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.

Music can uplift and heal. But music is also very subjective. What you like is not necessarily what others like. Why is this?

Casey Barnes won his third Golden Guitar for Contemporary Album of the Year. Barnes took home the award for his album ‘MAYDAY ...

Arthur Koch never wears his pristine Trump sneakers outside. That gets tricky: He lives in a 200-square-foot trailer with his wife and toddler. Koch, a 30-year-old pipeline inspector, is among ...

This much anticipated novel comes from the mind of Pulitzer-Prize and National Book Award finalist, Laila Lalami. The brilliantly twisted piece of literary science fiction is a timely examination ...

Another coffee table book, “Save America,” features reminiscences from Trump’s presidential ... diamond-encrusted watches, gold-colored sneakers and guitars that cost as much as $10,000. Thousands of ...

In the boot of their 1964 Beetle were two guitars and a small speaker ... Gomm is attempting to capture some of their history for a book, to be published later this year. "I didn't realise ...

In the literary world, this year is shaping up to be a good one for fans of cultural criticism: There are new books about Better Call Saul and biographies of James Gandolfini and Lorne Michaels on ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. A thriller, a dystopia, a Gothic novel about a family curse: Genre lovers have options in this week’s recommended books ...

To be totally honest, it’s nigh on impossible to select the best electric guitar. Guitars come in such a variety of styles and configurations that finding a single instrument in such a crowded ...