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Each week on The Book Show, host Joe Donahue interviews authors about their books, their lives and their craft. It is a celebration of both reading and writers.

As the son of a librarian, Joe has been part of the book world since childhood. His first job was as a library assistant, during college he was a clerk at an independent book store and for the past 25 years he has been interviewing authors about their books on the radio.

#1671: Scott Spencer “An Ocean Without A Shore” | The Book Show

#1670: Kelly Braffet “The Unwilling” | The Book Show

#1669: Adam Goodman “The Deportation Machine” | The Book Show

#1668: Amity Gaige “Sea Wife” | The Book Show

#1667: John Dickerson “The Hardest Job In The World: The American Presidency” | The Book Show

#1666: Megha Majumdar “A Burning” | The Book Show

#1665: Lydia Millet “A Children’s Bible” | The Book Show

#1664: Ibram X. Kendi “How to Be An Antiracist” | The Book Show

#1663: Curtis Sittenfeld “Rodham” | The Book Show

#1662: Lawrence Wright “The End Of October” | The Book Show

#1661: Glennon Doyle’s “Untamed” | The Book Show

#1660: Emily St. John Mandel’s “The Glass Hotel” | The Book Show

#1659: Sue Monk Kidd’s “The Book of Longing” | The Book Show

#1658: Robert Reich’s “The System” | The Book Show

#1657: Anne Tyler’s “Redhead By The Side Of The Road” | The Book Show

#1656: Julia Alvarez’s “Afterlife” | The Book Show

#1655: Rahm Emanuel’s “The Nation City: Why Mayors Are Now Running the World” | The Book Show

#1654: James McBride’s “Deacon King Kong” | The Book Show

#1653: Jenny Offill’s “Weather” | The Book Show

#1652: Paul Krugman’s “Arguing With Zombies” | The Book Show

#1651: Patrick Radden Keefe’s “Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland” | The Book Show

#1650: Diane Rehm’s “When My Time Comes” | The Book Show

#1648: Tom Shachtman’s “The Founding Fortunes” | The Book Show

#1649: Erik Larson’s “The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz,” | The Book Show

#1647: Gish Jen’s “The Resisters” | The Book Show

#1646: Lydia Davis’ “Essays One” | The Book Show

#1645: T. C. Boyle’s “Outside Looking In” | The Book Show

#1644: Archer Mayor’s “Bomber’s Moon” | The Book Show

#1643: John Hodgman’s “Medallion Status” | The Book Show

#1642: Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s “Letters From An Astrophysicist” | The Book Show

#1641: Terry Tempest Williams’ “Erosion: Essays of Undoing” | The Book Show

#1640: Ocean Vuong’s “On Earth, We’re Briefly Gorgeous”

#1639: Sharon Olds’ “Arias”

#1638: Gail Collins’ “When Everything Changed” and “America’s Women”

#1637: Elizabeth Strout’s “Olive, Again”

#1636: Pulitzer Prize Winner, Rick Atkinson’s “The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777”

#1635: Sean Penn’s “Bob Honey Sings Jimmy Crack Corn”

#1634: Alice Hoffman’s “The World That We Knew”

#1631: Eliza Griswold’s “Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America”

#1630: Jacqueline Woodson’s “Red At The Bone”

#1629: Terry Tempest Williams “Erosion: Essays of Undoing”

#1628: Edwidge Danticat’s “Everything Inside”

#1627: Malcolm Gladwell’s New Book “Talking To Strangers”

#1625: Bob Berman’s New Book “Earth-Shattering”

#1624: Ibram X. Kendi’s “How To Be An Antiracist”

#1622: Sister Helen Prejean’s “River Of Fire

#1621: Author Louis Bayard’s “Courting Mr. Lincoln”

#1620: Ocean Vuong’s “On Earth, We’re Briefly Gorgeous”

#1619: Karen Russell’s “Vampires in the Lemon Grove”

#1618: T. C. Boyle’s “Outside Looking In”

#1617: Courtney Maum’s latest, “Costalegre”

#1616: Casey Cep’s “Furious Hours”

#1614: Journalist Ruth Reichl Discusses Latest Book “Save Me the Plums”

#1613: Rick Atkinson’s “The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777”

#1611: Author Dave Eggers’ Latest “The Parade: A Novel”

#1610: New York Times Bestselling Author David McCullough’s “The Pioneers”

