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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.

Nominees and winners of every category of the Good Reads Choice Awards for the year of 2025. Some books overlap so they were only entered once.

Books that focus on “fun fact” histories, people, concepts, crimes, developments and snapshots from human history.

A collection of non fiction to understand the history of the world and why and how we got here!

To find horror it seems we need look no further than our fellow human beings. All these true crime books have themes ranging from the detriment of patriarchal norms in institutions and family dynamics, systemic racism, corporate and personal greed, homophobia, failures in the justice system and/or stigma of mental health and substance abuse treatment.

everything from science to memoirs to history