NPR's books we love is a roundup of favorite books of the year, sorted and tagged to help you find

exactly what you're looking for. Recommendations come in from critics and

contributors and as we'll be talking about today NPR staff, even me. I'm Linda

Holmes and today we're talking about books we love on pop culture happy hour

from NPR.

Joining me 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, welcome back.

Yeah, hey, Linda, what's up?

We are going to talk about some books if that's okay with you,

buddy.

You may well know what books we love is, but in case you don't, each year

NPR gathers recommendations from contributors and critics and staff in all kinds of

genres, fiction and non-fiction, books kids cookbooks memoirs is a little bit of just

about everything and this year there are more picks than ever from nPR staff that

includes me and it includes Andrew. So we're both going to share a

couple of our picks. Andrew, what's your first one? Yeah, so one of the

one of the books I picked is a biography. It's by Abraham Josephine Reisman,

and it's called Ringmaster, Vince McMahon,

and The Un Making of America.

I don't know, Linda, were you like a wrestling head?

Are you a wrestling head?

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