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NPR's Books We Love is a roundup of our staff's favorite reads this year. Today we look at some of our favorite, more obscure, lesser-known picks from this year's Books We Love.

In the Philippines, the Vice President gave a kill order in the event of her death. Her target: President Ferdinand Marcos. Sara Duterte is now under investigation after announcing this.

Matthew Specktor grew up the son of a famous Hollywood agent. In The Golden Hour he serves up family saga, cultural criticism, fictionalized biography, history and lament for a vanishing world.

After 149 shows - across five continents, Taylor Swift will wrap up her Eras Tour in Vancouver, Canada, over the weekend — after nearly two years on the road.

Fifteen years ago this Wednesday, the federal minimum wage went up from $6.55 per hour to $7.25. It hasn't budged since.

Hours after President Trump tried to remove three board members, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting responds with a lawsuit arguing he does not have that authority.

Singer and lawyer Leah Kunkel, who lived in Northampton, died Tuesday, after a brief illness. She was the younger sister of Cass Elliot of "The Mamas and the Papas," and a performer in her own right.

The Secret Life of a Cemetery is a paean to the renowned Parisian cemetery, Père Lachaise. There, 10,000 visitors a day seek the graves of some 4,500 notable figures.

The former Illinois congressman reflects on confronting the "fanaticism of the hardcore" of his own party. Kinzinger served on the House committee investigating the attack on the Capitol.

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Bryce Dallas Howard about her new documentary, Pets, and the love and responsibility of being a pet guardian.