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NPR’s Books We Love 2025

by rapierwit
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383 books

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.

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A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and ShipwreckA Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of ChildrenA Guardian and a ThiefA Book of Maps for You
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and ShipwreckA Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children

Art is Political!

by violet.booklover
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77 books

Creative expression x political themes

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The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Modernism, and Hitler's War on ArtThe Story of Art Without MenGuerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving BadlyStitching the Intifada: Embroidery and Resistance in Palestine
The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Modernism, and Hitler's War on ArtThe Story of Art Without Men

pop culture non-fiction

by dujourmeans
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132 books

... or pop culture leaning.

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House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation FilmsLive from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night LiveI Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video RevolutionYou Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation
House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation FilmsLive from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live

Radical Craft History

by teddydee
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49 books

Nonfiction on critical theory + political history of art & craft.

SISTER LISTS: When Artists Go to Work | You Should Start a Zine | Opting Out of Fast Fashion

(In progress)

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Craft: An American HistoryThe Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the WorldCræft: An Inquiry Into the Origins and True Meaning of Traditional CraftsThe Invention of Craft
Craft: An American HistoryThe Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World

When Artists Go to Work

by teddydee
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25 books

"...I recalled the artists who had done their work in gulags, prison cells, hospital beds; who did their work while hounded, exiled, reviled, pilloried. And those who were executed... this is precisely the time when artists go to work." —Toni Morrison

DIY-focused nonfiction about craftivism, protest art, and creative resistance in dark times.

SISTER LISTS: You Should Start a Zine | Radical Craft History | Opting Out of Fast Fashion

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The New Politics of the Handmade: Craft, Art and DesignLet's Move the Needle: An Activism Handbook for Artists, Crafters, Creatives, and Makers; Build Community and Make Change!Queer Threads: Crafting Identity and CommunityThe Politics of Global Craft
The New Politics of the Handmade: Craft, Art and DesignLet's Move the Needle: An Activism Handbook for Artists, Crafters, Creatives, and Makers; Build Community and Make Change!
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