Books

Pulitzer Prize winning author Elizabeth Strout joins NHPR's Casey McDermott to talk about her novel The Things We Never Say.

Recorded before a live audience at the Music Hall in Portsmouth, on April 4, 2026.

Authors On Main is a partnership of Gibson's Bookstore, NHPR and the Capitol Center for the Arts, bringing world-class authors to Concord, NH.

Some favorite authors offer their suggestions for summer reading, plus host Rachel Barenbaum has some books by New England authors to recommend.

This debut novel is about an itinerant Singaporean ex-con hiding from her past in different countries. And on our Book Biz segment, author Katherine Center reflects on her 20-year publishing career.

The debut novel "Homebound'" features four lives entangled across time by a computer game, saved to a floppy disk in the 1980s. And on our Book Biz segment, the boom in audiobooks.

An unsettling debut novel blending romance, horror, and fairy tale elements, with nods to Frankenstein, plus, in our Book Biz segment, the future of literary criticism.

A viral dystopian romance set in a corrupt surveillance state, following a mercenary who botches the assassination of the president’s son.And on the Book Biz segment, the romance genre as the engine of publishing.

A sweeping family saga that traces the intertwined lives of three generations of women, moving from war-torn Germany and Ireland to coastal Maine.

In this debut novel, we meet a Nigerian-American family set on a crash course towards each other. Plus, on our Book Biz segment, the role of agents in publishing today.