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Mai Nardone, "Welcome Me to the Kingdom: Stories" (Random House, 2023)

41 mins; April 20, 2023

Writing the Counter-Book: Joshua Cohen with Eugene Sheppard (JP)

47 mins; April 20, 2023

Elizabeth Bradfield in Dark Times (JP)

30 mins; April 20, 2023

Brad Kelly, "House of Sleep" (2021)

45 mins; April 19, 2023

Daniel M. Ford, "The Warden" (Tor, 2023)

35 mins; April 18, 2023

Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi, "Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions: A Novel in Interlocking Stories" (Amistad Press, 2022)

31 mins; April 18, 2023

C. S. Harris, "Who Cries for the Lost" (Berkley Books, 2023)

37 mins; April 17, 2023

Douglas Bauer, "The Beckoning World" (U Iowa Press, 2022)

69 hours 33 mins; April 16, 2023

Donnaldson Brown, "Because I Loved You: A Novel" (She Writes Press, 2023)

23 mins; April 11, 2023

Lauren Kay Johnson, "The Fine Art of Camouflage" (MilSpeak Books, 2023)

72 hours 58 mins; April 09, 2023

Marianna Kiyanovska, "The Voices of Babyn Yar" (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, 2022)

49 mins; April 07, 2023

Rebecca Makkai, "I Have Some Questions for You" (Viking, 2023)

50 mins; April 07, 2023

Sassan Tabatabai: Poetry, Observation, and Form

43 mins; April 06, 2023

S. L. Wisenberg, "The Wandering Womb: Essays in Search of Home" (U Massachusetts Press, 2023)

25 mins; April 04, 2023

G. P. Gottlieb, "Charred: A Whipped and Sipped Mystery" (DX Varos, 2023)

34 mins; April 04, 2023

Jonan Pilet, "Nomad, Nomad" (Bound to Brew, 2021)

42 mins; April 03, 2023

Ronald Niezen, "The Memory Seeker" (Black Rose Writing, 2023)

41 mins; April 03, 2023

Sarah Fawn Montgomery, "Halfway from Home: Essays" (Split/Lip Press, 2022)

45 mins; April 02, 2023

Rasheed Newson, "My Government Means to Kill Me: A Novel" (Flatiron Books, 2023)

41 mins; March 31, 2023

Zeno Sworder, "My Strange Shrinking Parents" (Thames & Hudson, 2023)

28 mins; March 30, 2023

Leslye Penelope, "The Monsters We Defy" (Redhook, 2022)

31 mins; March 30, 2023

Sarit Yishai-Levi, "The Woman Beyond the Sea" (Amazon Crossing, 2023)

31 mins; March 28, 2023

Sherry Thomas. "A Tempest at Sea" (Berkley Books, 2023)

46 mins; March 26, 2023

Kelly Barnhill, "The Crane Husband" (Tordotcom, 2023)

46 mins; March 26, 2023

Jinwoo Chong, "Flux" (Melville House, 2023)

48 mins; March 24, 2023

Svetlana Lavochkina, "Dam Duchess" (Whiskey Tit, 2018)

56 mins; March 23, 2023

Julia Langbein, "American Mermaid" (Doubleday, 2023)

43 mins; March 21, 2023

Jacqueline Winspear, "The White Lady" (Harper, 2023)

36 mins; March 21, 2023

Victoria Garza, "The Field" (Jackleg Press, 2022)

26 mins; March 21, 2023

Patricia L. Hudson, "Traces" (Fireside Industries, 2022)

27 mins; March 18, 2023

Lawrence Osborne, "On Java Road: A Novel" (Hogarth Press, 2022)

32 mins; March 16, 2023

Book Chat: "Human Glitches" (2020)

34 mins; March 16, 2023

Idra Novey, "Take What You Need: A Novel" (Viking, 2023)

24 mins; March 14, 2023

Juliana Lamy, "You Were Watching from the Sand" (Red Hen Press, 2023)

