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This week Alice and Kim make holiday gift guide recommendations. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kendra Winchester and Kim Ukura. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website https://bookriot.com/listen/nonfiction-holiday-gift-guide/. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week Alice and Kim talk about books by Indigenous authors to recognize Native American Heritage Month. They also speculate about Prince Harry’s memoir and share exciting new nonfiction picks. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kendra Winchester and Kim Ukura. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. NONFICTION IN THE NEWS Prince Harry’s Memoir Is Due in January. How Explosive Will It Be? [New York Times] How Julie Powell and her ‘Julie/Julia’ blog changed food writing [Washington Post] Keanu Reeves Exits Hulu’s ‘The Devil In The White City’ Limited Series [Deadline] NEW NONFICTION White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better by Regina Jackson and Saira Rao Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America’s Edge by Ted Conover The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family by Kerri K. Greenidge Among Tigers: Fighting to Bring Back Asia’s Big Cats by K. Ullas Karanth NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH Heart Berries: A Memoir by Teresa Marie Mailhot This Place: 150 Years Retold Dog Flowers: A Memoir, An Archive by Danielle Geller Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes READING NOW Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey by Jonathan Meiburg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week Alice and Kim talk new fall nonfiction. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kendra Winchester and Kim Ukura. Book Riot’s Reading the Stars Giveaway This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Fall Books Review, Part I The Stolen Year: How COVID Changed Children’s Lives, and Where We Go Now by Anya Kamenetz Inventing Latinos : A New Story of American Racism by Laura E. Gómez Stay True: A Memoir by Hua Hsu The Surprising Lives of Bark Beetles: Mighty Foresters of the Insect World by Jiri Hulcr, Marc Abrahams Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care by Rina Raphael Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street by Cin Fabré
Fall Books Review, Part II Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis by Annie Proulx Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family by Erika Hayasaki The United States of Cryptids: A Tour of American Myths and Monsters by J.W. Ocker Home Bound: An Uprooted Daughter’s Reflections on Belonging by Vanessa Bee American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America’s First Paramedics by Kevin Hazzard
Reading Now KIM: Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao ALICE: The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont by Shawn Levy
CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts and Spotify so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week Alice and Kim reflect on visiting Salem, Massachusetts and discuss books about witches and boats. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kendra Winchester and Kim Ukura. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Follow Up In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado Giveaway: Reading the Stars by Book Riot
New Nonfiction Savor: A Chef’s Hunger for More by Fatima Ali and Tarajia Morrell Black Hollywood: Reimagining Iconic Movie Moments by Carell Augustus Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way by Kieran Setiya Looking for the Hidden Folk: How Iceland’s Elves Can Save the Earth by Nancy Marie Brown
Witches and Boats The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies by Elaine G. Breslaw Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem by Rosalyn Schanzer
Reading Now Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind by Fariha Róisín This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week Alice and Kim talk about nonfiction reads for Hispanic Heritage Month. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kendra Winchester and Kim Ukura. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News Jung Hae Chae Wins the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize [Graywolf Press] 2022 National Book Awards Longlist for Nonfiction [National Book Foundation] Writer Samantha Irby calls her latest book ‘a devolution!’ [Entertainment Weekly] NEW NONFICTION Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America’s Most-Read Woman by Julia Scheeres and Allison Gilbert Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton Runaway: Notes on the Myths that Made Me by Erin Keane Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons by Anthony Christian Ocampo WEEKLY THEME: HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantu Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernández In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero READING NOW KIM: The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee ALICE: The Office BFFs by Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey
CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Our amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts and Spotify so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week Kim and Alice go down a rabbit hole talking about A League of Their Own and talk nonfiction about women in sports. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kendra Winchester and Kim Ukura. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Nonfiction in the News Barbara Ehrenreich, author who challenged American Dream myths, dies at 81 [Washington Post] Recommending Books Based on the Weirdest Facts They Taught Me [Book Riot]
New Nonfiction Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better by Woo-Kyoung Ahn Off with Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power by Eleanor Herman The Godmother: Murder, Vengeance, and the Bloody Struggle of Mafia Women by Barbie Latza Nadeau Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent by Dipo Faloyin The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life by Alice Wong
Women in Sports Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women’s Football League by Frankie de la Cretaz and Lyndsey D’Arcangelo Dust Bowl Girls: The Inspiring Story of the Team That Barnstormed Its Way to Basketball Glory by Lydia Reeder Baseball’s Leading Lady: Effa Manley and the Rise and Fall of the Negro Leagues by Andrea Williams Curveball: The Remarkable Story of Toni Stone the First Woman to Play Professional Baseball in the Negro League by Martha Ackmann
Reading Now Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff by Abbi Jacobson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week Alice and Kim talk middle grade nonfiction reads. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kendra Winchester and Kim Ukura. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. NONFICTION IN THE NEWS Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese are Creating a Devil in the White City Series for Hulu [Town and Country] NEW NONFICTION The Mamas: What I Learned About Kids, Class, and Race from Moms Not Like Me by Helena Andrews-Dyer Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis by Beth Macy Democracy’s Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them by Dan Bouk Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America by Psyche A. Williams-Forson (Univ of NC Press) Quick Mentions
Walking in My Joy: In These Streets by Jenifer Lewis WEEKLY THEME: MIDDLE GRADE NONFICTION Yummy: A History of Desserts by Victoria Grace Elliot Free Lunch by Rex Ogle (AOC) The Eagle Huntress: The True Story of the Girl Who Soared Beyond Expectations by Aisholpan Nurgaiv with Liz Welch All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team by Christina Soontornvat Reading Now KIM: My Imaginary Mary by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows ALICE: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts and Spotify so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week Alice and Kim catch up on all the books they read during their summer break. Plus, they share some new memoirs and social history titles. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kendra Winchester and Kim Ukura. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Nonfiction In the News David McCullough, Best-Selling Explorer of America’s Past, Dies at 89 [New York Times]
New Books Bright: A Memoir by Kiki Petrosino A History of Delusions: The Glass King, a Substitute Husband and a Walking Corpse by Victoria Shepherd What the Children Told Us: The Untold Story of the Famous “Doll Test” and the Black Psychologists Who Changed the World by Tim Spofford A Good Country: My Life in Twelve Towns and the Devastating Battle for a White America by Sofia Ali-Khan
Books We Read on Summer Break The Ugly Cry: A Memoir by Danielle Henderson Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 by Joseph J. Ellis The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House by Ben Rhodes The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land by Sally Denton Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner
Reading Now The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Fathers Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism by Bill Shaffer Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side by Eve L. Ewing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
While Kim and Alice take a short summer break, enjoy this episode from the archive about reading for self care! Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Nonfiction in the News National Book Critics Circle Award Winners Announced [Book Riot] Best-Selling Author Brené Brown Promotes Meaningful Change in Trailer for HBO Max’s ‘Atlas of the Heart’ [The Wrap]
