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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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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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Épisodes

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

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

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

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

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

Back of the House: New adventures in the kitchen

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

Jean Hanff Korelitz Special

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

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