November 25, 2024 • Books We Love returns with 350+ new titles handpicked by NPR staff and trusted critics. Find 12 years of recommendations all in one place — that's nearly 4,000 great reads.

Hanks — a journalist, and yes, also the daughter of Tom — recalls driving the highway 10 across the southwest as she tries to make sense of her unstable upbringing and the life and death of ...

In the Welsh village of Hay-on-Wye, where sheep outnumber people and books spill onto the streets, a quiet revolution began. Antiquarian and academic Richard Booth inadvertently launched a global ...

A new book from Vita Sackville-West's grandson, Adam Nicolson, explores the pigeons who can tell their Bach from their Stravinsky and testosterone-fuelled wrens who make Hugh Hefner look tame.

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Influential novelists are imagining what women’s lives might look like without the demands of partners and children.

In ‘Searches,’ Vauhini Vara collaborates with a chatbot to write essays on digital technology, surveillance capitalism and her family’s immigrant experience. In “Close to Home,” Thor ...

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23. There have been no shortage of screen versions of Sherlock Holmes, Doyle’s beloved British detective: According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the persnickety genius is the second ...

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