The Week's Best Stories From NPR Books

Rolf Lassgård, left, stars as a grouchy widower in A Man Called Ove, which opens Friday in U.S. theaters. Music Box Films hide caption

Carli Lloyd takes a corner kick during a 2010 international friendly match between the U.S. and Mexico in Sandy, Utah. Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images hide caption

Curious George — who was originally named Fifi — turns 75 this year. Despite some dated themes (we're looking at you, Man with the Yellow Hat) George is now a multimillion-dollar franchise. Margaret Rey says she and her husband had no idea what Curious George would become. "We loved monkeys and just wrote a book about a monkey," she said. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt hide caption

Katherine Johnson sits at her desk with a globe, or "Celestial Training Device." NASA/NASA hide caption

Studs Terkel talks on his Chicago radio show in the late 1970s. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images hide caption

"You can't have the modern American restaurant without Delmonico's," explains Yale historian Paul Freedman. The restaurant opened in 1837, setting the bar very high for fine dining. Above, a dinner in honor of an admiral held at Delmonico's in 1906. Library of Congress hide caption

The main floor at SPX is where independent artists have tables next to larger well-known publishers like Drawn & Quarterly or Fantagraphics Books. Courtesy of SPX hide caption

Holy ground: Alan Moore standing on the site of his childhood home. Petra Mayer/NPR hide caption

Jose Vazquez holds a book he found during the D.C. Public Library's banned book scavenger hunt. Jose Vazquez hide caption

Milton's Satan may have been kicked out of Heaven, but he had it made in Hell. Heritage Images/Getty Images hide caption

Originally from Limbe, Cameroon, Imbolo Mbue moved to the U.S. to go to college. She began writing Behold the Dreamers after she lost her job in the financial crisis. Kiriko Sano/Penguin Random House hide caption