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----What should I read next?---- Book critic and longtime NPR commentator Marion Winik answers this question in four opinionated, book-loving minutes. With reviews of new releases and older titles you may have missed, it’s like having a new best friend with very good taste to guide you in your literary adventures. The Weekly Reader is produced by WYPR and hosted by Lisa Morgan.
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Murder Most Foul: "The Pinnacle" by Abir Mukherjee and "Blunt Instrument" by Amy Bloom
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Jun 25, 2026 |
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Arch Thrillers: "The Author Weekend" by Laura Zigman and "The Ending Writes Itself" by Evelyn Clarke
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Jun 03, 2026 |
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Famous and Funny: "The Land and Its People" by David Sedaris and "Famesick" by Lena Dunham
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May 27, 2026 |
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Family Memoirs: A Room in Bombay, by Manil Suri, and Keeper of My Kin, by Ada Ferrer
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May 21, 2026 |
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Cults and Their Discontents
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May 14, 2026 |
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Memoir Roundup: "Small Town Girls" by Jayne Anne Phillips, "Labor" by Mary Afsari, and "She's Under Here" by Karen Palmer
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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Monica Lewinsky Special: "Dear Monica Lewinsky" by Julia Langbein, "Young Jane Young" by Gabrielle Zevin, and "Everything is Perfect" by Kate Nason
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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Love Among the Stars: "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" by Taylor Jenkins Reid and "American Fantasy" by Emma Straub
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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Citylit Festival Preview
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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Internet Famous: "What A Time To Be Alive" by Jade Chang and "I Could Be Famous" by Sydney Rende
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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Uncommon Women: "Big Nobody" by Alex Kadis and "The Beheading Game" by Rebecca Lehmann.
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Mar 26, 2026 |
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Remember The Seventies: "Lake Effect" by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney and "Judy Blume: A Life" by Mark Oppenheimer
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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Moving Memoirs: "The Flower Bearers" by Rachel Eliza Griffiths and "Fly, Wild Swans" by Jung Chang
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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Friend Groups: "So Old, So Young" by Grant Ginder and "Bad Asians" by Lillian Li
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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Celebrating Black Women: "Kin" by Tayari Jones, "Firstborn Girls" by Bernice McFadden, and "Finding Me" by Viola Davis
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Road Trips: "The Rest of Our Lives" by Benjamin Markovits and "Solito" by Javier Zamora
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Jane Gardam Trilogy: Old Filth, The Man in the Wooden Hat, and Last Friends
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Invisible Threads: are The Correspondent, by Virginia Evans, Palaver, by Bryan Washington and Deeper than the Ocean, by Mirta Ojita
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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Great New Memoirs from Iconic Entertainers
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Jan 21, 2026 |
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New Thrillers: "Best Offer Wins" by Marisa Kashino and "The Gallagher Place" by Julie Doar
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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Memorable Memoirs of 2025
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Memorable Memoirs of 2025
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Jan 07, 2026 |
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Top Ten Fiction Titles of the Year 2025
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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Non-fiction Gift Books 2025
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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European Voices: "The Lack of Light" by Nino Haratischwili and "Serge" by Yasmina Reza
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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Happy 250th, Jane Austen!
