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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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   Veronica Miller Jamison
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   Victor Luckerson
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   Victor M. Valle

   Two books trace the social and historical impacts of food · May 2024

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   Victoria Christopher Murray

   'Harlem Rhapsody' is a novel about an affair at the heart of the Harlem Renaissance · Mar 2025

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   Victoria Redel

   'I Am You' fictionalizes the story of a Dutch Golden Age painter and her maid · Oct 2025

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   Wailin Wong

   Revisiting ‘The Joy Luck Club’ · Nov 2025

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   Whitney Casares
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   William Hogeland

   A new book examines Alexander Hamilton's plan for public debt · Jul 2024

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   William Robin
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    Winifred Gallagher

    NPR's Throughline: The Postal Service · Dec 2021

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    Xenobe Purvis

    In ‘The Hounding,’ rumors swirl around five sisters living in 18th-century England · Aug 2025

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    Yeganeh Torbati

    In 'Stolen Revolution,' six Iranians share perspectives on modern Iran and its future · Jun 2026

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    Yeva Skalietska

    Two books cover the Russia-Ukraine war from opposite perspectives · Nov 2022

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    Yu-Mei Balasingamchow

    In 'Names Have Been Changed,' a criminal on the run confesses her story on a podcast · Jul 2026

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    Yulia Navalnaya

    'Patriot' is a posthumous memoir by the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny · Nov 2024

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    Zara Chowdhary
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    Harriet Washington

    For Earth Day, two books rethink how we talk about environmental crises · Apr 2022

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    Andrea Elliott

    Two nonfiction books... that just won Pulitzer Prizes! · May 2022

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