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----What should I read next?---- Book critic and longtime NPR commentator Marion Winik answers this question in four opinionated, book-loving minutes. With reviews of new releases and older titles you may have missed, it’s like having a new best friend with very good taste to guide you in your literary adventures. The Weekly Reader is produced by WYPR and hosted by Lisa Morgan.
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English
United States
312 episodes
since Oct. 4, 2017
episodic
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Swashbuckling and mayhem on the high seas with fierce female pirates.
Weekly Reader book critic Marion Winik tries something new this week, dipping into the world of detective stories.
Reality is stranger than fiction in these fascinating accounts from a pair of best-selling, masterful storytellers.
Something old, and something new, from the beloved, prolific American author Chris Bohjalian.
Two new memoirs that cover familiar topics, The Holocaust and the carceral state, in new, eye opening ways.
Sci Fi, Cli Fi, Fantasy and Romantasy, Horror, Dystopian Political Novels, you name it. Welcome to the world of Speculative Fiction!
Two new chronicles of real life horror stories.
This week, The Weekly Reader keeps it in the family.
Two funny books by female writers who will be at the 2026 Baltimore Book Festival.
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