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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Writers' Memoirs: "Joyride" by Susan Orlean and "Book of Lives" by Margaret Atwood
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Just For Fun: "Henry and Grace's Holiday Movie Marathon" by Matt Norman and "The Literati" by Susan Coll
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Lives and Loves: Heart the Lover, by Lily King, and Dream Count, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Sappho In Space: "To the Moon and Back" by Eliana Ramage and "Atmosphere" by Taylor Jenkins Reid
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Sappho in Space: are "To the Moon and Back" by Eliana Ramage and "Atmosphere" by Taylor Jenkins Reid
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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Super Stories: "Fools for Love" by Helen Schulman and "Mercy" by Joan Silber
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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Meet the Parents: "The Boy from the North Country" by Sam Sussman and "No Ordinary Bird" by Artis Henderson
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Mommie Dearest: "Bad Bad Girl" by Gish Jen and "Mother Mary Comes to Me" by Arundhati Roy
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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Passage to India: "The Lonelinesss of Sonia and Sunny" by Kiran Desai and "A Guardian and A Thief" by Megha Majumdar
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Passage to India: "The Lonelinesss of Sonia and Sunny" by Kiran Desai and "A Guardian and A Thief" by Megha Majumdar
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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New Romance: "August Lane" Regina Black, "Sweet Heat" by Bobu Babalola, and "Jamaica Road" by Lisa Smith
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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Gifted Children: "The Sunflower Boys" by Sam Wachman and "Life, Death and Giants" by Ron Rindo
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Goin' Out West, plus Paperback Releases For Bookclubs
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Aug 25, 2025 |
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Trouble in Eastern Europe: "A Dog in Georgia" by Lauren Grodstein and "Endling" by Maria Reva
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Comic Novels: "Vera, or Faith" by Gary Shteyngart and "Run for the Hills" by Kevin Wilson
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Adventures in Travel: "Culpability" by Bruce Holsinger and "Sky Daddy" by Kate Folk
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Magnificent Memoirs: "Flowers and Locusts" by Martha Reid Paradis and "Not My Type" by E. Jean Carroll
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Magnificent Memoirs: "Flowers and Locusts" by Martha Reid Paradis and "Not My Type" by E. Jean Carroll
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Seaside Reads: "Next to Heaven" by James Frey and "The Listeners" by Maggie Stiefvater
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Must-Read Memoirs from Molly Jong-Fast and Sarah Wynn-Williams
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Jul 02, 2025 |
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Insiders: Dispatches from New York City and Hollywood
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Women on Women: new books from Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson and Sophie Gilbert
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Great Debuts: Aaron John Curtis and Lucas Schaefer
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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For Music Lovers: "Matriarch" by Tina Knowles and "Walk Softly On This Heart of Mine" by Callie Collins
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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New York Stories: New novels from Maxine Rosaler, Austin Kelley, and Rumaan Alaml
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May 28, 2025 |
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Funny People: "What Is Wrong With You?" by Paul Rudnick, and "Making the Best of What's Left" by Judith Viorst.
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May 21, 2025 |
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Family Life in the UK: "Going Home" by Tom Lamont and "The Names" by Florence Knapp
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May 14, 2025 |
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Fiction Fights Back: The Dream Hotel, by Laila Lalami, and The Antidote, by Karen Russell
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May 08, 2025 |
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Good Stories: "Atavists" by Lydia Millet and "Good Women" by Halle Hill
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Modern Predicaments: "Jane and Dan at the End of the World" by Colleen Oakley and "Rental House" by Weike Wang
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Cats From Japan: The Blanket Cats, by Kiyoshi Shigematsu and Mornings Without Mii, by Mayumi Inaba
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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Listen to This: New Audio Memoirs
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Weekly Reader Live at CityLit Festival 2025
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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Europe in Wartime: "33 Place Brugmann" by Alice Austen and "Maya and Natasha" by Elyse Durham
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Listening to Joan Didion
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Inheritance: "The Magnificent Ruins" by Nayantara Roy and "Like Mother, Like Mother" by Susan Rieger
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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I Dream of Joni Mitchell
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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Short Stories: New Books From Curtis Sittenfeld, Erika Krouse, and by Amor Towles
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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Career Opportunities: "Mona Acts Out" by Mischa Berlinski and "How to Sleep at Night" by Elizabeth Harris
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Feb 17, 2025 |
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When Bad Things Happen to Good Writers
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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When Bad Things happen to Good Writers
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Coming of Age: "Playworld" by Adam Ross and "The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus" by Emma Knight
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Coming of Age: "Playworld" by Adam Ross and "The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus" by Emma Knight
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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Immigration Matters: "Mothers and Sons" by Adam Haslett and "Homeseeking" by Karissa Chen
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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A Few We Missed
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Jan 10, 2025 |
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Local Authors
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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Majestic Memoirs: "Patriot" by Alexei Navalny and "Cher: The Memoir, Part One" by Cher
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Dec 13, 2024 |
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The Holiday Spirit: "Time of the Child" by Niall Williams and "Love You A Latke" by Amanda Elliot
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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Naomi & Me: "I Know About a Thousand Things: The Writings of Ann Alejandro of Uvalde, Texas" and "Everything Comes Next: Collected and New Poems" by Naomi Shahib Nye
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Family Life: "Intermezzo" by Sally Rooney and "The Wildes" by Louis Bayard.
