonfiction

Big Game: The NFL In Dangerous Times

Mark Leibovich

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2018Graphic novels

Bingo Love

Tee Franklin, illustrated by Jenn St-Onge and Joy San

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2018Mystery & crime

Bitter Orange

Claire Fuller

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2018Science fiction & fantasy

Bloody Rose

Nicholas Eames

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2018Young readers

Blue

Laura Vaccaro Seeger

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2018Nonfiction

Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga Of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, And The Dream Of Becoming A World-Class Metropolis

Sam Anderson

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2018Graphic novels

Born To Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life And Mysterious Genius Of Edward Gorey

Mark Dery

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2018Poetry

Brown: Poems

Kevin Young

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