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The C-SPAN Bookshelf podcast feed makes it easy for you to listen to all of the C-SPAN podcast episodes about nonfiction books. Each week we gather episodes from the different C-SPAN podcasts that feature authors talking about history, biography, current events, and culture to make it easier to discover the episodes and listen. If you like nonfiction books, follow this podcast feed so you never miss an episode!

BN+: Tom Wells, "The Kissinger Tapes"

72 hours 23 mins; March 31, 2026

ABC: Beverly Gage on J. Edgar Hoover Biography & American History Road Trip

62 hours 16 mins; March 29, 2026

Q&A: Lloyd Blankfein on “Streetwise,” Goldman Sachs, and the 2008 Financial Crisis

61 hours 51 mins; March 29, 2026

The Jewish Entrepreneurs Who Created the Toy Industry in America

60 hours 20 mins; March 28, 2026

BN+: Michael Hastings, "The Operators"

63 hours 23 mins; March 24, 2026

Q&A: New York Times Photographer Doug Mills on Covering the White House

63 hours 32 mins; March 22, 2026

AW: The Impact Of Wealth Concentration On Society And Politics

63 hours 57 mins; March 21, 2026

BN+: Investigative Journalist Seth Harp Explores The Fort Bragg Cartel

78 hours 24 mins; March 17, 2026

Q&A: Lee Bollinger Discusses University: A Reckoning and Academic Freedom in America

64 hours 43 mins; March 15, 2026

AW: A Former US Marine's Journey from Russian Prison to the Ukrainian War

70 hours 34 mins; March 14, 2026

BN+: Josh Ireland, "The Death of Trotsky"

68 hours 16 mins; March 10, 2026

Q&A: Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), "Young Man in a Hurry"

63 hours 36 mins; March 08, 2026

ABC: Journalists Peter Baker & Susan Glasser Discuss Profiling Putin, Trump, and Other Leaders

61 hours 32 mins; March 08, 2026

AW: How AI is Transforming Healthcare

68 hours 41 mins; March 07, 2026

BN+: Richard John Neuhaus, "As I Lay Dying"

62 hours 28 mins; March 03, 2026

Q&A: Steve Israel Explores Espionage and Science in The Einstein Conspiracy

63 hours 56 mins; March 01, 2026

ABC: Pulitzer Winner Rick Atkinson on Revolutionary War and WWII Trilogies with David Rubenstein

61 hours 30 mins; March 01, 2026

AW: America's Black Botanical Legacy

60 hours 53 mins; February 28, 2026

BN+: David Sirota on Master Plan: How Corporate Power Reshaped America

69 hours 48 mins; February 24, 2026

Q&A: Wil Haygood Explores Race, Conflict, and the Vietnam War in The War Within a War

64 hours 6 mins; February 22, 2026

ABC: Linda Chavez: Former Reagan Official and Conservative Commentator

60 hours 58 mins; February 22, 2026

AW: Sam Bankman-Fried, Elite Fraud, and the Cult of Techno-Utopia

65 hours 19 mins; February 21, 2026

BN+: Elliot Williams, "Five Bullets"

65 hours 13 mins; February 16, 2026

Stewart McLaurin on The People’s House Miscellany: Stories from the White House

56 mins; February 15, 2026

AW: The Biggest Stolen Artifacts Case in FBI History

60 hours 39 mins; February 14, 2026

BN+: Candace Rondeaux, "Putin's Sledgehammer"

69 hours 37 mins; February 10, 2026

Q&A: Teasel Muir-Harmony, History of the U.S. Space Program

63 hours 7 mins; February 08, 2026

AW: The State and the Soldier

65 hours 5 mins; February 07, 2026

BN+: Carol Hymowitz on 10 Books That Changed the Way Americans Thought About Work

52 mins; February 03, 2026

Q&A: Nicholas Boggs, "Baldwin: A Love Story"

62 hours 42 mins; February 01, 2026

ABC: Pulitzer Prize–Winning Historian Jon Meacham

61 hours 0 mins; February 01, 2026

AW: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary with Stafan Fatsis

57 mins; January 31, 2026

BN+: Jonathan Horn, "The Fate of the Generals"

