In this episode, the first page of three memoirs will be read:

1. The Home That Was Our Country: A Memoir of Syria by Alia Malek
2. Not I: Memoirs of a German Childhood by Joachim Fest, translated by Martin Chalmers
3. Funny In Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas

In this episode, the first page of three short story books will be read:

1. Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enriquez, translated by Megan McDowell
2. Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta
3. The City of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, translated by Lucia Graves and Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The first page of three books of short stories will be read:

1. Between My Father and the King, New and Uncollected Stories by Janet Frame
2. The Consequences by Manuel Munoz
3. The Refugees by Viet Thanh Nguyen

In this episode, the first page of three novels will be read:

1. At Dusk by Hwang Sok-Yong, translated by Sora Kim-Russell
2. A Place for Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
3. My Heart by Semezdin Mehmedinovic, translated by Celia Hawkesworth

In this episode, the first page of three middle grade books will be read:

1.  Becoming Naomi Leon by Pam Munoz Ryan
2.  Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Zhao
3. Maybe He Just Likes You by Barbara Dee

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

1. When The Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through edited by Joy Harjo with Leanne Howe, Jennifer Elise Foerster, and Contributing Editors
2. Nepantla: An Anthology, Queer Poets of Color edited by Christopher Soto
3. 100 Poems to Break Your Heart edited by Edward Hirsch

In this episode, the first page of three young adult novels will be read:

1. Song of Silver, Flame Like Night by Amelie Wen Zhao
2. As Long As The Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh
3. Echoes of Grace by Guadalupe Garcia McCall

In this episode, the first page of three novels will be read:

1. When The Apricots Bloom by Gina Wilkinson
2. The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose
3. Outline by Rachel Cusk

In this episode, the first page of three non-fiction books will be read:

1. Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth by John Szwed
2. Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
3. Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's by Tiffany Midge

In this episode, the first page of three books will be read:

1. Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time by Natalie Hodges
2. Ninth Street Women, Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art by Mary Gabriel
3. POPS: A Life of Louis Armstrong by Terry Teachout