The KAXE Bookshelf is our new occasional list of books featured or discussed on the KAXE Morning Show and from our community of readers via our text line and "What We're Reading" group on Facebook.
It’s a great place for book recommendations or if you heard us talking about a book but didn’t catch the title.
The KAXE Bookshelf for March 23-27, 2026
What We're Reading — Interview
- Automatic Noodle, by Annalee Newitz
Science journalist and writer Annalee Newitz’s “Automatic Noodle” features a group of robots who open a Biangbiang noodle restaurant. Will they be crushed by bad reviews?
What We’d Take on Vacation — from fun, fast reads to short story collections to books that will fit easily in a small bag
Contributed
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Grove Atlantic
- The Finlay Donovan series, by Elle Cosimano — fast, fun reads, soon to be adapted for TV by Tina Fey
- How To Write One Song, by Jeff Tweedy
- Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories, edited by Cynthia Leitich Smith
- The Covenant of Water, by Abraham Verghese
From Book to Movie
- Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir
- The Help, by Kathryn Stockett
What We’re Reading / What We've Read
- Why Q Needs U: A History of Our Letters and How We Use Them, by Danny Bates
- Monk and Robot, by Becky Chambers (“Hopecore!”)
- The Moon Without Stars, by Chanel Miller
- Adult Braces: Driving Myself Sane, by Lindy West
- The Correspondent, by Virginia Evans
- Circe, by Madeline Miller
- Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel
- The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion, by Beth Brower
Contributed
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Ben Kaplan
What We Want to Read
- Exit Party, by Emily St. John Mandel (September 2026)
- American Fantasy, by Emma Straub (April 2026)
- Boy from the North Country, by Sam Sussman. A coming of age story about a young many who returns home to his dying mother and learns that his father might be Bob Dylan. Inspired by the author's own uncertain paternity.
More What We're Reading
Looking for a good book recommendation? Want to recommend a book you've just read? Check out our What We're Reading page on Facebook, or text us at 218-326-1234.
What We're Reading is made possible in part by the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and the citizens of Minnesota.