70 hours 38 mins; January 27, 2026

ABC News Journalist Jonathan Karl on Retribution

61 hours 56 mins; January 25, 2026

ABC: Christopher Buckley on Satire, Politics, and Writing Fiction

61 hours 9 mins; January 25, 2026

AW:Dave Barry and Carl Hiaasen Discuss Satire and American Culture

48 mins; January 24, 2026

BN+: Anne Marshall, "Cassius Marcellus Clay"

70 hours 38 mins; January 20, 2026

Q&A: Peniel Joseph, "Freedom Season"

63 hours 6 mins; January 18, 2026

AW: Jonathan Mahler on Power, Politics, and the Making of Modern New York

55 mins; January 17, 2026

BN+: Ben Freeman, "The Trillion Dollar War Machine"

64 hours 8 mins; January 13, 2026

Q&A: Gary Walters, "White House Memories 1970-2007"

64 hours 48 mins; January 11, 2026

Cal Ripken Jr.: Baseball Iron Man on 2,632 Consecutive Games and His Hall of Fame Career

61 hours 30 mins; January 11, 2026

AW: Ben Shapiro Argues the World Is Divided Over the Future of Western Civilization

62 hours 3 mins; January 10, 2026

BN+: John Ferling, "Shots Heard Round the World"

69 hours 7 mins; January 06, 2026

Q&A: Rosie Rios, America250 Commission Chair

60 hours 3 mins; January 04, 2026

AW: Rachel Corbett Explores Online Harassment in Monsters We Make

40 mins; January 03, 2026

BN+: Frank McCourt on Angela’s Ashes: Pulitzer Prize–Winning Memoir

62 hours 24 mins; December 30, 2025

Q&A: Enes Kanter Freedom Discusses His Memoir and Global Human Rights Advocacy

63 hours 56 mins; December 28, 2025

AW: Bill McKibben on Climate Change: Why Solar and Wind Power Are the Best Path Forward

73 hours 9 mins; December 27, 2025

BN+: Peter Gomes, "The Good Book"

61 hours 43 mins; December 23, 2025

Q&A: Charles Murray, "Taking Religion Seriously"

62 hours 12 mins; December 21, 2025

ABC: Pulitzer Prize Winner Rita Dove on Poetry and American History

61 hours 57 mins; December 21, 2025

AW: Piers Morgan "Woke Is Dead: How Common Sense triumphed in an age of total madness"

69 hours 58 mins; December 20, 2025

BN+: Alexandra Churchill, "Ring of Fire"

65 hours 54 mins; December 16, 2025

Q&A: Charles Ferguson, "Presidential Seclusion"

64 hours 23 mins; December 14, 2025

ABC: Harvard Professor Arthur Brooks Explains What Makes Us Happy

61 hours 49 mins; December 14, 2025

AW: The Art Spy: Michelle Young Chronicles Rose Valland’s WWII Mission

58 mins; December 13, 2025

BN+: Kenneth Vogel, "Devils' Advocates"

72 hours 57 mins; December 09, 2025

Q&A: Eugene Kranz, Former NASA Flight Director & Author

64 hours 12 mins; December 07, 2025

ABC: Jodi Picoult on Storytelling, Ethics, and the Power of Fiction

61 hours 23 mins; December 07, 2025

AW: David Gelles on How Patagonia Founder Yvon Chouinard Built a Purpose-Driven Company

57 mins; December 06, 2025

BN+: Doug Most, "Launching Liberty"

64 hours 38 mins; December 02, 2025

Q&A: Peter Navarro Reflects on Politics, Prison, and the Trump Presidency

64 hours 26 mins; November 30, 2025

AW: Ken Vogel’s “Devils’ Advocates”: Inside Rudy Giuliani, Hunter Biden, and D.C.’s Hidden Foreign Influence Networks

69 hours 30 mins; November 29, 2025

BN+: Constitutional Scholar Akhil Reed Amar on America’s Equality Story

70 hours 17 mins; November 25, 2025

Q&A: Enes Kanter Freedom, "In the Name of Freedom"

64 hours 50 mins; November 23, 2025

ABC: Chef José Andrés on Food, Humanity, and Global Relief Efforts

62 hours 18 mins; November 23, 2025

AW: Former CNN Moscow Bureau Chief Jill Dougherty on Understanding Today’s Russia

62 hours 53 mins; November 22, 2025

BN+: Kenneth Feinberg, "What is Life Worth?"

