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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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Can you belong to more than one home? Author Melissa Fu sets out to answer that question in her debu

Author Azar Nafisi has written a love letter to literature and reading in Read Dangerously: The Subv

Our books today give the reader a peek into showbiz. Sarah Polley was a child actor but that led to

At the center of author Naima Coster's novel What's Mine & Yours are two struggling mothers. Jade is

Somali British poet Warsan Shire has had many projects, including running a popular Tumblr page and

Author NoViolet Bulawayo's new novel Glory is quite openly based on Orwell's Animal Farm and the 201

The former attorney general under former President Trump, William Barr, is out with a new memoir cal

Our interviews today are both children's books and even though they are about wildly different topic

Author Bernardine Evaristo wrote the Booker prize winning novel Girl, Woman, Other. But before she d

Author Tess Hadley's new novel opens with an affair, but that's not really what the book is about. F

There is an Icelandic word, sprakkar, that means outstanding women - and those women are at the hear

Back in 2013 author Anthony Marra wrote a book that is every bit as timely today. A Constellation Of

Today we look at the power of the Chinese government. The first book, How I Survived A Chinese Reedu

Novelist David Wright Falade learned about the life of Richard Etheridge in the 90s and has been ent

Russian President Vladimir Putin has framed his recent invasion of Ukraine as a "de-nazification" of

Author Charmaine Wilkerson's new novel, Black Cake, is all about identity; who we are and how we fit

The Russian invasion into Ukraine is a world-altering event that has people fearful. Historically, f

In interviews with the authors of The Black Agenda and Solitary, the issue of criminal justice refor

Bernardine Evaristo didn't think there were enough books being published about Black British women,

Noah Hawley is a world builder. He created the TV shows Fargo and Legion, so he is no stranger to ge