All Episodes

Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, "The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois" (HarperCollins, 2021)

Rhys Bowen, "The Castle in the Glen" (Lake Union Publishing, 2026)

Tracy Borman, "The House of Boleyn" (Hachette, 2026)

April Howells, "The Unforgettable Mailman" (Alcove Press, 2026)

Shana Galen, "A Shop Girl's Guide to Wooing a Lord" (Berkley, 2026)

Stephanie Dray and Laura Kamoie, "A Founding Mother: A Novel of Abigail Adams" (William Morrow, 2026)

Ray Welling, "Byline for the Dead: A Novel of Labor, Conspiracy, a Bloody Uprising and Two Ambitious Journalists" (Sager Group, 2025)

Radha Lin Chaddah, "And the Ancestors Sing" (Rising Action, 2026)

Linda Hamilton, "The Fourth Wife" (Kensington, 2026)

Janice Hadlow, "Rules of the Heart" (Henry Holt and Company, 2026)

Meg Merriet Wahlberg, "Chivalry in the Shadows" (Parkwood Manor Press, 2024)

Christine Estima, "Letters to Kafka" (House of Anansi, 2025)

Shaunna J. Edwards and Alyson Richman, "The Thread Collectors" (Harper Collins, 2022)

Sandra Freels, "Anneke Jans in the New World (She Writes Press, 2026)

Princess Joy L. Perry, "This Here Is Love" (W.W. Norton, 2025)

Lesley Chamberlain, "The Mozhaisk Road" (Austin Macauley, 2025)

Linda Wilgus, "The Sea Child" (Ballantine, 2026)

162 Carlo Rotella's Books in Dark Times (JP)

S.J. Bennett, "The Queen Who Came in from the Cold" (Crooked Lane Books, 2025)

Zeenath Khan, "The Sirens of September" (India Penguin, 2025)

Maren Halvorsen, "The Bailiff’s Wife" (Cuidono Press, 2025)

William Cooper, "The Trial of Donald H. Rumsfeld" (Dlnp, 2025)

Katie Tietjen, "Murder in Miniature" (Crooked Lane Books, 2025)

Lucy Pick, "The Queen’s Companion" (Cuidono Press, 2025)

Meghana V. Nayak, "Tilt: A Novel on Intergenerational Trauma" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)

Catherine Merridale, "Moscow Underground" (HarperColins, 2025)

Kathleen Kaufman, "The Entirely True Story of the Fantastical Mesmerist Nora Grey" (Kensington Books, 2025)

Sarah Landenwich, "The Fire Concerto" (Union Square Publishing, 2025)

Dennard Dayle, "How to Dodge a Cannonball: A Novel" (Henry Holt, 2025)

Jack Wang, "The Riveter" (HarperVia, 2025)

Karen Swan, "The Midnight Secret" (Macmillan, 2025)

Frank X Walker, "Load in Nine Times: Poems" (Liveright, 2024)

Joanna Miller, "The Eights" (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2025)

Tim Welsh, "Ley Lines" (Guernica Editions, 2025)

Alka Joshi, "Six Days in Bombay" (Mira, 2025)

Heather Akou, "Afterthought: A Family Story" (Indiana U Libraries, 2025)

Victoria Christopher Murray, "Harlem Rhapsody" (Berkley, 2025)

Sara Adrien, "Instead of Harmony: A Second Chance Regency Romance" (2023)

Elyse Durham, "Maya & Natasha" (Mariner Books, 2025)

Emily E K Murdoch on the Governess Bureau Series

Allegra Goodman, "Isola" (The Dial Press, 2025)

Rod Carley, "Ruff: A Novel" (Latitude 46, 2024)

Fiona Davis, "The Stolen Queen" (Dutton, 2025)

Sara Lodge, "The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective" (Yale UP, 2024)

Kim Fahner, "The Donoghue Girl" (Latitude 46, 2024)

Rob Osler, "The Case of the Missing Maid" (Kensington, 2024)

Robert G. Penner, "The Dark King Swallows the World" (Radiant Press, 2024)

Suzanne Allain, "The Wrong Lady Meets Lord Right" (Berkley Books, 2024)

