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The Thread® - Books and Literary News

The Thread from MPR News

The Thread® is your source for book recommendations and other literary news.

Ask a Bookseller

Ask a Bookseller is a weekly series where The Thread checks in with booksellers around the country about their favorite books of the moment. Listen to Ask a Bookseller to find your next favorite book.

Big Books and Bold Ideas

Big Books and Bold Ideas is a weekly series hosted by Kerri Miller every Friday at 11 a.m., featuring conversations about books and other literary ideas. Listen to Big Books and Bold Ideas here.

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Sign up for The Thread newsletter to get reading recommendations from Kerri Miller and other bookworms around the MPR newsroom. Find reviews for new releases, as well as hidden gems you may have missed.

Talking Volumes

Talking Volumes is an annual event series featuring notable authors in conversation about their new books. Presented by MPR News and The Minnesota Star Tribune. 

Tickets are now available for our 26th season. Join award-winning journalist and MPR News host Kerri Miller (and special guest host Catharine Richart) as they talk with authors including Stacey Abrams, Patricia Lockwood, Misty Copeland, John Grisham, and Kate Baer. 

Dispatches from a 'Dopesick' America

Dispatches from a 'Dopesick' America

Author Beth Macy details opioids' odyssey from medicine to scourge, in her book about young heroin users, their long-suffering parents, doctors, drug company executives, cops, judges and drug dealers.
by Dave Davies

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Book review: Once 'Ball Lightning' gets rolling, this sci-fi mind-bender shines

Book review: Once 'Ball Lightning' gets rolling, this sci-fi mind-bender shines

The novel is Chinese writer Cixin Liu's first in English since his "Remembrance of Earth's Past" trilogy. And that series' radical creativity returns in this tale of scientific striving -- eventually.
by Colin Dwyer

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An immortal goddess gets her due

An immortal goddess gets her due

Remember Circe from "The Odyssey"? The ancient sorceress finally gets to take center stage in Madeline Miller's new novel.
by Tracy Mumford

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'Flights' is a trip, if you like wandering off the edges of the map

'Flights' is a trip, if you like wandering off the edges of the map

Polish author Olga Tokarczuk's new collection is a cabinet of curiosities -- surreal, loosely connected stories about the human body, about movement, about two-headed calves and saints' relics.
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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An Iraq veteran, heroin addict, bank robber and debut novelist

An Iraq veteran, heroin addict, bank robber and debut novelist

Nico Walker is currently in federal prison for bank robbery. That's given him plenty of time to write his semi-autobiographical novel "Cherry," which has received glowing advance reviews.
by Quil Lawrence

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