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Over the past few weeks, Talk of the Nation has been asking for the books you think should be required reading for all college freshmen. Here are 10 of your suggestions.

NPR commentators favor Jennifer Close's look at women facing marriage and Amanda Hodgkinson's post-World War II family drama. There are also memoirs by actor Christopher Plummer and nuclear watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei, plus Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams re-evaluate universities for the digital age.

Farmers have blocked highways for days across the country to denounce low wages, heavy regulation and unfair competition from abroad. The unions said the new measures represented "tangible progress."

NPR's Michel Martin talks with Jocelyn Kiley of the Pew Research Center about America's divided views on guns, and the safety measures that get broad bipartisan support.

Nearly a third of China's urban population lives in areas that are subsiding, according to a sweeping national survey of 82 major Chinese cities. In coastal areas, that makes sea level rise worse.

In Michigan on Tuesday, two special elections could break the tie between Democrats and Republicans in the state's House of Representatives.

A close ally of populist Prime Minister Robert Fico beat a pro-Western career diplomat to become Slovakia's new president, and succeed Zuzana Čaputová, the country's first female head of state.

New York state Attorney General Letitia James said the food company is misleading the public about its efforts to cut its climate pollution.

Thieves got away with $30 million in cash from a money storage facility in Los Angeles by breaking into the building on Easter and cracking the safe. Now detectives are seeking to unravel the heist.

Rescue teams worked searching for dozens of construction workers buried under the rubble after a multi-story apartment complex that was being built collapsed in a coastal city in South Africa.