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Last July, 11-year-old Linnea Cameron set sail in her imagination and began writing about the swashbuckling adventures of a ship crewed by a family of pirates. A year and a few drafts later, "The ...

The Alaska lawmaker was given a copy when first appointed to the Senate in 2002 and it’s still on her bedside table. “Far ...

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Emma Donoghue is an Irish Canadian writer whose books include the novels Landing , Room , Frog Music , The Wonder, The Pull of the Stars , Learned by Heart and the children's book The Lotterys Plus ...

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If you could travel back in time, where would you go, and when? For readers of historical fiction, there’s no need to settle on just one place or period when journeying into the past.

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Alida Becker was an editor at the Book Review for 30 years. She was the first winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for excellence in reviewing.

After long days focused on the facts, our newsroom reads a lot of fiction at home. We asked our NPR colleagues what they've enjoyed reading so far this year. Here's what they told us.