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NPR's Book of the Day

In need of a good read? Or just want to keep up with the books everyone's talking about? NPR's Book

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In a small North Carolina town in 1976, three siblings are shot to death. That's the mystery at the

Author and podcast host Aubrey Gordon brings up an important reminder early in today's episode: In t

Today's episode features interviews with two authors whose books on trans and queer gender identity

Author and cartoonist Art Spiegelman is familiar with the hysteria surrounding certain library books

Author George M. Johnson says they knew their memoir, All Boys Aren't Blue, would be challenged by s

Jordan Banks, the protagonist of New Kid, is a seventh grade student who loves to draw and hopes to

Professor Ashley Hope Pérez's book Out of Darkness explores school segregation in 20th century Texas

Today's episode is all about professional longevity. First, actor Steve Martin and New Yorker cartoo

Anya is only 8 years old, but she's already got the weight of a nation on her shoulders. The protago

Amélie Wen Zhao's fantasy novel, Song of Silver, Flame Like Night, is rooted in the Chinese genres o

The titular protagonist of Meredith, Alone has not left her home in three years. In today's episode,

Janet Yellen's career has shattered several glass ceilings; she was the first female head of the Fed

Today's first interview is with author Peng Shepard on her new mystery. A father and daughter, both

Inspired by a true story from Oakland, California, Leila Mottley's first novel follows a young Black

In this episode, Here & Now's Robin Young talks with author Andrew Sean Greer about his new novel Le

Author Tochi Onyebuchi says that a majority of space stories he's come across favor those in power.

In the aftermath of the Mexican war for independence, a new bride finds herself alone in a haunted h

Today's episode centers around two books that explore the rippling consequences of violence against

Charlayne Hunter-Gault is a trailblazing journalist. The first Black reporter for The New Yorker's "

The United States is seeing some concerning trends when it comes to school shootings, deaths by suic