New Nonfiction Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us by Colleen Kinder Dress Code: Unlocking Fashion from the New Look to Millennial Pink by Veronique Hyland You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation by Julissa Arce Hell’s Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, America’s First Serial Killer Family by Susan Jonusas All the White Friends I Couldn’t Keep: Hope – and Hard Pills to Swallow – About Fighting for Black Lives by Andre Henry Burning My Roti: Breaking Barriers as a Queer Indian Woman by Sharan Dhaliwal
Reads for Self Care World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil Calypso by David Sedaris The Lazy Genius Way: Embrace What Matters, Ditch What Doesn’t, and Get Stuff Done by Kendra Adachi Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Reading Now The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
While Kim and Alice take a short summer break, enjoy this episode from the archive! Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. NONFICTION WE’RE LOOKING FORWARD TO, PART I Let’s Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World by Danielle Friedman Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir by Bob Odenkirk Manifesto: On Never Giving Up by Bernardine Evaristo The Urge: Our History of Addiction by Carl Erik Fisher South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze by Laura Shin There Are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster—Who Profits and Who Pays the Price by Jessie Singer NONFICTION WE’RE LOOKING FORWARD TO, PART II Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation by Maud Newton Murder on the Mountain: Crime, Passion, and Punishment in Gilded Age New Jersey by Peter J. Wosh, Patricia L. Schall Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free by Sarah Weinman Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change by Angela Garbes READING NOW KIM: Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can’t Live Without Them by Adrienne Raphel ALICE: A Visitor’s Guide to Victorian England by Michelle Higgs CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week Alice and Kim talk about upcoming nonfiction for 2022. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kendra Winchester and Kim Ukura. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Nonfiction in the News Former Chronicle reporter signs deal with Jamie Lee Curtis on Paradise Fire movie [Datebook]
New Nonfiction, Part 2 The Tomorrow Game: Rival Teenagers, Their Race for a Gun, and a Community United to Save Them by Sudhir Venkatesh ( The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land by Sally Denton Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings by Chrysta Bilton Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe Return to Uluru: The Hidden History of a Murder in Outback Australia by Mark McKenna Asian American Histories of the United States by Catherine Ceniza Choy The Fishermen and the Dragon: Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast by Kirk Wallace Johnson We Are Still Here: Afghan Women on Courage, Freedom, and the Fight to Be Heard by Nahid Shahalimi Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew by Michael W. Twitty All the Women in My Brain by Betty Gilpin Bad Vibes Only: (and Other Things I Bring to the Table) by Nora McInerny Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees by Jared Farmer American Caliph: The True Story of a Muslim Mystic, a Hollywood Epic, and the 1977 Siege of Washington, DC by Shahan Mufti Egypt’s Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth by John and Colleen Darnell The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Reading Now KIM: The Monster’s Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World by David K. Randall ALICE: The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. by Peniel E. Joseph
CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts and Spotify so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week Alice and Kim talk about books on disability activism to recognize the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Plus, new nonfiction about divorce colonies, fangirls, and more. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kendra Winchester and Kim Ukura. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Nonfiction in the News ‘Tiny Beautiful Things’ Series Adaptation Casts Kathryn Hahn [Collider] Olympian Nathan Chen To Publish Memoir in Fall [Kirkus]
New Nonfiction The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier by April White Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It by Kaitlyn Tiffany We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power by Caleb Gayle Cabin Fever: The Harrowing Journey of a Cruise Ship at the Dawn of a Pandemic by Michael Smith and Jonathan Franklin City of Refugees: The Story of Three Newcomers Who Breathed Life into a Dying American Town by Susan Hartman
Disability Activism Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma The Disability Experience: Working Toward Belonging by Hannalora Leavitt and Belle Wuthrich Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann and Kristen Joiner Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally by Emily Ladau A Disability History of the United States by Kim E. Nielsen
Reading Now Flying Solo: A Novel by Linda Holmes Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness by Elizabeth D. Samet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week Alice and Kim talk about nonfiction for Pride Month. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Follow Up KIM: Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott Nonfiction in the News Three Women: Lisa Taddeo Shares a Vivid First Look at Her Adaptation [Vanity Fair] New Nonfiction Battling the Big Lie: How Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA Media Are Destroying America by Dan Pfeiffer The Monster’s Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World by David K. Randall The Wine-Dark Sea Within : A Turbulent History of Blood by Dr. Dhun Sethna The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I by Lindsey Fitzharris 1368: China and the Making of the Modern World by Ali Humayun Akhtar Weekly Theme: Queer Books Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby Queer, There, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World by Sarah Prager (Author), Zoe More O’Ferrall (Illustrator) Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden Reading Now KIM: The Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life by A.J. Jacobs (Author), Greg Pliska (Contributor) ALICE: Girls Can Kiss Now by Jill Gutowitz
CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts and Spotify so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week Alice and Kim talk about books for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month plus new releases from charming superheroes, football coaches, and more. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Follow Up The Woman All Spies Fear: Code Breaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman and Her Hidden Life by Amy Butler Greenfield Nonfiction in the News Taraji P. Henson in Talks to Produce and Star in ‘Queenie’ for BET Studios [Variety] Colin Kaepernick to Publish a Young Adult Memoir [New York Times] New Nonfiction Hometown Victory: A Coach’s Story of Football, Fate, and Coming Home by Keanon Lowe with Justin Spizman Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement by Wendy L. Rouse His Name Is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story by Simu Liu Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be by Marissa R. Moss Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University by Richard White Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland by Marie Mutsuki Mockett Heart of Fire: An Immigrant Daughter’s Story by Mazie Hirono Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now by Jeff Yang and Phil Yu and Philip Wang Reading Now Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliot My Body by Emily Ratajkowski Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week Alice and Kim talk voting reads. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton and Kim Ukura. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Nonfiction in the News Betty Gilpin Inks Deal with Macmillan’s Flatiron Books for Personal Essay Collection [Deadline] Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Winners Announced [LA Times] Biography – Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane by Paul Auster Autobiographical Prose – Real Estate: A Living Autobiography by Deborah Levy Current Interest – Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could by Adam Schiff History – Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer Science and Technology – The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein New Nonfiction The Power of Dignity: How Transforming Justice Can Heal Our Communities by Judge Victoria Pratt Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernández 37 Questions with Kelly Lytle Hernández Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy by Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel Born to Be Hanged : The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune by Keith Thomson Weekly Theme: Voting One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson Drawing the Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Voting in America by Tommy Jenkins (Author), Kati Lacker (Illustrator) Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America by Stacey Abrams Say It Louder!: Black Voters, White Narratives, and Saving Our Democracy by Tiffany Cross Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote by Ellen Carol Dubois Reading Now KIM: The Woman All Spies Fear: Code Breaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman and Her Hidden Life by Amy Butler Greenfield ALICE: Lincoln in Private by Ronald C. White
CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts and Spotify so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out.
