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NPR’s Books We Love 2025

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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The Book of Alchemy: A Creative Practice for an Inspired Life

Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism

Change the Recipe: Because You Can't Build a Better World Without Breaking Some Eggs

Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free

fashion "foreword"

by ashtonavocado

28 books

books about the history of fashion

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Fashion: The Definitive History of Costume and Style

Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

Make It Ours: Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh

Notable Nonfiction Books of 2025

by deleted

50 books

Nonfiction 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

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The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North

King of Kings: The Iranian Revolution: A Story of Hubris, Delusion and Catastrophic Miscalculation

Black Moses: A Saga of Ambition and the Fight for a Black State

Fashion in history

by medusa1015

11 books

Books about fashion in history for adults and children - compiling this list because I saw many intriguing books about fashion recently at the library :)

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