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
Revisiting Anne Rice’s ‘Interview with the Vampire’ (25.10.2025)
Previous Episodes
- 'Paper Girl' and 'Joyride' are memoirs by journalists who get close to their subjects
- This Palestinian journalist kept a diary as Israeli forces invaded – now it’s a book
- A new James Baldwin biography asks how the writer’s lovers might’ve shaped him
- 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’
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