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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Road Trips: "Goyhood" by Reuven Fenton, and "How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?" by Anna Montague
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Nov 15, 2024 |
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Celebrity Memoirs Part Two: Chung, Tucci, Bourdain, Pacino
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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Celebrity Memoirs Part One: "From Here to the Great Unknown" by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough and "All I Ever Wanted" by Kathy Valentine
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Nov 01, 2024 |
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Medicine Women: "The Waters" by Bonnie Jo Campbell and "The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern" by Lynda Cohen Loigman
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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Transitions
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Small Towns, Big Stories
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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For Mature Audiences: "We Were the Universe" by Kimberly King Parsons and "Olive Days" by Jessica Elisheva Emerson
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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Reality Adjacent: "Colored Television" by Danzy Senna and "Small Rain" by Garth Greenwell
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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Friends and Stories: "Mina's Matchbox" by Yoko Ogawa and "Tell Me Everything" by Elizabeth Strout
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Sep 20, 2024 |
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Podcasters and Ghostwriters: "Listen for the Lie" by Amy Tintera and "I Want You More" by Swan Huntley
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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Women, Politics, and Power: "One Way Back" by Christine Blasey Ford and "True Gretch" by Gretchen Whitmer
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Sep 06, 2024 |
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Great Memoirs: "The Friday Afternoon Club" by Griffin Dunne and "Do Something" by Guy Trebay
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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New England Vacations: "Sandwich" by Catherine Newman and "The Wedding People" by Alison Espach
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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Talk to the Animals: "Bear" by Julia Phillips and "The Horse" by Willie Vlautin
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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Take Me to the Beach: "The Same Bright Stars" by Ethan Joella and "Swan Song" by Elin Hilderbrand
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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Women of Sports: "Headshot" by Rita Bullwinkel, and "Coming Home" by Brittney Griner
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Jul 26, 2024 |
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Poor Dear Planet: "Pearce Oysters" by Joselyn Takacs and "Beep" by Bill Roorbach
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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Great American Novels: "Long Island Compromise" by Taffy Brodesser-Akner and "Familiaris" by David Wrobliewski
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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Epic India: "The Covenant of Water" by Abraham Verghese and "Victory City" by Salman Rushdie
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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Women Warriors: "Daughters of Shandong" by Eve Chung and "The Women" by Kristin Hannah
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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Hot Summer Reads: "Come and Get It" by Kiley Reid and "Margo Has Money Troubles" by Rufi Thorpe
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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Stranger Things: "Real Life and Other Fictions" by Susan Coll and "The Husbands" by Holly Gramazio.
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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A Trio of Thrillers: "One of Our Kind" by Nicola Yoon, "Death in the Air" by Ram Murali, and "The God of the Woods" by Liz Moore
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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New Gay Comic Novels from Stephen Rowley and Stephen McCauley
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May 30, 2024 |
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New Memoirs from Salmon Rushdie and Daniel Handler
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May 21, 2024 |
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Eat the Rich: Wives Like Us, by Plum Sykes, and Lies and Weddings, by Kevin Kwan
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May 15, 2024 |
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Midlife Adventures: "The Lady Waiting" by Magdalena Zyzak, and "All Fours" Miranda July
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May 08, 2024 |
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Loss: "Fi, A Memoir of My Son" by Alexandra Fuller and "My Beloved Monster" by Caleb Carr
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May 01, 2024 |
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Real Characters: "Candy Darling" by Cynthia Carr, and "To Anyone Who Ever Asks" by Howard Fishman
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Sloane Crosley Special: "Grief is for People," "The Clasp," and "I Was Told There Would Be Cake"
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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The World of Work: "Help Wanted" by Adelle Waldman and "Burn Book: A Tech Love Story" by Kara Swisher
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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Funny Women: "Worry" by Alexandra Tanner and "Sylvia's Second Act" by Hillary Yablon
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Black American Fiction: "James" by Percival Everett and "Neighbors and Other Stories" by Diane Oliver
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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On Immigration: "The Prince of Los Cocuyos" by Richard Blanco, "Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here" by Jonathan Blitzer and "A Map of Future Ruins" by Lauren Markham
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Mar 22, 2024 |
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Fabulous Fables: "The Bullet Swallower" by Elizabeth Gonzalez James and "The Fox Wife" by Yangsee Choo
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Mental Illness: "The Best Minds" by Jonathan Rosen and :"While You Were Out" by Meg Kissinger
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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The Art World: "Get the Picture" by Bianca Bosker and "The Art Thief" by Michael Finkel
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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People With Causes: "Martyr" by Kaveh Akbar and "Birnam Wood" by Eleanor Catton
