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Every guest on NPR's Book of the Day

1338 guests, ranked by how many people never want them back.

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   Kamala Shamsie
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   Kardea Brown
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   Karina Sainz Borgo

   'No Place to Bury the Dead', 'The Hunter' ask what lengths you'll go for others · Jan 2025

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   Karla Tatiana Vasquez

   'The SalviSoul Cookbook' celebrates Salvadoran food and the matriarchs who cook it · May 2024

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   Kat Tang

   In 'Five-Star Stranger,' a man gets hired on an app to pretend to be a girl's father · Aug 2024

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   Kate Messner
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   Kati Marton

   Chancellor Angela Merkel's last dance · Dec 2021

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   Keggie Carew
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   Kelly McMasters
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    Kelly Yang

    'The Take' and 'The Left and the Lucky' explore peculiar friendships across age · May 2026

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    Ken Krimstein

    Graphic novel 'Einstein in Kafkaland' ponders how two great minds met in Prague · Aug 2024

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    Ken Starr

    Ken Starr gives an inside look on Clinton investigation in his memoir, 'Contempt' · Sep 2022

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    Kenan Orhan

    'The Renovation' is a novel with a surrealist take on prison structures big and small · Feb 2026

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    Kendra Neely

    Two memoirs tell life-altering stories through illustrations · Mar 2023

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    Kent Matsumoto

    'Of White Ashes' follows a Japanese-American love story after the WWII internment · Aug 2023

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    Kerry O'Brien

    Two books dive into the history of minimalist music and the origins of the saxophone · Aug 2023

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    Kevin Maillard
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    Kitt Thomas
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    Krystelle Bamford

    In 'Idle Grounds,' a pack of children searches the woods for their missing cousin · Feb 2025

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    Ladee Hubbard

    'The Last Suspicious Holdout' looks at how humans keep on believing · Mar 2022

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    Lang Leav

    'Others Were Emeralds' is a coming-of-age story confronting racism in Australia · Sep 2023

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    Lara Porzak

    A daughter helps her mom finish her book 'Properties of Thirst' · Aug 2022

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    Larry Tye
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    Laura Braitman

    Two nonfiction books examine grief and its impact on memory · Apr 2023

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    Lawrence Burney

    'No Sense in Wishing' and 'Hit Girls' consider the way culture shapes identity · Jul 2025

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    Lawrence Ingrassia
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    Leo Vardiashvili

    'Hard by a Great Forest' is a novel about returning home decades after fleeing war · 2 episodes

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    Lesa Cline-Ransome
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    Leslie Fenwick

    The aftermath of Brown vs The Board of Education in 'Jim Crow's Pink Slip' · Jun 2022

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    Leslie Rasmussen

    In 'The Stories We Cannot Tell,' difficult pregnancies unite two very different women · Sep 2024

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    Leuyen Pham
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    Lexy Bloom

    Haruki Murakami's longtime editor spills the tea on working with the master · Dec 2024

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    Leymah Gbowee
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    Liana Fink

    A retelling of the Book of Genesis with God as a woman in 'Let There Be Light' · Apr 2022

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    Lillian Li

    In 'Bad Asians,' a friend group threatens its reputation with a viral video · Mar 2026

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    Lily Tuck

    'The Rest Is Memory' is a novel inspired by photos taken at Auschwitz · Jan 2025

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    Linda Coombs

    Author of Wampanoag history discussed her children's book and erasure · Dec 2024

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    Lisa Bird-Wilson
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    Liz Fosslien

    In 'Big Feelings:' Advice on how to be okay... when things are not okay · Jun 2022

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    Lizzie Moult

    'F*** Approval, You Don’t Need It!' makes the case against ‘people pleasers’ · Oct 2025

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