Recs if you like Black Woods, Blue Sky...

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.

Here's every book so far from BOTM's monthly shortlist since February 2015 for anyone who wants to read them all like I do!

All the 2025 BOTM monthly, add on, and Allurial titles

Books (mostly fiction) with relationship to place/natural systems as a major theme. Recommendations welcome!

Experiential reading. The mood, the words, the descriptions will transport you. You won't know if you're on your couch or in the snow-covered woods of an island off of South Korea.

Antarctica, Patagonia, Alaska, Canada, upper Great Lakes, somewhere in the mountains, wintertime, etc. (fiction and nonfiction)

Highly anticipated new releases to add to your TBR

Top contenders for this year's Reading Challenge! The goal is a well-rounded reading experience (nonfiction, romance, mystery, biography, memoir, poetry, series, etc.). Take inspiration for your own lists or recommend titles for mine!!