This week Alice and Kim share some books about odd jobs plus cover new nonfiction about Hong Kong, prison, and cold cases. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Follow Up Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can’t Live Without Them by Adrienne Raphel How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation by Maud Newton
New Nonfiction Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong by Louisa Lim Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis Free: Two Years, Six Lives, and the Long Journey Home by Lauren Kessler Unmasked: My Life Solving America’s Cold Cases by Paul Holes Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives by Mary Laura Philpot Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service by Tajja Isen
Books About Jobs Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter by Nina MacLaughlin The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London by Christopher Skaife Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor’s Fight for Fairness by Laura Coates Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
Reading Now The Trayvon Generation by Elizabeth Alexander Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
This week Alice and Kim talk about nonfiction adapted for young readers. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton.
Follow Up The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi
New Nonfiction Sisters of Mokama: The Pioneering Women Who Brought Hope and Healing to India by Jyoti Thottam Slaves for Peanuts : A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History by Jori Lewis Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs by Juli Berwald Murder on the Mountain : Crime, Passion, and Punishment in Gilded Age New Jersey by Peter J. Wosh, Patricia L. Schall The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire by Tom Sancton How to Sell a Poison : The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT by Elena Conis Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family by Madhushree Gosh
Weekly Theme: YA Adaptations of Adult Nonfiction Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverted Kids by Susan Cain Hidden Figures Young Readers’ by Margot Lee Shetterly Just Mercy: A True Story of the Fight for Justice by Bryan Stevenson Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir by Kwame Onwuachi with Joshua David Stein
Reading Now KIM: Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation by Maud Newton ALICE: House of Abraham by Stephen Berry
CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts and Spotify so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out.
This week Alice and Kim chat about their current obsessions (Lincoln and fraudsters, respectively), discuss reading for self care, and preview new nonfiction about strangers, assimilation, serial killers, and more. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News National Book Critics Circle Award Winners Announced [Book Riot] Best-Selling Author Brené Brown Promotes Meaningful Change in Trailer for HBO Max’s ‘Atlas of the Heart’ [The Wrap] New Nonfiction Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us by Colleen Kinder Dress Code: Unlocking Fashion from the New Look to Millennial Pink by Veronique Hyland You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation by Julissa Arce Hell’s Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, America’s First Serial Killer Family by Susan Jonusas All the White Friends I Couldn’t Keep: Hope – and Hard Pills to Swallow – About Fighting for Black Lives by Andre Henry Burning My Roti: Breaking Barriers as a Queer Indian Woman by Sharan Dhaliwal Reads for Self Care World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil Calypso by David Sedaris The Lazy Genius Way: Embrace What Matters, Ditch What Doesn’t, and Get Stuff Done by Kendra Adachi Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin Reading Now The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
This week, Alice and Kim talk about trans women authors. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News Netflix Orders White House Mystery Drama ‘The Residence’ From Shondaland, ‘For the People’ Creator [Variety] New Nonfiction Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation by Erika Krouse Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times by Azar Nafisi I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times by Mónica Guzmán Lady Icarus: Balloonmania and the Brief, Bold Life of Sophie Blanchard by Deborah Haynes Weekly Theme: Books by Trans Women Fairest by Meredith Talusan How to Fail as a Pop Star: A Play by Vivek Shraya To My Trans Sisters by Charlie Craggs Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality by Sarah McBride Reading Now KIM: From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy by Scott Meslow ALICE: The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America’s 16th President—and Why It Failed by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch
CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts and Spotify so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out.
This week Alice and Kim revisit one of their favorite topics, International Women’s Day, with stories from women around the world. Plus, new nonfiction about Flat Earthers, abolition, and Greek myths. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News West Africans and the history of smallpox inoculation: Q&A with Elise A. Mitchell [Royal Society] 4 lessons from the life of global health visionary Paul Farmer [Vox] Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder Britney Spears set to pen tell-all book in bombshell $15M deal [Page Six] New Nonfiction Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything by Kelly Weill The Republic of Violence: The Tormented Rise of Abolition in Andrew Jackson’s America by J. D. Dickey What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo Pandora’s Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes International Women’s Day Infamous Lady: The True Story of Countess Erzsébet Báthory by Kimberly L. Craft It’s Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race, edited by Mariam Khan Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen by Linda M. Heywood Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot by Masha Gessen To ‘Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women’s Lives and Labors After the Civil War by Tera W. Hunter Reading Now White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue … and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation by Lauren Michele Jackson The Story of You: An Enneagram Journey to Becoming Your True Self by Ian Morgan Cron The Taking of Jemima Boone: Colonial Settlers, Tribal Nations, and the Kidnap That Shaped America by Matthew Pearl
This week Alice and Kim talk nonfiction about the first ladies.
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Follow Up
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
Nonfiction in the News
The Inside Story of the Banning of “Maus.” It’s Dumber Than You Think. [Mother Jones]
How to Fight Books Bans and Challenges [Book Riot]
How to Use FOIA [Book Riot]
Claire Foy To Star in ‘An Ugly Truth’ Adaptation [Kirkus Reviews]
New Nonfiction
Black American Refugee: Escaping the Narcissism of the American Dream by Tiffanie Drayton
Woodsqueer: Crafting a Sustainable Rural Life by Gretchen Legler
The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman
Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American by Laura Gao
Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder by Rachel Rear
Weekly Theme: First Ladies
First Women: The Grace and Power of America’s Modern First Ladies by Kate Andersen Brower
Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady by Susan Quinn
Meaning of Michelle: 16 Writers on the Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own by Veronica Chambers
The Adams Women: Abigail and Louisa Adams, Their Sisters and Daughters by Paul C. Nagel
Reading Now
KIM: No Cure for Being Human: (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) by Kate Bowler
ALICE: Letters to a Young Poet by Rilke
CONCLUSION
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This week, Kim and Alice share reads for Black History Month, plus new nonfiction about cobalt, China, Vikings, and clothing.
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Nonfiction in the News
2022 Carnegie Medals [American Library Association]
A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraqib
Get a first look at David Sedaris’ new essay collection [Entertainment Weekly]
Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris
New Nonfiction
Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern by Jing Tsu
Cobalt: Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower by Charlie Angus
Worn: A People’s History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser
River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads by Cat Jarman
Architects of an American Landscape: Henry Hobson Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, and the Reimagining of America’s Public and Private Spaces by Hugh Howard
Seven Games: A Human History by Oliver Roeder
Black History Month Reads
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
Overground Railroad: The Green Book & Roots of Black Travel in America by Candacy Taylor
White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue … and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation by Lauren Michele Jackson
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. by Peniel E. Joseph
Reading Now
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Medicine in the Middle Ages by Juliana Cummings See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk about nonfiction highlights for 2022.
