WYPR Books

A new collection and some old favorites from author Ann Patchett.

Happy or unhappy, all families have stories to tell. Two memoirs of growing up in extraordinary circumstances on this edition of The Weekly Reader.

The Weekly Reader explores big stories from a big country.

Hard times make for great novels! Pandemic memories from Gary Shteyngart and Jodi Picoult.

A new collection of essays from Ann Patchett.

I am woman, hear me roar! New novels capture the zeitgeist of The Women's Movement in the 1970s.

Good things come in small packages. We review Lily King's Five Tuesdays in Winter and Leslie Pietrzyk's Admit This To No One.

Anger is an energy! New books from Kim Wozencraft and Dara Horn channel righteous rage.

New York City looms large in new novels from Elizabeth Strout and Marlowe Granados!

What happens when the question "How are you?" is not so easy to answer? Two new memoirs about illness and survival.