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NPR Books Watch — 2/6-2/12

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: 22

All Things Considered: 6

Diane Rehm: 4

Fresh Air: 3

Morning Edition: 2

NPR.org: 4

Talk of the Nation: 2

Weekend Edition Saturday: 1

All Things Considered The Women T.C. Boyle Literary Fiction
All Things Considered The Mighty Queens of Freeville Amy Dickinson Memoir
All Things Considered The Book of Dead Philosophers Simon Critchley History
All Things Considered Stand the Storm Breena Clarke Literary Fiction
All Things Considered Three Books … / Three Books Explore Lincoln’s Complex Genius
All Things Considered Book Tour / Things I’ve Been Silent About Azar Nafisi Memoir
All Things Considered Battle Brewing Over Electronic Books
Diane Rehm Great Powers Thomas  Barnett Politics
Diane Rehm As Time Goes By Abigail  Trafford Relationships
Diane Rehm Passing Strange Martha  Sandweiss History
Diane Rehm Abraham Lincoln George  McGovern Biography
Fresh Air Reagan Diaries, The Douglas Brinkley, ed. History
Fresh Air Books We Like / Brothers Yu Hua Literary Fiction
Fresh Air Securing The City Christopher Dickey Current Events
Morning Edition The Tyranny Of Dead Ideas Matt Miller Business
Morning Edition Things I’ve Been Silent About Azar Nafisi Memoir
Morning Edition Honeymoon in Tehran Azadeh  Moaveni Memoir
Morning Edition Lincoln’s Bicentennial Turns Into Lovefest
Morning Edition At Ford’s Theatre, Lincoln’s Death Revisited
NPR.org Books We Like / Absolute Sandman 4 Neil Gaiman Graphic Novel
NPR.org Amazon’s Kindle Gets a Second Edition
NPR.org Books We Like / Ghosts of Chicago John McNally Short stories
NPR.org Books We Like / Joy of Sex, The Alex Comfort Health
Talk of the Nation Elsewhere, U.S.A. Dalton  Conley  Economics
Talk of the Nation Six-Word Memoirs on Love and Heartbreak  Larry Smith Relationships
Talk of the Nation Not Quite What I Was Planning Rachel  Fershleiser
Weekend Edition Saturday Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet Jamie Ford Literary Fiction

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