"LIMBONG: It is not just, like, a best of - here's the 10 best books you've got to read in 2025, right? We ask everyone at NPR - so we got editors and producers and people on the business side and all that stuff. We asked them what their favorite books of the year were. This year, we're in the neighborhood of 380 books, which is a lot. But the size and scope is sort of the whole point."
"And it's a really speedy book because at its core, it is a very - person has to go from point A to point B, right? She's got to find her way home out of this IKEA in a Portland that has been ravaged by an earthquake, and she runs into a few obstacles here and there, and she sort of has to be on the move."
NPR's Books We Love is an expansive, interactive roundup of staff-recommended books rather than a narrow best-of list. Staff across editorial, production and business roles contributed roughly 380 favorite titles this year. The list emphasizes variety in size and scope. One highlighted title, Emma Pattee's Tilt, follows a heavily pregnant woman navigating an IKEA after an earthquake as she races home. The novel combines brisk, plot-driven momentum with satirical critique of parental status anxiety and consumer culture. The book probes questions about motherhood, marriage and relationships while maintaining an action-oriented narrative voice.
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