All Episodes

Memoir Roundup: "Small Town Girls" by Jayne Anne Phillips, "Labor" by Mary Afsari, and "She's Under Here" by Karen Palmer

Monica Lewinsky Special: "Dear Monica Lewinsky" by Julia Langbein, "Young Jane Young" by Gabrielle Zevin, and "Everything is Perfect" by Kate Nason

Love Among the Stars: "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" by Taylor Jenkins Reid and "American Fantasy" by Emma Straub

Citylit Festival Preview

Internet Famous: "What A Time To Be Alive" by Jade Chang and "I Could Be Famous" by Sydney Rende

Uncommon Women: "Big Nobody" by Alex Kadis and "The Beheading Game" by Rebecca Lehmann.

Remember The Seventies: "Lake Effect" by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney and "Judy Blume: A Life" by Mark Oppenheimer

Moving Memoirs: "The Flower Bearers" by Rachel Eliza Griffiths and "Fly, Wild Swans" by Jung Chang

Friend Groups: "So Old, So Young" by Grant Ginder and "Bad Asians" by Lillian Li

Celebrating Black Women: "Kin" by Tayari Jones, "Firstborn Girls" by Bernice McFadden, and "Finding Me" by Viola Davis

Road Trips: "The Rest of Our Lives" by Benjamin Markovits and "Solito" by Javier Zamora

Jane Gardam Trilogy: Old Filth, The Man in the Wooden Hat, and Last Friends

Invisible Threads: are The Correspondent, by Virginia Evans, Palaver, by Bryan Washington and Deeper than the Ocean, by Mirta Ojita

Great New Memoirs from Iconic Entertainers

New Thrillers: "Best Offer Wins" by Marisa Kashino and "The Gallagher Place" by Julie Doar

Memorable Memoirs of 2025

Top Ten Fiction Titles of the Year 2025

Non-fiction Gift Books 2025

European Voices: "The Lack of Light" by Nino Haratischwili and "Serge" by Yasmina Reza

Happy 250th, Jane Austen!

Writers' Memoirs: "Joyride" by Susan Orlean and "Book of Lives" by Margaret Atwood

Just For Fun: "Henry and Grace's Holiday Movie Marathon" by Matt Norman and "The Literati" by Susan Coll

Lives and Loves: Heart the Lover, by Lily King, and Dream Count, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Sappho In Space: "To the Moon and Back" by Eliana Ramage and "Atmosphere" by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Sappho in Space: are "To the Moon and Back" by Eliana Ramage and "Atmosphere" by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Super Stories: "Fools for Love" by Helen Schulman and "Mercy" by Joan Silber

Meet the Parents: "The Boy from the North Country" by Sam Sussman and "No Ordinary Bird" by Artis Henderson

Mommie Dearest: "Bad Bad Girl" by Gish Jen and "Mother Mary Comes to Me" by Arundhati Roy

Passage to India: "The Lonelinesss of Sonia and Sunny" by Kiran Desai and "A Guardian and A Thief" by Megha Majumdar

New Romance: "August Lane" Regina Black, "Sweet Heat" by Bobu Babalola, and "Jamaica Road" by Lisa Smith

Gifted Children: "The Sunflower Boys" by Sam Wachman and "Life, Death and Giants" by Ron Rindo

Goin' Out West, plus Paperback Releases For Bookclubs

Trouble in Eastern Europe: "A Dog in Georgia" by Lauren Grodstein and "Endling" by Maria Reva

Comic Novels: "Vera, or Faith" by Gary Shteyngart and "Run for the Hills" by Kevin Wilson

Adventures in Travel: "Culpability" by Bruce Holsinger and "Sky Daddy" by Kate Folk

Magnificent Memoirs: "Flowers and Locusts" by Martha Reid Paradis and "Not My Type" by E. Jean Carroll

Seaside Reads: "Next to Heaven" by James Frey and "The Listeners" by Maggie Stiefvater

