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WYPR Baltimore 617 - Down South: "The Calamity Club" by Kathryn Stockett and "The Great Wherever" by Shannon Sanders

----What should I read next?---- Book critic and longtime NPR commentator Marion Winik answers this question in four opinionated, book-loving minutes. With reviews of new releases and older titles you may have missed, it’s like having a new best friend with very good taste to guide you in your literary adventures. The Weekly Reader is produced by WYPR and hosted by Lisa Morgan.

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Down South: "The Calamity Club" by Kathryn Stockett and "The Great Wherever" by Shannon Sanders

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24 Jul. 2026

616-

Life-changing Friendships: "Contrapposto" by Dave Eggers, "Honoria" by Janice Shapiro, and "We Should Not Be Friends" by Will Schwalbe

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17 Jul. 2026

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There Goes The Neighborhood: Alan Opts Out" by Courtney Maum and "Coyoteland" by Vanessa Hua"

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15 Jul. 2026

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Giants of Fiction: "What We Can Know" by Ian McEwan and "John of John" by Douglas Stuart.

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08 Jul. 2026

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Murder Most Foul: "The Pinnacle" by Abir Mukherjee and "Blunt Instrument" by Amy Bloom

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25 Jun. 2026

612-

Arch Thrillers: "The Author Weekend" by Laura Zigman and "The Ending Writes Itself" by Evelyn Clarke

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03 Jun. 2026

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Famous and Funny: "The Land and Its People" by David Sedaris and "Famesick" by Lena Dunham

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27 Mai 2026

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Family Memoirs: A Room in Bombay, by Manil Suri, and Keeper of My Kin, by Ada Ferrer

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21 Mai 2026

609-

Cults and Their Discontents

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14 Mai 2026

608-

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

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28 Apr. 2026

607-

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

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22 Apr. 2026

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

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15 Apr. 2026

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Citylit Festival Preview

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08 Apr. 2026

604-

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

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01 Apr. 2026

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

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26 Mär. 2026

602-

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

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18 Mär. 2026

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

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16 Mär. 2026

600-

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

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05 Mär. 2026

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

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25 Feb. 2026

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

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19 Feb. 2026

597-

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

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11 Feb. 2026

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

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05 Feb. 2026

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Great New Memoirs from Iconic Entertainers

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21 Jan. 2026

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

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13 Jan. 2026

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Memorable Memoirs of 2025

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07 Jan. 2026

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Memorable Memoirs of 2025

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07 Jan. 2026

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Top Ten Fiction Titles of the Year 2025

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30 Dez. 2025

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Non-fiction Gift Books 2025

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15 Dez. 2025

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

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02 Dez. 2025

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Happy 250th, Jane Austen!

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25 Nov. 2025

587-

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

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19 Nov. 2025

586-

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

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17 Nov. 2025

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

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05 Nov. 2025

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

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30 Okt. 2025

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

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30 Okt. 2025

582-

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

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21 Okt. 2025

581-

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

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14 Okt. 2025

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

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06 Okt. 2025

579-

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

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30 Sep. 2025

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

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30 Sep. 2025

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

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16 Sep. 2025

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

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09 Sep. 2025

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Goin' Out West, plus Paperback Releases For Bookclubs

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25 Aug. 2025

574-

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

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07 Aug. 2025

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

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29 Jul. 2025

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

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23 Jul. 2025

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

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16 Jul. 2025

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

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16 Jul. 2025

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

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09 Jul. 2025

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

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02 Jul. 2025

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