Monica Chenault-Kilgore, "The Jewel of the Blues" (Graydon House, 2024)

A. D. Bergin, "The Wicked of the Earth" (Northodox, 2024)

Tim Ecott, "Sigmundur and the Golden Ring" (Sprotin, 2024)

Nat Reeve, "Earlyfate" (Cipher Press, 2024)

Vanessa Kelly, "Murder in Highbury" (Kensington, 2024)

Cynthia Reeves, "The Last Whaler" (Regal House, 2024)

Anna Rasche, "The Stone Witch of Florence" (Park Row, 2024)

Emma Hinds, "The Knowing" (Bedford Square Publishers, 2024)

Patrick Hicks, "In the Shadow of Dora: A Novel of the Holocaust and the Apollo Program" (Stephen F. Austin UP, 2020)

Christina Dodd, "A Daughter of Fair Verona" (John Scognamiglio, 2024)

F. J. Watson, "Lies of the Flesh" (Polygon, 2024)

Peter Rose, "The Good War of Consul Reeves" (Blacksmith Books, 2024)

Madeline Martin, "The Booklover's Library" (Hanover Square Press, 2024)

Jake Lamar, "Viper's Dream" (Crooked Lane Books, 2023)

Heather Redmond, "Death and the Visitors" (Kensington, 2024)

Orientalism in Representations of Muslims: A Discussion with Laury Silvers

Eve J. Chung, "Daughters of Shandong" (Berkley Books, 2024)

Nat Reeve, "Nettleblack" (Cipher Press, 2022)

Joanna Lowell, "A Shore Thing" (Berkley Books, 2024)

Katherine Mezzacappa, "The Maiden of Florence" (Fairlight Books, 2024)

Sasha Vasilyuk, "Your Presence Is Mandatory" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

A. Engels, "A Fool for an Heir" (2024)

"Akmaral" (Regal House, 2024): A Discussion with Judith Lindbergh

Ruth Reichl, "The Paris Novel" (Random House, 2024)

Zhang Ling, "Aftershock" (Amazon Crossing, 2024)

Robin Oliveira, "A Wild and Heavenly Place" (Putnam, 2024)

Harry Turtledove, "Wages of Sin" (Caezik SF & Fantasy, 2024)

Kate Quinn and Janie Chang, "The Phoenix Crown" (William Morrow, 2024)

Teresa H. Janssen, "The Ways of Water" (She Writes Press, 2023)

Jon Clinch, "The General and Julia" (Atria Books, 2023)

Andrea Penrose, "The Diamond of London" (Kensington Books, 2024)

Katherine Vaz, "Above the Salt" (Flatiron Books, 2023)

Isa Arsén, "Shoot the Moon" (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)

Alix Christie, "The Shining Mountains" (High Road Books, 2023)

Alice Simpson, "The Winthrop Agreement: A Novel" (Harper Paperbacks, 2023)

Annie Dawid, "Paradise Undone: A Novel of Jonestown" (Inkspot, 2023)

Kim Taylor Blakemore, "The Good Time Girls Get Famous" (Sycamore Creek Press, 2023)

Stephanie Cowell, "The Boy in the Rain" (Regal House Publishing, 2023)

Sherif M. Meleka, "Suleiman's Ring" (Hoopoe, 2023)

Louise Hare, "Harlem After Midnight" (Berkley Books, 2023)

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On the Secrets of Writing Historical Fiction with Burt Solomon, author of "The Murder of Andrew Johnson"

Andrew Varga, "The Last Saxon King: A Jump in Time Novel (Book One)" (Imbrifex Books, 2023)

Jerome Charyn, "Ravage & Son" (Bellevue Literary Press, 2023)

Olesya Salnikova Gilmore, "The Witch and the Tsar" (Ace Books, 2022)

Lauren Willig, "The Summer Country" (William Morrow, 2019)

Joshua Cohen’s "The Netanyahus" (JP, Eugene Sheppard)

Elizabeth Graver, "Kantika: A Novel" (Metropolitan Books, 2023)

Jeri Westerson, "The Isolated Séance" (Severn House, 2023)