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Nonfiction We’re Looking Forward To, Part I
Let’s Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World by Danielle Friedman
Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir by Bob Odenkirk
Manifesto: On Never Giving Up by Bernardine Evaristo
The Urge: Our History of Addiction by Carl Erik Fisher
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry
The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze by Laura Shin
There Are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster—Who Profits and Who Pays the Price by Jessie Singer
Nonfiction We’re Looking Forward To, Part II
Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation by Maud Newton
Murder on the Mountain: Crime, Passion, and Punishment in Gilded Age New Jersey by Peter J. Wosh, Patricia L. Schall
Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain
Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free by Sarah Weinman
Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change by Angela Garbes
Reading Now
KIM: Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can’t Live Without Them by Adrienne Raphel
ALICE: A Visitor’s Guide to Victorian England by Michelle Higgs
CONCLUSION
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This week Alice and Kim celebrate recording 100 episodes for For Real by chatting about their podcast origin story, reminiscing about the bookish internet of the 2010s, and revisiting some childhood favorites across genres.
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Episode Links
Episode 1: International Women’s Day
Episode 50: 50 Books for 50 Episodes
Episode 96: Fell in a Hold (AKA True Stories Underground)
Baking Powder Wars: The Cutthroat Food Fight that Revolutionized Cooking by Linda Civitello
Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keen
The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
The Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters (Amelia Peabody Series)
Reading Now
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk about nonfiction highlights of 2021.
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Favorite Nonfiction of 2021
KIM: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water by Kazim Ali
Sensational: The Hidden History of America’s “Girl Stunt Reporters” by Kim Todd
The Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination by Sheera Frankel and Cecilia Kang
Paradise: One Town’s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire by Lizzie Johnson
ALICE: The African Lookbook: A Visual History of 100 Years of African Women by Catherine E. McKinley
Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion by Tori Telfer
The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt by Audrey Clare Farley
Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir by Brian Broome
Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present by Adrienne Keene
Nonfiction We Missed in 2021
Names for Light: A Family History by Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles
The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America by Carol Anderson
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
Heartwarming: How Our Inner Thermostat Made Us Human by Hans Rocha Ijzerman
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
Reading Now
KIM: The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson
ALICE: The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
CONCLUSION
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This week Kim and Alice explore the vast and interesting world of birds and birding with memoirs and illustrated bird guides. Plus, new collections of essays, historical nonfiction, and more!
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Follow Up
Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller by Nadia Wassef
Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
Nonfiction in the News
Barack Obama May Become A 3-Time Winner (But It’s Not What You Think) by David Moye [HuffPost]
New Nonfiction
We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World, edited by Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura
Dark Tourist: Essays by Hasanthika Sirisena
Sea State: A Memoir by Tabitha Lasley
Deliberate Evil: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Daniel Webster, and the 1830 Murder of a Salem Slave Trader by Edward J. Renehan
Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home by Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Petersen
Birds!
What It’s Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing – What Birds Are Doing, and Why by David Allen Sibley
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham
Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder: A Memoir by Julia Zarankin
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Reading Now
This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life by Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods
The Ancient Guide to Modern Life by Natalie Haynes See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk about nonfiction picks for holiday gifts.
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Follow Up
The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker
Disability Visibility by Alice Wong
Nonfiction in the News
National Book Award Winners Announced
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles
New Nonfiction
The Deeper the Roots: A Memoir of Hope and Home by Michael Tubbs
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones
These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett
How the Other Half Eats : The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America by Priya Fielding-Singh
Holiday Gift Guide
Hello Alice and Kim, love the podcast. Looking for a rec for a book that I loved so much that I read it twice this year. It’s called Little Heathens and it’s by Mildred Armstrong Kalish and it’s her memoir about growing up in Iowa during the great depression. Each chapter describes some aspect of her life on the farm and I found her life, seasons, and rituals on the farm to be so idyllic and comforting that I would love to read something else like it! Hope you have some ideas! — Tara
The Heart of Things: A Midwestern Almanac by John Hildebrand
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May
I’d love a book recommendation for myself! I love learning about cults. I’ve read almost every book on Scientology & was wondering if there are books out there like Going Clear but about different cults. – Kirah
The World in Flames: A Black Boyhood in a White Supremacist Doomsday Cult by Jerald Walker
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn
I’m looking for a recommendation for my father-in-law. He’s a retired scientist who reads regularly, but not voraciously. When he does read he likes to read history, biography, that sort of thing. I’m looking for some suggested authors to give him or some specific books that he’d find interesting or might broaden his perspective a little bit.
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II by Daniel James Brown
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel WIlkerson
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyou
King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild
Reading Now
KIM: Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen Radtke
ALICE: Magna Carta by Dan Jones
CONCLUSION
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This week Alice and Kim dig deep for nonfiction about things you find underground, plus share new nonfiction about sports, food, and history.
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Follow Up
The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA by Jorge L. Contreras
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Nonfiction in the News
2021 Kirkus Prize Winners Announced [Book Riot]
Scottie Pippen Takes Aim at Michael Jordan in New Book [New York Times]
New Nonfiction
Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women’s Football League by Britni de la Cretaz and Lyndsey D’Arcangelo
Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America by Mayukh Sen
Black and Blue: A Memoir of Racism and Resilience by Veronica Gorrie
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States by Kyle T. Mays
Fell in a Hole
Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness by Neil Swidey
The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City by Jennifer Toth
The Hidden Stories Behind Our Structures by Roma Agrawal
Accidental Archaeologists: True Stories of Unexpected Discoveries by Sarah Albee
Reading Now
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya Parker
Chanel’s Riviera: Glamour, Decadence, and Survival in Peace and War, 1930-1944 by Anne de Courcy See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Kim and Alice talk about books by Arab women writers, plus new nonfiction about gene patents, colonialism in the 1860s, and medieval manuscripts.
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Nonfiction in the News
Instagram: Ijeoma Oluo’s new newsletter
Instagram: Bachelor Nation Publishes
New Nonfiction
The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts by Mary Wellesley
The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World by Edward Shawcross
Concepcion: An Immigrant Family’s Fortunes by Albert Samaha
Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: The Story of Schitt’s Creek by Daniel Levy, Eugene Levy
The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA by Jorge L. Contreras
Arab Women Writers
Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World, edited by Zahra Hankir
A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics and Religion in Saudi Arabia by Madawi Al-Rasheed
Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution by Mona Eltahawy
Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening by Manal Al-Sharif
Reading Now
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong
She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman by Erica Armstrong Dunbar See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk about creepy, spooky, and scary nonfiction for the Halloween season.
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Follow Up
Our holiday gift guide episode coming up November 23 — send us your requests at forreal@bookriot.com by November 15!
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Nonfiction in the News
2021 National Book Awards Finalists Announced [National Book Awards]
Estate of Henrietta Lacks sues biotechnical company for nonconsensual use of her cells [CNN]
New Nonfiction
I’m Possible: A Story of Survival, a Tuba, and the Small Miracle of a Big Dream by Richard Antoine White
Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present by Adrienne Keene
Smile: The Story of a Face by Sarah Ruhl
On Animals by Susan Orlean
Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre by Brandy Colbert
Weekly Theme: Spooky Nonfiction
The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained by Colin Dickey
The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror by David J. Skal
White Magic: Essays by Elissa Washuta
Yurei Attack!: The Japanese Ghost Survival Guide by Hiroko Yoda and Matt Alt
Reading Now
KIM: Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller by Nadia Wassef
ALICE: The Phantom Prince by Elizabeth Kendall
CONCLUSION
ALICE: You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink
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This week Alice and Kim highlight nonfiction books by Hispanic and Latinx authors.
