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Happy 2025 Books We Love Day. So excited to share this with you. If you love books or you're looking for something great to read NPR has the handpicked, heartfelt recs for you! Proud to be a contributor again this year. Dig in.
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Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard University fights to preserve Black newspapers. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/... Last year, during a move, workers found two whole boxes of Frederick Douglass’s’ The North Star’s first year of publication.
‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard fights to preserve Black newspapers.
Across the United States, scholars are working to preserve the history of the Black press before the brittle pages are lost forever. In a basement at Howard University, uncovered treasures have includ...
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November 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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OutKast is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame:

“We started in a little room. Great things start in little rooms”
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
I saw Furlough's Paradise at Theater Alliance last night, and it was so beautifully performed. Great exploration of displacement and institutions/what it means to be institutionalized
November 9, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Our friend Fobazi could use our help. And all of our good energy for a complete recovery. gofund.me/11eb33bb
Donate to Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant, organized by Ysabel Gerrard
Hello all, my name is Ysabel and I’m fundraising for my friends … Ysabel Gerrard needs your support for Fobazi’s road to recovery: Kidney and liver transplant
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August 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM