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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.
Weird and Unhinged Women 2.0
All sorts of stories about all sorts of women and girls.
This is a genre-agnostic mega-list of weird girl* fiction expanding on an original list by @yarnandbooks (no longer being updated). You can view the original list here: (link) /// As a nonbinary person, I take as broad a view as possible of the "girl" in "weird girl*", hence the asterisk.
Wide open for recommendations!
Weird and Unhinged Women
All sorts of stories about all sorts of women. Mostly litfic, some horror.
2026 Tournament of Books
The shortlist and play-in round books for the 2026 Tournament of Books
Weird Older Women
List formerly known as weird girl elders. "Weird girl literature" books with characters that are over 30.
💜 yarnandbooks
the ones that got away
the equivalent of when my sister says “maybe santa will bring it for christmas” to my niece
(all the books i picked up at the bookstore but couldn’t let myself buy)
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