NPR's Book of the Day

897 Episodes

1. 'Beautiful Country' looks back on a young Chinese girl's undocumented childhood

   Published: 11/17/2021
2. SJ Sindu makes and unmakes a god in her new novel 'Blue Skinned Gods'

   Published: 11/16/2021
3. 'Hail Mary' sets the record straight on the history of the women's football league

   Published: 11/15/2021
4. 'Dear Memory' and 'Cokie' both look toward the future while remembering the dead

   Published: 11/12/2021
5. Amitav Ghosh turned to legends to write a story large enough for climate change

   Published: 11/11/2021
6. Grady Hendrix reimagines the horror movie sequel in 'Final Girl Support Group'

   Published: 11/10/2021
7. Dr. Sanjay Gupta looks to a future living with COVID in 'World War C'

   Published: 11/9/2021
8. Lucy Barton and her ex, William, are at the heart of Elizabeth Strout's new book

   Published: 11/8/2021
9. Tiphanie Yanique and Dawnie Walton on music, monsters, and family baggage

   Published: 11/5/2021
10. Nick Offerman ponders nature's patterns and chaos in Central Park

    Published: 11/4/2021
11. In a powerful memoir, poet Joy Harjo talks about finding her voice and using it

    Published: 11/3/2021
12. Poet Melissa Lozada-Oliva dreams of Selena

    Published: 11/2/2021
13. Jane Goodall doesn't want you to give up on the planet

    Published: 11/1/2021
14. Zakiya Dalila Harris and Oliver Jeffers talk about different kinds of hauntings

    Published: 10/29/2021
15. How Drew Magary rediscovered himself after 'The Night the Lights Went Out'

    Published: 10/28/2021
16. Why Hillary Clinton wanted to write a political thriller about her greatest nightmare

    Published: 10/27/2021
17. In 'The Matter of Black Lives,' generations of Black thinkers probe American racism

    Published: 10/26/2021
18. The zoo that history nearly forgot in 'When Two Feathers Fell From The Sky'

    Published: 10/25/2021
19. Food is a gateway to the new and familiar in 'Crying in H Mart' and 'Gastro Obscura'

    Published: 10/22/2021
20. Karl Ove Knausgaard didn't mean to write a 666-page book

    Published: 10/21/2021