Diane Rehm's Book Recommendations

"Set in a not-too-distant future where a young child must be schooled at home without classmates because of fragile health."

"Has revealed that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks."

"The story of two siblings whose mother abandons them as young children."

"Was a national best seller and was seen as a voice for the emerging Civil Rights movement."

"Tells the story of two enslaved boys, Isaiah and Samuel, who fall in love on a Mississippi plantation in antebellum America."

"It’s the 1990s and we meet a teenager from a middle-class family, who learns the adults in her world are not to be trusted."

"Examines the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance and government repression."

"Tells the story of two women and a baby boy caught between them."

"About the romantic devotion one man has for a woman from his youth."

"The story of a young girl growing up in the years following the Great Depression and who is convinced that her blackness makes her ugly and worthless."