Your Holds are Ready for Pickup
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Lauren | NC. Library devotee reading what my mood demands - which is almost never litfic.
Book reviews, podcasts, and anything else I need to talk about.
Book reviews, podcasts, and anything else I need to talk about.
Books We Love is back with a brand new batch of hand-picked titles. Mix and match tags like “Book Club Ideas” and “Eye-Opening Reads.” Find 380+ new 2025 reads, and stick around to browse more than 4,000 books from the last 13 years.
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 2:10 PM
@ifbookspod.bsky.social I’m not saying you have to read this because I wish I could unread it, but I am humbly asking for an episode about this ongoing drama.
November 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
@ifbookspod.bsky.social I’m not saying you have to read this because I wish I could unread it, but I am humbly asking for an episode about this ongoing drama.
“I like mean women. I like soft men.”
#VictorJones
#JustListen
#SingalongSaturday
open.spotify.com/track/36HpFE...
#VictorJones
#JustListen
#SingalongSaturday
open.spotify.com/track/36HpFE...
Shoulder Song
open.spotify.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
“I like mean women. I like soft men.”
#VictorJones
#JustListen
#SingalongSaturday
open.spotify.com/track/36HpFE...
#VictorJones
#JustListen
#SingalongSaturday
open.spotify.com/track/36HpFE...
The fact that Dick Cheney died the same day that a Muslim man was elected mayor of the US’s largest city feels like the universe did one of those big shakes that my dog does when he gets out of the bath to put himself right.
My utmost, enthusiastic congratulations to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social 🙌
My utmost, enthusiastic congratulations to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social 🙌
November 5, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The fact that Dick Cheney died the same day that a Muslim man was elected mayor of the US’s largest city feels like the universe did one of those big shakes that my dog does when he gets out of the bath to put himself right.
My utmost, enthusiastic congratulations to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social 🙌
My utmost, enthusiastic congratulations to @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social 🙌
I miss the days when Robert Langdon was more Ben-Wyatt-running-around-in-that-one-Valentine’s-Day-episode and less Burt-Macklin-FBI, but I do fear that Dan Brown is falling into Chris-Traeger-contemplating-his-own-mortality territory. 3/5💙📚
#booksky #bookreview
#booksky #bookreview
October 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I miss the days when Robert Langdon was more Ben-Wyatt-running-around-in-that-one-Valentine’s-Day-episode and less Burt-Macklin-FBI, but I do fear that Dan Brown is falling into Chris-Traeger-contemplating-his-own-mortality territory. 3/5💙📚
#booksky #bookreview
#booksky #bookreview
I promise I’ll get back to #books 📚💙 soon, but if you’ve also been feeling gaslit the last couple of weeks *cough* Ezra… might I recommend these #podcasts instead?
@inbedwiththeright.bsky.social
@ifbookspod.bsky.social
#ABitFruitywithMattBerstein
#DiabolicalLies
@citationspod.bsky.social
@inbedwiththeright.bsky.social
@ifbookspod.bsky.social
#ABitFruitywithMattBerstein
#DiabolicalLies
@citationspod.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I promise I’ll get back to #books 📚💙 soon, but if you’ve also been feeling gaslit the last couple of weeks *cough* Ezra… might I recommend these #podcasts instead?
@inbedwiththeright.bsky.social
@ifbookspod.bsky.social
#ABitFruitywithMattBerstein
#DiabolicalLies
@citationspod.bsky.social
@inbedwiththeright.bsky.social
@ifbookspod.bsky.social
#ABitFruitywithMattBerstein
#DiabolicalLies
@citationspod.bsky.social
On repeat today. RIP 🖤 open.spotify.com/track/0S3gpZ...
Mama, I'm Coming Home
Ozzy Osbourne · No More Tears (Expanded Edition) · Song · 1991
open.spotify.com
July 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
On repeat today. RIP 🖤 open.spotify.com/track/0S3gpZ...
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Bluemoose Books is an AI FREE Publisher.
AI cannot create the flawed human experience that is required to write brilliant books.
It is cut & paste hallucination.
It is Tech bros microdosed capitalism.
It is not publishing.
It is scraping.
@thebookseller.com
@theguardian.com
AI cannot create the flawed human experience that is required to write brilliant books.
It is cut & paste hallucination.
It is Tech bros microdosed capitalism.
It is not publishing.
It is scraping.
@thebookseller.com
@theguardian.com
June 3, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Bluemoose Books is an AI FREE Publisher.
AI cannot create the flawed human experience that is required to write brilliant books.
It is cut & paste hallucination.
It is Tech bros microdosed capitalism.
It is not publishing.
It is scraping.
@thebookseller.com
@theguardian.com
AI cannot create the flawed human experience that is required to write brilliant books.
It is cut & paste hallucination.
It is Tech bros microdosed capitalism.
It is not publishing.
It is scraping.
@thebookseller.com
@theguardian.com
In case you don’t follow memento mori as a political philosophy, @sageforiowa.bsky.social is running against #JoniErnst
June 2, 2025 at 11:27 AM
In case you don’t follow memento mori as a political philosophy, @sageforiowa.bsky.social is running against #JoniErnst
May 27, 2025 at 12:08 AM
There’s been so much discourse about this topic, but this might be my favorite response. When asked what he thought about the manosphere podcasters, Real answers, “these are carnival barkers who are leading our young men down the path of suicide.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
‘Modern Love’: Why Boys and Men Are Floundering, According to Relationship Therapist Terry Real
Podcast Episode · The Daily · 05/25/2025 · 37m
podcasts.apple.com
May 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
There’s been so much discourse about this topic, but this might be my favorite response. When asked what he thought about the manosphere podcasters, Real answers, “these are carnival barkers who are leading our young men down the path of suicide.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
*sigh* This reads like Karla Homolka fan fiction, but then you’re left wondering if the author even likes women. 1/5⭐️
#books #booksky #bookreview
#books #booksky #bookreview
May 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
*sigh* This reads like Karla Homolka fan fiction, but then you’re left wondering if the author even likes women. 1/5⭐️
#books #booksky #bookreview
#books #booksky #bookreview
May 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
About halfway through what I’m #currentlyreading, and I can’t stop thinking about the fact that Sheryl thought you could buy organs.
#books #booksky
#books #booksky
May 19, 2025 at 12:42 AM
About halfway through what I’m #currentlyreading, and I can’t stop thinking about the fact that Sheryl thought you could buy organs.
#books #booksky
#books #booksky
A bunch of rich, hot people who are terrible at practical jokes ruin an incel’s Easter Holiday. 3/5⭐️
#booksky #bookreview
#booksky #bookreview
May 17, 2025 at 9:35 PM
A bunch of rich, hot people who are terrible at practical jokes ruin an incel’s Easter Holiday. 3/5⭐️
#booksky #bookreview
#booksky #bookreview
I don’t love that “raw milk trend” and “new strain of bird flu” are happening in the same timeline. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Bird Flu: The Next Pandemic?
Podcast Episode · Science Vs · 05/15/2025 · 45m
podcasts.apple.com
May 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I don’t love that “raw milk trend” and “new strain of bird flu” are happening in the same timeline. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
I don’t know if there’s a book community here, but in the last month+ on ~other platforms~, someone posted Mein Kampf for world book day, an author gloated about killing dogs in her books, and people keep trying to boycott one billionaire on another billionaire’s app. So here I am. #books
May 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I don’t know if there’s a book community here, but in the last month+ on ~other platforms~, someone posted Mein Kampf for world book day, an author gloated about killing dogs in her books, and people keep trying to boycott one billionaire on another billionaire’s app. So here I am. #books