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Nonfiction in the News
Historian of Race in America Gets an Unusual Four-Book Deal [New York Times]
2021 National Book Award Longlists [NPR]
New Nonfiction
America Calling: A Foreign Student in a Country of Possibility by Rajika Bhandari
Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays by Phoebe Robinson – Tiny Reparations Books
No Cure for Being Human: (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) by Kate Bowler
True Raiders: The Untold Story of the 1909 Expedition to Find the Legendary Ark of the Covenant by Brad Ricca
Weekly Theme: Hispanic Heritage Month
National Hispanic American Heritage Month 2021
Who is Hispanic? [Pew Research Center]
Hispanic Or Latino? A Guide For The U.S. Presidential Campaign [NPR]
Once Upon a Quinceanera: Coming of Age in the USA by Julia Alvarez
My Sister: How One Sibling’s Transition Changed Us Both by Selenis and Marizol Leyva
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú
From Coveralls to Zoot Suits : The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front by Elizabeth Rachel Escobedo
Quick Mentions
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz
Reading Now
KIM: Harlem Shuffle: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
ALICE: My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
CONCLUSION
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This week Kim and Alice interview nonfiction powerhouse Mary Roach about renegade animals, tiger penises, and her amazing use of footnotes. Plus, new nonfiction about Chicago, online shopping, and segregation.
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Follow Up
The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence by Stephen Kurczy
Paradise: One Town’s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire by Lizzie Johnson
New Nonfiction
Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood by Dawn Turner
Arriving Today: From Factory Floor to Front Door – Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy by Christopher Mims
Code Name Badass: The True Story of Virginia Hall by Heather Demetrios
White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality by Sheryll Cashin
Beautiful Country: A Memoir by Qian Julie Wang
We Are Not Broken by George M. Johnson
Chasing the Truth: A Young Journalist’s Guide to Investigative Reporting by Ruby Shamir, Jodi Kantor, and Megan Twohey
Interview with Mary Roach
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
Reading Now
Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang
We Sold Our Souls: A Novel by Grady Hendrix See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim browse the library and find some surprising nonfiction reads.
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Nonfiction in the News
Blood, labs and fraud: Theranos’s Elizabeth Holmes is about to go on trial [Washington Post]
New Nonfiction
Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir by Kat Chow
Doctoring the Black Death: Medieval Europe’s Medical Response to Plague by John Aberth
Paradise: One Town’s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire by Lizzie Johnson
The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics by Mae Ngai
Weekly Theme: Library Treasure Hunt
Futureface: A Family Mystery, An Epic Quest, and the Secret of Belonging by Alex Wagner
Chanel’s Riviera: Glamour, Decadence, and Survival in Peace and War, 1930-1944 by Anne De Courcy
Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder by Reshma Saujani
Crazy Brave: A Memoir by Joy Harjo
Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs by Keena Roberts
The Ways of My Grandmothers by Beverly Hungry Wolf (1998)
Reading Now
KIM: The Box in the Woods by Maureen Johnson
ALICE: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobez du Mez
CONCLUSION
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This week Kim and Alice battle through the “Delta Grumpies” to discuss stories they’d like to see adapted for television and film, plus cover new nonfiction from August.
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Nonfiction in the News
John Lithgow Joins Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ [Variety]
New Nonfiction
Belly of the Beast : The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da’Shaun L. Harrison
On Compromise: Art, Politics, and the Fate of an American Ideal by Rachel Greenwald Smith
The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us by Meg Lowman
The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert by Shugri Said Salh
True Stories to Adapt
The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah Broom
American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse
Hudson Bay Bound: Two Women, One Dog, Two Thousand Miles to the Arctic by Natalie Warren
Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar
All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir by Nicole Chung
Reading Now
Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking by Jon Acuff
American Sherlock by Kate Winkler Dawson See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk Disney reads!
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Nonfiction in the News
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Reportedly Working on a Book About “Leadership and Philanthropy” [Vanity Fair]
Molly Shannon Writes Memoir [People]
New Nonfiction
The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence by Stephen Kurczy
The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World by Arthur Herman
Lifelines: A Doctor’s Journey in the Fight for Public Health by Dr. Leana Wen
WASPS: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy by Michael Knox Beran
Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina by Georgina Pazcoguin
Breathing Fire: Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Lines of California’s Wildfires by Jaime Lowe
Learning in Public: Lessons for a Racially Divided America from My Daughter’s School by Courtney E. Martin
Violent Order: Essays on the Nature of Police by David Correia, Tyler Wall
Weekly Theme: Disney
Disney’s Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park that Changed the World by Richard Snow
The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History by Nathalia Holt
Project Future: The Inside Story Behind the Creation of Disney World by Chad Denver Emerson
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit: The Search for the Lost Disney Cartoons by David A. Bossert, David Gerstein
Reading Now
KIM: An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang
ALICE: My Name’s Yours, What’s Alaska by Alaska
CONCLUSION
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This week Kim and Alice chat about why heists are so much fun to read about, Barack Obama’s summer nonfiction picks, and more upcoming new books.
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Nonfiction in the News
Barack Obama’s Summer Reading List [Book Riot]
Two Iconic American Writers Join Howard to Create a Center to Help Educate the Next Generation of Black Journalists [Howard University]
Tenure Struggle Ends with Hannah-Jones Charting New Course [Associated Press]
New Nonfiction
Easy Crafts for the Insane: A Mostly Funny Memoir of Mental Illness and Making Things by Kelly Williams Brown
The Passion of Anne Hutchinson: An Extraordinary Woman, the Puritan Patriarchs, and the World They Made and Lost by Marilyn Westerkamp
Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville by Akash Kapur
The Brilliant Abyss: Exploring the Majestic Hidden Life of the Deep Ocean and the Looming Threat that Imperils It by Helen Scales
After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort by Eric Dean Wilson
Surviving Mexico: Resistance and Resilience Among Journalists in the Twenty-first Century by Celeste González de Bustamante and Jeannine E. Relly
Heists!
Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History by Scott Andrew Selby and Greg Campbell
The Great Pearl Heist: London’s Greatest Thief and Scotland Yard’s Hunt for the World’s Most Valuable Necklace by Molly Caldwell Crosby
Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World’s Most Notorious Jewel Thief by Doris Payne (with Zelda Lockhart)
Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa by R.A. Scotti
Reading Now
Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City by Tanya Talaga
The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East (1978-1984) by Riad Sattouf See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Alice and Kim talk about new nonfiction releases for the rest of 2021.
