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 ‘Giovanni's Room’ (15.11.2025)
Previous Episodes
- Music biographies 'The Cars,' 'Only God Can Judge Me' balance greatness and tragedy
- John Grisham brings a money-hungry lawyer to center stage in 'The Widow'
- In 'A Guardian and a Thief,' a mother’s love for her family threatens her own morals
- Tochi Onyebuchi’s 'Racebook' is a 'personal history' of a less serious time online
- Philip Pullman’s new novel follows ‘The Golden Compass’ heroine into young adulthood
- Revisiting ‘The Joy Luck Club’
- Reese Witherspoon, Harlan Coben and Chris Kraus are out with new crime thrillers
- These previously unpublished Harper Lee stories were discovered in her NYC apartment
- In 'The Eleventh Hour,' Salman Rushdie writes about morality, revenge and ghosts
- Julian Brave Noisecat’s 'We Survived the Night' is part memoir, part Native history
- Karine Jean-Pierre’s new memoir 'Independent' explains why she left the Democrats
- Revisiting Charles Portis’ True Grit
- Stephen King on 'The Shining' sequel and the novel he co-authored with his son
- In 'The Hacienda,' the protagonist is trapped in a haunted house – and her marriage
- Shirley Jackson’s biographer on the writer’s ability to find evil in the ordinary
- Princeton professor Susan Wolfson on why we love 'Frankenstein' two centuries later
- 'Interview with the Vampire' author Anne Rice takes NPR on a tour of her haunted home
- Revisiting Anne Rice’s ‘Interview with the Vampire’
- '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
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