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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.

A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck

A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children

A Guardian and a Thief

A Book of Maps for You

A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck

A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children

Non-western culture and history

Culture and history outside of the "western world". Recommendations welcome! :)

Meet Me in Gaza: Uncommon Stories of Life Inside the Strip

Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization

Hearing Birds Fly

Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire

Meet Me in Gaza: Uncommon Stories of Life Inside the Strip

Empires of the Steppes: A History of the Nomadic Tribes Who Shaped Civilization

through the ages: ancient history

non-fiction books about ancient civilisations and the famous/infamous people connected to them.

The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Carthage: A New History of an Ancient Empire

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

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