NPR Books

NPR's Books We Love list has lots of great reads, as recommended by our staffers, including Stephen Graham Jones' latest novel and Fredrik Backman's summer story about the friendship of four teens.

A less-than-easy quest for a place to live after the housing crisis implodes. NPR's Adrian Ma talks with Emily Hunt Kivel about her surreal and funny debut novel, "Dwelling."

In a new book, Mallary Tenore Tarpley says she's learned to reject perfectionism when it comes to recovery and accept her slip-ups as part of a messy "middle place" between sickness and health.

You may have spotted a little free library in your neighborhood — there are more than 200,000 worldwide. But how is their role changing when people increasingly read online?

Be they girls, or be they dogs? NPR's Scott Simon talks with Xenobe Purvis about her debut novel, "The Hounding," where rumors about five girls turn deadly in 18th-century England.

A storm is coming and two siblings pull on their boots and head to the sea. The waves crash and the rain starts to fall, but they go on in this quintessential summer adventure story.

Author Jessa Crispin explains how films Michael Douglas made in the 1980s and 1990s reflect the anxieties of those times.

Haley Cohen Gilliland's A Flower Traveled in My Blood tells the story of a group of grandmothers who spent decades searching for their stolen grandchildren during and after Argentina's "Dirty War."

The book explores his concerns about the systems in which he grew up and what he thinks needs to change.

Biographer Peter Ames Carlin describes the making of Born to Run as an "existential moment" for Springsteen: "If this didn't work, he was done." Carlin's new book is Tonight in Jungleland.