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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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When you think of an epic, what comes to mind? The Iliad, the Odyssey, maybe Beowulf? Well, author H

It's already pretty hard to tell what's really real when it comes to social media. But Jennifer Egan

Both interviews today are with author Douglas Stuart. The first about his Booker prize-winning Shugg

Bonnie Garmus' new novel Lessons In Chemistry has been getting a lot of buzz. Elizabeth Zott is a ta

Former Homeland Security official and author Juliette Kayyem has a new book out that encourages prep

Author Jenny Tinghui Zhang is out with a new historical fiction novel, Four Treasures In The Sky. Se

April is National Poetry Month, so to celebrate we are bringing you a conversation with poet Ocean V

Writer Maud Newton could not ignore her family's white supremacist history, so she decided to reconc

Viet Thanh Nguyen's novel The Committed follows the same unnamed character we met in his Pulitzer-wi

In 1970, a cyclone tore through Pakistan and the political lines that existed, leading to genocide a

Author Karen Joy Fowler thinks John Wilkes Booth craved attention – and that gotten his fair share

Writer John Schu and illustrator Veronica Miller Jamison are out with a new picture book that asks t

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

Author Ladee Hubbard's new collection of short stories, The Last Suspicious Holdout, all take place

Journalist Frank Bruni had lots of professional success: he was a White House correspondent, food cr

Comic Phoebe Robinson told NPR's Rachel Martin that she doesn't wake up every day thinking "time to

The 94th Academy Awards were last night. To celebrate we're taking a trip down memory lane with one

It's been nearly a month since Vladimir Putin attacked Ukraine, so we are taking another look at how

Romance writer Jasmine Guillory writes beautiful love stories – but that doesn't mean they aren't ba

The nameless narrator in author Claire-Louise Bennett's new novel, Checkout 19, absolutely loves boo