NPR's Book of the Day

A new oral history of Lollapalooza recalls the alt-rock music festival's wildest days

Emma Pattee's 'Tilt' imagines the aftermath of a life-changing earthquake

In the wake of a sexual assault, astronaut Amanda Nguyen turned to activism

In 'Everything Is Tuberculosis,' John Green turns his attention to a deadly disease

Authors of two new novels draw inspiration from history in wildly different ways

To confront radical change, 'Slate' writer Scaachi Koul wrote a new book of essays

A new book from Emily Feng asks what it means to be Chinese in Xi Jinping's China

Chinese identity under President Xi Jinping has narrowed into a rigid construct requiring Mandarin fluency, heterosexuality, and absolute loyalty to the Communist Party. Journalist Emily Feng, author of Let Only Red Flowers Bloom, observes that this "ideal" citizen is modeled on the Han majority, leaving little room fo...

In 'Long Island,' one woman returns to Ireland after discovering her husband's affair

Christine Wenc's 'Funny Because It's True' calls 'The Onion' "the original fake news"

John Himmelman, Reginald Dwayne Betts take a populist approach to poetry in new books

In 'Beartooth,' brothers embark on an illicit journey into Yellowstone National Park

Chuck Schumer's 'Antisemitism in America' warns of a resurgence in antisemitic views

Allison Epstein's 'Fagin the Thief' gives a Charles Dickens character a second chance

A former Meta executive characterizes company leadership as "careless" in new memoir

In two noir novels, crime lurks beneath small town life in Norway and New England

A new biography tells the story of a South Asian Hollywood star who passed as white

'I'm That Girl' follows gymnast Jordan Chiles' road to the Olympics

The Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins was inspired by Greek myths and reality TV

A new novel from Karen Russell is a sprawling story set during the Dust Bowl

Books by critic Kenneth Turan and actor Rupert Everett show two sides of Hollywood