Must-Read Memoirs from Molly Jong-Fast and Sarah Wynn-Williams

Insiders: Dispatches from New York City and Hollywood

Women on Women: new books from Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson and Sophie Gilbert

Great Debuts: Aaron John Curtis and Lucas Schaefer

For Music Lovers: "Matriarch" by Tina Knowles and "Walk Softly On This Heart of Mine" by Callie Collins

New York Stories: New novels from Maxine Rosaler, Austin Kelley, and Rumaan Alaml

Funny People: "What Is Wrong With You?" by Paul Rudnick, and "Making the Best of What's Left" by Judith Viorst.

Family Life in the UK: "Going Home" by Tom Lamont and "The Names" by Florence Knapp

Fiction Fights Back: The Dream Hotel, by Laila Lalami, and The Antidote, by Karen Russell

Good Stories: "Atavists" by Lydia Millet and "Good Women" by Halle Hill

Modern Predicaments: "Jane and Dan at the End of the World" by Colleen Oakley and "Rental House" by Weike Wang

Cats From Japan: The Blanket Cats, by Kiyoshi Shigematsu and Mornings Without Mii, by Mayumi Inaba

Listen to This: New Audio Memoirs

Weekly Reader Live at CityLit Festival 2025

Europe in Wartime: "33 Place Brugmann" by Alice Austen and "Maya and Natasha" by Elyse Durham

Listening to Joan Didion

Inheritance: "The Magnificent Ruins" by Nayantara Roy and "Like Mother, Like Mother" by Susan Rieger

I Dream of Joni Mitchell

Short Stories: New Books From Curtis Sittenfeld, Erika Krouse, and by Amor Towles

Career Opportunities: "Mona Acts Out" by Mischa Berlinski and "How to Sleep at Night" by Elizabeth Harris

When Bad Things Happen to Good Writers

Coming of Age: "Playworld" by Adam Ross and "The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus" by Emma Knight

Immigration Matters: "Mothers and Sons" by Adam Haslett and "Homeseeking" by Karissa Chen

A Few We Missed

Local Authors

Majestic Memoirs: "Patriot" by Alexei Navalny and "Cher: The Memoir, Part One" by Cher

The Holiday Spirit: "Time of the Child" by Niall Williams and "Love You A Latke" by Amanda Elliot

Naomi & Me: "I Know About a Thousand Things: The Writings of Ann Alejandro of Uvalde, Texas" and "Everything Comes Next: Collected and New Poems" by Naomi Shahib Nye

Family Life: "Intermezzo" by Sally Rooney and "The Wildes" by Louis Bayard.

Road Trips: "Goyhood" by Reuven Fenton, and "How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund?" by Anna Montague

Celebrity Memoirs Part Two: Chung, Tucci, Bourdain, Pacino

Celebrity Memoirs Part One: "From Here to the Great Unknown" by Lisa Marie Presley and Riley Keough and "All I Ever Wanted" by Kathy Valentine

Medicine Women: "The Waters" by Bonnie Jo Campbell and "The Love Elixir of Augusta Stern" by Lynda Cohen Loigman

Transitions

Small Towns, Big Stories

For Mature Audiences: "We Were the Universe" by Kimberly King Parsons and "Olive Days" by Jessica Elisheva Emerson

Reality Adjacent: "Colored Television" by Danzy Senna and "Small Rain" by Garth Greenwell

Friends and Stories: "Mina's Matchbox" by Yoko Ogawa and "Tell Me Everything" by Elizabeth Strout

Podcasters and Ghostwriters: "Listen for the Lie" by Amy Tintera and "I Want You More" by Swan Huntley

Women, Politics, and Power: "One Way Back" by Christine Blasey Ford and "True Gretch" by Gretchen Whitmer

Great Memoirs: "The Friday Afternoon Club" by Griffin Dunne and "Do Something" by Guy Trebay

