By Brian Raftery The Books Readers Loved in 2024 A taboo-busting Brooklyn memoir, a tender Japanese novel about the beauty of connection, a book by a death doula: Editors and writers from around ...

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.

The winner of this year’s National Book Award in fiction has published several collections of poems. Our critic takes a look. In “Ira Gershwin: A Life in Words,” Michael Owen offers a ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

Her time living as Kinsley, the “popular white girl everyone wants to know,” is now chronicled in “My Year as Emma,” a novel written by Kheshtchin-Kamel, published by Dark Horse Books and distributed ...

It’s an appropriate title for the book 21-year-old Pella author Marijka Michmershuizen recently penned with ... “I would say, don’t give up, because if you give up, there’s no going back. Sometimes, I ...

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Sport fans: we have your Christmas sorted. Roger Alton has picked out the best sport books of 2024 ranging from the scientific way to score a penalty to the heartfelt memoir of Sir Chris Hoy.

It teaches valuable life lessons too, as he explains in his book "You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out: Life Lessons from the Movie A Christmas Story". “I talked to a lot of people about the movie ...

Irresistible picks for readers of all kinds of romance, from enemies-to-lovers to marriage of convenience to just one bed by Casey McQuiston by Casey McQuiston by Frances Burney by Jane Austen by ...

Newspaper comics are an original American art form and heroes like Dick Tracy and Dagwood Bumstead are still going strong in ...

This book sheds new light on this profession, building on the author's previous work on female private detectives in order to enable the reader to gain a better understanding of a job that people of ...