Podcast NPR's Book of the Day

With new novel, Ocean Vuong says he wants to reframe America as a place of salvage	NPR's Book of the Day	14:20
'Little Bosses Everywhere' looks into the Wild West of multilevel marketing	NPR's Book of the Day	08:11
A new biography of Rafael Nadal focuses on the tennis star's domination on clay	NPR's Book of the Day	10:40
'Original Sin' argues Biden aides enabled his reelection bid, despite mental decline	NPR's Book of the Day	12:15
In 'Class Clown,' humorist Dave Barry embraces both the funny and hard parts of life	NPR's Book of the Day	09:21
'The Golden Road' and 'The Lucky Ones' examine India's ancient and recent history	NPR's Book of the Day	17:47
A new biography tells the twin stories of James Gandolfini and Tony Soprano	NPR's Book of the Day	09:28
'The Lost and the Found' takes an intimate look at homelessness in San Francisco	NPR's Book of the Day	10:26
In 'Julie Chan Is Dead,' former influencer Liann Zhang takes a swipe at the industry	NPR's Book of the Day	07:55
Isabel Allende's latest historical novel draws from her time at a women's magazine	NPR's Book of the Day	10:26
In 'Romantic Friction,' 'The Fact Checker' the publishing world is fodder for fiction	NPR's Book of the Day	18:47
'Personhood' argues fetal rights are the next frontier of the anti-abortion movement	NPR's Book of the Day	11:11
The new novel 'Fair Play' is a self-aware take on the golden age of detective fiction	NPR's Book of the Day	07:50
Loryn Brantz's 'Poems of Parenting' gives parents permission to laugh out loud	NPR's Book of the Day	11:37
In her new memoir, Tina Knowles, mother of Beyoncé and Solange, tells her own story	NPR's Book of the Day	07:33
New cookbooks from Sarah Ahn and Roy Choi take different approaches to Korean cuisine	NPR's Book of the Day	19:20
With 'Rabbit Moon,' Jennifer Haigh chooses Shanghai as the backdrop to family tragedy	NPR's Book of the Day	10:24
In 'Putin's Revenge,' Lucian Kim traces the lead-up to Russia's invasion of Ukraine	NPR's Book of the Day	11:32
Katie Kitamura's 'Audition' is a puzzle, but she says it's not meant to be solved	NPR's Book of the Day	09:07
Emily Henry's latest novel 'Great Big Beautiful Life' explores love beyond romance	NPR's Book of the Day	09:18
Zadie Smith looks back at her debut novel 'White Teeth' 25 years after its release	NPR's Book of the Day	14:59
'Happy Land' was inspired by a real-life kingdom of formerly enslaved people	NPR's Book of the Day	07:41
'Paper Doll' documents trans TikTok creator Dylan Mulvaney's journey through girlhood	NPR's Book of the Day	08:52
An early biography paints Pope Francis as 'The Great Reformer' of the Catholic Church	NPR's Book of the Day	06:39
Aided by new sources, Clay Risen's 'Red Scare' brings McCarthyism back to life	NPR's Book of the Day	07:42
Two new children's books view the natural world as a site of personal growth	NPR's Book of the Day	15:56
A new cookbook by Darjeeling Express chef Asma Khan was inspired by seasonal cooking	NPR's Book of the Day	09:10
Rex Ogle's 'When We Ride' is a novel-in-verse about a best friendship under pressure	NPR's Book of the Day	09:18
'Adventures in the Louvre' will teach you how to fall in love with the famous museum	NPR's Book of the Day	08:46
An obituary writer makes a grave error in John Kenney's 'I See You've Called in Dead'	NPR's Book of the Day	08:47
Two new novels explore a world where technology has even greater access to our minds	NPR's Book of the Day	19:25
A new oral history of Lollapalooza recalls the alt-rock music festival's wildest days	NPR's Book of the Day	08:20
Emma Pattee's 'Tilt' imagines the aftermath of a life-changing earthquake	NPR's Book of the Day	08:44
In the wake of a sexual assault, astronaut Amanda Nguyen turned to activism	NPR's Book of the Day	08:48
In 'Everything Is Tuberculosis,' John Green turns his attention to a deadly disease	NPR's Book of the Day	12:01
Authors of two new novels draw inspiration from history in wildly different ways	NPR's Book of the Day	17:15
To confront radical change, 'Slate' writer Scaachi Koul wrote a new book of essays	NPR's Book of the Day	07:29
A new book from Emily Feng asks what it means to be Chinese in Xi Jinping's China	NPR's Book of the Day	08:56
In 'Long Island,' one woman returns to Ireland after discovering her husband's affair	NPR's Book of the Day	08:37
Christine Wenc's 'Funny Because It's True' calls 'The Onion' "the original fake news"	NPR's Book of the Day	07:56

With new novel, Ocean Vuong says he wants to reframe America as a place of salvage

NPR's Book of the Day

14:20

'Little Bosses Everywhere' looks into the Wild West of multilevel marketing

NPR's Book of the Day

08:11

A new biography of Rafael Nadal focuses on the tennis star's domination on clay

NPR's Book of the Day

10:40

'Original Sin' argues Biden aides enabled his reelection bid, despite mental decline

NPR's Book of the Day

12:15