Jennifer Savran Kelly, "Endpapers" (Algonquin Books, 2023)

Meryl Ain, "Shadows We Carry" (Sparkspress, 2023)

Peter Mann, "The Torqued Man" (Harper Perennial, 2022)

Ginny Kubitz Moyer, "The Seeing Garden" (She Writes Press, 2023)

Anna Lee Huber, "A Fatal Illusion" (Berkley Books, 2023)

The Lost Journals of Sacajewea

Liisa Kovala, "Sisu's Winter War" (Latitude 46, 2022)

Katharine Beutner, "Killingly" (Soho Press, 2023)

Aomar Boum, "Undesirables: A Holocaust Journey to North Africa" (Stanford UP, 2023)

Marian O'Shea Wernicke, "Out of Ireland" (She Writes Press, 2023)

Aleksandar Hemon, "The World and All That It Holds" (MCD, 2023)

Rachel Heng, "The Great Reclamation" (Riverhead Books, 2023)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mariah Fredericks, "The Lindbergh Nanny" (Minotaur Books, 2022)

Karen Odden, "Under a Veiled Moon" (Crooked Lane Books, 2022)

Robert J. Lloyd, "The Poison Machine" (Melville House, 2022)

Kimberly Garrett Brown, "Cora's Kitchen" (Inanna Publications, 2022)

Colleen Cambridge, "A Trace of Poison" (Kensington Publishing, 2022)

Mally Becker, "The Counterfeit Wife: A Revolutionary War Mystery" (Level Best Books, 2022)

Clay Vagrant, "The Empire's Bladesmen: Forbidden Relics" (Armored History, 2021)

Karen Heenan, "Coming Apart: A Novel of the Great Depression" (2022)

Bárbara Mujica, "Miss Del Río: A Novel of Dolores del Río, the First Major Latina Star in Hollywood" (Graydon House Books, 2022)

Martha Anne Toll, "Three Muses" (Regal House Publishing, 2022)

Paul Doherty, "The Hanging Tree" (Severn House, 2022)

Laurie R. King, "Back to the Garden: A Novel" (Bantam, 2022)

Larry F. Sommers, "Price of Passage: A Tale of Immigration and Liberation" (DX Varos, 2022)

R. F. Kuang, "Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution" (Harper Voyager, 2022)

Adele Holmes, "Winter's Reckoning" (She Writes Press, 2022)

Judith Berlowitz, "Home So Far Away: A Novel" (She Writes Press, 2022)

Francesca Stanfill, "The Falcon's Eyes: A Novel" (Harper, 2022)

Bhaswati Ghosh, "Victory Colony, 1950" (Yoda Press, 2020)

Anne Louise Bannon, "Death of an Heiress" (Healcroft House, 2022)

Jade Beer, "The Last Dress from Paris" (Berkley Books, 2022)

Tracy Lawson, "Answering Liberty's Call: Anna Stone's Daring Ride to Valley Forge" (Gray Lion Books, 2021)

David Wright Faladé, "Black Cloud Rising" (Grove Press, 2022)

Catherine Lloyd, "Miss Morton and the English House Party Murder" (Kensington, 2022)

Susan Westhafer Furukawa, "The Afterlife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi: Historical Fiction and Popular Culture in Japan" (Harvard UP, 2022)

Ariela Freedman, "Lea" (Linda Leith Publishing, 2022)

W. Jeff Barnes, "Mingo" (Little Star, 2021)

Irina Shapiro, "Murder on the Sea Witch: A Redmond and Haze Mystery Book 7" (2022)

Bede Scott, "Too Far from Antibes" (Penguin, 2022)

79* Madeline Miller on Circe (GT, JP)

Edith Saavedra, "The Lamps of Albarracin" (2018)

Book Talk 51: Ardythe Ashley on Oscar Wilde

Erica Ruth Neubauer, "Danger on the Atlantic" (Kensington, 2022)

Joan Schweighardt, "River Aria" (Five Directions Press, 2020)

Ed Davis, "The Last Professional" (Artemesia Publishing, 2022)

Leslie T. Grover, "The Benefits of Eating White Folks" (Jaded Ibis Press, 2022)

