In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. Elsewhere, Home, by Leila Aboulela
2. The Lonesome Bodybuilder: Stories, by Yukiko Motoya, translated by Asa Yoneda
3. The Dangers of Smoking in Bed: Stories, by Mariana Enriquez, translated by Megan McDowell

In this episode. a few pages of the following memoirs will be read:

1. The Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster
2. Country Girl by Edna O'Brien
3. Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life by J.M. Coetzee

In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov, translated by Boris Dralyuk
2. When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Sola, translated by Mara Faye Lethem
3. Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi

In this episode, a few pages of the following books will be read:

1. A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings: A Year of Keeping Bees by Helen Jukes
2. Earth's Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World by Kathleen Dean Moore
3. Of Wolves and Men by Barry Lopez

In today's episode, three poems will be read from:

1. Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry, edited by Joy Harjo
2. This Is The Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets, edited by Kwame Alexander
3. The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry, edited by Ilya Kaminsky and Susan Harris

In this episode, the first few pages of three YA books will be read:

1. Wild Dreamers by Margarita Engle
2. Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed by Dashka Slater
3. Down And Across by Arvin Ahmadi

In this episode, the first pages of three novels will be read.

1. The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
2. Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Susan Bernofsky
3. Optic Nerve by Maria Gainza, translated by Thomas Bunstead

1. The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert, A Memoir by Shugri Said Salh
2. The Pianist From Syria: A Memoir by Aeham Ahmad, as told to Sandra Hetzl and Ariel Hauptmeier, translated by Emanuel Bergmann
3. A Rome of One's Own: The Forgotten Women of the Roman Empire by Emma Southon

In this episode the first pages of three poetry books will be read:

1. True Life by Adam Zagajewski, translated by Clare Cavanagh
2. Things You May Find Hidden in my Ear by Mosab Abu Toha
3. Taking the Arrow out of the Heart by Alice Walker

In this episode, the first pages of three Middle Grade STEM books will be read:

1. Clues to the Universe by Christina Li
2. A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Joy McCullough
3. Girls Who Code: The Friendship Code by Stacia Deutsch