61 hours 52 mins; November 18, 2025

Q&A: Rep. James Clyburn on “The First Eight” and the Rise of Black Political Leadership

65 hours 6 mins; November 16, 2025

ABC: Walter Isaacson on the Minds That Shape Our Modern World

58 mins; November 16, 2025

After Words: George Selgin, "False Dawn: The Rise and Decline of Bitcoin"

64 hours 20 mins; November 15, 2025

BN+: William Galston, "Anger, Fear, Domination"

68 hours 2 mins; November 11, 2025

Q&A: Stewart McLaurin on The People’s House Miscellany: Stories from the White House

55 mins; November 09, 2025

David Grann on Killers of the Flower Moon and America’s Hidden History

61 hours 35 mins; November 09, 2025

2025 Printers Row Lit Fest: Maureen Dowd on the Culture of Celebrity in America

46 mins; November 09, 2025

BN+: Peter Henriques Explores George Washington’s Character and Presidency

66 hours 31 mins; November 04, 2025

Boyce Upholt on The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi

63 hours 7 mins; November 02, 2025

Pulitzer Prize Author Stacy Schiff on Writing History That Feels Alive

61 hours 9 mins; November 02, 2025

Eric Trump, "Under Siege: My Family's Fight to Save Our Nation"

61 hours 13 mins; November 01, 2025

BN+: Geri Spieler, "Housewife Assassin: The Woman Who Tried to Kill President Ford"

66 hours 21 mins; October 28, 2025

Q&A: Media Mogul Barry Diller on His Life and Career in Television and Hollywood

62 hours 42 mins; October 26, 2025

Justice Amy Coney Barrett on "Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution"

61 hours 35 mins; October 26, 2025

Empire of AI - Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

74 hours 24 mins; October 25, 2025

BN+: Dan Wang on Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future

64 hours 59 mins; October 21, 2025

Q&A: Jill Dougherty — My Russia: War or Peace and a Life Covering the Kremlin

64 hours 28 mins; October 19, 2025

From the Library of Congress: John Grisham on Storytelling and Justice

61 hours 35 mins; October 19, 2025

AW: "Rocket Dreams..." C. Davenport, Musk, Bezos and space race

57 mins; October 18, 2025

BN+: Jonathan Mahler on The Gods of New York: NYC in the 1980s

60 hours 28 mins; October 14, 2025

AW: Jane Goodall "Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink"

54 mins; October 11, 2025

BN+: Inside McNamara at War: Philip and William Taubman on Vietnam and U.S. Power

70 hours 29 mins; October 07, 2025

Christopher Scalia, "13 Novels Conservative Will Love (but Probably Haven't Read)"

64 hours 54 mins; October 05, 2025

AW: Trump 2024: Joe Concha on Strategy, Media, and The Greatest Comeback Ever

62 hours 38 mins; October 04, 2025

BN+: Daniel Flynn, "The Man Who Invented Conservatism"

71 hours 12 mins; September 30, 2025

Q&A: Every Screen on the Planet: Emily Baker-White on the Future of Technology and Society

61 hours 2 mins; September 28, 2025

AW: The Mission: Tim Weiner on How the CIA Operates in the Modern Era

68 hours 23 mins; September 27, 2025

BN+: Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Failure: Communism in the 20th Century

62 hours 2 mins; September 23, 2025

Q&A: Peter Navarro Reflects on Politics, Prison, and the Trump Presidency

63 hours 49 mins; September 21, 2025

Lee Tilghman on ‘If You Don’t Like This I Might Die’: Life Inside Influencer Culture

44 mins; September 20, 2025

BN+: Edward Luce, "Zbig"- Zbigniew Brzezinski & Carter Era U.S. Foreign Policy

62 hours 46 mins; September 16, 2025

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