Cannon
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Cannon by Lee Lai appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, comics & graphic novels, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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
- Years
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Showing 49–96 of 4371
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
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Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, eye-opening reads, it’s all geek to me, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
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Casanova 20: Or, Hot World by Davey Davis appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, identity & culture, let’s talk about sex, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Casualties of Truth
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Casualties of Truth by Lauren Francis-Sharma appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around family matters, identity & culture, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Celebrate: Joyful Baking All Year Round
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Celebrate: Joyful Baking All Year Round by Paul Hollywood appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around cookbooks & food, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Change the Recipe: Because You Can't Build a Better World Without Breaking Some Eggs
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Change the Recipe: Because You Can't Build a Better World Without Breaking Some Eggs by José Andrés, with Richard Wolffe appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Changeover: A Young Rivalry and a New Era of Men's Tennis
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Changeover: A Young Rivalry and a New Era of Men's Tennis by Giri Nathan appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, for sports lovers, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare
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Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare by Edward Fishman appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, eye-opening reads, the states we’re in, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free
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Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free by Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Clown Town
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Clown Town by Mick Herron appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around mysteries & thrillers, fiction, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Coded Justice: A Thriller
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Coded Justice: A Thriller by Stacey Abrams appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around mysteries & thrillers, staff picks, science!, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Courtroom Drama
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Courtroom Drama by Neely Tubati Alexander appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around love & romance, fiction, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Crumble
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Crumble by Meredith McClaren, illustrated by Andrea Bell appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, kids’ books, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Cry for Me, Argentina: My Life as a Failed Child Star
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Cry for Me, Argentina: My Life as a Failed Child Star by Tamara Yajia appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, nonfiction, biography & memoir, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Culpability
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Culpability by Bruce Holsinger appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, mysteries & thrillers, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse
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Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse by Alice Bolin appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, short stories, essays & poetry, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Cursed Daughters
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Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around book club ideas, family matters, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Daikon
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Daikon by Samuel Hawley appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around historical fiction, staff picks, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival
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Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival by Stephen Greenblatt appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around eye-opening reads, tales from around the world, nonfiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Darkenbloom
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Darkenbloom by Eva Menasse, translated by Charlotte Collins appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, tales from around the world, historical fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins
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Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins by Barbara Demick appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, eye-opening reads, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Dealing with the Dead
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Dealing with the Dead by Alain Mabanckou appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around tales from around the world, rather short, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life
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Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life by Maggie Smith appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, nonfiction, for art lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Death of the Author
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Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, staff picks, rather long, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told
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Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told by Jeremy Atherton Lin appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, for history lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Defiant: The Story of Robert Smalls
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Defiant: The Story of Robert Smalls by Rob Edwards, illustrated by Sean Damien Hill and Alex Paterson, cover illustration by Nikolas Draper-Ivey appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, comics & graphic novels, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television
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Desi Arnaz: The Man Who Invented Television by Todd S. Purdum appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, no biz like show biz, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Dinner: 120 Vegan and Vegetarian Recipes for the Most Important Meal of the Day
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Dinner: 120 Vegan and Vegetarian Recipes for the Most Important Meal of the Day by Meera Sodha appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around cookbooks & food, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Discontent
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Discontent by Beatriz Serrano, translated by Mara Faye Lethem appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, book club ideas, the dark side, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Don't Trust Fish
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Don't Trust Fish by Neil Sharpson, illustrated by Dan Santat appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, funny stuff, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Dorie's Anytime Cakes
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Dorie's Anytime Cakes by Dorie Greenspan, illustrated by Nancy Pappas appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around cookbooks & food, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Dream Count
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Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, book club ideas, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Dream On
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Dream On by Shannon Hale, illustrated by Marcela Cespedes appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, kids’ books, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Dream School: Finding the College That's Right for You
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Dream School: Finding the College That's Right for You by Jeffrey Selingo appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, nonfiction, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Dream State
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Dream State by Eric Puchner appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, book club ideas, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Dwelling
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Dwelling by Emily Hunt Kivel appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, book club ideas, funny stuff, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
El Dorado Drive
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El Dorado Drive by Megan Abbott appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, mysteries & thrillers, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Elita
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Elita by Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, mysteries & thrillers, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
elseship: an unrequited affair
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elseship: an unrequited affair by Tree Abraham appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Endling
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Endling by Maria Reva appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, book club ideas, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Every Monday Mabel
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Every Monday Mabel by Jashar Awan appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection
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Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, book club ideas, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Fair Play
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Fair Play by Louise Hegarty appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, seriously great writing, mysteries & thrillers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty
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Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty by Kaila Yu appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Fireblooms
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Fireblooms by Alexandra Villasante appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, love & romance, young adult, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Fireworks
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Fireworks by Matthew Burgess, illustrated by Cátia Chien appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
First-Time Caller
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First-Time Caller by B.K. Borison appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around love & romance, staff picks, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Flashlight
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Flashlight by Susan Choi appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around historical fiction, fiction, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.