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.
Último episodio
A new James Baldwin biography asks how the writer’s lovers might’ve shaped him (22.10.2025)
Episodios anteriores
- Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir recounts abuse by Epstein, Maxwell and others
- Ken Liu’s latest novel ‘All That We See or Seem’ is speculative fiction about AI
- Books We’ve Loved: Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice, a blueprint to the modern romance
- Cookbooks 'House of Nanking' and 'Boustany' honor rich family legacies through food
- 'I Am You' fictionalizes the story of a Dutch Golden Age painter and her maid
- 'The Persian' is a spy thriller written by former CIA analyst David McCloskey
- In her new memoir, Jeannie Vanasco gets 'A Silent Treatment' from her mom
- 'Pick a Color' is a novel that takes place over a single day at a nail salon
- Introducing: Books We've Loved
- These new mystery novels are 'whodunits' that might as well be called 'whydunits'
- In 'Dream School,' Jeff Selingo wants parents to rethink what makes a ‘good’ college
- For her latest novel, Patricia Lockwood says she wanted to write about confusion
- Mariana Enriquez’s new book connects her interest in cemeteries with Argentina’s past
- 'For the Sun After Long Nights' is a history of Iran’s Woman, Life, Freedom Movement
- Two new history books use the past to explain what’s important now
- 'F*** Approval, You Don’t Need It!' makes the case against ‘people pleasers’
- Angela Flournoy’s 'The Wilderness' focuses on a Black, female ‘chosen family’
- Former senator Joe Manchin makes the case for the middle in the memoir 'Dead Center'
- Ian McEwan’s latest novel ‘What We Can Know’ is science fiction without the science
- ‘Peacemaker’ and ‘Tomorrow Is Yesterday’ are personal histories of diplomacy
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