I’ll be recommending books on Friday, October 21, 2022 at 11 a.m. You can stream the live show online, sign up for the podcast, or listen from the archives at the NPR member station WOSU 89.7 FM. All Sides Weekend Books airs the third Friday every month with occasional exceptions.
Recommended September 16, 2022
The Village Idiot by Steve Stern
The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken
Come to This Court & Cry by Linda Kinstler
Recommended August 19, 2022
The Colony by Audrey Magee
Mr. Wilder & Me by Jonathan Coe
Self-Portrait by Celia Paul
The Trees by Percival Everett
Recommended July 22, 2022
Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me by Ada Calhoun
Lioness by Mark Powell
The Missing Word by Concita De Gregorio
Recommended June 17, 2022
Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark
Hotel de Dream by Edmund White
Catch the Sparrow by Rachel Rear
The Lunar Housewife by Caroline Woods
Recommended May 20, 2022
Gentleman Overboard by Herbert Clyde Lewis
Uncommon Measure by Natalie Hodges
Five Decembers by James Kestrel
Recommended April 22, 2022
The Impossible Us by Sarah Lotz
The Dolphin House by Audrey Schulman
Where Rivers Change Direction by Mark Spragg
Pyre by Perumal Murugan
Recommended March 18, 2022
In His Own Image by Jérôme Ferrari
The Great Passion by James Runci
The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
Recommended February 18, 2022
The Vanished Collection by Pauline Baer de Perignon
Yonder by Jabari Asim
The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning
Recommended January 21. 2022
Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson
The Pages by Hugo Hamilton
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor
The Longest Chapter 