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 4225–4272 of 4371

2013Science fiction & fantasy

Going Under

Lauren Dane

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2013Young readers

Gorgeous

Paul Rudnick

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2013Graphic novels

Gris Grimly's Frankenstein

Mary Shelley, Gris Grimly

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2013Graphic novels

Hand-Drying In America: And Other Stories

Ben Katchor

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2013Young readers

Have You Seen My New Blue Socks?

Eve Bunting, Sergio Ruzzier

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2013Young readers

Hiding Out At The Pancake Palace

Nan Marino

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2013Nonfiction

Hitler's Furies: German Women In The Nazi Killing Fields

Wendy Lower

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2013Young readers

How Big Were Dinosaurs?

Lita Judge

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2013Mystery & crime

How The Light Gets In: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

Louise Penny

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2013Fiction & literature

How To Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia

Mohsin Hamid

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2013Nonfiction

How We Do It: The Evolution And Future Of Human Reproduction

Robert Martin

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2013Graphic novels

Hyperbole And A Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, And Other Things That Happened

Allie Brosh

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2013Nonfiction

I Hate To Leave This Beautiful Place

Howard Norman

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2013Poetry

I Want To Show You More

Jamie Quatro

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2013Nonfiction

I'll Be Seeing You

Suzanne Hayes and Loretta Nyhan

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2013Poetry

Incarnadine

Mary Szybist

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

2013Nonfiction

Indian Cooking Unfolded: A Master Class In Indian Cooking, With 100 Easy Recipes Using 10 Ingredients Or Less

Raghavan Iyer

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2013Nonfiction

Johnny Cash: The Life

Robert Hilburn

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2013Young readers

Journey

Aaron Becker

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2013Graphic novels

Julio's Day

Gilbert Hernandez

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2013Nonfiction

Kansas City Lightning: The Rise And Times Of Charlie Parker

Stanley Crouch

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2013Nonfiction

Keepers: Two Home Cooks Share Their Tried-And-True Weeknight Recipes And The Secrets To Happiness In The Kitchen

Kathy Brennan, Caroline Campion

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2013Nonfiction

Lawrence In Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly And The Making Of The Modern Middle East

Scott Anderson

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2013Nonfiction

League Of Denial: The NFL, Concussions And The Battle For Truth

Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru

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2013Nonfiction

Levels Of Life

Julian Barnes

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2013Science fiction & fantasy

Lexicon: A Novel

Max Barry

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2013Nonfiction

Life After Life

Kate Atkinson

On 2 lists: NPR Books We Love, The New York Times — 10 Best Books

2013Mystery & crime

Little Elvises: A Junior Bender Mystery

Timothy Hallinan

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2013Poetry

Love Is Power, Or Something Like That: Stories

A. Igoni Barrett

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2013Science fiction & fantasy

Love Minus Eighty

Will McIntosh

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2013Poetry

Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die, Cherish, Perish: A Novel

David Rakoff

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2013Science fiction & fantasy

MaddAddam: A Novel

Margaret Atwood

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2013Nonfiction

Mary Coin

Marisa Silver

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2013Nonfiction

Masterminds And Wingmen: Helping Our Boys Cope With Schoolyard Power, Locker-Room Tests, Girlfriends And The New Rules Of Boy World

Rosalind Wiseman

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2013Nonfiction

Men We Reaped: A Memoir

Jesmyn Ward

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2013Nonfiction

Metaphysical Dog

Frank Bidart

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2013Nonfiction

Miss Anne In Harlem: The White Women Of The Black Renaissance

Carla Kaplan

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2013Young readers

Mo's Mustache

Ben Clanton

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2013Young readers

Mr. Wuffles!

David Wiesner

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2013Nonfiction

Mrs. Poe

Lynn Cullen

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2013Fiction & literature

My Education

Susan Choi

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2013Science fiction & fantasy

Neptune's Brood: A Space Opera

Charles Stross

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2013Poetry

New And Selected Poems: 1962-2012

Charles Simic

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2013Graphic novels

New School

Dash Shaw

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2013Mystery & crime

Nexus

Ramez Naam

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2013Mystery & crime

Night Film: A Novel

Marisha Pessl

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2013Mystery & crime

Odds Against Tomorrow

Nathaniel Rich

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2013Young readers

On A Beam Of Light: A Story Of Albert Einstein

Jennifer Berne, Vladimir Radunsky

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