38 mins; March 14, 2023

Mohamed Tonsy, "You Must Believe in Spring" (Hajar Press, 2022)

61 hours 39 mins; March 14, 2023

Omer Bartov, "The Butterfly and the Axe" (Amsterdam Publishers, 2023)

66 hours 50 mins; March 10, 2023

Molly Greeley, "Marvelous" (William Morrow, 2023)

38 mins; March 08, 2023

Kashana Cauley, "The Survivalists: A Novel" (Soft Skull Press, 2023)

35 mins; March 07, 2023

Talia Lakshmi Kolluri, "What We Fed to the Manticore" (Tin House Books, 2022)

64 hours 20 mins; March 04, 2023

Priscilla Gilman, "The Critic's Daughter: A Memoir" (Norton, 2023)

50 mins; March 03, 2023

Lavanya Lakshminarayan, "The Ten-Percent Thief" (Solaris, 2023)

49 mins; March 02, 2023

Rebecca Gayle Howell et al., "What Things Cost: An Anthology for the People" (UP of Kentucky, 2023)

30 mins; March 02, 2023

Olivia Atwater, "Half a Soul" (Orbit, 2022)

49 mins; February 24, 2023

Kyla Zhao, "The Fraud Squad" (Berkley Books, 2023)

25 mins; February 23, 2023

Joanna Higgins, "In the Fall They Leave: A Novel of the First World War" (Regal House Publishing, 2023)

24 mins; February 21, 2023

Deepti Kapoor, "Age of Vice" (Riverhead Books, 2023)

43 mins; February 21, 2023

Lynn Cullen, "The Woman with the Cure" (Berkley Books, 2023)

40 mins; February 19, 2023

Lyudmyla Khersonska, "Today is a Different War" (Arrowsmith Press, 2023)

56 mins; February 17, 2023

Freddy Prestol Castillo, "You Can Cross the Massacre on Foot" (Duke UP, 2019)

37 mins; February 17, 2023

Mary Salisbury, "Side Effects of Wanting" (Mainstreet Rag, 2022)

25 mins; February 14, 2023

Nic Brown, "Bang Bang Crash: A Memoir" (Counterpoint, 2023)

42 mins; February 14, 2023

Mark Eveleigh, "Kopi Dulu: Caffeine-Fuelled Island-Hopping Through Indonesia" (Penguin Southeast Asia, 2022)

35 mins; February 09, 2023

Christopher M. Hood, "The Revivalists" (Harper, 2022)

40 mins; February 07, 2023

Kerri Schlottman, "Tell Me One Thing" (Regal House, 2023)

25 mins; February 07, 2023

Judy L. Mandel, "White Flag: A Memoir" (Legacy Book Press, 2022)

24 mins; February 02, 2023

Angela Hui, "Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter" (Trapeze, 2022)

44 mins; February 02, 2023

Denise Crittendon, "Where it Rains in Color" (Angry Robot, 2022)

47 mins; February 02, 2023

C. P. Lesley, "Song of the Storyteller" (Five Directions Press, 2023)

26 mins; January 31, 2023

Sanaë Lemoine, "The Margot Affair" (Hogarth, 2021)

48 mins; January 30, 2023

Anthony Valerio et al., "Charles Street Trio: A Novel in Three Voices" (2022)

44 mins; January 26, 2023

Matthew Salesses, "The Sense of Wonder" (Little, Brown, 2023)

46 mins; January 24, 2023

Mimi Herman, "The Kudzu Queen" (Regal House, 2023)

21 mins; January 24, 2023

Fran Hawthorne, "I Meant to Tell You" (Stephen F. Austin State UP, 2022)

24 mins; January 17, 2023

Susan Stokes-Chapman, "Pandora" (Harper Perennial, 2023)

41 mins; January 17, 2023

Dan Kois, "Vintage Contemporaries" (Harper, 2023)

55 mins; January 11, 2023

Hadeer Elsbai, "The Daughters of Izdihar" (Harper Voyager, 2023)

34 mins; January 10, 2023

Gil Hovav, "Candies from Heaven" (Green Bean Books, 2023)

