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 of the Day gives you today's very best writing in a snackable, skimmable, pocket-sized podcast. Whether you're looking to engage with the big questions of our times – or temporarily escape from them – we've got an author who will speak to you, all genres, mood and writing styles included. Catch today's great books in 15 minutes or less.
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In 'Poet Warrior', Joy Harjo uses poetry to deal with pain and heal
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Poet Ocean Vuong shares his grief in 'Time Is A Mother'
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Brandy Norwood and Arsenio Hall's memoirs look back on careers that defined the...
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For her new novel about boy bands, Emma Straub took a page from New Kids on the...
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'Labor' is a memoir by a doctor who traveled the country with a mobile OB-GYN cl...
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John Sayles on Henry Ford, Detroit and his new historical novel 'Crucible'
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Patrick Radden Keefe on 'London Falling' and the mystery of Zac Brettler
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New children’s books center intergenerational relationships in life and the afte...
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Katrina Manson on 'Project Maven' and how the U.S. is using AI in warfare
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In 'Kutchinsky's Egg,' a jeweler’s corrosive ambition leads to his family’s down...
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'Anywhere Else' is a book of essays about a love-hate relationship with Florida
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Sen. Cory Booker on 'Stand' and his intentions for the 2028 election
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The story behind cookbooks 'The Talisman of Happiness' and 'Will This Make You H...
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Keith O'Brien on 'Heartland,' Larry Bird and the basketball career that almost w...
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In the epic 'Son of Nobody,' Yann Martel gives footnotes a starring role
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Geoff Bennett on the history of Black comedy from vaudeville to sitcoms
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Andy Weir reveals his fun and frantic creative process behind 'Project Hail Mary...
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In new memoirs, David Archuleta and Lindy West break with their pasts
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Apple is turning 50. David Pogue’s new book tells its history.
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In the novel ‘Black Bag,’ a classroom experiment invites questions about masculi...
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Fab 5 Freddy’s 'Everybody’s Fly' is a backstage pass to NYC’s new wave hip hop s...
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Sarvat Hasin's new novel is about a magnetic friendship between 'Strange Girls'
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Two new murder mysteries: 'Ruby Falls' and 'The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives...
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Daisy Hernández argues 'Citizenship' has never been a fixed legal status
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Cara Bastone's 'No Matter What' is a romance novel that begins with a separation
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In 'The Mixed Marriage Project,' Dorothy Roberts works through her dad's archive
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'The Correspondent' is an epistolary novel, but can letters tell the whole story...
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'We the Women' and 'Rise, Girl, Rise' are stories about revolutionary women
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'One of Us' is a British political drama based on the Boris Johnson era
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To understand consciousness, Michael Pollan looked at plants, AI and himself
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In 'Bad Asians,' a friend group threatens its reputation with a viral video
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In new memoir, Gavin Newsom reflects on his political rise
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'The Irish Goodbye' and 'Frog' are micro-memoirs and essays about everyday life
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'An American Marriage' author Tayari Jones is out with a new novel 'Kin'
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Andrew Krivak’s novel 'Mule Boy' takes readers inside a Pennsylvania coal mine
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Jason Zengerle says Tucker Carlson is more 'movement leader' than media persona
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Author was struck by story of mixed-race orphans behind 'Keeper of Lost Children...
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A psychoanalyst and a priest share insights in 'Love's Labor' and 'Work in Progr...
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Reshona Landfair, formerly 'Jane Doe,' recounts abuse by R. Kelly in new memoir
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'The Renovation' is a novel with a surrealist take on prison structures big and...
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'Fly, Wild Swans' weaves Jung Chang’s family history with the history of China
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'Clutch' follows a college friend group trying to maintain their bond in midlife
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Brush up on American history with 'Common Sense' and 'We the People'
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In 'Eradication,' a grieving man sets off to a remote island to save the world
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Gisèle Pelicot’s 'A Hymn to Life' is both a memoir and an act of ultimate defian...
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'Crux' is a novel about rock climbing, but risk exists far beyond the mountain’s...
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After 100 years of Mount Rushmore, its biographer says the landmark is incomplet...
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'Football' and 'Everybody Loses' examine changes to America’s most popular sport
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A new book focuses on a queer, Black, WWII-era translator who risked safety for...
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George Saunders' 'Vigil' is a ghostly novel about an oil tycoon in his final hou...
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