We asked around the newsroom to find favorite nonfiction from the first half of 2024. We've got biography and memoir, health and science, history, sports and much more.(Image credit: Alicia Zheng)

At work: hardworking news journalists. At home: omnivorous fiction readers. We asked our colleagues what they've enjoyed most this year and here are the titles they shared.(Image credit: Alicia Zheng)

Writer Morgan Talty's short story collection Night of the Living Rez won him many fans and awards. Now he's back with his first novel.

NPR's Lauren Frayer talks with John Vercher about his new novel, "Devil Is Fine," in which a grieving father's sense of reality shifts with a sudden, surprising, and disturbing inheritance.

NPR's Danielle Kurtzleben talks with Claire Lombardo about the loneliness of motherhood, the complexity of female friendships, and her new novel, "Same As It Ever Was."

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Zach Williams about his debut short story collection "Beautiful Days."