New England Vacations: "Sandwich" by Catherine Newman and "The Wedding People" by Alison Espach

Talk to the Animals: "Bear" by Julia Phillips and "The Horse" by Willie Vlautin

Take Me to the Beach: "The Same Bright Stars" by Ethan Joella and "Swan Song" by Elin Hilderbrand

Women of Sports: "Headshot" by Rita Bullwinkel, and "Coming Home" by Brittney Griner

Poor Dear Planet: "Pearce Oysters" by Joselyn Takacs and "Beep" by Bill Roorbach

Great American Novels: "Long Island Compromise" by Taffy Brodesser-Akner and "Familiaris" by David Wrobliewski

Epic India: "The Covenant of Water" by Abraham Verghese and "Victory City" by Salman Rushdie

Women Warriors: "Daughters of Shandong" by Eve Chung and "The Women" by Kristin Hannah

Hot Summer Reads: "Come and Get It" by Kiley Reid and "Margo Has Money Troubles" by Rufi Thorpe

Stranger Things: "Real Life and Other Fictions" by Susan Coll and "The Husbands" by Holly Gramazio.

A Trio of Thrillers: "One of Our Kind" by Nicola Yoon, "Death in the Air" by Ram Murali, and "The God of the Woods" by Liz Moore

New Gay Comic Novels from Stephen Rowley and Stephen McCauley

New Memoirs from Salmon Rushdie and Daniel Handler

Eat the Rich: Wives Like Us, by Plum Sykes, and Lies and Weddings, by Kevin Kwan

Midlife Adventures: "The Lady Waiting" by Magdalena Zyzak, and "All Fours" Miranda July

Loss: "Fi, A Memoir of My Son" by Alexandra Fuller and "My Beloved Monster" by Caleb Carr

Real Characters: "Candy Darling" by Cynthia Carr, and "To Anyone Who Ever Asks" by Howard Fishman

Sloane Crosley Special: "Grief is for People," "The Clasp," and "I Was Told There Would Be Cake"

The World of Work: "Help Wanted" by Adelle Waldman and "Burn Book: A Tech Love Story" by Kara Swisher

Funny Women: "Worry" by Alexandra Tanner and "Sylvia's Second Act" by Hillary Yablon

Black American Fiction: "James" by Percival Everett and "Neighbors and Other Stories" by Diane Oliver

On Immigration: "The Prince of Los Cocuyos" by Richard Blanco, "Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here" by Jonathan Blitzer and "A Map of Future Ruins" by Lauren Markham

Fabulous Fables: "The Bullet Swallower" by Elizabeth Gonzalez James and "The Fox Wife" by Yangsee Choo

Mental Illness: "The Best Minds" by Jonathan Rosen and :"While You Were Out" by Meg Kissinger

The Art World: "Get the Picture" by Bianca Bosker and "The Art Thief" by Michael Finkel

People With Causes: "Martyr" by Kaveh Akbar and "Birnam Wood" by Eleanor Catton

My Moody Valentine: Roxana Robinson's "Leaving" and Emily Austin's "Interesting Facts About Space"

Life During COVID: "Joan is Okay" by Weike Wang, and "Fourteen Days" edited by Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston

The Mothers: "Flores and Miss Paula" by Melissa Rivero and "The Underburn" by Bill Gaythwaite

Family Life: "Mercury" by Amy Jo Burns" and "Welcome Home, Stranger" by Kate Christensen

Breaking Taboos: "The Fetishist" by Katherine Min and "Alice Sadie Celine" by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

Christmas in Nantucket with Elin Hilderbrand

Adventure Time: "Orbital" by Samantha Harvey and "Airplane Mode" Shahnaz Habib

Historical Fiction from Ariel Lawhon and Paulette Jiles

Texas Size: "The Madstone" by Elizabeth Crook and "Mr. Texas" by Lawrence Wright

Great Reporting: "The Times" by Adam Nagourney, and "Gator Country" by Rebecca Renner

