NPR’s Book of the Day

NPR’s Book of the Day

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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.

Recent Episodes

  • A parenting book by author Kelley Coleman focuses on the care of disabled children

    4 days ago
  • A shocking discovery follows an artist's death in Paula Hawkins' 'The Blue Hour'

    5 days ago
  • 'Tías and Primas' and 'Linguaphile' are new nonfiction books on family and language

    1 week ago
  • 'Big Jim and the White Boy,' a new graphic novel, reinterprets a Mark Twain classic

    1 week ago
  • Stanley Tucci records 12 months of eating in his food diary 'What I Ate in One Year'

    1 week ago
  • In Winsome Bingham's 'The Walk,' a community bands together to head to the polls

    2 weeks ago
  • Bob Woodward's new book 'War' invites readers into a world of back-channel diplomacy

    2 weeks ago
  • 'Patriot' is a posthumous memoir by the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny

    2 weeks ago
  • 'American Scary' documents a cultural obsession with horror in the United States

    2 weeks ago
  • In 'Ottolenghi Comfort,' Yotam Ottolenghi takes an expansive view of comfort food

    2 weeks ago