This is an interesting show, because the person who really championed the read this week was Arlene Gibson, the matriarch of the Gibson Family. A...

   Chris Bohjalian is prolific to say the least. With about 25 novels under his belt, he hits the bestseller list often with his unforgettable...

   Should the Waters Take Us a is a novel of great beauty...centered around the swamp letters in the south of Louisianna. Whereas so many novels focus...

   Pamela Colloff is an accomplished investigative journalist and has written Catch the Devil about a frighteningly prolific jailhouse snitch. ...

   Jenny Jackson’s newest, The Shampoo Effect, tells the story of an insular gang of year-round beach residents who have known each other all their...

   Paul Tremblay has written a science fiction book that will prompt all sorts of important questions about AI, the role of consciousness in humanity,...

   Kevin Powers’ Children of the Wild is a book about Roy and Ennis, two friends on a farm who sign up for WWI, one excited for battle, one a feral...

   2026 is half over. And Kate turned 50 on June 16th. So in honor of all of this half life, we decided to talk about our favorite books so far of 2026....

   Carlos Barragan’s book The Yahoo Boys schooled us on the huge and terrifying world of online moneymaking scams. From the romance scams (pretending to...

   Martha Raddatz is a war correspondent, one of the biggest household names in front line reporting. Her newest book, The Hero Next Door tells the...

   Ann Patchett has written a new novel, and if you are a listener to this show, you know we are both huge fans of her work. Her newest, Whistler, is...

   Jesmyn Ward is arguably one of the most important writers of our generation. She has won two National Book Awards before fifty (first woman to do...

   It has been quite a few months since we checked in with J. Ryan Stradal, our writer in residence. He is in his editing stage, making sure that the...

   Today The Book Case has another two for one. Laurie Frankel’s newest, ENORMOUS WINGS is funny, thought provoking and will have you questioning the...

   Elizabeth Strout has departed from Olive Kittredge, Lucy Barton and Burgess Boys; she has even departed from Maine. Her newest, THE THINGS WE NEVER...

   If you had a mother who was a strong influence in your life, we wanted to honor her with this week’s Book Case episode. Sometimes we want to find all...

   Jason Reynolds is one of the best young adult writers of our generation. But don’t let the label fool you into thinking that young adult writing hasn...

   The Book Case is largely about talking to authors, yes, but we believe that reading is critical for everyone. We believe it is most important for...

   We are going full Ireland on this show. First, we talk to the incredible Tana French about her newest, The Keeper. Set in rural Ireland it combines...

   Jenny Lawson is Kate’s all time favorite humor author. Obsessed since her first book, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Kate saw she had a new one...

   Louise Erdrich is one of the most important writers of our time. Her award-winning words have created modern classics such as Love Medicine, The...

   It’s a TRIPLE header on the Book Case podcast. First, our main guest is Elizabeth Berg, whose newest, Life: A Love Story is a beautifully woven tale...

   Joan Lunden has been a part of the Gibson family for a long time. Her newest memoir, Joan, is an attempt to look back upon the moments of her life,...

   We have been broadcasting long enough to have what we think of as authors we always love to talk to and Anna is one of those. She is a stunning...

   Tayari Jones is one of the country’s most gifted writers, and her newest, Kin, is sure to get everyone talking. Beautiful, wrenching and compelling,...

   Allegra Goodman’s latest, This is Not About Us is a treasure. Centered around the Rubenstein family, each chapter examines the Rubensteins from a...

   Belle Burden’s Strangers is not your everyday memoir about divorce. After three kids, two decades and two homes, her husband was caught having an...

   This week we dedicate our show to a documentary that we think is important. We have promised our listeners to keep the podcast non-political (no...

   Roger Rosenblatt wrote a column for the NY Times called Before You Toss that Book... We already loved Roger’s books, and this column moved us to...

   Susan Orlean, one of the best journalists of our generation, has written a memoir, along with some great advice about writing. Beyond writing, she...

   Janice Page’s The Year of the Water Horse is a funny memoir. At times, laugh out loud funny. But it is also about why we tell stories, what we make...

   Paula McLain’s Skylark is the GMA book club pick this monthand we are so pleased she sat down with us too. This book is a beautifully written,...

   Grab a pen and pencil so you can write down what are some of our absolute favorite reads of 2025. There is something for everyone, fiction, non...

   We have devoted several podcasts to the issue of how parents get children to read - off screens and into pages. We talk about it - others DO...

   Our next installment in the Book Case Classics series comes from listeners like you. Many of you asked for Austen...you wanted it? You got it We sat...

   Abir Mukherjee was a revelation to us, even if he is already an international bestseller. The Burning Grounds, the sixth of the Wyndham and Banerjee...

   We are so pleased that our Writer in Residence, J. Ryan Stradal, has sold his newest to Atria Publishing. He is here this week to tell us how he did...

   Megha Majumdar was on the short list for the National Book Award, and we were rooting hard for her to win. She may not have won THIS year, but her...

   We DO love talking to John Irving. In our winding, wandering and wonderful conversation we cover it all from his newest, Queen Esther, the art of...

   Catherine Newman’s latest, Wreck, is a beautiful meditation on the act of motherhood. Revisiting the family from Sandwich as they enter a new phase...

   It’s Halloween...so who better to follow up our conversations about middle school reading than R.L. Stine? With over 400 titles to his name (the...

   We knew that reading levels were in fluctuation, but we had no idea there was a Middle School reading crisis. According to the NWEA (The Northwest...

   Lily King’s newest, Heart the Lover, is a sparing, funny, painful and beautiful novel about the first loves we have, and how they never really let go...

   Angela Flournoy’s newest, The Wilderness was on the long list of nominees for the National Book Award, and we believe if you read it,it’s easy to see...

   Sometimes we look back on a season of great podcasts (humble podcasts hosts that we are) and consider what we like best within a season. Today, we...

   Leigh Bardugo has written some masterful fantasy. And, the Six of Crows Duology (that means there is only two books in the series) is about to turn...

   Joanne Harris is the writer of the Chocolat series, which began with the famous Chocolat (also made into a movie with Juliette Binoche and Johnny...

   Take a moment to sit down with us to talk to the Reynolds Brothers, Peter and Paul. On Thursday of this week we appeared on GMA to talk about...

   Occasionally, a book comes into your life that is a revelation. And The Correspondent by Virginia Evans was one of these books for us. A masterful...

   Thomas Schlesser is a French Art Historian whose new novel, Mona’s Eyes is a brilliant way of exploring the great museums of Paris. When Mona, his...