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 3265–3312 of 4371

2017Fiction & literature

The Red

Tiffany Reisz

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2017Poetry

The Refugees

Viet Thanh Nguyen

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2017Young readers

The River Bank: A Sequel To Kenneth Grahame's The Wind In The Willows

Kij Johnson

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2017Nonfiction

The Rules Do Not Apply: A Memoir

Ariel Levy

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2017Science fiction & fantasy

The Rules Of Magic

Alice Hoffman

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2017Nonfiction

The Sarah Book

Scott McClanahan

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2017Nonfiction

The Scent Of Jasmine: Coming Of Age In Jerusalem And Damascus

Anan Ameri

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2017Nonfiction

The Secret Lives Of Color

Kassia St. Clair

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2017Mystery & crime

The Seventh Function Of Language: A Novel

Laurent Binet, translated by Sam Taylor

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2017Nonfiction

The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen

Sean Sherman

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2017Nonfiction

The State Of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity

Esther Perel

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2017Science fiction & fantasy

The Stone Sky

N. K. Jemisin

On 2 lists: NPR Books We Love, Nebula Award for Best Novel

2017Nonfiction

The Storm Before The Storm: The Beginning Of The End Of The Roman Republic

Mike Duncan

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2017Mystery & crime

The Strange Case Of The Alchemist's Daughter

Theodora Goss

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2017Fiction & literature

The Strays: A Novel

Emily Bitto

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2017Fiction & literature

The Thing About Love

Julie James

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2017Nonfiction

The Totally Unscientific Study Of The Search For Human Happiness

Paula Poundstone

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2017Mystery & crime

The Twelve Lives Of Samuel Hawley: A Novel

Hannah Tinti

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2017Science fiction & fantasy

The Twenty Days Of Turin: A Novel

Giorgio De Maria, translated by Ramon Glazov

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2017Nonfiction

The Unwomanly Face Of War: An Oral History Of Women In World War II

Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

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2017Science fiction & fantasy

The Unyielding

Shelly Laurenston

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2017Nonfiction

The Way Of The Hare

Marianne Taylor

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2017Fiction & literature

The Wide Circumference Of Love

Marita Golden

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2017Nonfiction

The Wine Lover's Daughter: A Memoir

Anne Fadiman

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2017Fiction & literature

The Woman Next Door: A Novel

Yewande Omotoso

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2017Nonfiction

The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story Of Love, Spies, And The Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies

Jason Fagone

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2017Nonfiction

The World Broke In Two: Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, And The Year That Changed Literature

Bill Goldstein

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2017Nonfiction

The Year I Was Peter The Great: 1956 – Khrushchev, Stalin’s Ghost, and a Young American in Russia

Marvin Kalb

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2017Poetry

Theft By Finding: Diaries (1977-2002)

David Sedaris

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2017Poetry

They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays

Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib

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2017Nonfiction

This Is Just My Face: Try Not To Stare

Gabourey Sidibe

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2017Poetry

Thousand Star Hotel

Bao Phi

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2017Nonfiction

Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise And Reign Of The Unruly Woman

Anne Helen Petersen

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2017Poetry

Too Much And Not The Mood: Essays

Durga Chew-Bose

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2017Fiction & literature

Touch

Courtney Maum

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2017Young readers

Town Is By The Sea

Joanne Schwartz, illustrated by Sydney Smith

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2017Young readers

Triangle

Mac Barnett, illustrated by Jon Klassen

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2017Graphic novels

Trust No Aunty

Maria Qamar

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2017Young readers

Turtles All The Way Down

John Green

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2017Mystery & crime

Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier

Mark Frost

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2017Mystery & crime

Two Kinds Of Truth

Michael Connelly

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2017Young readers

Tyrannosaurus Rex Vs. Edna The Very First Chicken

Douglas Rees, illustrated by Jed Henry

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2017Poetry

Uncommon Type: Some Stories

Tom Hanks

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2017Mystery & crime

Universal Harvester: A Novel

John Darnielle

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2017Poetry

Wait Till You See Me Dance: Stories

Deb Olin Unferth

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2017Science fiction & fantasy

Walkaway: A Novel

Cory Doctorow

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2017Poetry

We Are Never Meeting In Real Life.: Essays

Samantha Irby

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2017Nonfiction

We Need To Talk: How To Have Conversations That Matter

Celeste Headlee

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