NPR Books We Love

NPR editors and critics' annual book recommendations.

  1. A Guardian and a Thief — Megha Majumdar #1
  2. A Marriage at Sea — Sophie Elmhirst #2
  3. A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping — Sangu Mandanna #3
  4. Abundance — Ezra Klein #4
  5. After Life — Gayle Forman #5
  6. American Kings — Seth Wickersham #6
  7. Atavists — Lydia Millet #7
  8. Atmosphere — Taylor Jenkins Reid #8
  9. Audition — Katie M. Kitamura #9
  10. Automatic Noodle — Annalee Newitz #10
  11. Baldwin — Nicholas Boggs #11
  12. Beautiful Ugly — Alice Feeney #12
  13. Black Woods Blue Sky — Eowyn Ivey #13
  14. Blood in the Water — Tiffany D. Jackson #14
  15. Bread of Angels — Patti Smith #15
  16. Breakneck — Dan Wang #16
  17. Buckeye — Patrick Ryan #17
  18. Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil — V.E. Schwab #18
  19. Can't Get Enough — Kennedy Ryan #19
  20. Careless People — Sarah Wynn-Williams #20
  21. Chokepoints — Edward Fishman #21
  22. Clown Town — Mick Herron #22
  23. Coded Justice — Stacey Abrams #23
  24. Culpability — Bruce Holsinger #24
  25. Cursed Daughters — Oyinkan Braithwaite #25
  26. Daughters of the Bamboo Grove — Barbara Demick #26
  27. Don't Trust Fish! — Neil Sharpson #27
  28. Dream Count — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie #28
  29. Dream State — Eric Puchner #29
  30. Everything Is Tuberculosis — John Green #30
  31. First-Time Caller — B. K. Borison #31
  32. Flashlight — Susan Choi #32
  33. Flesh — David Szalay #33
  34. Girl Dinner — Olivie Blake #34
  35. Good Dirt — Charmaine Wilkerson #35
  36. Great Big Beautiful Life — Emily Henry #36
  37. Heart Lamp — Banu Mushtaq #37
  38. Heart the Lover — Lily King #38
  39. Hemlock & Silver — T. Kingfisher #39
  40. History Matters — David McCullough #40
  41. I See You've Called in Dead — John Kenney #41
  42. I, Medusa — Ayana Gray #42
  43. Isola — Allegra Goodman #43
  44. John & Paul — Ian Leslie #44
  45. Joyride — Susan Orlean #45
  46. Katabasis — R. F. Kuang #46
  47. King of Ashes — S. A. Cosby #47
  48. Marble Hall Murders — Anthony Horowitz #48
  49. Memorial Days — Geraldine Brooks #49
  50. Mercy — Joan Silber #50
  51. Mother Mary Comes to Me — Arundhati Roy #51
  52. Murderland — Caroline Fraser #52
  53. My Friends — Fredrik Backman #53
  54. Never Thought I'd End Up Here — Ann Liang #54
  55. Night People — Mark Ronson #55
  56. Not My Type — E. Jean Carroll #56
  57. Not Quite Dead Yet — Holly Jackson #57
  58. Notes to John — Joan Didion #58
  59. One Crazy Summer — Rita Williams-Garcia #59
  60. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This — Omar El Akkad #60
  61. Onyx storm — Rebecca Yarros #61
  62. Picks and Shovels — Cory Doctorow #62
  63. Poets Square — Courtney Gustafson #63
  64. Promise Me Sunshine — Cara Bastone #64
  65. Raising Hare — Chloe Dalton #65
  66. Sounds Like Love — Ashley Poston #66
  67. Spent — Alison Bechdel #67
  68. Sunrise on the Reaping — Suzanne Collins #68
  69. The Bewitching — Silvia Moreno-Garcia #69
  70. The Book of Alchemy — Suleika Jaouad #70
  71. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter — Stephen Graham Jones #71
  72. The Compound — Aisling Rawle #72
  73. The Correspondent — Virginia Evans #73
  74. The Devil Reached Toward the Sky — Garrett M. Graff #74
  75. The Dream Hotel — Laila Lalami #75
  76. The Emperor of Gladness — Ocean Vuong #76
  77. The Everlasting — Alix E. Harrow #77
  78. The Experiment — Rebecca Stead #78
  79. The Fate of the Day — Rick Atkinson #79
  80. The Golden Road — William Dalrymple #80
  81. The Harder I Fight the More I Love You — Neko Case #81
  82. The Heart-Shaped Tin — Bee Wilson #82
  83. The Impossible Fortune — Richard Osman #83
  84. The Incandescent — Emily Tesh #84
  85. The Land in Winter — Andrew Miller #85
  86. The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus — Emma Knight #86
  87. The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny — Kiran Desai #87
  88. The Note — Alafair Burke #88
  89. The Paris Express — Emma Donoghue #89
  90. The Raven Scholar — Antonia Hodgson #90
  91. The Rest of Our Lives — Ben Markovits #91
  92. The Road to Tender Hearts — Annie Hartnett #92
  93. The Teacher of Nomad Land — Daniel Nayeri #93
  94. The Technological Republic — Alexander C. Karp #94
  95. The Three Lives of Cate Kay — Kate Fagan #95
  96. The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) — Rabih Alameddine #96
  97. The Wilderness — Angela Flournoy #97
  98. They Bloom at Night — Trang Thanh Tran #98
  99. Things in Nature Merely Grow — Yiyun Li #99
  100. Three Days in June — Anne Tyler #100
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