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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My Moody Valentine: Roxana Robinson's "Leaving" and Emily Austin's "Interesting Facts About Space"
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Life During COVID: "Joan is Okay" by Weike Wang, and "Fourteen Days" edited by Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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The Mothers: "Flores and Miss Paula" by Melissa Rivero and "The Underburn" by Bill Gaythwaite
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Family Life: "Mercury" by Amy Jo Burns" and "Welcome Home, Stranger" by Kate Christensen
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Breaking Taboos: "The Fetishist" by Katherine Min and "Alice Sadie Celine" by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Christmas in Nantucket with Elin Hilderbrand
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Adventure Time: "Orbital" by Samantha Harvey and "Airplane Mode" Shahnaz Habib
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Historical Fiction from Ariel Lawhon and Paulette Jiles
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Texas Size: "The Madstone" by Elizabeth Crook and "Mr. Texas" by Lawrence Wright
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Great Reporting: "The Times" by Adam Nagourney, and "Gator Country" by Rebecca Renner
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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"My Name is Barbra"
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Social Circles: "Ana Turns" by Lisa Gornick and "The Children's Bach" by Helen Garner
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Dispatches from Southeast Asia: Alice McDermott and Vanessa Chan
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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When in Rome: "Roman Stories" Jhumpa Lahiri, and "The Helsinki Affair" by Anna Pitoniak
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Non-fiction Update: Nathan Thrall, Alexandra Robbins, and Claire Dederer
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Social Satire: "Wellness" by Nathan Hill and "The Book of Ayn" by Lexi Freiman
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Book Award Finalists: "The Bee Sting" by Paul Murray and "How to Say Babylon" by Safiya Sinclair
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Ben Fountain Special: "Devil Makes Three" and "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk"
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Women on the Verge: "Breaking and Entering" by Don Gillmor and "Search History" by Amy Taylor
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Dramatic Interpretation: "Speech Team" by Tim Murphy, and "Sugarless" by James Magruder
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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New books from old favorites: Ann Patchett and Angie Kim
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Cristina Garcia Special
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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More Memoirs: "Everything/Nothing/Someone" by Alice Carrière and "Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City" by Jane Wong
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Aug 30, 2023 |
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On the Road: American Ramble, by Neil King, and White Sands, by Geoff Dyer
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Sequels from the Masters: New books by Colson Whitehead and Richard Russo
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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Great Memoirs from Mary Rodgers and Frieda Hughes
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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DC Authors: Mary Kay Zuravleff, Michelle Brafman and Paul Goldberg
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Friends and Lovers: "The Rachel Incident" by Caroline O’Donoghue, and "Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style" by Paul Rudnick
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Merry Widows: "The Five Star Weekend" by Elin Hilderbrand and "You Can't Stay Here Forever" by Katharine Lin
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Seaside Reads: "Beach Week" by Susan Coll and "Silver Alert" by Lee Smith
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Local Authors Special: Jane Delury, Christine Grillo, and Matt Norman
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Jul 05, 2023 |
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Hot Summer Reads: "Friends Like These" by Meg Rosoff and "The Guest," by Emma Cline
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Interracial Complications: "Everything is Fine" by Cecilia Rabess and "Wade in the Water" by Nyani Nkrumah
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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New Work from Cool Writers: "Lucky Dogs" by Helen Schulman and "Fireworks Every Night" by Beth Raymer
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Mother - Daughter Memoirs
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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it Happened on Twitter: "The Society of Shame"by Jane Roper and "Yellowface" by R.F. Kuang
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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In and Out of Love: "Romantic Comedy" by Curtis Sittenfeld and "How to Fall Out of Love Madly" by Jan Casales
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May 26, 2023 |
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Back of the House: New Adventures in the Kitchen
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May 16, 2023 |
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Small Towns, Great Books: "Big Swiss" by Jen Beagin, and "Take What You Need" by Idra Novey
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May 03, 2023 |
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London Calling: New books from Ore Agbaje-Williams and Eirinie Carson
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Southeast Asia Focus: New work from Rachel Heng and Ralph White
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Pandemic Possibilities: “Kunstlers in Paradise” by Cathleen Schine and “The Fun Widow's Book Tour” by Zoe Fishman
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Elizabeth McKenzie Special
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Novels About True Crime: “I Have Some Questions For You” by Rebecca Makkai and “More Than You'll Ever Know” by Katie Gutierrez
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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It's the Writing: "The Last Animal" by Ramona Ausubel and "The Angel of Rome" by Jess Walter
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Tough Cookies: "My Nemesis" by Charmaine Craig and "Stone Cold Fox" by Rachel Koller Croft
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Dark Academia: "Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence," by R.F. Kuang and "My Last Innocent Year," by Daisy Alpert Florin
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Jane Harper Special: "The Dry," "Force of Nature" and "Exiles."
