NPR Books Watch — 1/9-1/15

Here are the NPR interviews for this week. Anyone who emails me the imprints of all the books listed (or houses if no imprint is available) will win the NPR Books Grid for the prior week that includes, in addition to the information below, interviewer, pub date, imprint, post-interview Amazon ranking, pre-interview ranking (if the book was mentioned on Shelf Awareness and I was able to look up the number before the interview), and interview hyperlink.

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TOTAL book stories for the week: 21

All Things Considered: 1

Diane Rehm: 4

Fresh Air: 4

Morning Edition: 2

NPR.org: 3

Talk of the Nation: 2

Tell Me More: 1

Weekend Edition Saturday:  2

All Things Considered	Three Books …/ ‘Lost’ Literature: Not Just For Desert Islands
Diane Rehm	Chaplin	Stephen	Weissman	Biography
Diane Rehm	Street Gang (Rebroadcast)	Michael	Davis	Entertainment
Diane Rehm	Hemingses of Monticello	Annette	Gordon-Reed	History
Diane Rehm	Myth of American Exceptionalism	Godfrey	Hodgson	Politics
Fresh Air	Rules of the Game	Leonard	Downie Jr	Mystery
Fresh Air	Plunder and Blunder	Dean	Baker	Business
Fresh Air	Appetite for Self-Destruction	Steve	Knopper	Entertainment
Fresh Air	Two Billion Cars	Daniel	Sperling	Environment
Morning Edition	Obama: A New Force In Publishing
Morning Edition
News & Notes	Self-Publishing The Best Option For Black Authors?
News & Notes	My Fathers’ Daughter	Hannah	Poole	Memoir
NPR.org	Books We Like / Getting Ghost	Luke	Bergmann	Current Events
NPR.org	American Buffalo	Steven	Rinella	Science
NPR.org	Book Tour / People’s History	Dave	Zirin	Sports
Talk of the Nation	Annals of Gullability	Stephen	Greenspan	Psychology
Talk of the Nation	Inheritance	David	Sanger	Politics
Tell Me More	Bicycles	Nikki	Giovanni	Poetry
Weekend Edition Saturday	Songs for the Butchers Daughter	Peter	Manseau	Literary Fiction
Weekend Edition Saturday	Men Are Stupid…	Joan	Rivers	Health