Take a moment to browse through these hundreds of hand-picked reads from 2025, (not to mention 4,000+ recommendations from the last 13 years). You can mix and match the filters to find the book that’s perfect for you. 🥰
No AI or algorithms here - just 141 human beings [131 reviewers, 3 editors 👋, 1 producer, 1 reporter, 1 standards editor, 2 copy editors, 1 developer, and 1 graphics editor] who really wanted to tell you about some books they loved this year. ❤️📚 apps.npr.org/best-books/
A computer monitor displaying a list of 130+ names of NPR staffers and book critics who have contributed recommendations to the 2025 installment of Books We Love, coming out on Monday 11/24. The bright red leaves of a Japanese Maple visible through the window. List includes: Ari Shapiro, Bob Mondello, Eric Deggans, Glen Weldon, Leila Fadel, Maureen Corrigan, Michel Martin, Neda Ulaby, and more.
🍁 The maple in my backyard is bright red which means it’s time for Books We Love! 380+ new recommendations coming your way Monday morning. 👀 Here’s your annual sneak peek at the @npr staffers and book critics you’ll hear from this year.
Fin.
Man with a Glove: Guys did you hear she might be PREGNANT?!?
Pastoral Concert: omg Venetian Woman what IS it with you and “being dressed”
Portrait of a Venetian Woman: Tbh she always looked underdressed to me.
Wedding at Cana: I never understood why everyone was hanging out with her anyway. The party is here. I am 22 feet tall and LITERALLY turning water into wine.
Mona Lisa is getting moved to her own room at the Louvre. You’ll be shocked to learn no one took me up on my offer to write up this news in the form of a pissy group text between the paintings she shares a gallery with. I will not be thwarted. 🧵 www.npr.org/2025/01/29/n...
You soared! 🤗
Computer screen with a list of names of ~120 Books We Love contributors on the left with a view of a red maple tree through a window on the right.
👀 Here’s your annual sneak peek at the @npr.org staffers and book critics who’ve written about their favorite reads of 2024. We’ll have 350+ recommendations ready for you Monday morning in the new edition of Books We Love. (+ a bonus cameo from this amazing tree outside my window) 🍁
