Recs if you like The Rest of Our Lives...

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.

Trying to support indie publishers and read more diverse fiction! I’m starting with the Booker Prize and hopefully adding more when I can. Add your recs in the comments!

Literary fiction that explore crises of masculinity. Particularly concerned with outsiders, weirdos, and capitalist alienation in books where the self is in conflict with the masculine ideal, the masculine ideal itself is in flux, or the masculine ideal has been rendered obsolete. Authors of any gender; protagonists exclusively men.

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

Winner: Flesh by David Szalay

These are the 6 works of fiction that are on the Booker Price Shortlist in 2025

The Booker Prize is a literary award established each year for the best single work of sustained fiction written in the English language, which was published in the United Kingdom or Ireland.

The Booker Prize longlist for 2025

Longlist of nominees for The Booker Prize in 2025