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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.

A debut novel that takes us to a small village in 18th-century England where neighbors are convinced five sisters are turning into dogs.

Dan Brown joined us in September 2025 at The Music Hall in Portsmouth to discuss his latest, The Secret of Secrets.

Jennifer Weiner spoke with us at The Music Hall in Portsmouth in September 2025 about her work and her latest novel, The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits.

Host Rachel Barenbaum speaks with Ruben Reyes Jr. about his new book ARCHIVE OF UNKNOWN UNIVERSES along with media maven Zibby Owens to get a view of what's happening in the publishing world today.

Jennifer Armentrout is proving that the next giant of fiction doesn’t need a giant publisher, as we talk with her about her latest "romantasy" novel.

A wacky caper involving kidnapped Western bachelors and snail conservation becomes a personal reckoning with the war in Ukraine.

In May 2025, author Jeanine Cummins sat down with NHPR's President and CEO Jim Schachter to discuss her latest novel, Speak to Me of Home.

A debut novel about missing teenage boy, cases of fluid and mistaken identity, and the transformative power of boxing.

A coming-of-middle-age novel full of humor and grief. When Abe Jacobs is faced with an unthinkable diagnosis, he follows his fragile hope for a cure to the Mohawk rez where he grew up.

A young Stanford graduate caught between worlds of race and class, glamour and tragedy, a friend’s mysterious death and his own arrest. Pulled into the court system and mandated treatment, he finds himself in an absurd but dangerous situation: his class protects him, but his race does not.

Annie is nine months pregnant and shopping for a crib when a massive earthquake hits Portland, Oregon. We follow her journey across a transformed city as she walks and reflects on life and hopes for the future.

In this debut novel, two sisters are betrayed and violently estranged. They must weigh the value of ambition versus familial love and home versus the outside world. An exploration of family bonds in a story of sisterhood in turn-of-the-millennium Singapore.

Two brothers are living off the grid on the edge of Yellowstone. In dire straits and desperate for money, they accept a dangerous proposition that permanently alters their lives and their relationship to each other.

A heartfelt epic about friendship, betrayal, and redemption during three transformative decades in Iran. This timely novel serves as a reminder of the fragility of freedom.

In March 2025, NHPR’s Rick Ganley sat down with legendary J. Geils Band frontman Peter Wolf to talk about his memoir, Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses. Told with wry humor and heart-wrenching honesty, Waiting on the Moon offers an intimate look into the lives of artists, writers, actors, and musicians—their creative drives, personal struggles, and the complex...

A coming of age novel about working-class female friendship, set in the schoolyards, nightclubs, and alleyways of a gritty, post-industrial town in Yorkshire, England. Three girls are inseparable, their friendship as indestructible as they are, but as they grow up and away from one another, a long-festering secret threatens to rip the trio apart.

Three star players on a high school football team are accused of violence by another student. Their secrets, and the secrets of their parents, threaten to shatter their entire community in a novel of race, class, and privilege.

Inspired by a true story, “We Would Never” is a gripping murder mystery and an intimate family drama. It explores the issues of loyalty, betrayal, and the blurred line between protecting and forsaking the ones we love most.