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Crimes and Misdemeanors: Deepti Kapoor's "Age of Vice" and Patricia Engel's "The Faraway World"
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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The Prince Speaks: The Duke of Sussex Prince Harry's "Spare."
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Celebrity Memoirs
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Ethan Joella Special
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Ethnicity in the Heartland: New books from Elisa Bernick and Lan Samantha Chang
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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Teenage Times: New novels from Kevin Wilson and Alison Espach
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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Dispatches from Ireland: New novels from Michelle Gallen and Louise Nealon
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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Technology R Us: New fiction from Gabrielle Zevin and Carter Bays
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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New comic novels from Grant Ginder and Bonnie Garmus
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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New York Stories: "No one Left to Come Looking for You" by Sam Lipsyte and "Our Lady of the Highway" by Hal Hartley
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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The TV made me do it: "Small Game" and "Carrie Soto is Back"
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Local Authors Showcase
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Nov 30, 2022 |
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Back of the House: New adventures in the kitchen
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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Future Shock: Dystopian days ahead from Julia Glass and Bruce Holsinger
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Coming of Age in a Rough World: New work from Barbara Kingsolver and Jonathan Escoffery
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Scary Stories: Ling Ma's "Bliss Montage" and Ainslie Hogarth's "Motherthing"
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Oct 26, 2022 |
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American Outsiders: New novels by Dur E Aziz Amna and Isaac Blum
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Oct 05, 2022 |
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Movie Biz: "Mercury Pictures Presents" by Anthony Marra and "Mr. Wilder and Me" by Jonathan Coe
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Funny Ladies: "Bookish People" by Susan Coll and "The Means," by Amy Fusselman
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Filthy Rich: "The Work Wife" by Allison B. Hart and "The Club" by Ellery Lloyd
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Jean Hanff Korelitz Special
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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Technology R Us: New fiction from Gabrielle Zevin and Carter Bays
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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The Radical Power of Personal Narrative:"Body Work" by Melissa Febos and "Normal Family" by Chrysta Bilton
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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Sweet Sixteen: Teenage adventures from Emma Straub and Bill Roorbach
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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After Roe: Reproductive rights in America
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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New novels from Britain: Moses McKenzie and Nina Stibbe
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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Toni Morrison special
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May 25, 2022 |
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Generations past: "All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days" by Rebecca Donner and "Ancestor Trouble",by Maud Newton
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May 17, 2022 |
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People who "get" people: new novels from Michelle Huneven and Anne Tyler
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Apr 27, 2022 |
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New books from some favorite authors: Douglas Stuart's "Young Mungo" and Jennifer Egan's "The Candy House"
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Memoirs from around the world
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Female friendships: "Wildcat" by Amelia Morris and "Fiona and Jane" by Jean Chen Ho
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Mar 02, 2022 |
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Stories from New York City
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Feb 09, 2022 |
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Memoirs from Hanif Abdurraqib and Deborah Levy
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Amazing childhood memoirs from Faith Jones and Ly Tran
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Jan 12, 2022 |
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Big American stories from Amor Towles and Honorée Fannone Jeffers
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Dec 29, 2021 |
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Pandemic memories from Gary Shteyngart and Jodi Picoult
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Ann Patchett essays
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Nov 25, 2021 |
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The good old days: feminism and the 1970s.
