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
Dorie Greenspan and Paul Hollywood discuss their new and nourishing cake cookbooks (26.12.2025)
Previous Episodes
- 'Unabridged' explores the history of the dictionary – and why it’s in trouble now
- 'Hiddensee' is a 'Nutcracker'-inspired novel from the author of 'Wicked'
- Jeff Kinney on his iconic, now 20-book 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' series
- Mahmood Mamdani’s 'Slow Poison' centers politics of belonging in postcolonial Uganda
- Revisiting ‘Waiting to Exhale’
- Paul McCartney on his band 'Wings,' plus the story of indie label Bloodshot Records
- In this novel, the residents of a Brussels apartment building brace for Nazi invasion
- William Boyd’s 'The Predicament' is a spy thriller with a conspiratorial edge
- Rep. Jim Clyburn’s new book 'The First Eight' traces the history of his predecessors
- 'The Heir Apparent' asks existential questions about Britain and its beloved crown
- Revisiting ‘Kitchen Confidential’
- ‘How a Game Lives,’ ‘How to Save the Internet’ show the best and worst of life online
- A new book of poems by Kate Baer wrestles with the realities of middle age
- In 'The Unveiling,' a disastrous cruise becomes an opportunity for cultural reckoning
- Deborah Willis on her seminal history of Black photography, reissued 25 years later
- In ‘Best Offer Wins,’ an ambitious millennial is driven mad by the homebuying process
- Revisiting Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’
- In new novels, marriages are tested by a last request and a moment in the spotlight
- Abby Phillip’s 'A Dream Deferred' chronicles Jesse Jackson’s rise to political esteem
- 'The Devil Is a Southpaw' is a story within a story — or so its narrator says
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