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NPR’s Books We Love 2025

Books We Love from NPR began in 2013, always boasting over 200 books (almost 400 in recent years) featuring genres from memoirs, to cookbooks, to graphic novels, to children’s literature, to nonfiction, to novels. Check out NPR’s website to filter this massive list.

The list is in reverse alphabetical order directly from NPR.

A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck

A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children

A Guardian and a Thief

A Book of Maps for You

A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck

A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children

the conversation: best books of 2025

the conversation asked experts across australia to pick their favourite books of the year

*a couple missing from the list which aren't yet on pagebound

https://theconversation.com/best-books-of-2025-our-experts-share-their-picks-268875

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Heart Lamp: Selected Stories

The Impossible Fortune

Melaleuca

Little World

Heart Lamp: Selected Stories

The Impossible Fortune

Dear Diary,

by MagpieGoblin

Are these supposed to be read? Or are we invading their privacy? You decide.

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

The Diary of a Young Girl

Bridget Jones’s Diary

The Diary of a Bookseller

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

The Diary of a Young Girl

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