"My Name is Barbra"

Social Circles: "Ana Turns" by Lisa Gornick and "The Children's Bach" by Helen Garner

Dispatches from Southeast Asia: Alice McDermott and Vanessa Chan

When in Rome: "Roman Stories" Jhumpa Lahiri, and "The Helsinki Affair" by Anna Pitoniak

Non-fiction Update: Nathan Thrall, Alexandra Robbins, and Claire Dederer

Social Satire: "Wellness" by Nathan Hill and "The Book of Ayn" by Lexi Freiman

Book Award Finalists: "The Bee Sting" by Paul Murray and "How to Say Babylon" by Safiya Sinclair

Ben Fountain Special: "Devil Makes Three" and "Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk"

Women on the Verge: "Breaking and Entering" by Don Gillmor and "Search History" by Amy Taylor

Dramatic Interpretation: "Speech Team" by Tim Murphy, and "Sugarless" by James Magruder

New books from old favorites: Ann Patchett and Angie Kim

Cristina Garcia Special

More Memoirs: "Everything/Nothing/Someone" by Alice Carrière and "Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City" by Jane Wong

On the Road: American Ramble, by Neil King, and White Sands, by Geoff Dyer

Sequels from the Masters: New books by Colson Whitehead and Richard Russo

Great Memoirs from Mary Rodgers and Frieda Hughes

DC Authors: Mary Kay Zuravleff, Michelle Brafman and Paul Goldberg

Friends and Lovers: "The Rachel Incident" by Caroline O’Donoghue, and "Farrell Covington and the Limits of Style" by Paul Rudnick

Merry Widows: "The Five Star Weekend" by Elin Hilderbrand and "You Can't Stay Here Forever" by Katharine Lin

Seaside Reads: "Beach Week" by Susan Coll and "Silver Alert" by Lee Smith

Local Authors Special: Jane Delury, Christine Grillo, and Matt Norman

Hot Summer Reads: "Friends Like These" by Meg Rosoff and "The Guest," by Emma Cline

Interracial Complications: "Everything is Fine" by Cecilia Rabess and "Wade in the Water" by Nyani Nkrumah

New Work from Cool Writers: "Lucky Dogs" by Helen Schulman and "Fireworks Every Night" by Beth Raymer

Mother - Daughter Memoirs

it Happened on Twitter: "The Society of Shame"by Jane Roper and "Yellowface" by R.F. Kuang

In and Out of Love: "Romantic Comedy" by Curtis Sittenfeld and "How to Fall Out of Love Madly" by Jan Casales

Back of the House: New Adventures in the Kitchen

Small Towns, Great Books: "Big Swiss" by Jen Beagin, and "Take What You Need" by Idra Novey

London Calling: New books from Ore Agbaje-Williams and Eirinie Carson

Southeast Asia Focus: New work from Rachel Heng and Ralph White

Pandemic Possibilities: “Kunstlers in Paradise” by Cathleen Schine and “The Fun Widow's Book Tour” by Zoe Fishman

Elizabeth McKenzie Special

Novels About True Crime: “I Have Some Questions For You” by Rebecca Makkai and “More Than You'll Ever Know” by Katie Gutierrez

It's the Writing: "The Last Animal" by Ramona Ausubel and "The Angel of Rome" by Jess Walter

Tough Cookies: "My Nemesis" by Charmaine Craig and "Stone Cold Fox" by Rachel Koller Croft

Dark Academia: "Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence," by R.F. Kuang and "My Last Innocent Year," by Daisy Alpert Florin

Jane Harper Special: "The Dry," "Force of Nature" and "Exiles."

Crimes and Misdemeanors: Deepti Kapoor's "Age of Vice" and Patricia Engel's "The Faraway World"

The Prince Speaks: The Duke of Sussex Prince Harry's "Spare."

