Recs if you like The Devil Reached Toward the Sky: An Oral History of the Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb...

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.

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.

A list dedicated to nuclear energy, nuclear disasters, the Atomic Age, and radiation. Mostly non-fiction, but I decided to include some fiction as well.

Non-fictions novels tackling the biggest changes and the most heart-wrenching events in human history.