John Green argues that TB is very much still a modern-day crisis. He follows the case of a boy with TB in Sierra Leone whose years-long struggle became an emblem of how such diseases thrive in poverty and inequitable societies.

The New York Times Best Seller

Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

Snakes creep most people out...But science writer Stephen S. Hall, whose latest book is called Slither, is a lifelong snake admirer...[who] posits that our ancient ancestors' ability to spot snakes in the wild may have helped contribute to larger primate brains.

Slither: How Nature's Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World

In Clamor, science journalist Chris Berdik journeys into the soundscape of our lives, aiming a wide lens on what the origin of sounds is, how they’re affecting our health and how they might shape our collective future.

Clamor: How Noise Took Over the World - And How We Can Take It Back

Kehlmann brilliantly conveys how fascism turns intimate, with cruelty trickling down into the most ordinary interactions... I’m about halfway through the book and am completely absorbed...wry, intelligent, nimbly written — and undeniably entertaining, too.

Nonfiction book critic at The New York Times

Historical - 20th Century - World War II & Holocaust

The Director

It’s such a tantalizing slice of its subject’s curdled worldview that I’m going back for the Gerald Clarke biography...Required reading if you enjoyed Ryan Murphy’s “Feud: Capote vs. the Swans.”

Book critic at The New York Times; author of STILL HERE: The Madcap, Nervy, Singular Life of Elaine Stritch.

Conversations With Capote

Shorto’s vivid writing and deep research into the lives of people often left out of Manhattan’s familiar 17th-century origin story (including women, enslaved people and Native Americans) are illuminating.

New York Times Tech Tip columnist, Book Review production editor, Pop Tech Jam yapper, snacks enthusiast. Opinions: Mine! Instagram: wandering_livestock

United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)

Europe - Great Britain - Stuart Era (1603-1714)

United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD,

Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America

clever yet heartfelt dispatches from American landscapes and cultures that feel like a road trip in book form. Imagine visiting Christian rock festivals, post-Katrina New Orleans and the dark zones of Mississippian caves with your funniest friend riding shotgun.

National Book Critics Circle Award

Saroyan Writing Prize

Pulphead

After seeing Alex Ross Perry’s genre-bending “Pavements,” I went down a rabbit hole. In addition to obsessively playing all of Pavement’s albums, I read Bryan Charles’s book...I can’t recommend this multimedia experience more!

Wowee Zowee

five young women who meet while working at a publishing house...navigate love and sex and bad dates and heartbreak and awkward office parties...It’s moving and very funny, and perfectly captures what it feels like to be a young woman making a life for herself in the city.

Staff editor for special projects @nytimes | Priors @ZeldaAndScout @leoweekly | Co-author of NYT bestseller FINISH THE FIGHT and CALL AND RESPONSE | she/her

The Best of Everything

This is a wildly goofy novel that was published in 1932, and is a parody of a certain kind of romanticized representation of rural life that was quite popular around the time...The book is so funny that one can just sort of rollick along

NYT best-selling author/ writer and reader

Cold Comfort Farm

The Bewitching

Vera, or Faith

These Summer Storms

Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language

Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence

ALA Notable Book

Kirkus Prize

National Book Award

Booker Prize

Pulitzer Prize

James (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Alex Award

GoodReads Choice Award

Women's Prize for Fiction

Circe

Small Things Like These (Oprah's Book Club)

Nebula Award

Hugo Award

Costa Book Award

Piranesi

Dinner with King Tut: How Rogue Archaeologists Are Re-Creating the Sights, Sounds, Smells, and Tastes of Lost Civilizations

Wayward Girls

@melizaabbott can do no wrong... I will forever marvel at the way she makes her books so propulsive and suspenseful while also being a slow, simmering burn—it’s the best of both worlds!  Her prose, as usual, is so sharp you often don’t realize how deeply it’s cut you.

Author of THICKER THAN WATER, THE FAMILY PLOT, and more | managing editor of @3ElementsReview | cake enthusiast | dog stalker | she/her

El Dorado Drive

Guerrero has a startlingly fresh new voice. This debut has edge and heart. Please pick this book up today! It’s worth your time.

Writer, NERUDA ON THE PARK (@penguinrandom 2022). Accepting tips on how to tweet 😳

My Train Leaves at Three

This memoir and combo story of nature and well-researched book by @clairecameron123, combines so many things.  At its heart it’s a story of how to survive when the odds in life are stacked against you.

NYT Bestselling Author; Co-Founder Bob Woodruff Foundation @bwforg; Journalist; Media Trainer; Caregiving Contributor @aarp

How to Survive a Bear Attack: A Memoir

Happy release day to @sarahmaclean and her latest utterly transportive read, THESE SUMMER STORMS... You must read it, immediately. It’s MADE for the beach.

Book of the summer, I think! Its emotional precision, its stunning evocation of the woods, its exploration of mother-daughter love and trail friendship, and its mystery continue to haunt me.

Author, A BURNING. NYT Notable & bestseller. National Book Award, ALA Carnegie Medal & NBCC Leonard Prize nominee. Whiting Award.

Heartwood (a Read with Jenna Pick)

Perfect poolside reading courtesy @clemencemichallon @aaknopf

Novelist, prof @nyu_journalism @nyu_ajo Formerly @CBSNews @TheCrimeReport @nypost @MarieClaire Mom, knifemaker’s wife IG msjuliadahl / juliadahl.bluesky

Our Last Resort

I have way too much to read this summer, but how can I resist those eyes?!

Writer; author of 10 novels, including GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING, AT THE EDGE OF THE ORCHARD, and the latest, A SINGLE THREAD.

Mona's Eyes

My next @oprahsbookclub pick is “Culpability”...and it’s the book of the summer! This riveting novel kicks off with the Cassidy-Shaw family riding in a driverless minivan and then something happens that sets off a chain of events that will keep you hooked until the very last page.

Culpability (Oprah's Book Club, July 2025)

Maggie; Or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar

A Flower Traveled in My Blood: The Incredible True Story of the Grandmothers Who Fought to Find a Stolen Generation of Children

If You Love It, Let It Kill You

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