Celebrity Memoirs

Ethan Joella Special

Ethnicity in the Heartland: New books from Elisa Bernick and Lan Samantha Chang

Teenage Times: New novels from Kevin Wilson and Alison Espach

Dispatches from Ireland: New novels from Michelle Gallen and Louise Nealon

Technology R Us: New fiction from Gabrielle Zevin and Carter Bays

New comic novels from Grant Ginder and Bonnie Garmus

New York Stories: "No one Left to Come Looking for You" by Sam Lipsyte and "Our Lady of the Highway" by Hal Hartley

The TV made me do it: "Small Game" and "Carrie Soto is Back"

Local Authors Showcase

Future Shock: Dystopian days ahead from Julia Glass and Bruce Holsinger

Coming of Age in a Rough World: New work from Barbara Kingsolver and Jonathan Escoffery

Scary Stories: Ling Ma's "Bliss Montage" and Ainslie Hogarth's "Motherthing"

American Outsiders: New novels by Dur E Aziz Amna and Isaac Blum

Movie Biz: "Mercury Pictures Presents" by Anthony Marra and "Mr. Wilder and Me" by Jonathan Coe

Funny Ladies: "Bookish People" by Susan Coll and "The Means," by Amy Fusselman

Filthy Rich: "The Work Wife" by Allison B. Hart and "The Club" by Ellery Lloyd

Jean Hanff Korelitz Special

The Radical Power of Personal Narrative:"Body Work" by Melissa Febos and "Normal Family" by Chrysta Bilton

Sweet Sixteen: Teenage adventures from Emma Straub and Bill Roorbach

After Roe: Reproductive rights in America

New novels from Britain: Moses McKenzie and Nina Stibbe

Toni Morrison special

Generations past: "All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days" by Rebecca Donner and "Ancestor Trouble",by Maud Newton

People who "get" people: new novels from Michelle Huneven and Anne Tyler

New books from some favorite authors: Douglas Stuart's "Young Mungo" and Jennifer Egan's "The Candy House"

Memoirs from around the world

Female friendships: "Wildcat" by Amelia Morris and "Fiona and Jane" by Jean Chen Ho

Stories from New York City

Memoirs from Hanif Abdurraqib and Deborah Levy

Amazing childhood memoirs from Faith Jones and Ly Tran

Big American stories from Amor Towles and Honorée Fannone Jeffers

Pandemic memories from Gary Shteyngart and Jodi Picoult

Ann Patchett essays

The good old days: feminism and the 1970s.

Women's Friendships: new books by Sally Rooney and Christina Pride & Jo Piazza.

Family Matters: New novels from Jonathan Franzen and Atticus Lish.

Historical Fiction: Escape to Another Century

Asian-American Memoirs From Qian Julie Wang And Michele Zauner

Truth Be Told: New Memoirs From Nancy Jo Sales And Alison Bechdel

Thrillers, Part Two

Summer Thrillers, Part One

Thrillers, Big And Small: New Work From Alex Michaelides and Bruce Henderson

The Joys Of Marriage

Marion's Favorite Fiction Writers: Joan Silber and Marian Thurm.

Family Secrets: New Memoirs From Hunter Biden and Margaret Kimball

Boarding School Special

On the Job: Life Lessons From Mateo Askaripour and Chang Rae Lee

Happy Birthday To Us! 'Detransition, Baby' and 'American Baby'

Family Values: New Fiction From Liese O'Halloran Schwarz And Sarah Langan

Smart Books For Thoughtful People

The Emerald Isle: Fact And Fiction From Northern Ireland

New York Stories: Debra Jo Immergut's 'You Again' and Caroline Leavitt's 'With or Without You'

Books with Big Buzz: Bryan Washington's 'Memorial' and Rumaan Alam's 'Leave the World Behind.'

New Fiction from Chinese-American author Susie Yang and Pakistani-American playwright Ayad Akhtar

Curtis Sittenfeld Special

Big Stories from Small Towns: Jess Walter's 'The Cold Millions' and Max Gross's 'The Lost Shtetl.'

