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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!

Q&A: Ann Butler, "Wife, Mother, Spy" — Women, Espionage, and the CIA

63 hours 18 mins; September 14, 2025

AW: Gianno Caldwell, "The Day My Brother Was Murdered" — Crime, Justice, and Loss

63 hours 25 mins; September 13, 2025

BN+: Simon Ball, "Death to Order"

72 hours 22 mins; September 09, 2025

Q&A: John Malone, "Born to Be Wired"

66 hours 38 mins; September 07, 2025

AW: Heath Hardage Lee, "The Mysterious Mrs. Nixon"

64 hours 37 mins; September 06, 2025

BN+: Sam Tanenhaus, "Buckley"

74 hours 58 mins; September 02, 2025

Q&A: Jason Riley, "The Affirmative Action Myth"

63 hours 51 mins; August 31, 2025

AW: Kathleen deLaski, "Who Needs College Anymore?"

64 hours 29 mins; August 30, 2025

BN+: Jay Winik, "1861"

65 hours 58 mins; August 26, 2025

Q&A: Syndicated Columnist George Will on His Life & Career

63 hours 40 mins; August 24, 2025

AW: Michael Grynbaum, "Empire of the Elite"

64 hours 9 mins; August 23, 2025

BN+: Richard J. Evans, "Hitler's People"

62 hours 31 mins; August 19, 2025

Q&A: Jane McManus, "The Fast Track"

64 hours 14 mins; August 17, 2025

AW: Isabel Allende, "My Name Is Emilia del Valle"

60 hours 17 mins; August 16, 2025

BN+: David Herbert Donald, "Lincoln"

62 hours 43 mins; August 12, 2025

Q&A: Lee Hawkins, "I Am Nobody's Slave"

66 hours 26 mins; August 10, 2025

AW: Josh Dawsey, Tyler Pager & Isaac Arnsdorf, "2024"

62 hours 31 mins; August 09, 2025

BN+: Zaakir Tameez, "Charles Sumner"

67 hours 4 mins; August 05, 2025

Q&A: Nicole Kobie, "The Long History of the Future"

62 hours 39 mins; August 03, 2025

AW: "Framed," John Grisham and Jim McCloskey

62 hours 39 mins; August 03, 2025

BN+: John Seabrook, "The Spinach King"

70 hours 26 mins; July 29, 2025

Q&A: Cornel West & Robert George, "Truth Matters"

108 hours 22 mins; July 27, 2025

AW: Patrick McGee, "Apple in China"

72 hours 6 mins; July 27, 2025

BN+: Evan Osnos, "The Haves and Have-Yachts"

70 hours 45 mins; July 22, 2025

Q&A: Presidential Legacies

64 hours 40 mins; July 20, 2025

AW: Bill Clinton and James Patterson, "First Gentleman"

71 hours 3 mins; July 20, 2025

BN+: Dave Barry, "Class Clown"

67 hours 10 mins; July 15, 2025

Dr. Robert Malone, "PsyWar"

61 hours 44 mins; July 13, 2025

AW: Senator Lisa Murkowski, "Far From Home"

70 hours 20 mins; July 13, 2025

BN+: John Laurence, "The Cat from Hue"

61 hours 28 mins; July 08, 2025

Q&A: Rosie Rios, America250 Commission Chair

60 hours 3 mins; July 06, 2025

AW: Jose Andres. "Change the Recipe"

69 hours 48 mins; July 06, 2025

BN+: Lien-Hang Nguyen, "Hanoi's War"

63 hours 35 mins; July 01, 2025

Q&A: Jonathan Turley, "The Indispensable Right"

63 hours 43 mins; June 29, 2025

Dave and Dina McCormick, "Who Believed in You?"

45 mins; June 29, 2025

BN+: William Geroux, "The Fifteen"

70 hours 22 mins; June 24, 2025

Q&A: Peniel Joseph, "Freedom Season"

63 hours 31 mins; June 22, 2025

AW: Mark Bauerlein, The Dumbest Generation Grows Up: From Stupefied Youth to Dangerous Adults

64 hours 26 mins; June 22, 2025

BN+: Claire Hoffman, "Sister, Sinner"

68 hours 5 mins; June 17, 2025

Q&A: Mark Whitaker, "The Afterlife of Malcolm X"

63 hours 22 mins; June 15, 2025

AW: Teresa Ghilarducci, "Work, Retire, Repeat - The Uncertainty of Retirement in the New Economy"

60 hours 50 mins; June 15, 2025

BN+: Kathryn Olmsted, "Red Spy Queen"

65 hours 14 mins; June 10, 2025

Q&A: Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK Co-Founder

63 hours 30 mins; June 08, 2025

AW: Stephanie Land, "Maid"

59 mins; June 08, 2025

BN+: Kenneth Rogoff, "Our Dollar, Your Problem"

67 hours 34 mins; June 03, 2025

Q&A: Jason Riley, "The Affirmative Action Myth"

63 hours 58 mins; June 01, 2025

BN+: Rick Atkinson, "The Fate of the Day"

74 hours 36 mins; May 27, 2025

Q&A: Rick Steves, "On the Hippie Trail"

59 mins; May 25, 2025

BN+: Rick Atkinson, "An Army at Dawn"

61 hours 52 mins; May 20, 2025

Q&A: Christopher Cox, "Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn"

65 hours 27 mins; May 18, 2025

AW: Leah Litman, "Lawless - How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes"

60 hours 54 mins; May 18, 2025

BN+: Thomas Maier, "The Invisible Spy"

62 hours 56 mins; May 13, 2025

Q&A: John Kasich, "Heaven Help Us"

55 mins; May 11, 2025

AW: Sophie Gilbert, "Girl on Girl - How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves"

62 hours 11 mins; May 11, 2025

BN+: Clay Risen, "Red Scare"

65 hours 25 mins; May 06, 2025

Q&A: Kathleen deLaski, "Who Needs College Anymore?"