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Favorites of the Year So Far
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad
Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood by Cheryl Diamond
You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar
Follow the Flock: How Sheep Shaped Human Civilization by Sally Coulthard
Anticipated Nonfiction
Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina by Georgina Pazcoguin
Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond by Halimah Marcus
Hard Landings: Looking Into the Future for a Child With Autism by Cammie McGovern
Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them by Siân Evans
Beautiful Country: A Memoir by Qian Julie Wang Chen
Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America by Eyal Press
We Are Not Broken by George M. Johnson
Castaway Mountain: Love and Loss Among the Wastepickers of Mumbai by Saumya Roy
Personal Effects: What Recovering the Dead Teaches Me About Caring for the Living by Robert A. Jensen
White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality by Sheryll Cashin
She Kills Me: The True Stories of History’s Deadliest Women by Jennifer Wright
Praying to the West: How Muslims Shaped the Americas by Omar Mouallem
Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller by Nadia Wassef
Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia by Greg Mitman
These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett
This Will All Be Over Soon: A Memoir by Cecily Strong
Reading Now
KIM: People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
ALICE: Square Haunting by Francesca Wade
CONCLUSION
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This week Kim and Alice do some armchair traveling by discussing books about road trips and share new nonfiction about yoga, cults, and cons.
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Nonfiction in the News
2021 Pulitzer Prizes [Pulitzer.org]
Nonfiction Book by Margaret Atwood Coming in 2022 [Kirkus]
It’s Everything Change [Matter]
Janet Malcolm, elegant and incisive writer for the New Yorker, dies at 86 [The Washington Post]
New Nonfiction
Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood by Cheryl Diamond
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell
Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance by Jessamyn Stanley
Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America by Scott Borchert
Blue: In Search of Nature’s Rarest Color by Kai Kupferschmidt
Thanks for Waiting: The Joy (& Weirdness) of Being a Late Bloomer by Doree Shafrir
The Afrominimalist’s Guide to Living with Less by Christine Platt
Road Trips
Quakeland: On the Road to America’s Next Devastating Earthquake by Kathryn Miles
Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell
My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem
Don’t Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip by Richard Ratay
Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity by Paola Ramos
Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States by Samantha Allen
Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan Jerkins
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad
Reading Now
The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice by Scott Ellsworth
The Girls by Emma Cline See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk LGBTQ+ reads for Pride Month.
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Nonfiction in the News
Roxane Gay Starts Publishing Imprint With Grove Atlantic [NYT]
New Nonfiction
Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir by Ashley C. Ford
Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford
Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn
Black Snake: Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice by Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys
Quick Mentions!
The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America by Carol Anderson
The Kissing Bug : A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease by Daisy Hernández
Hola Papi: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons by John Paul Brammer
As a Woman: What I Learned about Power, Sex, and the Patriarchy after I Transitioned by Paula Stone Williams
LGBTQ+ Reads
The Winners of the 2021 Lambda Literary Awards
Transgender Nonfiction: The Black Trans Prayer Book by J. Mase III and Dane Figueroa Edidi
LGBTQ Nonfiction: The Lonely Letters by Ashon T. Crawley
Bisexual Nonfiction: wow, no thank you by Samantha Irby
Lesbian Memoir/Biography: My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland
Gay Memoir/Biography: A Dutiful Boy: A Memoir of a Gay Muslim’s Journey to Acceptance by Mohsin Zaidi
LGBTQ Studies: Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World by Zakiyyah Iman Johnson
Gender: A Graphic Guide by Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib
Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt
My Sister: How One Sibling’s Transition Changed Us Both by Marizol Leyva and Selenis Leyva
Reading Now
KIM: Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reed
Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving of Life by Katherine E. Standefer
ALICE: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
CONCLUSION
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This week Alice and Kim talk books that explore unsolved historical mysteries and share new nonfiction about Black rebellion, nostalgic essays about travel, and more.
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Nonfiction in the News
Barack & Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Adapting Heather McGhee’s ‘The Sum of Us’ As Spotify Podcast Series [Deadline]
Greta Lee To Star In, Write & EP Series Adaptation Of Cathy Park Hong’s Book ‘Minor Feelings’ With A24 [Yahoo]
Film of Michael Lewis’ ‘The Premonition’ in Works [Kirkus]
New Nonfiction
The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion by Aminatta Forna
Electric City: The Lost History of Ford and Edison’s American Utopia by Thomas Hager
Downeast: Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America by Gigi Georges
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s by Elizabeth Hinton
Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice by Yusef Salaam
Tastes Like War by Grace Cho
History’s Mysteries
Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident by Donnie Eichar
Sensational: The Hidden History of America’s “Girl Stunt Reporters” by Kim Todd
Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew by Brian Hicks
The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking by Brendan I. Koerner
Reading Now
Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration, and Life on Earth by Kate Greene
All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
Three Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton by Gail Crowther See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk YA memoirs for your reading ease.
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Nonfiction in the News
The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay Writing a Personal Essay-Themed Book: ‘Ya’ll Know I Won’t Hold Back’ [People]
New Nonfiction
You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience edited by Tarana Burke, Brené Brown
Why Peacocks? An Unlikely Search for Meaning in the World’s Most Magnificent Bird by Sean Flynn
African Europeans: An Untold History by Olivette Otele
Turning Pointe: How a New Generation of Dancers Is Saving Ballet from Itself by Chloe Angyal
Quick Mentions
There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis, edited by Tracy K. Smith and John Freeman
The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael Lewis
Yay for YA Memoirs!
All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto by George M. Johnson
Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
Girl Code: Gaming, Going Viral, and Getting It Done by Andrea Gonzales and Sophie Houser
Obsessed: A Memoir of My Life with OCD by Allison Britz
Reading Now
KIM: A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears) by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
ALICE: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
CONCLUSION
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This week Alice and Kim talk about an upcoming Mary Roach book, great new memoirs, and books about nature and the land.
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Nonfiction in the News
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
New Nonfiction
The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest by Mark Synnott
The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt by Audrey Clare Farley
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner
We Are Bridges: A Memoir by Cassandra Lane
I Am a Girl From Africa by Elizabeth Nyamayaro
Marie Claire: “Anne Hathaway and Elizabeth Nyamayaro on Building Compassion and Gender Equity”
The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915 by Joe Grinspan
Science, Nature, and the Land
The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman
Reading Now
Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water by Kazim Ali
City of Light, City of Poison by Holly Tucker See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk Islam, Christianity, and Scientology memoirs.
