Nominations: Best Beach Books Of All Time
NPR is drawing up a list of the best beach books ever, and we need you to help by nominating your favorite summer reads.READ MORE
Top Summer Reading: Fiction Stories
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Excerpt: 'The Four Corners of the Sky'
Prepare to be enchanted by a masterful writer who knows how to tell a story. Michael Malone's skills derive partly from his work writing for a popular daytime soap and partly from his affection for good literature.READ MORE
Excerpt: 'The Four Corners of the Sky'
Michael Malone's skills derive partly from his work writing for a popular daytime soap.READ MORE
Excerpt: 'Laura Rider's Masterpiece'
Jane Hamilton's entertaining novel centers around a Midwestern couple and a popular radio star.READ MORE
Excerpt: 'The Housekeeper and the Professor'
Yoko Ogawa's poignant new story reminds us that the heart remembers what the mind forgets.READ MORE
Excerpt: 'Stone's Fall'
Stone's Fall is one of those gloriously long books that is never long enough.READ MORE
Excerpt: 'The Stolen Child'
Without an excess of sentimentality, this novel updates and explores the changeling myth.READ MORE
Excerpt: 'The School of Essential Ingredients'
Cooks and noncooks alike will be charmed by The School of Essential Ingredients.READ MORE
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Novelist Explores Book Groups, Hollywood-Style
Maureen Corrigan reviews Chandler Burr's You or Someone Like You.READ MORE
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A Preposterous Man Of Mystery In 'Hotel Crystal'
Hotel Crystal is The Bourne Identity by way of Borges.READ MORE
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Vignettes And Characters Shift In 'Chameleons'
A gecko narrator weaves fragmentary tales of invented pasts into a novel of charming airiness.READ MORE
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Sex, Drugs And Sonnets: In 'Will,' All's Well
A funny, kinetic sendup of Shakespeare and druggy '80s academia in My Name Is Will.READ MORE
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Russian Immigrants Feast On 'Food And Love'
Lara Vapnyar revisits Brighton Beach and finds the link between food, memory, love and dreams.READ MORE
Americans Say Oui, Oui To Foreign Graphic Novels
More than half of the graphic novels sold in the U.S. are foreign-language imports.READ MORE
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Winton's Surf Will Leave You 'Breath'-Less
Tim Winton's Breath conveys the beauty of the surf without cliché.READ MORE
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Excerpt: 'Hero'
Perry Moore's novel is about a gay adolescent who happens to be endowed with superpowers.READ MORE
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Summer Books to Feed Your Literary Addiction
Alan Cheuse confesses his literary addiction — and offers reading picks for other book junkies.READ MORE
