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The Weekly Reader

WYPR Baltimore

----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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310 episodes

  1. Detective Stories: "Cherry Beach" by Don Gillmor and "One Good Eye" by Kevin Wade 3:54
  2. Excellent Nonfiction: "London Falling" by Patrick Radden Keefe and "Rin Tin Tin" by Susan Orlean 3:54
  3. Chris Bohjahlian Special: 3:54
  4. Stunning Memoirs: "A Jew in the Woods" by Berl Kagan and "The Wound is Where the Light Enters" by Chris Young 3:54
  5. Speculative Fiction: "Exit Party" by Emily St. John Mandel, "Public Access Afterworld" by Jane Schoenbrun, and "Earth 7" by Deb Olen Unferth 3:54
  6. Bad Guys: "Murder in the Dollhouse" by Rich Cohen and "The Castle" by Jon Ronson 3:54
  7. The Daughter-in-Law Book Club: "Yesteryear" by Caro Claire Burke and "Strangers" by Belle Burden 3:54
  8. Funny Women at the Baltimore Book Festival: "Word Salad" by Susan Coll and "Cloud Six" by Amy Fusselman 3:54
  9. Back to School with Elin Hildebrand 3:53
  10. It's a Dog's Life: "Etna" by Paul Yoon and "Social Animals" by Camille Perri 3:54
  11. Laurie Frankel Special 3:54
  12. Immigrant Communities: "Good People" by Patmeena Sabit and "I Hope You Find What You're Looking For" by Bsrat Mezghebe 3:54
  13. Ann Patchett's "Whistler" and "The Patron Saint of Liars" 3:54
  14. Down South: "The Calamity Club" by Kathryn Stockett and "The Great Wherever" by Shannon Sanders 3:52
  15. Life-changing Friendships: "Contrapposto" by Dave Eggers, "Honoria" by Janice Shapiro, and "We Should Not Be Friends" by Will Schwalbe 3:50
  16. There Goes The Neighborhood: Alan Opts Out" by Courtney Maum and "Coyoteland" by Vanessa Hua" 3:54
  17. Giants of Fiction: "What We Can Know" by Ian McEwan and "John of John" by Douglas Stuart. 3:54
  18. Murder Most Foul: "The Pinnacle" by Abir Mukherjee and "Blunt Instrument" by Amy Bloom 3:54
  19. Arch Thrillers: "The Author Weekend" by Laura Zigman and "The Ending Writes Itself" by Evelyn Clarke 3:54
  20. Famous and Funny: "The Land and Its People" by David Sedaris and "Famesick" by Lena Dunham 3:54
  21. Family Memoirs: A Room in Bombay, by Manil Suri, and Keeper of My Kin, by Ada Ferrer 3:54
  22. Cults and Their Discontents 3:54
  23. Memoir Roundup: "Small Town Girls" by Jayne Anne Phillips, "Labor" by Mary Afsari, and "She's Under Here" by Karen Palmer 3:55
  24. Monica Lewinsky Special: "Dear Monica Lewinsky" by Julia Langbein, "Young Jane Young" by Gabrielle Zevin, and "Everything is Perfect" by Kate Nason 3:54
  25. Love Among the Stars: "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" by Taylor Jenkins Reid and "American Fantasy" by Emma Straub 3:54
  26. Citylit Festival Preview 3:53
  27. Internet Famous: "What A Time To Be Alive" by Jade Chang and "I Could Be Famous" by Sydney Rende 3:54
  28. Uncommon Women: "Big Nobody" by Alex Kadis and "The Beheading Game" by Rebecca Lehmann. 3:54
  29. Remember The Seventies: "Lake Effect" by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney and "Judy Blume: A Life" by Mark Oppenheimer 3:54
  30. Moving Memoirs: "The Flower Bearers" by Rachel Eliza Griffiths and "Fly, Wild Swans" by Jung Chang 3:54
  31. Friend Groups: "So Old, So Young" by Grant Ginder and "Bad Asians" by Lillian Li 3:53
  32. Celebrating Black Women: "Kin" by Tayari Jones, "Firstborn Girls" by Bernice McFadden, and "Finding Me" by Viola Davis 3:50
  33. Road Trips: "The Rest of Our Lives" by Benjamin Markovits and "Solito" by Javier Zamora 3:55
  34. Jane Gardam Trilogy: Old Filth, The Man in the Wooden Hat, and Last Friends 3:54
  35. Invisible Threads: are The Correspondent, by Virginia Evans, Palaver, by Bryan Washington and Deeper than the Ocean, by Mirta Ojita 3:54
  36. Great New Memoirs from Iconic Entertainers 3:54
  37. New Thrillers: "Best Offer Wins" by Marisa Kashino and "The Gallagher Place" by Julie Doar 3:54
  38. Memorable Memoirs of 2025 3:54
  39. Memorable Memoirs of 2025 3:54
  40. Top Ten Fiction Titles of the Year 2025 3:54
  41. Non-fiction Gift Books 2025 3:54
  42. European Voices: "The Lack of Light" by Nino Haratischwili and "Serge" by Yasmina Reza 3:54
  43. Happy 250th, Jane Austen! 3:54
  44. Writers' Memoirs: "Joyride" by Susan Orlean and "Book of Lives" by Margaret Atwood 3:54
  45. Just For Fun: "Henry and Grace's Holiday Movie Marathon" by Matt Norman and "The Literati" by Susan Coll 3:52
  46. Lives and Loves: Heart the Lover, by Lily King, and Dream Count, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 3:54
  47. Sappho In Space: "To the Moon and Back" by Eliana Ramage and "Atmosphere" by Taylor Jenkins Reid 3:54
  48. Sappho in Space: are "To the Moon and Back" by Eliana Ramage and "Atmosphere" by Taylor Jenkins Reid 3:54
  49. Super Stories: "Fools for Love" by Helen Schulman and "Mercy" by Joan Silber 3:52
  50. Meet the Parents: "The Boy from the North Country" by Sam Sussman and "No Ordinary Bird" by Artis Henderson 3:54