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.

Much has been said about President Joe Biden pardoning his son, Hunter. My wife and I have given a great deal of thought to his decision and concluded that we would have done the same thing and feel ...

What a ride for sports fans in the Beehive State. In just 12 short months, Utah gained another professional sports team in the Utah Hockey Club, saw the return of pro women’s soccer, and watched the ...

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.

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 ...

The work’s librettist, Charles Jennens, was a wealthy man and a keen collector of art, books and musical manuscripts. A lifelong bachelor with few friends, Jennens (pronounced Jennings ...

(In a book with design as its subject, it is surprising that the text is typeset in a frustratingly small font.) Though unbuilt, the designs and aspirations tell us a good deal about modern ...