Listen up! Here are some of the best audiobooks of the year NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Kendra Winchester of the website 'Book Riot' about some of the best audiobooks of 2024. Ayesha Rascoe
Books We Love: Cookbooks There are more than 350 books on NPR's Books We Love list -- our yearly round up of our favorite reads chosen by our staff and critics. Today, we're looking at cookbooks. Andrew Limbong
'Does This Taste Funny?' is a Colbert family cookbook What do cooking and a nightly TV show have in common? Both require "a little care, a little love and a little imagination," says Stephen Colbert. He and his wife Evie Colbert have written a cookbook. Terry Gross
Maureen Corrigan picks her favorite books from an 'unprecedented' 2024 This year, our Fresh Air book critic highlights alternative history, suspense, satire — and some of the most extraordinary letters ever written. Here are Maureen Corrigan's 10 best books of 2024. Maureen Corrigan
Some of the translated book titles included in this year's Books We Love NPR's Books We Love has returned. We share a few of the translated book titles included in this year's recommendations. Michel Martin
Science fiction writer Ted Chiang wins PEN/Malamud Prize Science fiction author Ted Chiang wrote the short story that became the movie "Arrival." He talks with host Scott Detrow. Scott Detrow
Werner Herzog says it's not good to circle 'your own navel' but wrote a memoir anyway The German filmmaker reflects on his unusual life and the curiosity that has fueled his career in the memoir, Every Man for Himself and God Against All. Originally broadcast Oct. 25, 2023. Terry Gross
NPR's Books We Love: Biographies and memoirs NPR has rounded up more than 350 of our favorite books this year. Today, we're focusing on biographies and memoirs. Andrew Limbong
Stay away from Dr. Google, and other lessons learned about hypochondria Caroline Crampton developed excessive health anxiety after being treated for cancer as a teen. In A Body Made of Glass she chronicles her experience with hypochondria and the history of the condition. Terry Gross
'Time of the Child' is a marvelous blend of despair and redemption Set in a small Irish village in the weeks leading up to Christmas 1962, Niall Williams' latest novel avoids cliché by investing specificity and life into characters and places. Maureen Corrigan