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Nora's life is changed by a new student's family in The Woman Upstairs, by Claire Messud, at No. 14.

Empire of the Summer Moon, about the rise and fall of the Comanches, is on the list for a 21st week.

At No. 4, Paula McLain's The Paris Wife follows Hemingway's first wife as she navigates 1920s Paris.

Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story, a biography of writer David Foster Wallace, debuts at No. 10.

Andrew Solomon's Far from the Treelooks at extreme parent-child differences. It debuts at No. 9.

At No. 3, George Packer's The Unwinding paints a picture of the past 30 years of American life.

Piper Kerman's TV tie-in prison memoir, Orange is the New Black, has hit half a year on the list.

In The Future of the Mind, Michio Kaku surveys current science of the human mind. It debuts at No. 3.

At No. 3, a teenager searches for her missing mother in Where'd You Go, Bernadette.

Medical debt is a fact of life for millions of people in the U.S., and when patients receive a medical bill that they can’t or don’t pay, some hospitals will take them to court. A new study outlines the extent of this practice in North Carolina.

The CDC estimates there could be up to 200,000 deaths in the U.S. from COVID-19 by Labor Day. As schools begin to reopen, there are renewed calls for vigilance in social distancing and masking.

Richard Glossip has had nine execution dates set over the years. He's eaten his last meal three times. He was tried twice and has had multiple appeals, including one at the Supreme Court.

Nearly 260,000 new cases of coronavirus infection have been reported over the past day, according to data from the World Health Organization. More than a quarter were in the U.S.

President Donald Trump has issued two pardons related to the investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, including for a woman convicted of threatening to shoot FBI agents.

As the Trump administration tries to rewrite the history of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, a new NPR investigative project is preserving evidence of the crimes committed that day.

Caldwell County, the city of Lenoir and the state Department of Commerce plan to give a furniture manufacturer $6 million dollars in incentives to keep it…

After delays, Republicans roll out a pandemic relief bill. MLB postpones three games after a coronavirus outbreak. And the pandemic is overwhelming public health capacity in many states.

In Ernest Cline's Ready Player One, an unpopular high-schooler immerses himself in a virtual world of puzzles to escape an ugly reality. It appears at No. 14.

In J. Ryan Stradal's Kitchens Of The Great Midwest, a single dad raises his daughter to be a star chef and lover of Midwestern cuisine. It debuts at No. 11.

This week, Wait Wait celebrates the 4th of July with some of our favorite guests!