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Follow Up
April 24: Readathon and Independent Bookstore Day
Nonfiction in the News
Amanda Seyfried to Play Elizabeth Holmes in Hulu Series ‘The Dropout’ [Variety]
Simon & Schuster Acquires Mike Pence’s Autobiography [Publishers Weekly]
Why Would Anyone Pay Andrew Cuomo $4 Million for a Book? [New Republic]
New Nonfiction
My Broken Language: A Memoir by Quiara Alegría Hudes
Pipe Dreams: The Urgent Global Quest to Transform the Toilet by Chelsea Wald
Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less by Leidy Klotz
From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement by Paula Yoo
Quick Mentions
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden O’Keefe
Children Under Fire: An American Crisis by John Woodrow Cox
Religious Memoirs
God Land: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America by Lyz Lenz
Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church by Megan Phelps-Roper
I Should Have Honor: A Memoir of Hope and Pride in Pakistan by Khalida Brohi
Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape by Jenna Miscavige Hill
Reading Now
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Broken (in the best possible way) by Jenny Lawson
CONCLUSION
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This week Alice and Kim fangirl over Phoebe Robinson and share some favorite stories from American authors of East Asian descent.
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Nonfiction in the News
Entertainment Weekly: “Phoebe Robinson’s next book is coming this fall — here are all the details”
New Nonfiction
North by Shakespeare: A Rogue Scholar’s Quest for the Truth Behind the Bard’s Work by Michael Blanding
Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico by Juan Villoro
The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir by Sherry Turkle
When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
Books by East Asian Writers
Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao
The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays by Wesley Yang
All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
Time: “My White Adoptive Parents Struggled to See Me as Korean. Would They Have Understood My Anger at the Rise in Anti-Asian Violence?”
Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong
The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee
Reading Now
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris by Holly Tucker See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk about music nonfiction, including behind-the scenes narratives, memoirs, and guides.
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Follow Up
Alice read Hidden Valley Road!
Kim read Two Truths and a Lie!
Kim guested on Get Booked.
Nonfiction in the News
Kate McKinnon Exits ‘The Dropout’ Hulu Limited Series about Theranos’ Elizabeth Holmes [Deadline]
New Nonfiction
Follow the Flock : How Sheep Shaped Human Civilization by Sally Coulthard
Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual by Luvvie Ajayi Jones
Already Toast : Caregiving and Burnout in America by Kate Washington
Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America by Alex McGinnis
Music and Musicians
News: Paul McCartney’s upcoming memoir [Billboard]
More Myself: A Journey by Alicia Keys with Michelle Burford
Opera for Dummies by David Pogue and Scott Speck
Open Book by Jessica Simpson
Molto Agitato: The Mayhem Behind the Music at the Metropolitan Opera by Johanna Fiedler
My Own Devices: True Stories from the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love by Dessa
Me & Patsy Kickin’ Up Dust: My Friendship with Patsy Cline by Loretta Lynn
Reading Now
KIM: The Fixed Stars by Molly Wizenberg
The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir by Sara Seager
ALICE: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
CONCLUSION
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This week, Kim and Alice revisit a favorite holiday, International Women’s Day, with true stories about women around the world. Plus, new nonfiction about medical history, flight attendants, and more.
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Nonfiction in the News
‘Nomadland’: How to Watch Grances McDormand and Chloé Zhao’s New Film on Hulu for Free [Rolling Stone]
Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey Share Their Most ‘Personal’ Stories Yet in New Book Office BFFs [People]
New Nonfiction
Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion by Tori Telfer
Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey’s Head, the Pope’s Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul by Brandy Schillace
Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am by Julia Cook
But You’re Still So Young: How Thirtysomethings Are Redefining Adulthood by Kayleen Schaefer
Quick Mentions
Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir by Elizabeth Miki Brina
Flight of the Diamond Smugglers: A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa by Matthew Gavin Frank
The Snatch Racket: The Kidnapping Epidemic That Terrorized 1930s America by Carolyn Cox
The Girl Explorers: The Untold Story of the Globetrotting Women Who Trekked, Flew, and Fought Their Way Around the World by Jayne Zanglein
International Women’s Day
Freiheit!: The White Rose Graphic Novel by Andrea Grosso Ciponte
The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang
Things I’ve Been Silent About by Azar Nafisi
Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS by Azadeh Moaveni
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
Reading Now
Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice by Ellen McGarrahan
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk new nonfiction releases by Black authors.
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Nonfiction in the News
From Michael Lewis, a ‘Superhero Story’ About the Pandemic [New York Times]
Michelle Obama releasing a new edition of her memoir “Becoming” for young readers [CBS News]
‘Sex and the City’ Revival Assembles Writers’ Room, Adds Samantha Irby, Rachna Fruchbom, Keli Goff [Variety]
New Nonfiction by Black Authors
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs
Surviving the White Gaze : A Memoir by Rebecca Carroll
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
The African Lookbook : A Visual History of 100 Years of African Women by Catherine E. McKinley
Ida B. the Queen : The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells by Michelle Duster
The Black Panther Party : A Graphic Novel History by David F. Walker, illustrated by Marcus Kwame Anderson
The Sum of Us : What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee
Black Magic : What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph by Chad Sanders
Grieving While Black : An Antiracist Take on Oppression and Sorrow by Breeshia Wade
Reading Now
KIM: The Mothers by Britt Bennett
ALICE: The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America by Tamara Winfrey Harrison
CONCLUSION
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This week Alice and Kim share books about some of their favorite epic love stories and gush about some new (and awesome) historical true crime.
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Nonfiction in the News
Here Are the Guest Editors for the Best American Series 2021 [LitHub]
Just Don’t Call Her a Ghostwriter [New York Times]
New Nonfiction
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad
Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice by Ellen McGarrahan
The Rope: A True Story of Murder, Heroism, and the Dawn of the NAACP by Alex Tresniowski
The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America by Lawrence T. Brown
Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America’s Cheap Goods by Amelia Pang
Epic Love Stories
Gracie: A Love Story by George Burns
One Hundred Names for Love by Diane Ackerman
A Natural History of Love by Diane Ackerman
Outlaw Marriages: The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples by Rodger Streitmatter
Victoria The Queen by Julia Baird
We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals by Gillian Gill
Reading Now
Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder by T.A. Willberg
The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World by Abigail Tucker See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Alice and Kim recommend easy nonfiction reads to start your year.
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Follow Up
Shoutout on Twitter from Ibram X. Kendi – Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
Nonfiction in the News
Simon & Schuster Cancels Plans for Senator Hawley’s Book [The New York Times]
New Nonfiction
Aftershocks: A Memoir by Nadia Owusu
You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar
Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price
The Doctors Blackwell : How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura
The Eagles of Heart Mountain : A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America by Bradford Pearson
Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy by Adam Jentleson
Bravey: Chasing Dreams, Befriending Pain, and Other Big Ideas by Alexi Pappas
Easy Nonfiction to Start the Year
Wild Game: My Mother, Her Secret, and Me by Adrienne Brodeur
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang
The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute by Zac Bissonnette
Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology by Lawrence Weschler
Reading Now
KIM: Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey
ALICE: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
CONCLUSION
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This week Alice and Kim preview 21 of their most-anticipated new books from the first half of 2021. Plus, they discuss reading plans for the year and some of the best-reviewed books of 2020.
