NPR Books Watch — 12/12-12/18

Some of you have asked why certain shows are on this list and others aren’t.  First, the shows on this list are national; there are plenty of excellent local and regional shows that I don’t include simply because of the sheer number.  Second, for time-saving reasons on my part, I’ve only been following the shows that appear in the NPR Books RSS feed.  The upside is that this feed is a one-stop shop of the majority of national NPR books stories and it means I don’t have to trawl through the RSS feeds of individual shows; the downside, though, is that it doesn’t include certain national NPR shows like Diane Rehm, On Point or To the Best of Our Knowledge.

For the sake of providing a more complete picture of national books coverage, I’m going to try to include these other shows (although I may or may not continue depending on how much time it takes).  This week I have included numbers for Diane Rehm.

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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: 23

All Things Considered: 2

Book Tour: 1

Diane Rehm: 3

Fresh Air: 4

Morning Edition: 3

NPR.org: 4

Talk of the Nation: 3

Tell Me More: 1

Weekend Edition Saturday: 2

All Things Considered	Shadows at Dawn	Karl	Jacoby	History
All Things Considered	Words in Air	Elizabeth	Bishop	Poetry
Book Tour	Payback	Margaret	Atwood	Business
Diane Rehm	Man Who Invented Christmas	Les	Standiford	Literary Fiction
Diane Rehm	My Father’s Paradise	Ariel	Sabar	Memoir
Diane Rehm	Tales of Two Species	Patricia	McConnell	Science
Fresh Air	Milk	Anne	Mendelson
Fresh Air	Shadow of Sirius	W.S.	Merwin	Poetry
Fresh Air	Maureen Corrigan’s Best Books Of 2008
Fresh Air	Full Burn	Kevin	Conley	Entertainment
Morning Edition	Doubt	John Patrick	Shanley	Literary Fiction
Morning Edition	Holiday Reading Tradition For The Whole Family
Morning Edition	Falling for Science	Sherry	Turkle	Science
NPR.org	Best Collections Of Literary Letters 2008
NPR.org	World War II Writings	A.J.	Leibling	History
NPR.org	Elegance of the Hedgehog, The	Muriel	Barbery	Literary Fiction
NPR.org	Best Superhero Graphic Novels Of 2008
Talk of the Nation	Hungry Scientist Handbook	Patrick	Buckley	Science
Talk of the Nation	Why We Buy	Paco	Underhill	Business
Talk of the Nation	Wishful Drinking	Carrie	Fisher	Memoir
Tell Me More	Moms Want Parenting Books For Christmas
Weekend Edition Saturday	Family Planning	Karan	Mahajan	Literary Fiction
Weekend Edition Saturday	Reza War and Peace	Reza	Deghati	Photography