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Two new history books use the past to explain what’s important now	NPR's Book of the Day	18:57
'F*** Approval, You Don’t Need It!' makes the case against ‘people pleasers’	NPR's Book of the Day	10:27
Angela Flournoy’s 'The Wilderness' focuses on a Black, female ‘chosen family’	NPR's Book of the Day	09:05
Former senator Joe Manchin makes the case for the middle in the memoir 'Dead Center'	NPR's Book of the Day	07:47
Ian McEwan’s latest novel ‘What We Can Know’ is science fiction without the science	NPR's Book of the Day	09:56
‘Peacemaker’ and ‘Tomorrow Is Yesterday’ are personal histories of diplomacy	NPR's Book of the Day	19:43
Ken Jaworowski’s new crime novel ‘What About the Bodies’ has a surprising tender side	NPR's Book of the Day	07:57
‘Dark Renaissance’ historian on how Christopher Marlowe paved the way for Shakespeare	NPR's Book of the Day	08:50
‘Beyond Fast’ chronicles one coach’s unlikely revolution in high school cross-country	NPR's Book of the Day	08:11
In his new novel ‘The Secret of Secrets,’ Dan Brown takes on human consciousness	NPR's Book of the Day	06:03
‘Long Way Down’ and ‘The Hate U Give’ are modern classics about gun violence	NPR's Book of the Day	15:27
What Toni Morrison learned from revisiting five of her most-read novels	NPR's Book of the Day	09:32
Sandra Cisneros’ ‘The House on Mango Street’ was born from a feeling of displacement	NPR's Book of the Day	07:40
In her translation of ‘The Odyssey,’ Emily Wilson aimed for ‘a crystalline clarity’	NPR's Book of the Day	09:37
Jhumpa Lahiri says the phrase ‘Interpreter of Maladies’ came to her in grad school	NPR's Book of the Day	11:08
‘2024’ and ‘From the Clinics to the Capitol’ dissect opposing political movements	NPR's Book of the Day	18:34
In Meg Medina’s new young adult novel, a 13-year-old girl becomes a sea ghost	NPR's Book of the Day	08:00
‘Misbehaving at the Crossroads’ is a lesson in the complexity of reconciliation	NPR's Book of the Day	08:56
In Rabih Alameddine’s new novel, a mother and son share a tiny Beirut apartment	NPR's Book of the Day	09:41
Tamara Yajia’s memoir recounts a chaotic upbringing between the U.S. and Argentina	NPR's Book of the Day	09:06
‘Papilio’ and ‘Chooch Helped’ are children’s books brought to life by friendship	NPR's Book of the Day	18:02
In ‘The Sunflower Boys,’ a 12-year-old boy comes of age during war in Ukraine	NPR's Book of the Day	08:42
‘Friends with Words’ is a book about language, from word origins to regional dialects	NPR's Book of the Day	11:41
Kate Riley’s novel ‘Ruth’ was inspired by her year in an insular religious community	NPR's Book of the Day	09:53
In his memoir, poet Raymond Antrobus writes of ‘deaf gain’ instead of hearing loss	NPR's Book of the Day	08:46
‘Your Favorite Scary Movie’ and ‘Ready for My Close-Up’ are histories of iconic films	NPR's Book of the Day	16:45
Eighty years after Hiroshima, a new book narrates the history of the atomic bomb	NPR's Book of the Day	10:48
In the novel ‘Loved One,’ an ambiguous friendship is further complicated by loss	NPR's Book of the Day	08:52
‘Dinner with King Tut’ follows experimental archaeologists as they recreate the past	NPR's Book of the Day	09:39
For her 25th book, Karin Slaughter wanted to capture life in small-town Georgia	NPR's Book of the Day	09:06
‘Cook Once, Eat Twice’ and ‘Accidentally on Purpose’ are new books from cooking stars	NPR's Book of the Day	19:19
‘Atlantic’ writer James Parker says his odes are exercises in gratitude and attention	NPR's Book of the Day	10:41
In ‘The Hounding,’ rumors swirl around five sisters living in 18th-century England	NPR's Book of the Day	07:15
Alexis Okeowo’s ‘Blessings and Disasters’ is an ode to Alabama’s complicated history	NPR's Book of the Day	08:46
‘Dwelling’ fictionalizes the American housing crisis with elements of fairy tale	NPR's Book of the Day	09:10
For the authors of ‘Reading Van Gogh,’ ‘Black in Blues,’ art opened a door to meaning	NPR's Book of the Day	22:03
In ‘Human Nature,’ Kate Marvel bridges the gap between climate science and emotions	NPR's Book of the Day	08:46
Jason Mott’s new novel ‘People Like Us’ is metafiction that was almost memoir	NPR's Book of the Day	09:26
‘Sloppy’ author Rax King says she’s inspired by writers who did their best work sober	NPR's Book of the Day	08:38
A new mystery novel by Liza Tully pairs a green assistant with a seasoned detective	NPR's Book of the Day	09:49

Two new history books use the past to explain what’s important now

NPR's Book of the Day

18:57

'F*** Approval, You Don’t Need It!' makes the case against ‘people pleasers’

NPR's Book of the Day

10:27

Angela Flournoy’s 'The Wilderness' focuses on a Black, female ‘chosen family’

NPR's Book of the Day

09:05

Former senator Joe Manchin makes the case for the middle in the memoir 'Dead Center'

NPR's Book of the Day

07:47