14 books that NPR staff are loving so far this year
Since 2013, NPR staff and contributors have told us about their favorite books of the year in the annual Books We Love project. This year, they're kicking things off early and publishing the recommendations in two installments. The first came out at the end of June and includes books published in the first half of the year. (The second one will drop in the fall.)
The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Chilean Poet by Alejandro Zambra, translated by Megan McDowell
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman
Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo
Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free by Sarah Weinman (Scoundrel is a work of nonfiction, a true-crime thriller that intersects with the history and politics of its 1950s to '70s setting.)
Sounds like some great books and you can learn more about them here:
https://www.npr.org/2022/07/02/1108587023/highly-recommended-books-we-love
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