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Romance authors Emily Henry, Beverly Jenkins, and others on the state of their genre
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A meet-cute followed by real life: 'Party of Two' is about love in the real world
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Looking back at 'Normal People,' before Sally Rooney’s rise to fame
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'Emergency Contact' explores love in the age of modern technology
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Nicholas Sparks and M. Night Shyamalan on 'Remain,' their supernatural romance novel
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New books argue that far-off goals and humor can help shift daily routines
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Iranian pop star Googoosh on her new memoir and life in pre-revolution Iran
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Sarah Harman’s debut novel is a lighthearted take on the 'missing kid' mystery genre
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'Firestorm' tells journalistic – and personal – story of the LA wildfires
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'This is Where the Serpent Lives' is a sprawling debut novel set in modern Pakistan
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'Body Beautiful' and 'My One-of-a-Kind Body' aim to cultivate kids’ body positivity
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'Freedom on the Sea' is a biography of Robert Smalls – by his great-great-grandson
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The novel 'These Days' fictionalizes a lesser-known chapter in the history of Belfast
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With her new book, Scottish author Val McDermid wants to “charm you into winter”
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'The Definitions' features dorm room conversation – with a dystopian twist
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Two debut novels, two murder mysteries set in the United Kingdom
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Amitav Ghosh’s 'Wild Fictions' gathers essays on empire and the environment
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In 'Twice Born,' a daughter discovers her father through his biography of Mark Twain
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'The Philosopher in the Valley' paints an eccentric portrait of Palantir’s Alex Karp
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'Russ & Daughters' cookbook documents a century-old New York City establishment
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Susan Choi’s 'Flashlight' is about an alternate-universe version of her own family
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'Feeding Ghosts' is a graphic memoir grappling with generational trauma
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In ‘A Guardian and a Thief,’ a mother’s love for her family threatens her own morals
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A new novel from Karen Russell is a sprawling story set during the Dust Bowl
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In Rabih Alameddine’s new novel, a mother and son share a tiny Beirut apartment
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Dorie Greenspan and Paul Hollywood discuss their new and nourishing cake cookbooks
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'Unabridged' explores the history of the dictionary – and why it’s in trouble now
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'Hiddensee' is a 'Nutcracker'-inspired novel from the author of 'Wicked'
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Jeff Kinney on his iconic, now 20-book 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' series
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Mahmood Mamdani’s 'Slow Poison' centers politics of belonging in postcolonial Uganda
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Revisiting ‘Waiting to Exhale’
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Paul McCartney on his band 'Wings,' plus the story of indie label Bloodshot Records
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In this novel, the residents of a Brussels apartment building brace for Nazi invasion
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William Boyd’s 'The Predicament' is a spy thriller with a conspiratorial edge
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Rep. Jim Clyburn’s new book 'The First Eight' traces the history of his predecessors
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'The Heir Apparent' asks existential questions about Britain and its beloved crown
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Revisiting ‘Kitchen Confidential’
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‘How a Game Lives,’ ‘How to Save the Internet’ show the best and worst of life online
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A new book of poems by Kate Baer wrestles with the realities of middle age
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In 'The Unveiling,' a disastrous cruise becomes an opportunity for cultural reckoning
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Deborah Willis on her seminal history of Black photography, reissued 25 years later
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In ‘Best Offer Wins,’ an ambitious millennial is driven mad by the homebuying process
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Revisiting Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’
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In new novels, marriages are tested by a last request and a moment in the spotlight
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Abby Phillip’s 'A Dream Deferred' chronicles Jesse Jackson’s rise to political esteem
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'The Devil Is a Southpaw' is a story within a story — or so its narrator says
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John Fetterman on his new memoir, his mental health, and disagreements with his party
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A new book looks to the writings of Renaissance-era nuns for advice on life today
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Revisiting ‘Their Eyes Were Watching God’
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A Claire McCardell biography and an AI sci-fi are among NPR’s top book picks of 2025
