November 25, 2024 • Books We Love returns with 350+ new titles handpicked by NPR staff and trusted critics. Find 12 years of recommendations all in one place — that's nearly 4,000 great reads.

A Long Way to Find a Home is a children's book based on the childhood of George Edwin Taylor, who lived for a time in the La Crosse area and became the first African American to run for U.S ...

The Alex Awards are named after Edwards, who was called “Alex” by her friends. The Coretta Scott King Book Awards are given annually to outstanding African American authors and illustrators of books ...

An announcement from Simon & Schuster’s publisher left the literary community wondering whether blurbs, the little snippets of praise on a book jacket, are all they’re cracked up to be.

Snyder's film spotlights the librarians on the front line of the culture war waged by right-wingers in certain American states ... his notorious list of 850 books that libraries should remove ...

A retelling of Cinderella set in the rural south during World War II ...

John Hope Franklin, a native of Oklahoma, longtime professor and Professor Emeritus at Duke University as well as Fisk University and Howard University, and prolific scholar of African American ...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. meets with influential African American figures, like Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock and Maya Angelou, to piece together their genealogy and disclose captivating facts about ...

Brandy Norwood announces deeply personal memoir exploring her journey from teenage stardom to motherhood, set for release in October 2025.

For retired teachers and couple Charles and Queen Laureen Butler, the eighth annual “Know Thyself Book Fair and Author’s Forum” represents an ongoing endeavor to foster intergenerational bonds in D.C.