Books

People are reading fewer and fewer books. The Atlantic's Rose Horowitch discusses what a post-literate world might look like.

NPR's Scott Simon talks to Shannon Sanders about "The Great Wherever," her new novel, which tells a story through ghosts from multiple generations of a Black family on a Tennessee farm.

NPR's Books We Love has staff suggestions for non-fiction, including "My Mother's Daughter," "Days of Love and Rage" and "When It's Darkness on the Delta."

Fiction provides it's own kind of travel — right from your couch. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Irish writer Tana French about her books and others' writing that immerse readers in Ireland.

Kelly Ramsey worked as a hotshot firefighter in California for two seasons.

The novel follows a Silicon Valley couple who attempts to adjust after uprooting to Vermont with their children.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Dave Portnoy, the founder of Barstool Sports, about his new memoir "Cancel Me If You Can."

In Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt, author Ben Reeves imagines Death as an ordinary man. He talks with NPR's Scott Detrow about love, loss and what mortality can teach us about living.

The new children's book is the second in Tatum's "Baby Dunks-A-Lot" series.

NPR's A Martínez speaks with former interior secretary and Democratic congresswoman from New Mexico, Deb Haaland, about her new memoir "A Voice Like Mine."