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Jodi Picoult

Books

Jodi Picoult

Books by Jodi Picoult

Leaving Time

The Tenth Circle

Wonder Woman, Love and Murder

Between the Lines

Sing You Home

Harvesting the Heart

The Storyteller

House Rules

Lone Wolf

My Sister's Keeper

Jodi Picoult has written books about:

NPR stories about Jodi Picoult

Lone Wolf

The End of Illness

A More Perfect Heaven

New In Paperback

Game Changers For Astronomy, War Writing And Public Health

October 22, 2012 • Novelist Jodi Picoult explores life and death, while oncologist David Agus models new health practices, virologist Nathan Wolfe tracks emerging diseases, Dava Sobel reflects on Copernicus, and Charles Shields looks at novelist Kurt Vonnegut.

Harry Potter Box Set

The Hunger Games

The Fault in Our Stars

Summer Books 2012

Your Favorites: 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels

August 7, 2012 • More than 75,000 of you voted for your favorite young-adult fiction. Now, after all the nominating, sorting and counting, the final results are in. Here are the 100 best teen novels, chosen by the NPR audience.

Jodi Picoult Turns Tough Topics Into Best-Sellers

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The Week's Best Stories From NPR Books

Jodi Picoult Turns Tough Topics Into Best-Sellers

March 13, 2012 • Novelist Jodi Picoult isn't afraid to traverse morally fraught terrain in her tense family dramas, making her an unlikely fixture on the best-sellers charts. Her latest, Lone Wolf, follows two siblings who disagree about whether to continue medical care for their comatose father.

Jodi Picoult Turns Tough Topics Into Best-Sellers

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New In Paperback: Nov. 8-14

New In Paperback

New In Paperback: Nov. 8-14

November 10, 2010 • This week in fiction, Lydia Davis conveys an entire story with a sentence or two, while Jodi Picoult gets under the skin of Asperger's. In nonfiction, take your pick of "denialism," the night shift on the psych ward, or a successful emergency landing on the Hudson River.

Best Of The Bestsellers: Wisdom Of The Crowds

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Critics' Lists: Summer 2010

Best Of The Bestsellers: Wisdom Of The Crowds

June 29, 2010 • Bestsellerdom doesn't necessarily bring with it a promise of quality, so we've hand-selected five titles from the NPR Bestseller List: an acutely observed first novel with satiric punch, three works of fiction from established authors at the top of their game, and a startlingly powerful science thriller from a nonfiction newcomer.

Author Interviews

Three Writers Are Drawn by the Allure of Comics

March 25, 2008 • Comic books — or, in more highbrow parlance, graphic novelizations — are nudging their way onto the shelves of bookstores and the pages of literary magazines. And writers such as Joss Whedon and Jodi Picoult are trying their hand at the genre.

Three Writers Are Drawn by the Allure of Comics

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Novel Ideas

Jodi Picoult: You Can't Edit a Blank Page

November 22, 2006 • Jodi Picoult is the author of 13 novels. Her most recent, The Tenth Circle, debuted at two on the New York Times bestseller list. She was born and raised on Long Island, studied creative writing at Princeton and currently lives in Hanover, New Hampshire.