NPR Books Watch — 8/6-8/12
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.
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TOTAL book stories for the past week: 28 (16 last week)
All Things Considered: 4 (5 LW)
Diane Rehm: 3 (1 LW)
Fresh Air: 6 (3 LW)
Morning Edition: 4 (1 LW)
NPR.org: 4 (2 LW)
Talk of the Nation: 5 (1 LW)
Tell Me More: 0 (0 LW)
Weekend Edition Saturday: 1 (2 LW)
Weekend Edition Sunday: 1 (1 LW)
| All Things Considered | You Must Read This … / Portait of a Lady | Henry | James |
| All Things Considered | Empires of Food | Evan | Fraser |
| All Things Considered | Literary Destinations: Five Books To Help You Escape | ||
| All Things Considered | You Must Read This / Good Man in Africa, A | William | Boyd |
| Diane Rehm | Red Hook Road* | Ayelet | Waldman |
| Diane Rehm | Smart Swarm | Peter | Miller |
| Diane Rehm | Composed | Rosanne | Cash |
| Fresh Air | Happy Marriage, A* | Rafael | Yglesias |
| Fresh Air | Get Capone | Jonathan | Eig |
| Fresh Air | Larsson’s Just The Tip Of The Nordic Literary Iceberg | ||
| Fresh Air | Hot Time in the Old Town | Edward P. | Cohn |
| Fresh Air | Crude World | Peter | Maass |
| Fresh Air | Murder Room, The | Michael | Capuzzo |
| Morning Edition | Mentor Leader, The | Tony | Dungy |
| Morning Edition | Eleven on Top | Janet | Evanovich |
| Morning Edition | In Harm’s Way | Ridley | Pearson |
| Morning Edition | Summer of the Big Bachi | Naomi | Hirahara |
| NPR.org | Glass Rainbow, The | James Lee | Burke |
| NPR.org | Four Fingers of Death, The | Rick | Moody |
| NPR.org | Villain | Shoichi | Yoshida |
| NPR.org | Three Books … / To Take You On That Long, Strange Trip | ||
| Talk of the Nation | Hot X | Danica | McKeller |
| Talk of the Nation | Geeks in the Kitchen | Jeff | Potter |
| Talk of the Nation | Great Typo Hunt, The | Jeff | Deck |
| Talk of the Nation | Titanic Awards, The | Don | Lansky |
| Talk of the Nation | World Without Islam, A | Graham | Fuller |
| Weekend Edition Saturday | Let’s Take the Long Way Home | Gail | Caldwell |
| Weekend Edition Sunday | How to Mellify a Corpse | Vicki | Leon |
