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pink, sophisticated & sometimes fatale <3 (added some essential nonfic & poetry!)

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!

the coquette femme aesthetic is of the utmost importance

Lit fic books to read for the aesthetic

Social commentary under patriarchy

these books look back 👀

always accepting suggestions for books with eyes featured prominently on the cover

Books on my TBR with LGBTQIA+ characters or themes.

All sorts of stories about all sorts of women. Mostly litfic, some horror.

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

She’s burnt out and depressed but she’s trying her best!✨🕺

Romances with slutty little academics and their even sluttier little glasses. It’s always the quiet ones

I mostly read women so they are definitely overrepresented here, feel free to suggest litfic featuring bi or pan men or enbies!

💜 yarnandbooks

The Center for Fiction 2025 First Novel Prize Shortlist! "The First Novel Prize honors the best debut novel of the year and supports emerging voices in fiction."

Books with insides as sexy as their outsides! Or like literary merit and all that.

i want her to bully him just a little

Attitudes make for banter cocaine. Books with bratty characters or just a general vibe. Snark, sass, and the partners to match.

The list includes historical and contemporary literary fiction.

set in LA/socal