NPR’s “Books We Love” was released this week. It features a wide-ranging list of favorite books from critics, reporters, producers, and all NPR staffers. No matter what kind of bookyou’re looking for, you can probably find it here. Here’s the host of NPR’s “Book of the Day” podcast, Andrew Limbong, describing how to use the guide.
“The list is about in the neighborhood of 380 books. And so even though I know that number is huge—for people who haven't used Books We Loved, it's an interactive guide. And so there are little filter tags you can use to sort of narrow that number down and find a book that fits your tastes,” said Limbong.
A book Limbong and I both loved recently is Erin Somers’s novel The Ten Year Affair. We featured it onthe November 5th edition of Gulf Coast Life Book Club, which you can find at WGCU.org or on our podcast. Here’s Limbong again.
"This is a book about, for listeners who haven't read it. It's a book about a woman—she meets a guy at a baby care class, and she starts thinking a lot about what it would be like to have an affair with him. And, you know, the book sort of, like, takes off from there into, I think it's fair to say, like, two parallel lives. And as to like, what it would be like if she did and what it would be like if she didn't,” Limbong said.
Check out NPR’s Books We Love.
Listen to Erin Somers discuss TheTen Year Affair on the Gulf Coast Life Book Club.
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