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.
Latest Episode
Comic journalist Joe Sacco on his portrait of deadly riots in Uttar Pradesh, India (25.11.2025)
Previous Episodes
- Justinian Huang’s new novel follows a Taiwanese-American family intent on a male heir
- Revisiting ‘Gone Girl’
- 'The Ten Year Affair,' 'Sex of the Midwest' look at the role of sex in domestic life
- 'Fire in Every Direction' is a personal work by Palestinian scholar Tareq Baconi
- Kathy Iandoli on Gucci Mane’s memoir and becoming the go-to writer for rappers
- 'Bog Queen' cherishes Earth’s mossy wetlands and the bodies they preserve
- Margaret Atwood on what finally made her agree to write a memoir
- Revisiting ‘Giovanni's Room’
- Music biographies 'The Cars,' 'Only God Can Judge Me' balance greatness and tragedy
- John Grisham brings a money-hungry lawyer to center stage in 'The Widow'
- In 'A Guardian and a Thief,' a mother’s love for her family threatens her own morals
- Tochi Onyebuchi’s 'Racebook' is a 'personal history' of a less serious time online
- Philip Pullman’s new novel follows ‘The Golden Compass’ heroine into young adulthood
- Revisiting ‘The Joy Luck Club’
- Reese Witherspoon, Harlan Coben and Chris Kraus are out with new crime thrillers
- These previously unpublished Harper Lee stories were discovered in her NYC apartment
- In 'The Eleventh Hour,' Salman Rushdie writes about morality, revenge and ghosts
- Julian Brave Noisecat’s 'We Survived the Night' is part memoir, part Native history
- Karine Jean-Pierre’s new memoir 'Independent' explains why she left the Democrats
- Revisiting Charles Portis’ True Grit
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