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 |