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On Monday, NPR launched its end-of-the-year books guide. But Books We Love isn't a "top 10" list. Instead, it's more that 380 books that were personally recommended by members of the NPR staff.
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Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty ImagesThe musician and actor helped propel reggae into the international spotlight, thanks in part to his songs and starring role in the 1972 film The Harder They Come.
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NPR's Books We Love returns with about 380 titles handpicked by NPR staff and critics. Reporter Andrew Limbong shares this year's nonfiction favorites with Michel Martin.
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NPR's Andrew Limbong talks about some of NPR staffers' favorite plot-driven books of 2025.
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Big Ma dashes off commands, pots clang, aunts and uncles shoot the breeze, little ones beg to lick the bowl, ham and candied yam. Family Feast! is about food, family and love. -
Bionic and the Wires is a band that makes music by turning the electrical activity of fungi into playable sounds.
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Raja has been exhausted by his loving mother for six decades. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Lebanese writer Rabih Alameddine about his book, "The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)."
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Two works newly attributed to J.S. Bach got their first performance in centuries this week.
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Four men in a boat and a grisly choice: NPR's Scott Simon talks with Adam Cohen about his book, "Captain's Dinner: A Shipwreck, an Act of Cannibalism, and a Murder Trial that Changed Legal History."
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For their new album, the expansive jazz group Snarky Puppy collaborated with Metropole Orkest. The live recording is the band's grandest feat yet.
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Rosalía is dominating the Billboard charts with her new album Lux, cracking the top 10 for the first time. -
"Dog Show" includes 25 poems accompanied by watercolors by Pamela Sztybel.
