Charles Stephen hosts a weekly book-review and discussion program on NET Radio (91.1 FM in the Lincoln area, and on various other stations across Nebraska) to discuss contemporary and classic literature.

Although it dates back over 40 years, in a variety of formats and venues, for the past twenty-two years All About Books has run on NET-Radio. Stephen has been the sole weekly host since the death of Otis Young in 2009, although he invites guest reviewers on a regular basis. New episodes air every Thursday at 12:04 p.m. local time, following the NPR news.

All books owned by Lincoln City Libraries are hotlinked to their entries in our library catalog, so that you may check on their current availability. If you see a title on this list that is not hotlinked to our collection, please consider ordering it through our Interlibrary Loan department.

	Title Discussed: On a Further Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson by William Souder [currently available through the libraries only in eBook format] Additional Participants: Bruce Stephen
	Title Discussed: Dying on the Vine by Aaron Elkins

	Title Discussed: The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny Guest Reviewer: Deb Stephen
	Title Discussed: The Second World War by Anthony Beevor

Host Charles Stephen lists and briefly discusses several of his favorite books that were review in 2012 on the show.

	Title Discussed: Do Not Ask What Good We Do by Robert Draper Additional Participants: Don Hanway
	Title Discussed: Global Weirdness by Climate Central Inc. [551.6 Cli]

Title Discussed: Seward: Lincoln's Indispensible Man by Walter Stahr

	Title Discussed: The Jewels of Paradise by Donna Leon
	Title Discussed: Fear Itself by Andrew Rosenheim

	Title Discussed: A Sunless Sea by Anne Perry
	Title Discussed: The Shadow of a Great Rock by Harold Bloom

	Title Discussed: The Sahara: A Cultural History by Eamonn Gearon
	Title Discussed: Mortality by Christopher Hitchens

	Title Discussed: The Dog Stars by Peter Heller Additional Participants: Don Hanway
	Title Discussed: Losing It: In Which an Aging Professor Laments his Shrinking Brain by William Ian Miller

	Title Discussed: XO by Jeffery Deaver
	Title Discussed: Munster's Case by Hakan Nesser

	Title Discussed: Canada by Richard Ford Additional Participants: David Williams
	Title Discussed: Monty and Rommel by Peter Caddick-Adams

Title Discussed: Final Victory: FDR's Extraordinary World War II Presidential Campaign by Stanley Weintraub

Title Discussed: Backstage: Stories From My Life in Public Television by Ron Hull Interview with Ron Hull, senior advisor to NET about his new book Additional Participants: Ron Hull

Title Discussed: The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood by David R. Montgomery

	Title Discussed: This Republic of Suffering by Drew Gilpin Faust
	Title Discussed: Postscripts: Retrospections on Time and Place by Robert Root Jr.

Title Discussed: Mission to Paris by Alan Furst

	Title Discussed: Christianity After Religion by Dana Butler Bass Additional Participants: Stephen Griffith
	Title Discussed: Leave it to Psmith by P.G. Wodehouse

Title Discussed: Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel

	Title Discussed: The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin by Masha Gessen Additional Participants: Jane Hood
	Title Discussed: Walking Papers poems by Thomas Lynch

Title Discussed: The Making of a Patriot: Benjamin Franklin at the Cockpit by Sheila Skemp

Title Discussed: The Passage of Power by Robert Caro Additional Participants: David Williams [Part two of two-part discussion]

Title Discussed: The Passage of Power by Robert Caro Additional Participants: David Williams [Part one of two-part discussion]

	Title Discussed: The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin Additional Participants: Don Hanway
	Title Discussed: Robert B. Parker's "Lullaby by Ace Atkins

Title Discussed: The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman

	Title Discussed: The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King -The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea by Walter Borneman [940.545 Bor]
	Title Discussed: Saul Bellow - Letter by Saul Bellow

	Title Discussed: They Eat Puppies, Don't They? by Christopher Buckley
	Title Discussed: Orphan Hours poems by Stanley Plumly

	Title Discussed: That Woman: The Life of Wallis Simpson by Anna Sebba [Biography Windsor]
	Title Discussed: Beastly Things by Donna Leon

	Title Discussed: Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg 20th anniversary of this book's original release!
	Title Discussed: Explorers of the Nile by Tim Jeal [962 Jea]

Title Discussed: The Arab Uprising by Marc Lynch [library has E-book only]

	Title Discussed: 11/22/63 by Stephen King
	Title Discussed: House Held Up By Trees by Ted Kooser

Title Discussed: The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt [940.21 Gre]

	Title Discussed: Much Ado About Loving by Jack Murnighan and Maura Kelly
	Title Discussed: Coral Glynn by Peter Cameron

	Title Discussed: The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje Additional Participants: Pat Leach
	Title Discussed: 50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True by Guy Harrison

Title Discussed: Dorchester Terrace by Anne Perry

Title Discussed: Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times by Eyal Press [279 Pre]

	Title Discussed: Force of Nature by C.J. Box Additional Participants: Susan Stephen
	Title Discussed: Stay Close by Harlan Coben

	Title Discussed: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga Additional Participants: Jane Hood
	Title Discussed: Dublin Dead by Gerard O'Donovan

Title Discussed: Justice and the Enemy: Nuremburg, 9/11 and the Trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed by William Shawcross

	Title Discussed: The Little Book of Languages by David Crystal
	Title Discussed: Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language by Robert McCrum

Title Discussed: The Crimean War: A History by Orlando Figes [947.07 Fig]

	Title Discussed: A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving, and Their Remarkable Families by Michael Holroyd Additional Participants: Tice Miller
	Title Discussed: The Night Swimmer by Matt Bondurant

Title Discussed: The Lives of Margaret Fuller by John Matteson [Biography Fuller]

Title Discussed: The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches From the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam by Eliza Griswold [297.283 Gri] Additional Participants: Stephen Griffith

Title Discussed: Moscow, December 25, 1991: The Last Days of the Soviet Union by Conor O'Clery

	Title Discussed: Emma Goldman: Revolution As a Way of Life by Vivian Gornick
	Title Discussed: Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin by Calvin Trillin [817 Tri]

	Title Discussed: Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert Massie [Biography Catherine]
	Title Discussed: The Forgotten Affairs of Youth by Alexander McCall-Smith

Title Discussed: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson [Biography Jobs] Additional Participants: David Williams

Title Discussed: Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin [Biography Dickens]

	Title Discussed: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics by Nicholas Wapshott Additional Participants: Jerry Petr
	Title Discussed: Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang