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In Emma Straub's novel 'All Adults Here,' family is messy

In 'Lessons in Chemistry' a chemist is the star of... a cooking show?

'The Rachel Incident' looks back on early-20s friendships, love and mistakes

Emily Henry's 'Funny Story' centers a new character in rom-com tropes

New books by Damon Young and Dennard Dayle take different routes to humor

'The Pretender' centers on a real peasant who learns he is heir to England's throne

In 'The Science of Revenge,' an expert explains why humans are hardwired for payback

'Great Black Hope' is a character study of a young, Black, queer man in high society

'Fatherhood' traces a history of masculinity, from Aristotle to Sigmund Freud

New books by Carl Hiaasen and John Seabrook tell distinctly American stories

Evan Osnos' 'The Haves and Have-Yachts' is a book of essays about the new Gilded Age

Leisha Hailey and Kate Moennig reflect on 'The L Word' in memoir 'So Gay For You'

For a novel on the first women astronauts, Taylor Jenkins Reid studied old NASA PDFs

As prime minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern juggled leadership and motherhood

In 'The Dry Season,' Melissa Febos chronicles a transformative year of celibacy

Susan Choi's 'Flashlight' is about an alternate-universe version of her own family

'Sea of Grass' chronicles the disappearance of the North American prairie

In this episode of NPR's Book of the Day, Chris Bentley interviews authors David Hage and Josephine Marcotty about their book, "Sea of Grass: The Conquest, Ruin, and Redemption of Nature on the American Prairie." The discussion takes place in Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie outside of Chicago, a restored prairie lan...

In 'The Catch,' estranged sisters confront a mystery surrounding their mother's death

Madeleine Thien's new novel 'The Book of Records' is a story that traverses centuries

'What Will People Think?' and 'Climbing in Heels' star women trying to make it big