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Beth Novey

@bethnovey.bsky.social

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Mon-Fri: Web producer/editor at the NPR Culture Desk | Sat-Sun: Kids skating and hockey coach | 24/7: Parenting 2 kiddos

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Beth Novey @bethnovey.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

No AI or algorithms here - just 141 human beings [131 reviewers, 3 editors 👋, 1 producer, 1 reporter, 1 standards editor, 2 copy editors, 1 developer, and 1 graphics editor] who really wanted to tell you about some books they loved this year. ❤️📚 apps.npr.org/best-books/

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Books We Love

Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.

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Beth Novey @bethnovey.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

🍁 The maple in my backyard is bright red which means it’s time for Books We Love! 380+ new recommendations coming your way Monday morning. 👀 Here’s your annual sneak peek at the @npr staffers and book critics you’ll hear from this year.

A computer monitor displaying a list of 130+ names of NPR staffers and book critics who have contributed recommendations to the 2025 installment of Books We Love, coming out on Monday 11/24. The bright red leaves of a Japanese Maple visible through the window. List includes: Ari Shapiro, Bob Mondello, Eric Deggans, Glen Weldon, Leila Fadel, Maureen Corrigan, Michel Martin, Neda Ulaby, and more.

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Beth Novey @bethnovey.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Mona Lisa is getting moved to her own room at the Louvre. You’ll be shocked to learn no one took me up on my offer to write up this news in the form of a pissy group text between the paintings she shares a gallery with. I will not be thwarted. 🧵 www.npr.org/2025/01/29/n...

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Mona Lisa's roommates may be glad she's moving out

Now that Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece is moving to another room at The Louvre, other Renaissance masterpieces hanging in the same space by Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese may finally get their due.

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Beth Novey @bethnovey.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

👀 Here’s your annual sneak peek at the @npr.org staffers and book critics who’ve written about their favorite reads of 2024. We’ll have 350+ recommendations ready for you Monday morning in the new edition of Books We Love. (+ a bonus cameo from this amazing tree outside my window) 🍁

Computer screen with a list of names of ~120 Books We Love contributors on the left with a view of a red maple tree through a window on the right.

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