2025 Books We Love
Pop Culture Happy Hour
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🗓️ 29 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | NPR's Books We Love is a roundup of our favorite books from the past year, |
| 0:08.5 | sorted and tagged to help you find exactly what you're looking for. |
| 0:12.8 | Recommendations come in from NPR staff and contributors, including me. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm Glenn Weldon, and today we're talking about NPR's Books We Love on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR. |
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| 0:52.4 | Subaru.com slash outback. Joining me today is Andrew Limbaugh. He's the host of NPR's Book of the Day podcast and a reporter for the Culture Desk. Hey, friend. Hey, Glenn, how you doing? Good, good. So, listeners, look, you listen to this show, you probably listen to Andrew's show, and if you don't, you should. So you probably know what books we love is, but in case there's a handful of you out there who still don't, every year NPR collects book recommendations from staffers, contributors, critics. |
| 1:19.9 | In all kinds of genres, fiction, nonfiction, books for kids, memoirs, and much, much more. |
| 1:24.8 | This year, we've got hundreds and hundreds of recommendations, both Andrew and I contributed to the mix. |
| 1:29.7 | So we're just going to get started. |
| 1:31.5 | Kick us off. |
| 1:32.2 | Andrew, what's your first pick? |
| 1:33.1 | One of my personal recommendations was the book Tilt by Emma Petit. |
| 1:37.2 | This book was released earlier this year. |
| 1:39.4 | It is a really tight action adventure novel about a woman. |
| 1:44.1 | It starts off in an IKEA. She's super |
| 1:46.3 | pregnant. She's running some like last minute IKEA errands, you know, that we all love to do |
| 1:52.8 | on a Saturday. She's getting a florb. When an earthquake hits, and this book takes place in |
| 1:57.6 | Portland and in the greater Portland area where they're constantly thinking and worrying about earthquakes. |
| 2:02.0 | On its face, it's a simple story about like, oh, this like super pregnant lady has to get |
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