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NPR Books Watch — 6/12-6/18

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, genre, 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. ***

TOTAL book stories for the week:

All Things Considered: 4

Diane Rehm: 4

Fresh Air: 3

Morning Edition: 2

NPR.org: 3

Talk of the Nation: 2

Tell Me More: 1

Weekend Edition Saturday: 1

Weekend Edition Sunday: 2

All Things Considered Strain, The Guillermo del Toro
All Things Considered Virgin Suicides Jeffrey  Eugenides
All Things Considered Inside Passage, An Kurt  Caswell
All Things Considered Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century, A Jane  Vandenburgh
All Things Considered Be a Nose! Art  Spiegelman
All Things Considered Three Books … / Books To Keep You Sane On A Family Road Trip    
Diane Rehm Art of Making Money, The Jason Kersten
Diane Rehm Education of an American Dreamer* Peter G.  Peterson
Diane Rehm Secret Sentry, The Matthew M.  Aid
Diane Rehm Go Ask Your Father Lennard  Davis
Fresh Air Too Fat to Fish* Artie Lange
Fresh Air What People Were Reading During The Depression    
Fresh Air Unfriendly Fire Nathaniel Frank
Morning Edition Little Book of Main Street Money Jonathan Clements
Morning Edition It’s Our Turn to Eat Michela Wrong
NPR.org My Guilty Pleasure / Valley of the Dolls Jacqueline  Susann
NPR.org Three Books … / No Such Thing As Witty Women? Think Again    
NPR.org Cheerful Weather for the Wedding Julia  Strachey
Talk of the Nation Man Who Shocked the World Stanley  Milgram
Talk of the Nation And Then There’s This Bill Wasik
Tell Me More Before I Forget Leonard Pitts
Weekend Edition Saturday Art of Making Money, The Jason Kersten
Weekend Edition Sunday Beowulf on the Beach Jack Murnighan
Weekend Edition Sunday Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume I Frederic Cassidy

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