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 3505–3552 of 4371

2016Fiction & literature

Reputations

Juan Gabriel Vásquez, translated by Anne McLean

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2016Nonfiction

Rogue Heroes: The History Of The SAS, Britain's Secret Special Forces Unit That Sabotaged The Nazis And Changed The Nature Of War

Ben Macintyre

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2016Graphic novels

Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches From Turkey, Syria, And Iraq

Sarah Glidden

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2016Nonfiction

Secondhand Time: The Last Of The Soviets

Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Bela Shayevich

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2016Poetry

Selected Poems, 1968-2014

Paul Muldoon

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2016Nonfiction

Seven Brief Lessons On Physics

Carlo Rovelli

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2016Nonfiction

Sex Object: A Memoir

Jessica Valenti

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2016Nonfiction

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

Ruth Franklin

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2016Nonfiction

Shock And Awe: Glam Rock And Its Legacy, From The Seventies To The Twenty-first Century

Simon Reynolds

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2016Nonfiction

Shrill: Notes From A Loud Woman

Lindy West

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2016Nonfiction

Small Victories: Recipes, Advice + Hundreds Of Ideas For Home Cooking Triumphs

Julia Turshen

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2016Nonfiction

Smashed, Mashed, Boiled, And Baked — And Fried, Too! A Celebration Of Potatoes In 75 Irresistible Recipes

Raghavan Iyer

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2016Science fiction & fantasy

Smoke: A Novel

Dan Vyleta

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2016Poetry

So Sad Today: Personal Essays

Melissa Broder

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2016Fiction & literature

Sons And Daughters Of Ease And Plenty: A Novel

Ramona Ausubel

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2016Nonfiction

Sous Vide At Home: The Modern Technique For Perfectly Cooked Meals

Lisa Q. Fetterman

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2016Fiction & literature

Spill Simmer Falter Wither

Sara Baume

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2016Poetry

Standing Water: Poems

Eleanor Chai

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2016Nonfiction

Sweetbitter: A Novel

Stephanie Danler

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2016Fiction & literature

Swing Time

Zadie Smith

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2016Nonfiction

Terror In The City Of Champions: Murder, Baseball, And The Secret Society That Shocked Depression-era Detroit

Tom Stanton

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2016Nonfiction

The ABCs Of How We Learn: 26 Scientifically Proven Approaches, How They Work, And When To Use Them

Daniel L. Schwartz, Jessica M. Tsang, Kristen P. Blair

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2016Nonfiction

The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old And New

Annie Dillard

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2016Fiction & literature

The Angel Of History: A Novel

Rabih Alameddine

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2016Graphic novels

The Arab Of The Future 2: A Childhood In The Middle East, 1984-1985: A Graphic Memoir

Riad Sattouf

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2016Graphic novels

The Art Of Charlie Chan Hock Chye

Sonny Liew

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2016Nonfiction

The Bad-Ass Librarians Of Timbuktu: And Their Race To Save The World’s Most Precious Manuscripts

Joshua Hammer

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2016Mystery & crime

The Ballad Of Black Tom

Victor LaValle

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2016Young readers

The Beach At Night

Elena Ferrante, illustrated by Mara Cerri, translated by Ann Goldstein

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2016Graphic novels

The Best American Comics 2016

Roz Chast (editor)

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2016Nonfiction

The Bitch Is Back: Older, Wiser, And (Getting) Happier

Cathi Hanauer (editor)

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2016Nonfiction

The Book Of Magic: From Antiquity To The Enlightenment

Brian Copenhaver (editor)

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2016Fiction & literature

The Border Of Paradise: A Novel

Esmé Weijun Wang

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2016Fiction & literature

The Bricks That Built The Houses

Kate Tempest

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2016Graphic novels

The Caped Crusade: Batman And The Rise Of Nerd Culture

Glen Weldon

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2016Young readers

The Dark Days Club

Alison Goodman

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2016Nonfiction

The Dim Sum Field Guide: A Taxonomy Of Dumplings, Buns, Meats, Sweets And Other Specialties Of The Chinese Teahouse

Carolyn Phillips

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2016Science fiction & fantasy

The Dream-Quest Of Vellitt Boe

Kij Johnson

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2016Graphic novels

The Familiar, Volume 3: Honeysuckle & Pain

Mark Z. Danielewski

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2016Poetry

The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race

Jesmyn Ward (editor)

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2016Science fiction & fantasy

The Fireman

Joe Hill

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2016Fiction & literature

The Fortunes

Peter Ho Davies

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2016Fiction & literature

The Fox Was Ever The Hunter: A Novel

Herta Müller

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2016Nonfiction

The Gene: An Intimate History

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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2016Young readers

The Girl From Everywhere

Heidi Heilig

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2016Fiction & literature

The Girls

Emma Cline

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2016Nonfiction

The Glass Universe: How The Ladies Of The Harvard Observatory Took The Measure Of The Stars

Dava Sobel

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2016Nonfiction

The Godfather Notebook

Francis Ford Coppola

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