80 hours 39 mins; January 08, 2023

Afsar Mohammad, "An Evening with a Sufi" (Red River, 2022)

64 hours 28 mins; January 06, 2023

Annalee Newitz, "The Terraformers" (Little, Brown, 2023)

42 mins; January 05, 2023

Svetlana Lavochkina, "Carbon: Song of Crafts" (Lost Horse Press, 2020)

52 mins; December 31, 2022

Booksellers' Best of 2022

56 mins; December 27, 2022

Stephen Jenkinson and Kimberly Johnson, "Reckoning" (Iron God of Mercy, 2022)

68 hours 8 mins; December 21, 2022

Anna Hogeland, "The Long Answer" (Riverhead Books, 2022)

47 mins; December 21, 2022

Sandy Moffett, "The Ghost of Craven Snuggs: A Midwestern Murder Mystery" (Ice Cube Press, 2022)

23 mins; December 20, 2022

Sarah Jane Butler, "Starling" (Fairlight Books, 2022)

27 mins; December 20, 2022

Michael X. Wang, "Lost in the Long March" (Overlook Press, 2022)

43 mins; December 15, 2022

95* Books in Dark Times: A Discussion with Kim Stanley Robinson

24 mins; December 15, 2022

Jemma Borg, "Wilder" (Liverpool UP, 2022)

56 mins; December 13, 2022

Murray Lee, "Compass" (Publerati, 2022)

29 mins; December 13, 2022

Michelle R. Boyd, "Becoming the Writer You Already Are" (Sage, 2022)

49 mins; December 13, 2022

Mitzi Szereto, "The Best New True Crime Stories: Unsolved Crimes and Mysteries" (Mango, 2022)

42 mins; December 11, 2022

Chrysta Bilton, "Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings" (Little, Brown, 2022)

43 mins; December 09, 2022

C. W. Gortner, "The American Adventuress" (William Morrow, 2022)

41 mins; December 08, 2022

Jamil Jan Kochai, "The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories" (Viking, 2022)

32 mins; December 08, 2022

Jonathan Escoffery, "If I Survive You" (MCD, 2022)

47 mins; December 06, 2022

S. K. Waters, "The Dead Won't Tell" (Camcat Books, 2022)

23 mins; December 06, 2022

Zaure Batayeva and Shelley Fairweather-Vega, "Amanat: Women's Writing from Kazakhstan" (Gaudy Boy, 2022)

35 mins; December 02, 2022

Meg Howrey, "They're Going to Love You" (Doubleday Books, 2022)

46 mins; December 01, 2022

Hiron Ennes, "Leech" (Tordotcom, 2022)

44 mins; December 01, 2022

Richard Fulco, "There Is No End to This Slope" (Wampus Multimedia, 2014)

28 mins; November 29, 2022

Ursula Villarreal-Moura, "Math for the Self-Crippling" (Gold Line Press, 2022)

36 mins; November 28, 2022

Cornelia Spelman, "Missing" (Jackleg Press, 2022)

40 mins; November 28, 2022

L. M. Weeks, "Bottled Lightning" (South Fork Publishers, 2022)

33 mins; November 24, 2022

Fida Jiryis, "The Cage" (Pardes, 2022)

42 mins; November 24, 2022

Elissa Bassist, "Hysterical: A Memoir" (Hachette, 2022)

29 mins; November 22, 2022

Nicola Cornick, "The Winter Garden" (Graydon House Books, 2022)

46 mins; November 21, 2022

Amy Fusselman, "The Means" (Mariner Books, 2022)

37 mins; November 21, 2022

Grant Faulkner, "All the Comfort Sin Can Provide" (Black Lawrence Press, 2021)

43 mins; November 21, 2022

Lynn Steger Strong, "Flight" (Mariner Books, 2022)

61 hours 48 mins; November 18, 2022

Laura Jean McKay, "The Animals in that Country" (Scribe Us, 2022)

81 hours 35 mins; November 18, 2022

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