NPR Books Watch — 8/13-8/19
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: 5 (4 LW)
Diane Rehm: 2 (3 LW)
Fresh Air: 4 (6 LW)
Morning Edition: 6 (4 LW)
NPR.org: 3 (4 LW)
Talk of the Nation: 2 (5 LW)
Tell Me More: 0 (0 LW)
Weekend Edition Saturday: 1 (1 LW)
Weekend Edition Sunday: 1 (1 LW)
| All Things Considered | Sisters in Arms | John | Witmer |
| All Things Considered | Great Divorce, The | Illyon | Woo |
| All Things Considered | Frankies Spuntino Kitchen Companion and Cooking Manual, The | Frank | Falcinelli |
| All Things Considered | My Guilty Pleasure / World According to Garp, The | John | Irving |
| All Things Considered | Daily Telegraph Fourth Book of Obituaries, The | Hugh | Montgomery-Massingberd |
| Diane Rehm | Composed* | Rosanne | Cash |
| Diane Rehm | Through a Dog’s Eyes | Jennifer | Arnold |
| Fresh Air | Fixing My Gaze | Susan R. | Barry |
| Fresh Air | Minefields of the Heart | Sue | Diaz |
| Fresh Air | Charlie Chan | Yunte | Huang |
| Fresh Air | Beyond Katrina | Natasha | Tretheway |
| Morning Edition | Coming Back | Marcia | Muller |
| Morning Edition | Cookbook Collector, The | Allegra | Goodman |
| Morning Edition | Henry Clay | David S. | Heidler |
| Morning Edition | Passing Strange | Martha | Sandweiss |
| Morning Edition | Stories From The ‘Savage Mountain’: Death On K2 | ||
| Morning Edition | Cross of Redemption, The | Randall | Kenan |
| NPR.org | War to End All Wars, The | Russell | Freedman |
| NPR.org | My Hollywood | Mona | Simpson |
| NPR.org | Nonfiction for the Summer’s End | ||
| Talk of the Nation | Extra Lives | Tom | Bissell |
| Talk of the Nation | Pain Chronicles, The | Melanie | Thernstrom |
| Weekend Edition Saturday | Beautiful Yetta | Daniel | Pinkwater |
| Weekend Edition Sunday | Murder Room, The | Michael | Capuzzo |
