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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.

Non-fiction books about health and how our body works, from anatomy to mental health, from healing to studying medicine. 😷 [Note: Some of these books might be controversial or resonate with some more than with others. Pick and choose what works for YOU. :)] Recommendations welcome

i’m a massage therapist by trade, obsessed with the growing body of research around trauma, fascia, and the role of somatics in whole-self healing. some of these selections are more hard science based, some memoir, and some more ‘woo-woo’ - but all of them are informing my thinking around bodywork for myself and my clients.

Microhistory and PopSci books to find your newest hyperfixation.

Books I’m intrigued by