Short and Sweet: New Story Collections from Emma Cline and Kelli Jo Ford.

American Women: Seward Darby's 'Sisters in Hate' and Laila Lalami's 'Conditional Citizens' Examine the Lives of Uncommon American Women.

To Have and To Hold: New Fiction about Marriage from Sue Miller and Peace Adzo Medie

New Voices: Debut Work from Raven Leilani and Deesha Philyaw

Champagne Dreams: New Books About Celebrity Life from Heidi Pitlor and Ben Widdicombe

Women of a Certain Age: New Fiction from Charlotte Wood and Larry Watson.

Panic in the Streets: New Memoirs from Wayetu Moore and Wes Moore.

Signs of the Times: New Memoirs from Andrea Lawlor and Anonymous

Everyman's Library: Lorrie Moore

Short Stories: Francesca Marciano's "Animal Spirit" and Stephen King's "If It Bleeds."

Fitting In: New Fiction from Rufi Thorpe and Frances Cha

New Fiction from Anne Tyler and Julia Alverez

The Scene of the Crime: New Fiction from Emily St. John Mandel and Elizabeth Wetmore

Memoirs with a Sense of Humor

Helen Fremont and the Minefield of Family Memoir

Douglas Stuart's "Shuggie Bain" - The Weekly Reader Book club Pick for April

Armchair Travel: New novels from Isabel Allende and Christopher Bollen.

New Non-fiction from Peggy Orenstein and Susannah Cahalan

Kiley Reid's "Such a Fun Age" - The Weekly Reader Book club pick for February

New Fiction from Jami Attenberg and Jacqueline Woodson

Booker Prize 2019: Bernardine Evaristo and Margaret Atwood

Short Stories from Zadie Smith and Etgar Keret.

On the Wild Side: New Memoirs from Adrienne Brodeur and Anthony Siegel.

Mansion Life: New fiction from Ann Patchett and a classic from Bill Roorbach.

Bad Mothers: New fiction from Helen Phillips and Amelie Nothomb.

The Weekly Reader Book Club Pick for September: Rebecca Makkai's ----The Great Believers.----

More Men with Problems: New Fiction from Richard Russo and Scott Johnston

Coming of Age: New Fiction from Jennifer Weiner and Elin Hilderbrand

Men With Problems: New Fiction from Taffy Brodesser-Akner and James Lasdun

Angie Kim - The Weekly Reader Book Club pick for July

Historical Drama from Lisa Gornick and Roxana Robinson.

THE GUEST BOOK: The Weekly Reader Book Club Pick for June!

Trust Exercise and A Wonderful Stroke of Luck : Back to High School

----The Other Americans---- and ----Oksana, Behave!---- - Multicultural America

National Book Critics Circle Award Winners: Biography, Criticism, and Poetry.

----A Light of Her Own,---- ----I Was Anastasia,---- and ----The Only Woman in the Room---- - Historical Fiction.

----Bowlaway---- - Elizabeth McCracken's new novel

----Northern Lights---- and The Martin Chronicles---- - Coming of Age

----Still in Love---- and ----My Education---- - Back to School

----The Museum of Modern Love---- and ----Severance---- - Manhattan Stories

East Coast, West Coast

Jailbirds

Lucia Berlin Special

What's the Matter with Kids Today?

The Baltimore Book of the Dead

More Audio Books

Dazzling Debuts

Laughter is the Best Medicine

Writing Their Lives

Book Club Suggestions

Trouble Ahead

Asia Food

More Summer Reading

Unusual Female Characters

Money Changes Everything

There is Nothing Like a Good Novel

Business Matters

First, The Funeral

The Late, Great, Denis Johnson

How to Live Forever

Non-fiction Update

Gifts

Ingall

New York, New York

Hoffman

Small Town Politics

Women Who Write

James McBride

Weekly Reader #38

Promised Land Special