Here is a sample of some of the books prominently featured in the media this week.
December 31:
Entertainment Weekly:
NPR:
NYT:
Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Anna Wiener
Don’t Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language by David Shariatmadari
People:
The Playground by Jane Shemilt
In the Distance by Hernan Diaz
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle
Time:
The Magical Language of Others: A Memoir by E.J. Koh
Long Bright River by Liz Moore
The Washington Post:
Authors on Air:
NPR:
by J.K. Rowling
PBS News Hour:
by Terese Marie Mailhot
by Susan ChoiDecember 24:
NYT:
Are You Listening? by Tillie Walden
The Times:
Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout
The New Iberia Blues by James Lee Burke
Vanity Fair:
Parkland: Birth of a Movement by Dave Cullen
The Washington Post:
The Finance Curse: How Global Finance is Making Us All Poorer by Nicholas Shaxson
Authors on Air:
NPR:
by Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding
PBS News Hour:
by Sarah Broom
by Madeline MillerDecember 17:
Entertainment Weekly:
NPR:
The NYT:
by Hiroko OyamadaPeople:
USA Today:
by Thomas Perry
The Washington Post:
by Adriana Herrera
by Hannah Orenstein 
by Tom Rosenstie Authors on Air:
Fox and Friends:
by Neil GorsuchFresh Air:
by Julie AndrewsNPR:
by Jonathan Rosenberg
by Matt de la Pena
PBS Newshour:
by Mo WillemsDecember 10:
The Guardian:
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy by Michael Lewis
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
NPR:
Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer
Time:
At the Edge of Time: Exploring the Mysteries of Our Universe’s First Seconds by Dan Hooper
Why We Sleep Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
USA Today:
The Book of Science and Antiquities by Thomas Keneally
Vox:
Dead Queens Club by Hannah Capin
Vulture:
Marilou is Everywhere by Sarah Elaine Smith
The Washington Post:
And Go Like This: Stories by John Crowley
The Seine: The River that Made Paris by Elaine Sciolino
Margaret Thatcher: Herself Alone: The Authorized Biography by Charles Moore
Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy by Matt Stoller
Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For by Susan Rice
Authors of Air:
Stephen Colbert:
by Tom BrokawDecember 03:
Entertainment Weekly:
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Esquire:
Dead Astronauts by Jeff Vandermeer
The Guardian:
Master of His Fate by Barbara Taylor Bradford
NPR:
Underground: A Human History of the Worlds Beneath Our Feet by Will Hunt
Lost and Wanted by Nell Freudenberger
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition by Buddy Levy
NYT:
Pastry love : a baker’s journal of favorite recipes by Joanne Chang
Great Society: A New History by Amity Shlaes
Slate:
USA Today:
The Sacrament by Olaf Olafsson
Starsight by Brandon Sanderson
Jay-Z: Made in America by Michael Eric Dyson
The Washington Post:
The Peppermint Tea Chronicles: 44 Scotland Street by Alexander McMall Smith
The Innocents by Michael Crummey
Authors on Air:
Fortune:
by Charles BrandtNPR:
by Bruce Miller
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