# Jill Lepore on What to Read This Fourth of July

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Podcast: [The Book Review](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-book-review-415412)
Published: 2026-07-03T09:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.nytimes.com/column/book-review-podcast
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## Resource

As America celebrates its 250th birthday, Jill Lepore, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, offers a reading list for the occasion. Then we round up some of the summer’s most anticipated beach reads.

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