1 and 2 launched just a week ago and has achieved the HJ-Story reached its Kickstarter goal and raised $15,000 in just one day ... there're still lots of love around the world.

If you look at a lot of year-end best-of lists, things can get a little repetitive. Except for NPR's Books We Love, which is a roundup ... SHAPIRO: Tell us about one of them.

I’ve read a lot of emotionally taxing books in my time, but “A Little Life,” Hanya Yanagihara’s follow-up to 2013’s brilliant, harrowing “The People in the Trees,” is the only one I ...