It's back, it's beautiful, it's bigger and better than ever.

It's NPR's Books We Love, a searchable compendium of the best books of the year.

Today we'll be getting a handful of those bicks from one of our favorite NPR book people.

I'm Glenn Weldon and today we're talking about Books We Love on Pop Culture Happy Hour

from NPR.

Joining us today is Andrew Limbong.

He's the host of NPR's Book of the Day podcast and a reporter for the Culture Desk.

Hey Andrew.

So I'm back, I'm beautiful too.

I'm bigger than ever.

Let's get going.

That was quite the intro.

After two years of pandemic, we're all bigger than ever.

Books We Love is a yearly labor of love here at NPR.

Every year the books we love, team solicits brief recommendations from NPR staff and book

critics and culls through them, assigning them searchable tags, entering them into an interactive

reading guide you can use to find the perfect book for you or someone you love this holiday

season.

And you filter them by subject and genre?

Yeah.

Of course you can't basic, but you can also pick filters like it's all geek to me.

Let's talk about sex.

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