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1. 1▶'Cloudthief' and 'Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep' are novels that center techNPR's Book of the Day21:55Notes
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2. 2▶In 'Hinterlands,' Hannah Lucinda Smith warns not to overlook conflict at the fringesNPR's Book of the Day8:47Notes
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3. 3▶Authors Annie Hartnett and Kevin Wilson on writing road trip novelsNPR's Book of the Day8:43Notes
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4. 4▶Political strategist Ben Wikler on how Democrats can regain groundNPR's Book of the Day8:45Notes
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5. 5▶'Etna' author Paul Yoon on narrating war through a dog's eyesNPR's Book of the Day6:45Notes
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6. 6▶'Torched' and 'Wildfire Days' look at California's wildfires from the front linesNPR's Book of the Day20:22Notes
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7. 7▶Robinne Lee's 'Crash Into Me' portrays middle age as complicated – and sexyNPR's Book of the Day9:06Notes
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8. 8▶'Sex Diaries' author says people are becoming more empowered in their relationshipsNPR's Book of the Day8:48Notes
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9. 9▶In 'I Made You Up Inside My Head,' the stories of three strangers become intertwinedNPR's Book of the Day8:25Notes
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10. 10▶Sen. Raphael Warnock argues that progressives should bring spirituality to politicsNPR's Book of the Day7:34Notes
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11. 11▶Novels by Ben Reeves and Matt Haig look at life through the eyes of death (literally)NPR's Book of the Day19:50Notes
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12. 12▶'The Friend' author Sigrid Nunez is out with a new collection of short storiesNPR's Book of the Day10:20Notes
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13. 13▶ESPN soccer correspondent Julien Laurens on why Kylian Mbappé is “wired differently”NPR's Book of the Day6:38Notes
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14. 14▶Author Tana French on the best summer reading set in IrelandNPR's Book of the Day8:34Notes
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15. 15▶Colson Whitehead on 'Cool Machine,' the final in his Harlem Trilogy seriesNPR's Book of the Day7:04Notes
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16. 16▶In 'The Great Wherever' and 'Country People,' city dwellers try out rural lifeNPR's Book of the Day20:40Notes
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17. 17▶Deb Haaland on 'A Voice Like Mine' and her candidacy for governor of New MexicoNPR's Book of the Day7:40Notes
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18. 18▶'The Delivery' is a horror novella about a family's mysterious AI assistantNPR's Book of the Day8:28Notes
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19. 19▶Barstool Sports' Dave Portnoy on why he "stays up at night" worrying about politicsNPR's Book of the Day7:35Notes
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20. 20▶In Celeste Ng’s new novel 'Our Missing Hearts,' a boy searches for his missing motherNPR's Book of the Day10:17Notes
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21. 21▶'The Shampoo Effect,' 'The Revelation of Dionne Daphne' are marked by big surprisesNPR's Book of the Day16:50Notes
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22. 22▶Mary Beard's 'Talking Classics' examines our obsession with the ancient worldNPR's Book of the Day7:40Notes
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23. 23▶Artist and activist Ai Weiwei on political censorship in the WestNPR's Book of the Day11:47Notes
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24. 24▶Mike Pence's 'What Conservatives Believe' critiques the second Trump administrationNPR's Book of the Day7:26Notes
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25. 25▶Jonathan Jakubowicz says he wanted to write a book Venezuelans couldn't resistNPR's Book of the Day8:52Notes
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26. 26▶'Kin' and 'When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky' fictionalize the Jim Crow SouthNPR's Book of the Day18:58Notes
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27. 27▶Eddie Glaude on the tension at the center of America's milestone birthdaysNPR's Book of the Day11:33Notes
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28. 28▶Revisiting the story of the American Revolution with Rick AtkinsonNPR's Book of the Day9:50Notes
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29. 29▶'America's Founding Son' documents John Quincy Adams' influential post-presidencyNPR's Book of the Day7:51Notes
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30. 30▶Norah O'Donnell’s 'We the Women' pays tribute to U.S. history's female heroesNPR's Book of the Day8:46Notes
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31. 31▶What to read this summer, according to our NPR colleaguesNPR's Book of the Day7:22Notes
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32. 32▶Judy Blume says she doesn't miss writing … but she’s very glad she wroteNPR's Book of the Day13:13Notes
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33. 33▶In 'Names Have Been Changed,' a criminal on the run confesses her story on a podcastNPR's Book of the Day8:15Notes
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34. 34▶A new book argues Elon Musk is the architect of a new world viewNPR's Book of the Day7:30Notes
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35. 35▶Tom Perrotta’s novel 'Ghost Town' revisits a New Jersey childhood from a bygone eraNPR's Book of the Day10:21Notes
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36. 36▶New biographies recount how The Rolling Stones and Soundgarden changed rock musicNPR's Book of the Day19:48Notes
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37. 37▶Laverne Cox on her childhood, 'Walden' and her new memoir 'Transcendent'NPR's Book of the Day9:00Notes
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38. 38▶In 'The Jellyfish Problem,' an introverted scientist is called in to help an islandNPR's Book of the Day6:20Notes
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39. 39▶Sen. Chris Murphy wants the left and right to fix the country’s 'spiritual rot'NPR's Book of the Day8:00Notes
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40. 40▶In 'Contrapposto,' the meaning of love and the meaning of art go hand-in-handNPR's Book of the Day8:31Notes
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41. 41▶Two romance books give opposite takes on love, relationships and the absence of bothNPR's Book of the Day20:33Notes
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42. 42▶In 'Stolen Revolution,' six Iranians share perspectives on modern Iran and its futureNPR's Book of the Day8:52Notes
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43. 43▶'The Yahoo Boys' investigates Nigeria’s network of cyber crime 'sweetheart scams'NPR's Book of the Day9:02Notes
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44. 44▶R.F. Kuang says there’s 'quite a lot' of herself in 'Katabasis' protagonist AliceNPR's Book of the Day9:28Notes
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45. 45▶Theo Baker delves into power and corruption at Stanford in 'How to Rule the World'NPR's Book of the Day7:45Notes
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46. 46▶Ann Patchett’s 'Whistler' and 'Tom Lake' are novels written with love in mindNPR's Book of the Day17:59Notes
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47. 47▶'A Pair of Aces' is about two women who face down the mob in 1930s New YorkNPR's Book of the Day8:40Notes
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48. 48▶In 'Keeper of My Kin,' Ada Ferrer struggles with being her mother's "chosen one"NPR's Book of the Day8:37Notes
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49. 49▶Maggie O'Farrell's novel 'Land' takes readers to a famine-ravaged yet resilient IrelandNPR's Book of the Day8:55Notes
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50. 50▶In 'View From the East Wing,' Jill Biden reflects on the debate that changed historyNPR's Book of the Day8:20Notes
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