#1609 – Anna Quindlen

#1608 – Nathan Englander

#1607 – James Lasdun

#1606 – Bill McKibben

#1605 – Richard Powers

#1604 – Dave Eggers

#1603 – David McCraw

#1602 – Frances Mayes

#1601 – Sarah McColl

#1600 – Roger McNamee

#1599 – Susan Orlean

#1598 – Akiko Busch

#1597 – Christopher Castellani

#1596 – Madeleine Kunin

#1595 – Chloe Benjamin

#1594 – Brendan Mathews

#1593 – Jon Ward

#1591 – Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

#1592 – Helen Klein Ross

#1590 – Anne Lamott

#1589 – Tara Westover

#1588 – Tommy Orange

#1587 – Andre Dubus III

#1586 – David Baldacci

#1585 Olivia Laing

#1584 – Elliot Ackerman

#1583 – Sigrid Nunez

#1582 – Jill Lepore

#1581 – Andy Mientus

#1580 – Garry Trudeau

#1579 – Walter Mosley

#1543 – Colson Whitehead

#1577 – Doris Kearns Goodwin

#1576 – Gary Shteyngart

#1575 – Amy Bloom

#1574 – Miriam Pawel

#1573 – Peter Biskind

#1572 – Ann Hood

#1571 – Nancy Pearl

#1570 – Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar

#1569 – Stephen Greenblatt

#1568 – Joselin Linder

#1567 – Amitava Kumar

#1566 – Natalie Goldberg

#1565 – Simon Winchester

#1564 – Stephen McCauley

#1563 – Brendan Mathews

#1562 – Dave Itzkoff

#1561 – Tommy Orange

#1560 – Curtis Sittenfeld

#1559 – Rachel Kadish

#1558 – Jake Tapper

#1557 – Kirk Wallace Johnson

#1556 – Sue Halpern

#1555 – Richard Powers

#1554 – Andrea Buchanan

#1553 – Larry Ruhl

#1552 – Tara Westover

#1551 – Charles Frazier

#1550 – Amy Bloom

#1549 – Stefan Merrill Block

#1548 – Sigrid Nunez

#1547 – Kristin Hannah

#1546 – Gish Jen

#1545 – Chloe Benjamin

#1544 – Tayari Jones

#1543 – Colson Whitehead

#1542 – Tom Perrotta

#1541 – Nick Harkaway

#1540 – Rebecca Soffer and Gabrielle Birkner

#1539 – Madeleine Thien & Peter Ho Davies

#1538 – Roz Chast

#1537 – Alexandra Fuller

#1536 – Arundhati Roy

#1535 – Andy Weir

#1534 – Ann Hood

#1533 – Matt Taibbi

#1532 – Jennifer Egan

#1531 – George Saunders

#1530 – Marvin Kalb

#1529 – Tyehimba Jess

#1528 – Nancy Pearl

#1527 – Kurt Andersen

#1526 – Sebastian Barry

#1525 – Brian Platzer

#1524 – Adam Gopnik

#1523 – Brendan Mathews

#1522 – Salman Rushdie

#1521 – Atul Gawande

#1520 – Caroline Leavitt

#1519 – Rachel Kadish

#1518 – Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich

#1517 – Tom Perrotta

#1516 – Robert Thurman

#1515 – Alexandra Fuller

#1514 – Arundhati Roy

#1513 – Courtney Maum

#1512 – Colm Tóibín

#1511 – Nathaniel Philbrick

#1510 – Jim Shepard

#1509 – John Grisham

#1508 – Al Franken

#1507 – Carl Hiaasen

#1506 – Min Jin Lee

#1505 – Jonathan Lethem

#1504 – Lisa Scottoline

#1503 – Anita Shreve

#1502 – Dan Chaon

#1501 – Calvin Trillin

#1500 – Anne Lamott

#1499 – Harlan Coben

#1497 – Louis Begley

#1496 – Helene Cooper

#1495 – Robert Coover

#1494 – George Saunders

#1493 – Ian Rankin

#1492 – Neil Gaiman

#1491 – Sebastian Barry

#1489 – Tracy Chevalier

#1488 – Stéphane Gerson

#1487 – Caroline Leavitt

#1486 – Alice Hoffman

#1485 – Wally Lamb

#1484 – Annie Proulx

#1483 – Fannie Flagg

#1482 – Michael Chabon

#1481 – Tracy Kidder

#1480 – Howard Frank Mosher

#1479 – Elizabeth Strout

#1478 – Imbolo Mbue

#1477 – Jonathan Safran Foer

#1476 – Garry Trudeau

#1475 – Alan Cumming

#1474 – B. A. Shapiro

#1473 – Amor Towles

#1472 – Elizabeth Lesser

#1471 – Joyce Carol Oates

#1470 – Jeffrey Toobin

#1469 – Carl Hiaasen

#1468 – Jack Kelly

#1467 – Caleb Carr

#1466 – Terry Tempest Williams

#1465 – Jay McInerney

#1464 – Daniel Silva

#1463 – Liz Moore

#1462 – Emily Barton

#1461 – Russell Banks

#1460 – Joshua Cohen

#1459 – Nathaniel Philbrick

#1458 – Colm Tóibín

#1457 – Annie Proulx

#1456 – Joseph Luzzi

#1455 – Jim Shepard

#1454 – Anna Quindlen

#1453 – Siddhartha Mukherjee

#1452 – Richard Russo

#1451 – Steve Berry

#1450 – Louis Begley

#1449 – Augusten Burroughs

#1448 – Mark Leyner

#1447 – Charles Duhigg

#1446 – Tracy Chevalier

#1445 – Ethan Canin

#1444 – Jon Krakauer

#1443 – Debbie Macomber

#1442 – Elizabeth Brundage

#1441 – Irvine Welsh

#1440 – Elizabeth Strout

#1439 – Carol Goodman

#1438 – Elisa Albert

#1437 – Ernest Cline

#1436 – Samantha Hunt

#1435 – B. A. Shapiro

#1434 – Gloria Steinem

#1433 – Ian Toll

#1432 – Tina Packer

#1431 – Jane Smiley

#1430 – David Pietrusza

#1429 – Simon Winchester

#1428 – Margaret Atwood

#1427 – Sara Gruen

#1426 – Ted Koppel

#1425 – Malcolm Gladwell

#1424 – Adam Johnson

#1423 – John Lahr

#1422 – Ron Rash

#1421 – Abigail Thomas

#1420 – Richard Price