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631 - Pirate Stories: "Black Moon" by Stephen Wright, and "The Pirate Queen" by Ariel Lawhon

----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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631 - Pirate Stories: "Black Moon" by Stephen Wright, and "The Pirate Queen" by Ariel Lawhon

Wed, 04 Nov 2026
630 - Detective Stories: "Cherry Beach" by Don Gillmor and "One Good Eye" by Kevin Wade

Tue, 27 Oct 2026
629 - Excellent Nonfiction: "London Falling" by Patrick Radden Keefe and "Rin Tin Tin" by Susan Orlean

Wed, 21 Oct 2026
628 - Chris Bohjahlian Special:

Wed, 14 Oct 2026
627 - Stunning Memoirs: "A Jew in the Woods" by Berl Kagan and "The Wound is Where the Light Enters" by Chris Young

Wed, 07 Oct 2026
626 - Speculative Fiction: "Exit Party" by Emily St. John Mandel, "Public Access Afterworld" by Jane Schoenbrun, and "Earth 7" by Deb Olen Unferth

Mon, 28 Sep 2026
625 - Bad Guys: "Murder in the Dollhouse" by Rich Cohen and "The Castle" by Jon Ronson

Wed, 23 Sep 2026
624 - The Daughter-in-Law Book Club: "Yesteryear" by Caro Claire Burke and "Strangers" by Belle Burden

Wed, 16 Sep 2026
623 - Funny Women at the Baltimore Book Festival: "Word Salad" by Susan Coll and "Cloud Six" by Amy Fusselman

Tue, 08 Sep 2026
622 - Back to School with Elin Hildebrand

Thu, 03 Sep 2026
621 - It's a Dog's Life: "Etna" by Paul Yoon and "Social Animals" by Camille Perri

Wed, 19 Aug 2026
620 - Laurie Frankel Special

Wed, 12 Aug 2026
619 - Immigrant Communities: "Good People" by Patmeena Sabit and "I Hope You Find What You're Looking For" by Bsrat Mezghebe

Fri, 07 Aug 2026
618 - Ann Patchett's "Whistler" and "The Patron Saint of Liars"

Wed, 05 Aug 2026
617 - Down South: "The Calamity Club" by Kathryn Stockett and "The Great Wherever" by Shannon Sanders

Fri, 24 Jul 2026
616 - Life-changing Friendships: "Contrapposto" by Dave Eggers, "Honoria" by Janice Shapiro, and "We Should Not Be Friends" by Will Schwalbe

Fri, 17 Jul 2026
615 - There Goes The Neighborhood: Alan Opts Out" by Courtney Maum and "Coyoteland" by Vanessa Hua"

Wed, 15 Jul 2026
614 - Giants of Fiction: "What We Can Know" by Ian McEwan and "John of John" by Douglas Stuart.

Wed, 08 Jul 2026
613 - Murder Most Foul: "The Pinnacle" by Abir Mukherjee and "Blunt Instrument" by Amy Bloom

Thu, 25 Jun 2026
612 - Arch Thrillers: "The Author Weekend" by Laura Zigman and "The Ending Writes Itself" by Evelyn Clarke

Wed, 03 Jun 2026
611 - Famous and Funny: "The Land and Its People" by David Sedaris and "Famesick" by Lena Dunham

Wed, 27 May 2026
610 - Family Memoirs: A Room in Bombay, by Manil Suri, and Keeper of My Kin, by Ada Ferrer

Thu, 21 May 2026
609 - Cults and Their Discontents

Thu, 14 May 2026
608 - Memoir Roundup: "Small Town Girls" by Jayne Anne Phillips, "Labor" by Mary Afsari, and "She's Under Here" by Karen Palmer

Tue, 28 Apr 2026
607 - Monica Lewinsky Special: "Dear Monica Lewinsky" by Julia Langbein, "Young Jane Young" by Gabrielle Zevin, and "Everything is Perfect" by Kate Nason

Wed, 22 Apr 2026
606 - Love Among the Stars: "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" by Taylor Jenkins Reid and "American Fantasy" by Emma Straub

Wed, 15 Apr 2026
605 - Citylit Festival Preview

Wed, 08 Apr 2026
604 - Internet Famous: "What A Time To Be Alive" by Jade Chang and "I Could Be Famous" by Sydney Rende

Wed, 01 Apr 2026
603 - Uncommon Women: "Big Nobody" by Alex Kadis and "The Beheading Game" by Rebecca Lehmann.

Thu, 26 Mar 2026
602 - Remember The Seventies: "Lake Effect" by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney and "Judy Blume: A Life" by Mark Oppenheimer

Wed, 18 Mar 2026
601 - Moving Memoirs: "The Flower Bearers" by Rachel Eliza Griffiths and "Fly, Wild Swans" by Jung Chang

Mon, 16 Mar 2026
600 - Friend Groups: "So Old, So Young" by Grant Ginder and "Bad Asians" by Lillian Li

Thu, 05 Mar 2026
599 - Celebrating Black Women: "Kin" by Tayari Jones, "Firstborn Girls" by Bernice McFadden, and "Finding Me" by Viola Davis

Wed, 25 Feb 2026
598 - Road Trips: "The Rest of Our Lives" by Benjamin Markovits and "Solito" by Javier Zamora

Thu, 19 Feb 2026
597 - Jane Gardam Trilogy: Old Filth, The Man in the Wooden Hat, and Last Friends

Wed, 11 Feb 2026
596 - Invisible Threads: are The Correspondent, by Virginia Evans, Palaver, by Bryan Washington and Deeper than the Ocean, by Mirta Ojita

Thu, 05 Feb 2026
595 - Great New Memoirs from Iconic Entertainers

Wed, 21 Jan 2026
594 - New Thrillers: "Best Offer Wins" by Marisa Kashino and "The Gallagher Place" by Julie Doar

Tue, 13 Jan 2026
593 - Memorable Memoirs of 2025

Wed, 07 Jan 2026
592 - Memorable Memoirs of 2025

Wed, 07 Jan 2026
591 - Top Ten Fiction Titles of the Year 2025

Tue, 30 Dec 2025
590 - Non-fiction Gift Books 2025

Mon, 15 Dec 2025
589 - European Voices: "The Lack of Light" by Nino Haratischwili and "Serge" by Yasmina Reza

Tue, 02 Dec 2025
588 - Happy 250th, Jane Austen!

Tue, 25 Nov 2025
587 - Writers' Memoirs: "Joyride" by Susan Orlean and "Book of Lives" by Margaret Atwood

Wed, 19 Nov 2025
586 - Just For Fun: "Henry and Grace's Holiday Movie Marathon" by Matt Norman and "The Literati" by Susan Coll

Mon, 17 Nov 2025
585 - Lives and Loves: Heart the Lover, by Lily King, and Dream Count, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Wed, 05 Nov 2025
584 - Sappho In Space: "To the Moon and Back" by Eliana Ramage and "Atmosphere" by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Thu, 30 Oct 2025
583 - Sappho in Space: are "To the Moon and Back" by Eliana Ramage and "Atmosphere" by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Thu, 30 Oct 2025
582 - Super Stories: "Fools for Love" by Helen Schulman and "Mercy" by Joan Silber

Tue, 21 Oct 2025

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