The author is known for genre-bending stories that span Southern gothic, horror and fairy tale.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with bestselling author Ann Patchett about her new novel Whistler.

What were the broken promises of the 1979 Iranian Revolution? NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with reporter Yeganeh Torbati about the new book she co-authored, Stolen Revolution.

As a classics professor, Beard has spent her career pondering life in the ancient world. The central question of her latest book is: What on earth was it like to be there?

In the cookbook, author Bobby Hicks takes readers back to the 1800s with recipes like lightning cake and lobster thermidor, through to the 1960s with gelatin rainbow cake and boeuf bourguignon.

The novel centers around three half-Japanese, half-British sisters who have returned to their childhood home in coastal Japan to deal with a family crisis.

Art created by survivors of the Holocaust is becoming more important as time passes and fewer survivors remain.

O'Farrell's new novel is based on the story of her own great, great-grandfather, and tells the story of a father and son mapping 19th-century Ireland after the devastation of the Great Famine.

The Biden administration previously said doctors examined the president "days" following the debate, not in the moments after. The former first lady revealed more details in her new book.

With all that's required to reach "dream destinations" these days, another option is to walk to your local public library instead — and pick up one of these new books out in June set across time and place.