Recs if you like The Ten Year Affair...

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

2026 is for unhinged girls and their weird agendas

The shortlist and play-in round books for the 2026 Tournament of Books

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

Books recommended by Dakota Johnson each month for her bookclub associated with her production company TeaTime Pictures!

In the bookclub IG channel her and her @teatime.pictures team also shared deep dives into the books and insights about them, often curated by the authors themselves ✨ From October 2026 the bookclub moved to Substack!

The TeaTime Book Club is a monthly curated book club by actress Dakota Johnson.

The list includes historical and contemporary literary fiction.

This isn’t just “weird girl lit,” it’s weird girl books with a MESSAGE. with something to say and doing it in a weird way!! No shame to the angry woman weird girl books but that ain’t what I’m talking about. I’m talking space, magical realism, weird kinks as metaphors. I’m talking new takes on the form, books that do things differently. If you know, you know. These are some of my favorite types of books and nearly everything on this list I’ve read and loved.

by dakota johnson

So many books featuring cheating and about adultery. How they start, why they start, and the fallout.