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'My Cambodia: A Khmer Cookbook' is Nite Yun’s love letter to food and family
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'We Were Liars' author returns for more teenage catharsis in 'We Fell Apart'
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Comic journalist Joe Sacco on his portrait of deadly riots in Uttar Pradesh, India
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Justinian Huang’s new novel follows a Taiwanese-American family intent on a male heir
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Revisiting ‘Gone Girl’
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'The Ten Year Affair,' 'Sex of the Midwest' look at the role of sex in domestic life
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'Fire in Every Direction' is a personal work by Palestinian scholar Tareq Baconi
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Kathy Iandoli on Gucci Mane’s memoir and becoming the go-to writer for rappers
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'Bog Queen' cherishes Earth’s mossy wetlands and the bodies they preserve
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Margaret Atwood on what finally made her agree to write a memoir
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Revisiting ‘Giovanni's Room’
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Music biographies 'The Cars,' 'Only God Can Judge Me' balance greatness and tragedy
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John Grisham brings a money-hungry lawyer to center stage in 'The Widow'
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In 'A Guardian and a Thief,' a mother’s love for her family threatens her own morals
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Tochi Onyebuchi’s 'Racebook' is a 'personal history' of a less serious time online
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Philip Pullman’s new novel follows ‘The Golden Compass’ heroine into young adulthood
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Revisiting ‘The Joy Luck Club’
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Reese Witherspoon, Harlan Coben and Chris Kraus are out with new crime thrillers
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These previously unpublished Harper Lee stories were discovered in her NYC apartment
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In 'The Eleventh Hour,' Salman Rushdie writes about morality, revenge and ghosts
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Julian Brave Noisecat’s 'We Survived the Night' is part memoir, part Native history
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Karine Jean-Pierre’s new memoir 'Independent' explains why she left the Democrats
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Revisiting Charles Portis’ True Grit
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Stephen King on 'The Shining' sequel and the novel he co-authored with his son
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In 'The Hacienda,' the protagonist is trapped in a haunted house – and her marriage
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Shirley Jackson’s biographer on the writer’s ability to find evil in the ordinary
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Princeton professor Susan Wolfson on why we love 'Frankenstein' two centuries later
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'Interview with the Vampire' author Anne Rice takes NPR on a tour of her haunted home
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Revisiting Anne Rice’s ‘Interview with the Vampire’
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'Paper Girl' and 'Joyride' are memoirs by journalists who get close to their subjects
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This Palestinian journalist kept a diary as Israeli forces invaded – now it’s a book
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A new James Baldwin biography asks how the writer’s lovers might’ve shaped him
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Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir recounts abuse by Epstein, Maxwell and others
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Ken Liu’s latest novel ‘All That We See or Seem’ is speculative fiction about AI
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Books We’ve Loved: Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice, a blueprint to the modern romance
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Cookbooks 'House of Nanking' and 'Boustany' honor rich family legacies through food
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'I Am You' fictionalizes the story of a Dutch Golden Age painter and her maid
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'The Persian' is a spy thriller written by former CIA analyst David McCloskey
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In her new memoir, Jeannie Vanasco gets 'A Silent Treatment' from her mom
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'Pick a Color' is a novel that takes place over a single day at a nail salon
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Introducing: Books We've Loved
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These new mystery novels are 'whodunits' that might as well be called 'whydunits'
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In 'Dream School,' Jeff Selingo wants parents to rethink what makes a ‘good’ college
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For her latest novel, Patricia Lockwood says she wanted to write about confusion
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Mariana Enriquez’s new book connects her interest in cemeteries with Argentina’s past
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'For the Sun After Long Nights' is a history of Iran’s Woman, Life, Freedom Movement
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Two new history books use the past to explain what’s important now
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'F*** Approval, You Don’t Need It!' makes the case against ‘people pleasers’
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Angela Flournoy’s 'The Wilderness' focuses on a Black, female ‘chosen family’
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Former senator Joe Manchin makes the case for the middle in the memoir 'Dead Center'
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