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NPR staffers pick their favorite fiction reads of 2025 so far

After long days focused on the facts, our newsroom reads a lot of fiction at home. We asked our NPR colleagues what they've enjoyed reading so far this year. Here's what they told us.

June 25, 2025
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  • Meghan Collins Sullivan and
  • Beth Novey

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6 new books out this week, including true stories of trailblazers

For many working adults, the summer can often feel the same as the rest of the year. So, maybe our idea of a "summer read" should encompass a wider swath of books? Here are a few out this week.

June 24, 2025
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  • Colin Dwyer

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  • Book Reviews

'Endling' is a shape-shifting debut that takes on heavy themes with humor

Maria Reva's virtuosic novel starts out as a straightforward story about a Ukrainian biologist, but morphs into a comic take on war, the mail-order bride business and the plight of snails.

June 23, 2025
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  • John Powers

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New books out this week offer catastrophes that at least profess to be just fantasies

The new books publishing this week may get quite heavy, laden as they are with family tragedy, psychopathy and heartbreak — but at least they are fiction.

June 17, 2025
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  • Colin Dwyer

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  • Books

5 dark tales hit shelves this week

Sometimes all it takes to make your day a little brighter is to remind yourself just how dark life can get. Here are four dark novels and a true crime tale.

June 10, 2025
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  • Colin Dwyer

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  • Book News & Features

New books this week cover problematic parents, the ultrarich, and a year without sex

Publishing this week: new fiction from Susan Choi, essays from Evan Osnos and memoir from Molly Jong-Fast. Plus, Melissa Febos reflects on her year of abstinence.

June 03, 2025
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  • Colin Dwyer

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Brand new books: Stephen King's latest, plus tales of a tired mom and a scary stalker

Holly Gibney is back in King's thriller, Never Flinch. The Stalker follows a manipulative man. Happily ever after is evasive in Consider Yourself Kissed. Plus, new work from Tash Aw and Etgar Keret.

May 27, 2025
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  • Colin Dwyer

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  • Book Reviews

'Consider Yourself Kissed' by this rich, relatable story of an overwhelmed mom

This novel stands apart from other tales of mothers stretched too thin. Jessica Stanley weaves family frustrations with British politics and global events because our life and our times are connected.

May 26, 2025
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  • Heller McAlpin

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  • Book Reviews

'The Stalker' is one of the most appalling characters in recent American fiction

Paula Bomer's dizzying book is a fascinating look at an absurdly stupid young man in the early 1990s who manages to sustain himself despite having no evidence of a soul.

May 25, 2025
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  • Michael Schaub

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  • Book Reviews

17 new books our critics can't wait to read this summer

We asked some of our trusted critics which upcoming books they are most looking forward to. Here are the fiction and nonfiction titles they picked.

May 21, 2025
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  • Meghan Collins Sullivan
Author Banu Mushtaq (left) and translator Deepa Bhasthi won this year's International Booker Prize, for the book <em>Heart Lamp.</em><strong> </strong>

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'Heart Lamp' wins International Booker, with stories of India's Muslim women and girls

The major writing prize awards the best fiction translated into English. Judges called Banu Mushtaq's short story collection "something genuinely new for English readers."

May 20, 2025
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  • Andrew Limbong

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  • Book News & Features

5 new books this week spotlight Joe Biden, the WNBA, rivers, migrants and autofiction

New books out this week look at everything from pressing political concerns — Original Sin — to perspective-altering riddles about life itself, like in Is A River Alive? and The Book of Records.

May 20, 2025
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  • Colin Dwyer

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  • Book Reviews

'The Emperor of Gladness' is a beautiful novel about hard work and found family

Ocean Vuong's sweeping new novel centers on a depressed 19-year-old college dropout who becomes the caregiver to a widow with dementia.

May 19, 2025
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  • Maureen Corrigan
British author and creator of James Bond Ian Fleming (1908-1964) with two pieces of original artwork from the American hardback editions of his books, circa 1960.

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  • Arts & Life

Newly published stories show a different side of Ian Fleming and Graham Greene

The latest issue of "The Strand Magazine" contains rare stories by the iconic midcentury writers Ian Fleming and Graham Greene.

May 15, 2025
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By:
  • Milton Guevara and
  • Majd Al-Waheidi

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  • Book News & Features

6 new books this week showcase top talent: Ocean Vuong, Ron Chernow and Dave Barry

A host of beloved authors have new books hitting shelves this week, including a memoir by humorist Barry, a Mark Twain bio by Chernow and essays by Richard Russo.

May 13, 2025
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By:
  • Colin Dwyer
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