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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Women's Friendships: new books by Sally Rooney and Christina Pride & Jo Piazza.
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Oct 13, 2021 |
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Family Matters: New novels from Jonathan Franzen and Atticus Lish.
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Historical Fiction: Escape to Another Century
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Asian-American Memoirs From Qian Julie Wang And Michele Zauner
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Sep 15, 2021 |
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Truth Be Told: New Memoirs From Nancy Jo Sales And Alison Bechdel
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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Thrillers, Part Two
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Aug 11, 2021 |
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Summer Thrillers, Part One
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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Thrillers, Big And Small: New Work From Alex Michaelides and Bruce Henderson
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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The Joys Of Marriage
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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Marion's Favorite Fiction Writers: Joan Silber and Marian Thurm.
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May 25, 2021 |
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Family Secrets: New Memoirs From Hunter Biden and Margaret Kimball
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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Boarding School Special
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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On the Job: Life Lessons From Mateo Askaripour and Chang Rae Lee
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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Happy Birthday To Us! 'Detransition, Baby' and 'American Baby'
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Feb 10, 2021 |
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Family Values: New Fiction From Liese O'Halloran Schwarz And Sarah Langan
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Feb 04, 2021 |
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Smart Books For Thoughtful People
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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The Emerald Isle: Fact And Fiction From Northern Ireland
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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New York Stories: Debra Jo Immergut's 'You Again' and Caroline Leavitt's 'With or Without You'
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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Books with Big Buzz: Bryan Washington's 'Memorial' and Rumaan Alam's 'Leave the World Behind.'
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Nov 17, 2020 |
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New Fiction from Chinese-American author Susie Yang and Pakistani-American playwright Ayad Akhtar
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Nov 03, 2020 |
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Curtis Sittenfeld Special
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Oct 28, 2020 |
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Big Stories from Small Towns: Jess Walter's 'The Cold Millions' and Max Gross's 'The Lost Shtetl.'
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Oct 20, 2020 |
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Short and Sweet: New Story Collections from Emma Cline and Kelli Jo Ford.
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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American Women: Seward Darby's 'Sisters in Hate' and Laila Lalami's 'Conditional Citizens' Examine the Lives of Uncommon American Women.
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Oct 06, 2020 |
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To Have and To Hold: New Fiction about Marriage from Sue Miller and Peace Adzo Medie
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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New Voices: Debut Work from Raven Leilani and Deesha Philyaw
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Sep 08, 2020 |
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Champagne Dreams: New Books About Celebrity Life from Heidi Pitlor and Ben Widdicombe
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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Women of a Certain Age: New Fiction from Charlotte Wood and Larry Watson.
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Aug 11, 2020 |
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Panic in the Streets: New Memoirs from Wayetu Moore and Wes Moore.
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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Signs of the Times: New Memoirs from Andrea Lawlor and Anonymous
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Jul 21, 2020 |
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Everyman's Library: Lorrie Moore
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Jun 23, 2020 |
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Short Stories: Francesca Marciano's "Animal Spirit" and Stephen King's "If It Bleeds."
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Jun 16, 2020 |
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Fitting In: New Fiction from Rufi Thorpe and Frances Cha
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May 26, 2020 |
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New Fiction from Anne Tyler and Julia Alverez
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May 06, 2020 |
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The Scene of the Crime: New Fiction from Emily St. John Mandel and Elizabeth Wetmore
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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Memoirs with a Sense of Humor
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Apr 24, 2020 |
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Helen Fremont and the Minefield of Family Memoir
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Apr 15, 2020 |
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Douglas Stuart's "Shuggie Bain" - The Weekly Reader Book club Pick for April
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Mar 10, 2020 |
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Armchair Travel: New novels from Isabel Allende and Christopher Bollen.
