All About Books

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A weekly book review and discussion program hosted by Pat Leach. Updated on Thursdays.

Episode Date
"The Last Devil to Die" by Richard Osman
May 01, 2024
Guest reader Amy Mather of Omaha Public Libraries
Apr 24, 2024
“Foster” by Claire Keegan
Apr 17, 2024
An interview with Sarah McCammon, her book is "The Exvangelicals
Apr 10, 2024
Dr. Dolores Simpson-Kirkland shares the books she re-reads.
Apr 01, 2024
"Enchantment" by Katherine May & "Awe" by Dacher Keltner
Mar 27, 2024
“The War Begins in Paris”. by Ted Wheeler
Mar 20, 2024
“A Sand County Almanac” by Aldo Leopold.
Mar 13, 2024
“How Can I Help You” by Laura Sims
Mar 13, 2024
“Portrait of a City: Lincoln, Nebraska" by Bruce Pauley
Mar 06, 2024
“Chasing Bright Medusas” by Benjamin Taylor
Feb 28, 2024
"Tell Me Everything" by Erika Krouse
Feb 21, 2024
Guest reader Rev. Dr. Jim Keck on re reading religious texts
Feb 14, 2024
“The End of Drum Time” by Hanna Pylväinen
Jan 31, 2024
“Dinners with Ruth" by Nina Totenberg
Jan 24, 2024
"The Mysteries" by Bill Watterson
Jan 17, 2024
Part 2 of our conversation with UNL English Prof. Steve Buhler
Jan 10, 2024
UNL Professor of English Stephen Buhler on why we re-read.
Jan 03, 2024
"All My Knotted Up Life" by Beth Moore
Dec 29, 2023
Guest reader Eric Buchanan on his favorite books to read again
Dec 20, 2023
An introduction to Agatha Christie and her works by Scott Clark
Dec 13, 2023
Leslie Huerta returns with book suggestions for holiday gifts.
Dec 06, 2023
“Ted Kooser: More Than a Local Wonder" by C. Ketner & P. Wallace
Nov 29, 2023
Guest reader Mary Kay Roth on sharing books with adult children.
Nov 15, 2023
An interview with John J Waters about his novel "River CIty One"
Nov 08, 2023
Nebraska State Peot Matt Mason on re-reading his favorite books.
Nov 01, 2023
“It Goes So Fast: the Year of No Do Overs.” by Mary Louise Kelly
Oct 25, 2023
Author Tosca Lee on her favorite books she returns to.
Oct 18, 2023
An interview with Bison rancher and writer Dan O'Brien
Oct 11, 2023
“In Old God’s Time” by Sebastian Barry.
Oct 04, 2023
Guest reader JoAnne Young talks about why she re-reads
Sep 27, 2023
“His Name is George Floyd" by Robert Samuels & Toluse Olorunnipa
Sep 20, 2023
“The Best Strangers in the World” by Ari Shapiro
Sep 13, 2023
"The Mystery of Hunting's End" by Mignon Eberhart
Sep 06, 2023
“The Crane Wife: a Memoir in Essays” by C.J. Hauser
Aug 30, 2023
“Nebraska Volleyball: The Origin Story” by John Mabry
Aug 23, 2023
“Bitch: On the Female of the Species” by Lucy Cooke
Aug 16, 2023
“Lessons in Chemistry” by Bonnie Garmus.
Aug 09, 2023
“Birding While Indian: a Mixed Blood Memoir” by Thomas Gannon
Aug 02, 2023
“Horse” by Geraldine Brooks
Jul 26, 2023
An interview with Michael James about Alzheimer's caregiving.
Jul 19, 2023
“Trust” by Hernan Diaz
Jul 12, 2023
"Easy Beauty" by Chloe Cooper Jones
Jul 05, 2023
"Elsewhere: a Novel" by Alexis Shaitkin
Jun 28, 2023
An interview with Nebraska author Tosca Lee
Jun 21, 2023
“Take All to Nebraska” by Sophus Keith Winter
Jun 14, 2023
"The Rabbit Hutch" by Tess Gunty
Jun 07, 2023
“Seeking Fortune Elsewhere: Stories” by Sindya Bhanoo.
