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WYPR Baltimore 621 - It's a Dog's Life: "Etna" by Paul Yoon and "Social Animals" by Camille Perri

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It's a Dog's Life: "Etna" by Paul Yoon and "Social Animals" by Camille Perri

Laurie Frankel Special

Immigrant Communities: "Good People" by Patmeena Sabit and "I Hope You Find What You're Looking For" by Bsrat Mezghebe

Ann Patchett's "Whistler" and "The Patron Saint of Liars"

Down South: "The Calamity Club" by Kathryn Stockett and "The Great Wherever" by Shannon Sanders

Life-changing Friendships: "Contrapposto" by Dave Eggers, "Honoria" by Janice Shapiro, and "We Should Not Be Friends" by Will Schwalbe

There Goes The Neighborhood: Alan Opts Out" by Courtney Maum and "Coyoteland" by Vanessa Hua"

Giants of Fiction: "What We Can Know" by Ian McEwan and "John of John" by Douglas Stuart.

Murder Most Foul: "The Pinnacle" by Abir Mukherjee and "Blunt Instrument" by Amy Bloom

Arch Thrillers: "The Author Weekend" by Laura Zigman and "The Ending Writes Itself" by Evelyn Clarke

Famous and Funny: "The Land and Its People" by David Sedaris and "Famesick" by Lena Dunham

Family Memoirs: A Room in Bombay, by Manil Suri, and Keeper of My Kin, by Ada Ferrer

Cults and Their Discontents

Memoir Roundup: "Small Town Girls" by Jayne Anne Phillips, "Labor" by Mary Afsari, and "She's Under Here" by Karen Palmer

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