Sunday Paper PLUS Recommends—Week of September 27, 2026
At The Sunday Paper, we often discover books, music, films, and other works that move the needle and spark inspiring change. This week, we are thrilled to hand the mic again to our Sunday Paper PLUS readers! Our thanks to Terri, Patricia, and Donna for their recommendations. We hope these suggestions open your heart and mind and encourage you to come together for meaningful conversations.
What Terri Nintemann is Watching
Every Hollingsworth family member wears a badge, and now every Hollingsworth is a target. That's the premise driving Line of Fire, which spreads this family across the FBI, the Secret Service, the U.S. Marshals, and the Department of Justice, people who've spent their careers protecting everyone but each other, until a killer starts picking off government agents and the case lands squarely in their own living room. There’s something unsettling about a killer who seems to understand exactly how his targets think, because in this family’s case, he could have learned it from them. It’s a manhunt where the hunters and the hunted might just share a last name. New episodes air Monday at 10 p.m. ET on NBC and stream the next day on Peacock.
What Patricia is Reading
In 2024, Cole Brauer spent 130 days alone on a forty-foot sailboat, becoming the first American woman to race solo, nonstop around the world. In First Light, she takes readers through the 27,000 miles of open ocean, the mechanical failures, and the food poisoning that nearly ended her race before she reached the finish. During the record-setting journey, she still found moments of peace and silence: sunrises with no one else to witness them, a dance party of one on deck, a stillness she’d spent her whole life on land trying to find. It’s the rare adventure memoir where the quiet is more gripping than the storm.
What Donna Kiel is Listening To
Seven years after Amidst the Chaos, Sara Bareilles is back at the piano, and this time she’s producing herself. Good Grief came together fast, most of it recorded in just six days with longtime bandmates by her side. With contributions from Brandi Carlile and Ingrid Michaelson woven throughout, this is Bareilles at her most unguarded yet.
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