The Best of NPR Books for December 11, 2014

This week: Our new morning book club, books at war, Jacqueline Woodson, Katherine Paterson and more. View this email in your browser update preferences

This week, Morning Edition launches a book club with Hector Tobar's Deep Down Dark, Jacqueline Woodson reflects on growing up, coming out and saying hello to strangers, and Katherine Paterson says fiction shouldn't have a message. Plus, why soldiers in WWII loved A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and dry reads for the California downpour. Book News & Features Join The Morning Edition Book Club: We're Reading 'Deep Down Dark' Welcome to the first meeting of NPR's new book club! We're reading Hector Tobar's account of 33 men who were trapped for 69 days in a Chilean mine. Send us your questions; we may read them on-air. Read this story Author Interviews WWII By The Books: The Pocket-Size Editions That Kept Soldiers Reading In the 1940s, U.S. publishers printed paperbacks — everything from romances to Westerns — that were designed for battle. Molly Guptill Manning explores their history in When Books Went to War. Read this story Code Switch Jacqueline Woodson On Growing Up, Coming Out And Saying Hi To Strangers Woodson won the National Book Award for young people's literature for her memoir Brown Girl Dreaming. She says that growing up in South Carolina, she knew that the safest place was with her family. Read this story Author Interviews Author Of 'Bridge To Terabithia': Messages Are Poison To Fiction Katherine Paterson describes the inspiration behind her best-known children's book, as well as tales from her childhood in China and missionary work in Japan, in her new memoir, Stories of My Life. Read this story This Week's Must Read After The California Downpour, 'The Drought' Offers Some Dry Reading It rained in California this week. That might not sound like news, but the state is experiencing a record-setting drought. Jason Heller turns to science fiction to reflect on the strange weather. Read this story

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