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These true stories range from a "meow-moir" of a Siberian cat to an exploration of what U.S. presidents do after the White House. Check out these nonfiction reads recommended by NPR staff and critics.

Bad news: Summer's over. Good news: Fall books are here! We've got a list of 16 titles — fiction and nonfiction — you'll want to look out for.

NPR spoke with Appalachian fiction and nonfiction writers about this moment and how they are building a tapestry of what they know as home.

A Kentucky native author is spearheading an effort to get a Little Free Library installed in every county courthouse in the Commonwealth.

We asked around the newsroom to find favorite nonfiction from the first half of 2024. We've got biography and memoir, health and science, history, sports and much more.

These new releases might take you from Europe to Africa to the Middle East to Russia and the United States — without leaving your hammock.

A man tried to sue a high school librarian for thousands of dollars for keeping the book of personal essays by a Black, nonbinary author on the shelves.

“Appalachian Reckoning” is a powerful retort to the 2016 best-seller, “Hillbilly Elegy.”

Lindsy Serrano is the librarian at St. Francis School in Goshen, Kentucky. She talks about how her current job gave her the opportunity to meet her childhood hero.

With its lyrical prose, Leesa Cross-Smith’s book “Whiskey and Ribbons," doesn’t just read like music; it’s organized like a composition. A fugue, specifically.