May 31, 2023
Rachel Olsen talks about the 68th Annual Cather Conference
May 24, 2023
"The Maid" by Nita Prose
May 17, 2023
“The Blue Window” by Suzanne Berne
May 10, 2023
“Under the Skin” by Linda Villarosa
May 03, 2023
An interview with history professor and author Jim Downs
Apr 24, 2023
“The Escape Artist" by Jonathan Freeland
Apr 19, 2023
“The Furrows” by Namwali Serpell
Apr 12, 2023
"The Swimmers" by Julie Otsuka
Apr 05, 2023
“Also a Poet” by Ada Calhoun
Mar 29, 2023
"Bad Actors" by Mick Herron
Mar 22, 2023
An interview with "My Nebraska" author Bob Wirz
Mar 15, 2023
“Pickard County Atlas” by Chris Harding Thornton.
Mar 08, 2023
"The Memory of Souls" by Cliff Taylor
Mar 01, 2023
"Ducks" by Kate Deaton and "Acting Class" by Nick Drnaso.
Feb 22, 2023
“Constructing a Nervous System” by Margo Jefferson
Feb 15, 2023
An inverview with Ladette Randolph,author of "Private Way"
Feb 08, 2023
“Demon Copperhead” by Barbara Kingsolver
Feb 01, 2023
“Prairie Up!” by Benjamin Vogt
Jan 25, 2023
“Sea of Tranquility” by Emily St John Mandel
Jan 18, 2023
“Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape” by Dana Fritz
Jan 11, 2023
Guest Don Macke offers his ideas for the This is Nebraska series
Jan 04, 2023
“Bittersweet" by Susan Cain
Dec 29, 2022
"The Marriage Portrait" by Maggie O’Farrell
Dec 21, 2022
Clark Whitehorn of UNL Press on books that tell Nebraska's story
Dec 14, 2022
Holiday gift suggestions for younger readers
Dec 07, 2022
The annual Holiday Gift Guide for book lovers
Nov 30, 2022
"Confluence" a biography of John Gottschalk by George Ayoub
Nov 16, 2022
A History / True Crime book, "Hell's Half Acre" by Susan Jonusas
Nov 09, 2022
“The Evening Hero” by Marie Myung-Ok Lee
Nov 02, 2022
Dan Nieman offers suggestions for One Book - One Nebraska
Oct 26, 2022
“The Sweet Remnants of Summer” by Alexander McCall Smith
Oct 19, 2022
"Sleepwalk" by Dan Chaon
Oct 12, 2022
“How the Word is Passed” by Clint Smith
Oct 05, 2022
"Accelerated" by Brian Ardinger
Sep 28, 2022
"French Braid" by Anne Tyler
Sep 21, 2022
“Lucy by the Sea” by Elizabeth Strout
Sep 09, 2022
“Cloud Cuckoo Land” by Anthony Doerr
Sep 07, 2022
“Trailed" by Kathryn Miles
Aug 31, 2022
Omaha writer Ted Wheeler on contemporary Nebraska authors
Aug 23, 2022
"Rebel with a Clause" by Ellen Jovin
Aug 17, 2022
"Deer Season" by Erin Flanagan
Aug 10, 2022
“This is Nebraska – Books that Tell Our Story”
Aug 03, 2022
A look back at Willa Cather's 1922 novel "One of Ours"
Jul 27, 2022
"Poet Warrior: A Memoir" by Joy Harjo
Jul 20, 2022
“The People of Lincoln” by Randy Bretz
Jul 13, 2022
“The Five Wounds” by Kirstin Valdez-Quade
Jul 06, 2022
“A Life in Light: Meditations on Impermanence” by Mary Pipher
Jun 29, 2022
“75 Years on 4 Strings” by UNL Professor Hans Sturm
Jun 22, 2022
“Pastoral Song” by James Rebanks
Jun 15, 2022
“At the Corner of Fantasy and Main” by Matt Mason
Jun 08, 2022
The One Book-One Lincoln finalists.
Jun 01, 2022
“Matrix” by Lauren Groff
May 25, 2022
“Shadow Migration: Mapping a Life.” by Suzanne Ohlmann
May 18, 2022
"The Wrong End of the Telescope" by Rabih Alameddine
May 11, 2022
“The Doctors Blackwell" by Janice Nimura
May 04, 2022
“Now Is the Time for Trees" by Dan Lambe
Apr 27, 2022
“Eat Your Woolly Mammoths!" by James Solheim
Apr 20, 2022
An interview with author B.J. Hollars and his son Henry.
Apr 13, 2022
A look at the epidemic of loneliness“Seek You” by Kristen Radtke
Apr 06, 2022
"Lincoln" from the Postcard History Series. E. Zimmer & J. McKee
Mar 30, 2022
“A World on the Wing" by Scott Weidensaul.