61 hours 22 mins; May 04, 2025

AW: David Graham, "The Project - How Project 2025 Is Reshaping America"

62 hours 1 min; May 04, 2025

BN+: Jill Eicher, "Mellon vs. Churchill"

65 hours 24 mins; April 29, 2025

Q&A: Jane McManus, "The Fast Track"

63 hours 44 mins; April 27, 2025

AW: Stephen Witt, "The Thinking Machine - Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip"

63 hours 26 mins; April 27, 2025

BN+: Dr. Hassan Tetteh, "Smarter Healthcare with AI"

69 hours 26 mins; April 22, 2025

Q&A: Nicole Kobie, "The Long History of the Future"

62 hours 39 mins; April 20, 2025

AW: Viet Thanh Nguyen, "To Save and to Destroy - Writing as an Other

58 mins; April 20, 2025

BN+: Phil Tinline, "Ghosts of Iron Mountain"

64 hours 48 mins; April 15, 2025

Q&A: Rick Steves, "On the Hippie Trail"

62 hours 33 mins; April 13, 2025

AW: Senator James Lankford (R-OK), "Turnaround - America's Revival"

62 hours 46 mins; April 11, 2025

BN+: Richard Overy, "Rain of Ruin"

54 mins; April 08, 2025

Q&A: Lee Hawkins, "I Am Nobody's Slave"

64 hours 33 mins; April 06, 2025

AW: David Enrich, "Murder the Truth"

63 hours 2 mins; April 06, 2025

BN+: Dennis Hutchinson, "The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox"

62 hours 44 mins; April 01, 2025

Q&A: Syndicated Columnist George Will on His Life & Career

63 hours 56 mins; March 30, 2025

AW: Paul Blustein, "King Dollar - The Past and Future of the World's Dominant Currency"'

61 hours 38 mins; March 30, 2025

BN+: Stuart Banner, "The Most Powerful Court in the World"

66 hours 49 mins; March 25, 2025

Q&A: Loretta Ross, "Calling In"

64 hours 12 mins; March 23, 2025

AW: Michael Lewis, "Who is Government?"

59 mins; March 23, 2025

The C-SPAN Story

69 hours 54 mins; March 20, 2025

BN+: Steven Gillon, "Presidents at War"

61 hours 42 mins; March 18, 2025

Q&A: Meryl Gordon, "The Woman Who Knew Everyone"

63 hours 6 mins; March 16, 2025

AW: Dr. Adam Ratner, "Booster Shots -The Urgent Lessons of Measles and the Uncertain Future of Children's Health"

60 hours 58 mins; March 16, 2025

BN+ Alexandra Richie, "Warsaw 1944"

68 hours 37 mins; March 11, 2025

Q&A: Rep. James Comer (R-KY), "All the President's Money"

63 hours 44 mins; March 09, 2025

AW: Omar El Akkad, "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This"

62 hours 30 mins; March 09, 2025

BN+: Katherine Carter, "Churchill's Citadel"

58 mins; March 04, 2025

Q&A: Tara Roberts, "Written in the Waters"

64 hours 5 mins; March 02, 2025

Kevin Fagan, "The Lost and the Found - A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family, and Second Chances"

72 hours 44 mins; March 02, 2025

BN+: Ruth Franklin, "The Many Lives of Anne Frank"

61 hours 44 mins; February 25, 2025

Q&A: Louis Ferrante, "Borgata: Clash of Titans" PART 2

63 hours 46 mins; February 23, 2025

AW: Eve Ewing, "Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism"

63 hours 10 mins; February 23, 2025

BN+: Sean McMeekin, "July 1914"

67 hours 30 mins; February 18, 2025

Q&A: Louis Ferrante, "Borgata: Clash of Titans" PART 1

63 hours 57 mins; February 16, 2025

AW: Anson Frericks, "Last Call for Bud Light"

62 hours 49 mins; February 16, 2025

BN+: David Levering Lewis, "The Stained Glass Window"

64 hours 39 mins; February 11, 2025

Q&A: Reginald Dwayne Betts on Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

63 hours 58 mins; February 09, 2025

AW: Omo Moses, "The White Peril - A Family Memoir"

62 hours 29 mins; February 09, 2025

BN+: Jane Calvert, "Penman of the Founding"

72 hours 2 mins; February 04, 2025

Q&A: Judge Frederic Block, "A Second Chance"

61 hours 9 mins; February 02, 2025

After Words: Eva Dou, House of Huawei - The Secret History of China's Most Powerful Company"

62 hours 22 mins; February 02, 2025

BN+: Robert Kaplan, "Waste Land"

66 hours 5 mins; January 28, 2025

Q&A: Nigel Hamilton, "Lincoln vs. Davis" PART 2

67 hours 10 mins; January 26, 2025

BN+: John Berendt, "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil"

63 hours 9 mins; January 21, 2025

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