Eva Stachniak, "The School of Mirrors" (William Morrow, 2022)

Ruta Sepetys, "I Must Betray You" (Philomel Books, 2022)

Tania Bayard, "Murder in the Cloister" (Severn House Publishers, 2021)

Bryn Turnbull, "The Last Grand Duchess: A Novel" (Mira, 2022)

3.2 Promises Unkept: Damon Galgut with Andrew van der Vlies

Deanna Raybourn, "An Impossible Impostor" (Berkley Books, 2022)

Patrick Hicks, "In the Shadow of Dora: A Novel of the Holocaust and the Apollo Program" (Stephen F. Austin UP, 2020)

3.1 On Being Unmoored: Chang-rae Lee Charts Fiction with Anne Anlin Cheng

72 Caryl Phillips Speaks with Corina Stan

Catherine Gentile, "Sunday's Orphan" (Booklocker.com, 2021)

C. K. McDonough, "Stoking Hope" (D. X. Varos, 2021)

Simon Van Booy, "Night Came With Many Stars" (Godine, 2021)

Jinny Webber, "Bedtrick" (Cuidono Press, 2021)

Karla FC Holloway, "Gone Missing in Harlem: A Novel" (Northwestern UP, 2021)

Dina Greenberg, "Nermina's Chance" (Atmosphere Press, 2021)

Andrea Penrose, "Murder at the Royal Botanic Gardens" (Kensington, 2021)

Dana Mack, "All Things That Deserve to Perish: A Novel of Wilhelmine Germany" (2020)

Susannah Calkins, "Cry of the Hangman" (Severn House, 2021)

Sherry Thomas, "Miss Moriarty, I Presume?" (Penguin, 2021)

Joanna Fitzpatrick, "The Artist Colony" (She Writes Press, 2021)

Rhys Bowen, "God Rest Ye, Royal Gentlemen" (Penguin, 2021)

Garrett Hutson, "No Accidental Death" (Warfleigh Publishing, 2021)

Gill Paul, "The Collector's Daughter: A Novel of the Discovery of Tutankhamun's Tomb" (William Morrow, 2021)

Trisha R. Thomas, "What Passes as Love" (Lake Union Publishing, 2021)

Jeanne Matthews, "Devil by the Tail" (D.X. Varos, 2021)

Mary Martin Devlin, "The La Motte Woman" (Cuidono Press, 2021)

Ron Nyren, "The Book of Lost Light" (Black Lawrence Press, 2019)

Jessica Barksdale Inclán, "The Play's the Thing" (TouchPoint Press, 2021)

Larry Feign, "The Flower Boat Girl: A Novel Based on a True Story" (Top Floor Books, 2021)

Diana Stevan, "Lilacs in the Dust Bowl" (Peregrin Publishing, 2015)

Pamela Hamilton, "Lady Be Good: The Life and Times of Dorothy Hale" (Koehler Books, 2021)

Rebecca D’Harlingue, "The Lines Between Us" (She Write Press, 2020)

Bonnie Macbird, "Three Locks: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure" (Collins Crime Club, 2021)

F. M. Deemyad, "The Sky Worshipers" (History through Fiction, 2021)

Wendy Voorsanger, "Prospects of a Woman" (She Writes Press, 2020)

Vanessa R. Sasson, "Yasodhara and the Buddha" (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020)

Lauren Willig, "Band of Sisters" (William Morrow, 2021)

Max Gross, "The Lost Shtetl" (HarperCollins, 2020)

Kathleen Williams Renk, "Vindicated: A Novel of Mary Shelley" (Cuidono Press, 2020)

C. P. Lesley, "Song of the Sisters: Songs of Steppe and Forest 3" (Five Directions Press, 2021)

Molly Greeley, "The Heiress: The Revelations of Anne de Bourgh" (William Morrow, 2021)

Finola Austin, "Bronte's Mistress" (Atria Books, 2020)

Michelle Cameron, "Beyond the Ghetto Gates" (She Writes Press, 2020)

Jennie Fields, "Atomic Love" (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2020)

P. K. Adams, "Midnight Fire" (Iron Knight Press, 2020)

Linda Stewart Henley, "Estelle" (She Writes Press, 2020)

