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Recommended is a podcast featuring interesting people talking about their favorite books.

In this bonus episode of Recommended, producer Jenn Northington takes us through the numbers of the past five seasons. BOOKS & AUTHORS DISCU...

In this episode, Wendy Xu recommends Claudia Gray and Tommy Pico recommends A.R. Ammons. This episode is sponsored by Lanternfish Press and...

In this episode, Jeanette Winterson recommends Virginia Woolf and Nafiza Azad recommends Shailja Patel. This episode is sponsored by Lerner...

In this episode, Garth Nix recommends Alexandre Dumas and Silvia Moreno-Garcia recommends Charles Williams. This episode is sponsored by Owl...

In this episode, Jami Attenberg recommends Patti Smith and Valerie Valdes recommends Diana Wynne Jones. This episode is sponsored by The Dar...

In this episode, Sonali Dev recommends Kate Clayborn and Maris Kreizman recommends Dominick Dunne. This episode is sponsored by Tor Teen and...

In this episode, Kristen Lepionka recommends Carol Anshaw and Kekla Magoon recommends Pamela F. Service. This episode is sponsored by Queer:...

Alexis Hall recommends Terry Pratchett, Maika Moulite recommends Elizabeth Acevedo, and Maritza Moulite recommends Maria Semple. This episod...

In this episode, Jackson Bird recommends Stephen Chbosky and Kim Scott recommends Elizabeth Knox. This episode is sponsored by The Future of...

In this episode, Jen Wang recommends Wilson Rawls and Courtney Maum recommends Aja Gabel. This episode is sponsored by Pretty Guilty Women b...

In this episode, Tamsyn Muir recommends Peter Høeg and Keah Brown recommends Casey McQuiston. This episode is sponsored by The Truth Is by N...

In this episode, Samantha Allen recommends Ursula K. Le Guin and Lauren Wilkinson recommends Nicholas Mancusi. This episode is sponsored by...

In this episode, Nicole Dennis-Benn and Dr. Jen Gunter each recommend a personal favorite read. This episode is sponsored by The Lymond Chro...

In this episode, Nicky Drayden and Helen Ellis talk about books that captured their attention in big ways. This episode is sponsored by Will...

In this episode, Lori Gottlieb and Nikesh Shukla join us to talk about books that have shaped their own craft. This episode is sponsored by...

In this episode, Elizabeth McCracken and Rincey Abraham talk about favorites that are hard to categorize. This episode is sponsored by In th...

In this episode, Swati Teerdhala recommends Alanna: The First Adventure and Mary Norris recommends The War That Killed Achilles. This episod...

In this episode, Jean Kwok and Sarah Enni talk about books that have influenced their own writing. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot In...

In this episode, Laurie Halse Anderson and Mikki Kendall talk about books that have shaped how they write. This episode is sponsored by Inte...

In this episode, G. Willow Wilson and Zen Cho talk about two of their favorite unreliable narrators. This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm a...

In this episode, authors Susan Choi and Peter Mendelsund each talk about a classic that influenced their own work. This episode is sponsored...

In this episode, author Dhonielle Clayton and bookstore owner Roxanne Coady talk about the books that have stuck with them. This episode is...

In this episode, illustrator Francis Vallejo and romance author Mia Sosa talk about works that have shaped their own craft. This episode is...

Today on Recommended, author Waubgeshig Rice and blogger Janssen Bradshaw each talk about a favorite teen novel. This episode is sponsored b...

In this episode, authors Preeti Chhibber and Sarah Gailey tell us about discovering new favorite novels while judging books by their covers....

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In this episode, Jane Mount picks The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster and Oyinkan Braithwaite talks Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. This e...

In this episode, Sam Maggs talks about her love for Becky Chambers’ Record of a Spaceborn Few and Ausma Zehanat Khan discusses the impact of...

In this episode, Joseph Fink picks Vacation by Deb Olin Unferth, and Kate Gavino discusses It’s Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini. This e...

In this episode, Nicole Chung recommends Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers and Becky Chambers recommends Changing Planes by Ursula K. LeGuin....

In this episode, Kim Stanley Robinson discusses Solar Bones by Mike McCormack and Sonia Faruqi picks Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. This ep...

In this episode, John Jennings talks about Octavia Butler’s Wild Seed, and R.F. Kuang picks The Buddha In the Attic by Julie Otsuka. This ep...

In this episode, Nic Stone recommends The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides and Ryan North recommends Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegu...

In this episode, Sara Gran recommends Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov and Greg Pak recommends The Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander. Th...

In this episode, Gretchen Rubin recommends Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language and Cynthia Leitich Smith recommends Apple in the Midd...

In this episode, Rebekah Weatherspoon recommends If the Dress Fits by Carla de Guzman and Dessa recommends A Heart-Breaking Work of Staggeri...

Rin Chupeco picks The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Grady Hendrix picks Ulysses by James Joyce. This episode of Recommended i...

Jasmine Guillory picks Betsy and Joe by Maud Hart Lovelace, and historical novelist Amy Stewart talks Canteening Overseas by Marian Baldwin...

In this episode, Karina Yan Glaser recommends Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor and Alyssa Cole recommends To Find You by Ce...

In this episode, Caitlin Doughty recommends The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker and Sherry Thomas recommends The Legends of the Condor Hero...

In this episode, Julie Murphy recommends Twilight by Stephenie Meyer and Kevin Kwan recommends People Like Us by Dominick Dunne. This episod...

In this episode, Walter Mosley recommends Roger Zelazny's Nine Princes in Amber and Doree Shafrir recommends Camille Perri's When Katie Met...

This week we talked to Victor LaValle about Kenzaburō Ōe’s A Personal Matter and V.E. Schwab about Fingersmith by Sarah Waters. This episode...

This week on Recommended, Lauren Groff discusses Sleepless Nights by Elizabeth Hardwick and Zoraida Córdova raves about Blanca and Roja by A...

In this episode, Ellen Oh recommends The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan and Cat Sebastian recommends Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho. This episod...

In this episode, Madeline Miller recommends Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare, and Sabaa Tahir recommends The Sparrow by Mary Dori...

In this episode, Rebecca Roanhorse recommends Erika Wurth's Buckskin Cocaine and Finn Murphy recommends George Orwell's 1984. This episode o...

In this episode, Sylvain Neuvel recommends Michael Crichton's The Andromeda Strain and Tayari Jones recommends Alice Walker's Meridian. This...

In this episode, Sandhya Menon recommends Sophie Kinsella's The Undomestic Goddess and Alexander Chee recommends Anne Carson's Plainwater. T...

In this episode, Seanan McGuire recommends Sarah Rees Brennan's In Other Lands and Rumaan Alam recommends Louise Fitzhugh's Harriet the Spy....