Recs if you like Heartwood...

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.

This includes book that have either mystery or thrillers as a primary or secondary genre. If you have recommendations to add please comment and I'll happily add them 💕

Stories centered around isolation, being stranded, societal collapse, and surviving in the wilderness.

Hii, everyone ♡ I am a very big fan of the booktuber @caricanread so I thought I would make a list of all the books she has read this year! ✰

sunny settings, or books that feel sunny and offer escapism from the winter blues in an eclectic blend of genres.

Editing to add: okay some of these books are SAD, my dudes, just like my seasonal affective disorder. But at the same time, they are soft and kind and a safe place for the big sad, if that makes sense?

Summer reading I will be doing on a picnic blanket with fresh strawberries and a fun drink. Genre unspecified 💕 ((Any recommendations for summer-set or summer-vibes books are welcome!))

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 were/are Barnes & Noble Monthly Picks, Books of the year, Hot Coffee Hot Books, or Book Club picks.

(Inspired by @erintripsey s lists on audiobook narrators)

Helen Laser was one of the audiobook narrators that truly made me fall in love with audiobooks, her narration of Yellowface was fantastic and honestly one of the first times I got audiobooks

I honestly don‘t know how to describe her voice except that it scratches that itch in my brain

Fiction books from The New York Times' "100 Notable Books of 2025" list

Note: I will be deleting my PB account within the next two weeks, and I believe this list will be erased. Feel free to screenshot it if you see anything that interests you! ☺️ 3/17/2026

the types of books that even though they’re not perfect, the mystery and twists keep you up all night because you have to know what happens next/in the end.

I can’t promise you a “good” book… but I can sure as hell vouch you’ll want to devour it in one sitting.

according to the new york times' november list

This is one of a few lists I'm making to help me organize my ideas for HRCYED 3.0. Feel free to take inspiration or comment with more ideas.

These books are chosen for “Read with Jenna” by Jenna Bush Hager.

Latest book added: September 2026

Books to yap about with your friends from Simon & Schuster.

Books that take place in Appalachia

why fear the wolf when there's so many other horrifying ways to die in the woods.

by jenna bush hager