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Some favorite authors offer their suggestions for summer reading, plus host Rachel Barenbaum has some books by New England authors to recommend.

The Book Biz segment is where we look at the forces shaping what gets written, published and read. We talk to Katherine Center, a veteran romance author about how the industry has changed in the last 20 years, her new novel, "The Shippers," and what it's like to have your work turned into a movie.

This debut novel is about an itinerant Singaporean ex-con hiding from her past in different countries. And on our Book Biz segment, author Katherine Center reflects on her 20-year publishing career.

We discuss the rise of audio books and how they are driving books sales and creating fandoms with bookseller Rachel Kanter.

The debut novel "Homebound'" features four lives entangled across time by a computer game, saved to a floppy disk in the 1980s. And on our Book Biz segment, how audiobooks are changing publishing.

A discussion with book critic Ron Charles about the changing landscape for book reviews and literary criticism.

An unsettling debut novel blending romance, horror, and fairy tale elements, with nods to Frankenstein, plus, in our Book Biz segment, the future of literary criticism.

Where we look at the forces shaping what gets written, published, and read, featuring author and podcaster Sarah MacLean on why romance has become the engine of modern publishing.

A viral dystopian romance set in a corrupt surveillance state, following a mercenary who botches the assassination of the president’s son. And on the Book Biz segment, the romance genre as the engine of publishing.

A sweeping family saga that traces the intertwined lives of three generations of women, moving from war-torn Germany and Ireland to coastal Maine.

In this debut novel, we meet a Nigerian-American family set on a crash course towards each other. And on our Book Biz segment, the role of agents in publishing today.

In this romantasy set in a Roman-inspired world ruled by vampires, a young woman faces a deadly competition where survival depends on mastering forbidden powers.

Through intertwining narratives, the novel follows a cast of characters in Pakistan, taking us from the chaotic cities to lawless feudal countryside. And in the Book Biz segment, how A.I. is affecting publishing.

This historical novel takes us to Poland in the late 1930s, where two young Jewish women must work together to find a missing teacher while storm clouds gather around them. Plus the Book Biz on digital-first publishing.

We all know what happened to Henry VIII’s second wife, Anne Boleyn, but what if she woke up the day after her execution and took it upon herself to seek justice?

A darkly comedic noir novel set in 1974 San Francisco following a young woman as she becomes obsessed with murder and desire after a co-worker's death, leading her to challenge her controlling husband.

“The Complex” moves between the U.S. and modern India to follow the illicit liaisons, political ambitions, and betrayals of a prominent Delhi family, unraveling in the shadow of a nation's transformation.

Join us for recommendations from literary fiction to romance; new favorites that flew under the radar but are worth seeking out.

A debut novel set in 13th century Bruges, a young woman’s exploration of faith, agency and love, with surprising resonance for today.

We follow one young woman's obsessive quest to become the first Cherokee astronaut in this debut novel about family, ambition and belonging.

"Brimstone," the sequel to the worldwide phenomenon "Quicksilver," returns readers to the realm of Yvelia with with more drama, higher stakes, and deadly consequences.

The story of a runaway mother’s ten days of freedom—and the pain, desire, longing, and wonder we find on the messy road to enlightenment.

The title sounds like the beginning of a joke, but it’s the end of a marriage and a cancer diagnosis, and a funny and hopeful debut novel by Katie Yee. Plus, native American archeologist Syd Walker is back in Vanessa Lillie’s “The Bone Thief.”

A complex meditation on Black history set in West Tennessee, a family saga where the Devil plays a leading role.

A Black Southern family drama unfolds as the sins of a favorite son rock a small Mississippi town.