NPR's Book of the Day

Jonathan Jakubowicz says he wanted to write a book Venezuelans couldn't resist

'Kin' and 'When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky' fictionalize the Jim Crow South

Eddie Glaude on the tension at the center of America's milestone birthdays

Revisiting the story of the American Revolution with Rick Atkinson

'America's Founding Son' documents John Quincy Adams' influential post-presidency

Norah O'Donnell’s 'We the Women' pays tribute to U.S. history's female heroes

What to read this summer, according to our NPR colleagues

Judy Blume says she doesn't miss writing … but she’s very glad she wrote

In 'Names Have Been Changed,' a criminal on the run confesses her story on a podcast

A new book argues Elon Musk is the architect of a new world view

Tom Perrotta’s novel 'Ghost Town' revisits a New Jersey childhood from a bygone era

New biographies recount how The Rolling Stones and Soundgarden changed rock music

Laverne Cox on her childhood, 'Walden' and her new memoir 'Transcendent'

In 'The Jellyfish Problem,' an introverted scientist is called in to help an island

Sen. Chris Murphy wants the left and right to fix the country’s 'spiritual rot'

In 'Contrapposto,' the meaning of love and the meaning of art go hand-in-hand

Two romance books give opposite takes on love, relationships and the absence of both

In 'Stolen Revolution,' six Iranians share perspectives on modern Iran and its future

'The Yahoo Boys' investigates Nigeria’s network of cyber crime 'sweetheart scams'

R.F. Kuang says there’s 'quite a lot' of herself in 'Katabasis' protagonist Alice

Katabasis reimagines magic as a demanding, logic-based academic discipline, reflecting the grueling and often hopeless nature of doctoral research. Author R.F. Kuang draws from her own experiences during a period of severe personal and academic hardship, using her characters' descent into hell to process the trauma of ...