Ranked #1
Go Set A Watchman
Go Set A Watchman
Enjoy an excerpt of GO SET A WATCHMAN, written by Harper Lee and narrated by Reese Witherspoon. In this excerpt Jean Lou... Read more
20 Jul 2015
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25mins
Ranked #2
Dorothy Parker's BIG BLONDE
Dorothy Parker's BIG BLONDE
Dorothy Parker’s most famous and autobiographical piece, Big Blonde, won the O’Henry Award in 1929. Cynthia Nixon, the G... Read more
14 Dec 2015
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58mins
Ranked #3
Christopher Moore
Christopher Moore
Listen in as we call Chris Moore to get the scoop on Secondhand Souls, the upcoming sequel to A Dirty Job. Chris makes u... Read more
3 Aug 2015
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21mins
Ranked #4
Megan Whalen Turner on THICK AS THIEVES
Megan Whalen Turner on THICK AS THIEVES
Megan Whalen Turner's favorite thing about being a writer is that she can give away her creative output while still keep... Read more
20 Jun 2017
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24mins
Ranked #5
The Gift of Failure
The Gift of Failure
Want to give the children in your life the gift that keeps on giving? Give them the gift of failure. Jessica Lahey, New ... Read more
10 Aug 2015
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24mins
Ranked #6
Karin Slaughter
Karin Slaughter
Karin Slaughter brings us up to speed on the sincere joys of sister-scaring, the reason there’s no sequel to Gone With t... Read more
28 Sep 2015
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22mins
Ranked #7
An Excerpt of SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari
An Excerpt of SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari
Rounding out our Summer of Excerpts is Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari, and read by Derek PerkinsMost books about the histo... Read more
4 Sep 2017
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27mins
Ranked #8
Katy Tur on UNBELIEVABLE
Katy Tur on UNBELIEVABLE
Katy Tur is a broadcast journalist and the NBC News correspondent who was tasked with following Donald Trump's president... Read more
10 Sep 2017
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19mins
Ranked #9
S2E8: One For the Fans (with Dorothea Benton Frank & Susan Mallery)
S2E8: One For the Fans (with Dorothea Benton Frank & Susan Mallery)
We interview two authors who know how to treat their fans, Dorothea Benton Frank and Susan Mallery!Subscribe to the podc... Read more
5 Jun 2019
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56mins
Ranked #10
Elizabeth Acevedo on THE POET X
Elizabeth Acevedo on THE POET X
Elizabeth Acevedo joins the podcast to chat about her new novel-in-verse, The Poet XElizabeth discusses a range of topic... Read more
23 Jan 2018
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26mins
Ranked #11
Mitch Albom
Mitch Albom
From his origins as a starving musician playing dive bars to getting Paul Stanley to read on his latest and most ambitio... Read more
16 Nov 2015
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23mins
Ranked #12
Be Frank With Me
Be Frank With Me
This week we have two very special guests from the novel BE FRANK WITH ME: Julia Claiborne Johnson (the author), and voi... Read more
31 Jan 2016
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11mins
Ranked #13
Meg Cabot
Meg Cabot
Meg Cabot on why she still feels like an outsider and what she does to diminish anxiety (it involves writing, but not th... Read more
15 Jun 2015
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20mins
Ranked #14
An Excerpt from SHATTER ME by Tahereh Mafi
An Excerpt from SHATTER ME by Tahereh Mafi
Another installment of our Summer of Excerpts, this week we feature the audiobook of SHATTER ME by Tahereh Mafi and perf... Read more
21 Aug 2017
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20mins
Ranked #15
Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester
Masterful nonfiction stylist Simon Winchester reveals that he might never have become a writer had he not been colorblin... Read more
2 Nov 2015
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22mins
Ranked #16
Predictably Irrational
Predictably Irrational
Why was the solution to poor sales of a bread-making machine the introduction of an additional bread-making machine? Beh... Read more
30 Nov 2015
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23mins
Ranked #17
City Love
City Love
Hear bestselling author Susane Colasanti talk about her new book City Love, the story of sisterhood in NYC –three girls... Read more
3 Jun 2015
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24mins
Ranked #18
S2E3: The Listening Party! (with Greg Iles)
S2E3: The Listening Party! (with Greg Iles)
We chat with author Greg Iles, and give our audience a chance to win free audiobooks in the Listening Party!Subscribe to... Read more
22 Mar 2019
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53mins
Ranked #19
Jim DeFelice explores the Pony Express in WEST LIKE LIGHTNING
Jim DeFelice explores the Pony Express in WEST LIKE LIGHTNING
Jim DeFelice joins the podcast to discuss his new book about the history of the Pony Express, WEST LIKE LIGHTNING.Jim ta... Read more
14 May 2018
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24mins
Ranked #20
An Excerpt of THE ALICE NETWORK by Kate Quinn
An Excerpt of THE ALICE NETWORK by Kate Quinn
On this week's episode, we listen to a clip from the audiobook of THE ALICE NETWORK by Kate Quinn, and performed by Sask... Read more
24 Jul 2017
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16mins