NPR's Book of the Day

Sarvat Hasin's new novel is about a magnetic friendship between 'Strange Girls'

Two new murder mysteries: 'Ruby Falls' and 'The Secret Lives of Murderers' Wives'

Daisy Hernández argues 'Citizenship' has never been a fixed legal status

Cara Bastone's 'No Matter What' is a romance novel that begins with a separation

In 'The Mixed Marriage Project,' Dorothy Roberts works through her dad's archive

'The Correspondent' is an epistolary novel, but can letters tell the whole story?

'We the Women' and 'Rise, Girl, Rise' are stories about revolutionary women

'One of Us' is a British political drama based on the Boris Johnson era

To understand consciousness, Michael Pollan looked at plants, AI and himself

In 'Bad Asians,' a friend group threatens its reputation with a viral video

In new memoir, Gavin Newsom reflects on his political rise

'The Irish Goodbye' and 'Frog' are micro-memoirs and essays about everyday life

'An American Marriage' author Tayari Jones is out with a new novel 'Kin'

Andrew Krivak’s novel 'Mule Boy' takes readers inside a Pennsylvania coal mine

Jason Zengerle says Tucker Carlson is more 'movement leader' than media persona

Author was struck by story of mixed-race orphans behind 'Keeper of Lost Children'

A psychoanalyst and a priest share insights in 'Love's Labor' and 'Work in Progress'

Reshona Landfair, formerly 'Jane Doe,' recounts abuse by R. Kelly in new memoir

'The Renovation' is a novel with a surrealist take on prison structures big and small

'Fly, Wild Swans' weaves Jung Chang’s family history with the history of China

Writer Jung Chang discusses her new memoir, Fly Wild Swans, which serves as a sequel to her international bestseller and a tribute to her late mother. The conversation centers on the personal cost of Chang’s historical truth-telling, specifically her biography of Mao Zedong that led to her exile from China. Chang detai...