Mar 23, 2022
“Painting Time” by Maylis de Kerengal
Mar 16, 2022
“Oh William!” by Elizabeth Strout
Mar 09, 2022
"Relcamation" by Lisa Tschauner
Mar 02, 2022
“The Future We Choose" by Figueres and Rivett-Carnac
Feb 23, 2022
"Velvet Was the Night" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Feb 17, 2022
"On Juneteenth" by Annette Gordon-Reed
Feb 09, 2022
“Red Comet” by Heather Clark
Feb 02, 2022
“Rhinos in Nebraska” by Alison Pearce Stevens
Jan 26, 2022
“Libertie” by Kaitlyn Greenidge.
Jan 19, 2022
“Last Night at the Telegraph Club” by Malinda Lo
Jan 12, 2022
“A Town Called Solace” by Mary Lawson
Jan 05, 2022
"Yellow Bird" by Sierra Crane Murdoch
Dec 29, 2021
“Zorrie” by Laird Hunt,
Dec 22, 2021
Holiday gift ideas for adult readers
Dec 15, 2021
Holiday Gift ideas for young readers with Vicky Wood
Dec 08, 2021
“The Lincoln Highway: a Novel” by Amor Towles
Dec 01, 2021
“China Room” by Sunjeev Sahota
Nov 17, 2021
“Cokie: A Life Well Lived.” by Steve Roberts
Nov 10, 2021
“The Splendid and the Vile” by Erik Larsen.
Nov 03, 2021
“The Secret to Super Human Strength” by Alison Bechdel
Oct 27, 2021
“Piranesi” by Susanna Clarke
Oct 20, 2021
"Nebraska History Moments" by David Bristow
Oct 13, 2021
"The Perfume Thief" by Timothy Schaffert
Oct 05, 2021
The Vanishing Half” by Brit Bennet
Sep 28, 2021
“The Only Wonderful Things" by Melissa Homestead
Sep 22, 2021
The “Friend Zone” series by Abby Jimenez.
Sep 15, 2021
“Carville's Cure: by Pam Fessler”
Sep 13, 2021
“Tomatoes for Neela” by Padma Lakshmi
Sep 01, 2021
“Temporary” by Hillary Leichter
Aug 25, 2021
"The Seed Keeper” by Diane Wilson
Aug 18, 2021
"A Knock at Midnight” by Brittany Barnett
Aug 11, 2021
Introduction to Nebraska author, Mari Sandoz
Aug 04, 2021
"Oak Flat" by Lauren Redniss.
Jul 28, 2021
"Hamnet: the Story of a Plague" by Maggie O'Farrell
Jul 21, 2021
UNL English Professor Stephen Buhler's summer reading list.
Jul 14, 2021
“Leave the World Behind” by Rumaan Alam
Jul 07, 2021
“Code Girls” by Liza Mundy.
Jun 29, 2021
"Wilmington's Lie" by David Zucchino
Jun 23, 2021
“Deacon King Kong” by James McBride.
Jun 16, 2021
"Breasts and Eggs" by Mieko Kawakami.
Jun 09, 2021
"Transcendent Kingdom" by Yaa Gyasi.
Jun 02, 2021
“Children of the Land”, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
May 26, 2021
“Rural Rebellion" by Ross Benes
May 19, 2021
“Interior Chinatown” by Charles Yu
May 12, 2021
“Pickard County Atlas” by Chris Harding Thorton
May 05, 2021
“Hidden Prairie" by Chris Helzer
Apr 28, 2021
“Hidden Valley Road” by Robert Kolker.
Apr 21, 2021
"The Least Interesting Place." by Matt Steinhousen
Apr 14, 2021
“Run Me to Earth” by Paul Yoon
Apr 07, 2021
"More in Time" a tribute to NE poet Ted Kooser
Mar 24, 2021
“Becoming Wild” by Carl Safina
Mar 17, 2021
“The Lives of Edie Pritchard” by Larry Watson
Mar 10, 2021
The secret life of birds. "The Bird Way" by Jennifer Ackerman.
Mar 03, 2021
Author Steven Wingate and his new novel "The Leave-Takers"
Feb 24, 2021
“Afterlife” by Julia Alvarez
Feb 17, 2021
"Redhead by the Side of the Road: a Novel" by Anne Tyler.
Feb 10, 2021
. “The Confessions of Frannie Langton” by Sara Collins
Feb 03, 2021
“Minor Feelings” by Cathy Park Hong
Jan 27, 2021
“Here We Are” by Graham Swift
Jan 20, 2021
“Paper Bullets” by Jeffrey Jackson
Jan 13, 2021
“The Less You Know About Us” by Axton Betz-Hamilton
Jan 06, 2021