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Feb 12, 2020 |
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New Non-fiction from Peggy Orenstein and Susannah Cahalan
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Jan 21, 2020 |
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Kiley Reid's "Such a Fun Age" - The Weekly Reader Book club pick for February
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Jan 15, 2020 |
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New Fiction from Jami Attenberg and Jacqueline Woodson
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Dec 17, 2019 |
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Booker Prize 2019: Bernardine Evaristo and Margaret Atwood
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Dec 11, 2019 |
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Short Stories from Zadie Smith and Etgar Keret.
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Nov 06, 2019 |
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On the Wild Side: New Memoirs from Adrienne Brodeur and Anthony Siegel.
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Oct 23, 2019 |
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Mansion Life: New fiction from Ann Patchett and a classic from Bill Roorbach.
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Sep 25, 2019 |
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Bad Mothers: New fiction from Helen Phillips and Amelie Nothomb.
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Sep 18, 2019 |
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The Weekly Reader Book Club Pick for September: Rebecca Makkai's ----The Great Believers.----
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Aug 13, 2019 |
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More Men with Problems: New Fiction from Richard Russo and Scott Johnston
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Aug 07, 2019 |
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Coming of Age: New Fiction from Jennifer Weiner and Elin Hilderbrand
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Jul 17, 2019 |
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Men With Problems: New Fiction from Taffy Brodesser-Akner and James Lasdun
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Jul 10, 2019 |
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Angie Kim - The Weekly Reader Book Club pick for July
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Jun 11, 2019 |
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Historical Drama from Lisa Gornick and Roxana Robinson.
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May 29, 2019 |
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THE GUEST BOOK: The Weekly Reader Book Club Pick for June!
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May 14, 2019 |
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Trust Exercise and A Wonderful Stroke of Luck : Back to High School
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May 07, 2019 |
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----The Other Americans---- and ----Oksana, Behave!---- - Multicultural America
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May 01, 2019 |
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National Book Critics Circle Award Winners: Biography, Criticism, and Poetry.
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Apr 09, 2019 |
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----A Light of Her Own,---- ----I Was Anastasia,---- and ----The Only Woman in the Room---- - Historical Fiction.
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Apr 02, 2019 |
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----Bowlaway---- - Elizabeth McCracken's new novel
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Feb 19, 2019 |
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----Northern Lights---- and The Martin Chronicles---- - Coming of Age
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Feb 13, 2019 |
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----Still in Love---- and ----My Education---- - Back to School
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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----The Museum of Modern Love---- and ----Severance---- - Manhattan Stories
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Dec 31, 2018 |
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East Coast, West Coast
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Dec 04, 2018 |
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Jailbirds
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Nov 29, 2018 |
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Lucia Berlin Special
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Nov 06, 2018 |
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What's the Matter with Kids Today?
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Oct 31, 2018 |
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The Baltimore Book of the Dead
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Oct 24, 2018 |
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More Audio Books
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Oct 16, 2018 |
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Dazzling Debuts
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Oct 03, 2018 |
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Laughter is the Best Medicine
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Aug 29, 2018 |
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Writing Their Lives
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Aug 15, 2018 |
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Book Club Suggestions
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Aug 01, 2018 |
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Trouble Ahead
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Jun 27, 2018 |
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Asia Food
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Jun 26, 2018 |
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More Summer Reading
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Jun 26, 2018 |
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Unusual Female Characters
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May 15, 2018 |
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Money Changes Everything
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May 01, 2018 |
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There is Nothing Like a Good Novel
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Apr 19, 2018 |
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Business Matters
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Mar 26, 2018 |
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First, The Funeral
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Mar 20, 2018 |
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The Late, Great, Denis Johnson
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Feb 21, 2018 |
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How to Live Forever
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Feb 13, 2018 |
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Non-fiction Update
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Jan 10, 2018 |
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Gifts
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Dec 13, 2017 |
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Ingall
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Dec 06, 2017 |
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New York, New York
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Nov 21, 2017 |
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Hoffman
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Nov 14, 2017 |
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Small Town Politics
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Nov 07, 2017 |
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Women Who Write
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Nov 01, 2017 |
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James McBride
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Oct 25, 2017 |
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Weekly Reader #38
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Oct 18, 2017 |
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Promised Land Special
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Oct 04, 2017 |