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Fresh Air 2018
Books discussed with authors interviewed on Fresh Air in 2018, or that (re-)aired in 2018. I prefer to exclude the Maureen Corrigan reviews and stick to the interviewees if you don't mind. Please vote for your favorites!
I'll update ~monthly.
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* 2019 part 1
I'll update ~monthly.
See other Fresh Air lists as well:
* pre-2016 list
* 2016
* 2017
* 2019 part 1
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Operation Shylock: A Confession
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3.77 avg rating — 5,017 ratings
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The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran
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Masih Alinejad (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 1,463 ratings
score: 74,
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The Omega Principle: Seafood and the Quest for a Long Life and a Healthier Planet
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Paul Greenberg (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 229 ratings
score: 74,
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A.L.T.: A Memoir
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3.66 avg rating — 191 ratings
score: 73,
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Mrs. Fletcher
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3.36 avg rating — 26,609 ratings
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I'm Keith Hernandez
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3.94 avg rating — 1,234 ratings
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She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity
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Carl Zimmer (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 7,178 ratings
score: 71,
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| 108 |
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Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News
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3.95 avg rating — 820 ratings
score: 70,
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From Cold War To Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia
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4.04 avg rating — 1,892 ratings
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The Road from Coorain
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score: 69,
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True North: A Memoir
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3.91 avg rating — 1,577 ratings
score: 68,
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A Woman's Education: The Road from Coorain Leads to Smith College
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3.85 avg rating — 405 ratings
score: 67,
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My Ex-Life
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Stephen McCauley (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 10,413 ratings
score: 66,
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Fear: Trump in the White House
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3.87 avg rating — 64,971 ratings
score: 66,
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Born Trump: Inside America's First Family
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3.18 avg rating — 1,313 ratings
score: 65,
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Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
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4.39 avg rating — 1,963 ratings
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Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself — While the Rest of Us Die
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Garrett M. Graff (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 2,665 ratings
score: 64,
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Amazing Fantastic Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir
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3.98 avg rating — 3,553 ratings
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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can't Afford America
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3.36 avg rating — 2,199 ratings
score: 63,
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Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now
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4.23 avg rating — 731 ratings
score: 63,
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Life Work
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4.10 avg rating — 553 ratings
score: 62,
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Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
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4.20 avg rating — 2,424 ratings
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To Have and Uphold: The Supreme Court and the Battle for Same-Sex Marriage
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3.82 avg rating — 83 ratings
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The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek
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3.88 avg rating — 919 ratings
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Costly Grace: An Evangelical Minister's Rediscovery of Faith, Hope, and Love
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4.21 avg rating — 378 ratings
score: 58,
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To Throw Away Unopened
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4.23 avg rating — 2,419 ratings
score: 57,
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The Fall of Wisconsin: The Conservative Conquest of a Progressive Bastion and the Future of American Politics
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4.13 avg rating — 772 ratings
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I Can't Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I've Put My Faith in Beyoncé
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Michael Arceneaux (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 4,322 ratings
score: 54,
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Killing It: An Education
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3.79 avg rating — 858 ratings
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Needful Things: The Last Castle Rock Story
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 272,175 ratings
score: 51,
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Start Here: A Road Map to Reducing Mass Incarceration
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4.18 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Into the Hands of the Soldiers: Freedom and Chaos in Egypt and the Middle East
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4.31 avg rating — 543 ratings
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A Girl's Guide to Missiles: Growing Up in America's Secret Desert
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3.36 avg rating — 904 ratings
score: 46,
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A Legacy of Spies (George Smiley, #9)
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3.88 avg rating — 25,013 ratings
score: 45,
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Faith of My Fathers: A Family Memoir
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3.92 avg rating — 4,426 ratings
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The Neil Simon Collection
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4.32 avg rating — 72 ratings
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I Should Have Honor: A Memoir of Hope and Pride in Pakistan
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Khalida Brohi (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 1,118 ratings
score: 40,
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Every Day is Extra
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3.96 avg rating — 834 ratings
score: 39,
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The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House
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Norman Eisen (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 1,614 ratings
score: 38,
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We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time
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3.88 avg rating — 2,665 ratings
score: 37,
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A Life of My Own
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3.98 avg rating — 1,634 ratings
score: 36,
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Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
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4.17 avg rating — 6,120 ratings
score: 32,
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Ali: A Life
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Jonathan Eig (Goodreads Author)
4.46 avg rating — 3,942 ratings
score: 31,
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The Apprentice: Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy
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4.17 avg rating — 829 ratings
score: 29,
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LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media
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P.W. Singer (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 3,325 ratings
score: 26,
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Everything's Trash, But It's Okay
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3.91 avg rating — 8,753 ratings
score: 24,
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Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
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David Sheff (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 103,559 ratings
score: 22,
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Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines
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3.98 avg rating — 46,447 ratings
score: 21,
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The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino: A Story of Corruption, Scandal, and the Big Business of College Basketball
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3.76 avg rating — 368 ratings
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The Most Dangerous Branch: Inside the Supreme Court's Assault on the Constitution
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3.94 avg rating — 518 ratings
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The War Before the War: Fugitive Slaves and the Struggle for America's Soul from the Revolution to the Civil War
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4.33 avg rating — 1,090 ratings
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The Shape of the Ruins
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3.97 avg rating — 3,044 ratings
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The Nazis Next Door
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Janet Reitman (Goodreads Author)
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The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
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4.16 avg rating — 18,974 ratings
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The Beautiful Cure: Harnessing Your Body’s Natural Defences
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Daniel M. Davis (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 1,235 ratings
score: 12,
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The Widower's Notebook: A Memoir
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3.96 avg rating — 630 ratings
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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking
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4.40 avg rating — 88,800 ratings
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All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson
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3.76 avg rating — 938 ratings
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No One at the Wheel: Driverless Cars and the Road of the Future
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3.77 avg rating — 199 ratings
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Born to Run
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4.19 avg rating — 53,521 ratings
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