Bryn Turnbull, "The Woman before Wallis" (Mira Books, 2020)

John DeSimone, "Road to Delano" (Rare Bird Books, 2020)

Elsa Hart, "The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne" (Minotaur Books, 2020)

Erika Rummel, "The Road to Gesualdo" (D. X. Varos, 2020)

Bill LeFurgy, "Into the Suffering City: A Novel of Baltimore" (High Kicker Books, 2020)

Will Thomas, "Lethal Pursuit" (Minotaur, 2019)

Janie Chang, "The Library of Legends" (William Morrow, 2020)

Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)

Chip Jacobs, "Arroyo" (Rare Birds Books, 2019)

Janice Hadlow, "The Other Bennet Sister" (Henry Holt, 2020)

Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)

Mari Coates, "The Pelton Papers" (She Writes Press, 2020)

Maya Rodale, "An Heiress to Remember" (Avon Books, 2020)

Laura Waterman, "Starvation Shore" (U Wisconsin Press, 2019)

Emily Strelow, "The Wild Birds" (Rare Bird Books, 2018)

Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)

Gabrielle Mathieu, "Girl of Fire" (Five Directions Press, 2019)

Joan Schweighardt, "Gifts for the Dead" (Five Directions Press, 2019)

Serena Burdick, "The Girls with No Names" (Park Row Books, 2020)

Katherine Kayne, "Bound in Flame" (Passionflower Press, 2019)

Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing

Charles Todd, "A Cruel Deception" (William Morrow, 2019)

Talia Carner, "The Third Daughter" (William Morrow, 2019)

Sofia Grant, "Lies in White Dresses" (William Morrow, 2019)

Gill Paul, "The Lost Daughter" (William Morrow, 2019)

Linnea Hartsuyker, "The Golden Wolf" (Harper, 2019)

Kate Braithwaite, "The Girl Puzzle" (Crooked Cat Books, 2019)

Laury Silvers, “The Lover” (Kindle Direct Publishers, 2019)

C. W. Gortner, "The Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna" (Ballentine Books, 2018)

Adrienne Celt, "Invitation to a Bonfire" (Bloomsbury, 2018)

Ana Johns, "The Woman in the White Kimono" (Park Row Books, 2019)

Ann Weisgarber, "The Glovemaker" (Skyhorse Publishing, 2019)

Elsa Hart, "City of Ink" (Minotaur Books, 2018)

Madeline Miller, "Circe" (Little, Brown and Company, 2018)

Liza Perrat, "The Swooping Magpie" (Triskele Books, 2019)

Rosellen Brown, "The Lake on Fire" (Sarabande Books, 2018)

C.P. Lesley, "Song of the Siren" (Five Directions Press, 2019)

Joan Neuberger, "This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible in Stalin’s Russia" (Cornell UP, 2019)

Kate Quinn, "The Huntress" (William Morrow, 2019)

Pam Jenoff, "The Lost Girls of Paris" (Park Row Books, 2019)

Yang-Sze Choo, "The Night Tiger" (Flatiron Books, 2019)

Terry Gamble, "The Eulogist" (William Morrow, 2019)

P. K. Adams, "The Greenest Branch" (Iron Knight Press, 2018)

Samantha Silva, "Mr. Dickens and His Carol" (Flatiron Books, 2018)

Bren McClain, “One Good Mama Bone” (Story River Books, 2017)

Bernard Cornwell, “The Flame Bearer” (Harper, 2016)

Ursula LeCoeur, “The Devious Dubutante” (Royal Street Publishing, 2015)

Kate Braithwaite, “Charlatan” (Fireship Press, 2016)

Linda Kass, “Tasa’s Song” (She Writes Press, 2016)

C.P. Lesley, “The Swan Princess” (Five Directions Press, 2016)

Ashley E. Sweeney, “Eliza Waite” (She Writes Press, 2016)

Hana Samek Norton, “The Serpent’s Crown” (Cuidono Press, 2015)

Lauren Belfer, “And After the Fire” (Harper, 2016)

Sally Cabot Gunning, “Satucket Trilogy” (William Morrow, 2011)