Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbong. Happy Friday after Thanksgiving.

Arguably a more enjoyable, less stressful day than yesterday, so we've just got a quick one for you today.

NPR just dropped its annual Books We Love List. You'll hear me explain the spiel as to how it's

different from other year-end lists in a bit,

but just know that it's about 380 books recommended by the books, team, critics, writers,

and the entire staff of NPR. You can find the list at NPR.org slash best books, but if you

want to sneak peek, I was on the big daily NPR shows recommending a few

of our picks. In a bit, we'll do fiction. But first, here's me on Morning Edition talking to NPR's

Michelle Martin about some of our nonfiction books. This message comes from Wise, the app for using

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Every year we ask everybody who works at NPR, and I mean everybody, what their favorite books of the year were.

We pulled this together and present it to you as an interactive guide called Books We Love. Here to tell us about some nonfiction books that made the cut this year as Andrew Limbong. He hosts NPR's Book of the Day podcast. Good morning, Andrew. Hey, Michelle. So for the unfamiliar, tell us a bit more about books we love. Yeah, it's something we've been doing since about 2013. Like you said, we ask everyone what they love. So, yeah, we've got our books team, including writers and critics. But across NPR, we're asking people. So we've got producers, editors, folks on the business side, you know, all sharing what they enjoyed reading. This year, we've got about 380 entries, you know, in the neighborhood of that. I know that's big, but it's all organized

by tags. So it's not just fiction and nonfiction, but also book club ideas, love and romance

for sports lovers. And you can mix and stack the tags. So you can really key in on what you

or the reader in your life is really into. All right. With that being said, we're going to talk

about nonfiction books today. What have you got for us? All right, let's start with a good biography.

Michelle, have you ever noticed how there's more pockets in menswear than there are in women's wear?

So annoying. So annoying. Yes. Yeah, right? This pocket gender disparity was something a fashion designer

Claire McCartle wanted to solve.

She was working mainly in the 1930s and 40s and redefining what American women's wear could be,

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