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Nonfiction in the News
“The Best Reviewed Nonfiction of 2020 [LitHub]
Most Anticipated Nonfiction of the First Half of 2021
White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind by Koa Beck
The Beautiful Struggle (Adapted for Young Adults) by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty by Maurice Chammah
Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain
Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Costs of America’s Cheap Goods by Amelia Pang
Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal by Mark Bittman
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert
A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload by Cal Newport
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome by Emma Southon
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson
Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America by Kate Washington
Night Rooms: Essays by Gina Nutt
The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans–and How We Can Fix It by Dorothy A. Brown
Every Day Is a Gift by Sen. Tammy Duckworth
Pipe Dreams: The Urgent Global Quest to Transform the Toilet by Chelsea Wald
Broken (In the Best Possible Way) by Jenny Lawson
Persist by Elizabeth Warren
White Magic by Elissa Washuta
African Europeans: An Untold History by Olivette Otele
The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion by Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell
Reading Now
Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May
New Women of the New South: The Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States by Marjorie Spruill Wheeler See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk favorite nonfiction reads of 2020.
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Follow Up
Storygraph
Favorite Nonfiction of 2020
Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit by Eliese Colette Goldbach
Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robery Kolker
Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Shit, Actually by Lindy West
We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half-Century of Silence by Becky Cooper
Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan Jerkins
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century ed. By Alice Wong
What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon
Nonfiction We Missed in 2020
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir by Natasha Trethewey
The Fixed Stars by Molly Wizenberg
Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald
The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deirdre Mask
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad
Reading Now
KIM: The Devil’s Harvest: A Ruthless Killer, a Terrorized Community, and the Search for Justice in California’s Central Valley by Jessica Garrison
ALICE: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
CONCLUSION
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This week Alice and Kim share books about familes, plus new nonfiction about mediocre white dudes, Mexican revolutionaries, and more.
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Nonfiction in the News
The Obamas’ Higher Ground & ‘Adam Ruins Everything’s Adam Conover Team On Government Comedy Series For Netflix, Based On Michael Lewis’ ‘The Fifth Risk’ [Deadline]
The 10 best books of 2020 [Washington Post]
The 10 best books of 2020 [The New York Times]
New Nonfiction
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo
Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico : Portraits of Soldaderas, Saints, and Subversives Edited by Kathy Sosa, Ellen Riojas Clark and Jennifer Speed
Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy by Leslie Brody
The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates by Robin Lane Fox
Terrible and Wonderful Families
Calypso by David Sedaris
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue by Piu Eatwell
Reading Now
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Follow Up
We Keep the Dead Close by Becky Cooper
Nonfiction in the News
Carnegie Medals shortlist
National Book Award winners
New Nonfiction
Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds : Ebola and the Ravages of History by Paul Farmer
Loved and Wanted: A Memoir of Choice, Children, and Womanhood by Christa Parravani
I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are by Rachel Bloom
Nonfiction Gift Guide
Stuck in the Middle With You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan
Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
Threading My Prayer Rug by Sabeeha Rehman
Laughing All the Way to the Mosque by Zarqa Nawaz
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Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
The White Darkness by David Grann
The Wonder Trail: True Stories from Los Angeles to the End of the World by Steve Hely
The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
Forward: A Memoir by Abby Wambach
Reset by Ellen Pao
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford
The Lonely War: One Woman’s Account of the Struggle for Modern Iran Kindle by Nazila Fathi
Eiffel’s Tower: The Thrilling Story Behind Paris’s Beloved Monument and the Extraordinary World’s Fair That Introduced It by Jill Jonnes
The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home by Denise Kiernan
The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World by Patrik Svensson
Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape by Lauret Savoy
Reading Now
KIM: A Promised Land by Barack Obama
ALICE: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
CONCLUSION
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This week Alice and Kim give kudos to nonfiction authors with election victories and talk about good YA nonfiction options to read when you’re exhausted.
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Nonfiction in the News
Lead from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change by Stacey Abrams
Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America by Stacey Abrams
Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality by Sarah McBride
New Nonfiction
We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence by Becky Cooper
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho
How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: Essays by Kiese Laymon
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May
YA Nonfiction
The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater
The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler by John Hendrix
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People, adapted by Jean Mendoza and Debbie Reese
The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century by Sarah Miller
Reading Now
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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This week, Alice and Kim talk new releases and Frankenstein author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
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Nonfiction in the News
Bill Bryson ‘to retire from writing’ [The Telegraph]
Ava DuVernay Back In Director’s Chair For ‘Caste’; Netflix Adaptation Of Acclaimed Isabel Wilkerson’s Best Seller [Deadline] by Amanda N’Duka
Jeffrey Toobin of New Yorker Is Suspended After Zoom Incident [New York Times] by Johnny Diaz and Azi Paybarah
New Nonfiction
A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders
The Fangirl’s Guide to the Universe: A Handbook for Girl Geeks by Sam Maggs
What Would Frida Do? A Guide to Living Boldly by Arianna Davis
Finding Latinx : In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity by Paola Ramos
Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema by Lindy West
Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin by Megan Rosenbloom
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Frankenstein
Mary’s Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein by Lila Judge
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon
The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley’s Masterpiece by Roseanne Montillo
Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters by Anne K. Mellor
Reading Now
KIM: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
ALICE: The Incredible Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League by Anita Orrock
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This week Alice and Kim talk about some excellent nonfiction featuring women of the Supreme Court.
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Nonfiction in the News
2020 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists
Ron Charles at the Washington Post: The 2020 National Book Awards finalists are a strikingly fresh group [Washington Post]
New Nonfiction
What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era by Carlos Lozada
White Reconstruction : Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide by Dylan Rodríguez
She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Sarah Smarsh
The Ghost Road : Anishinaabe Responses to Indian Hating by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Quick mentions:
White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad
Lincoln’s Lie: A True Civil War Caper Through Fake News, Wall Street, and the White House by Elizabeth Mitchell
Women of the Supreme Court
My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World by Linda Hirshman
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayor
Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by Irin Carmon & Shana Knizhnuk
Reading Now
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
Conclusion
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This week, Kim and Alice dive into books by and about folks in The Bachelor universe. Plus, thoughts on Obama’s upcoming memoir and all sorts of new books!
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Nonfiction in the News
New York Times: “Obama’s Memoir A Promised Land Coming in November”
New Books
The Writer’s Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives by Nancy Pearl and Jeff Schwager
Clutter: An Untidy History by Jennifer Howard
Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land by Toni Jensen
Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes by Elizabeth Lesser
A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom by Brittany K. Barnett
Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen
Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America by Maria Hinojisa
Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh
Bachelor and Bachelorette Books
It’s Not Okay: Turning Heartbreak into Happily Never After by Andi Dorfman
I Didn’t Come Here to Make Friends: Confessions of a Reality Show Villain by Courtney Robertson
Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America’s Favorite Guilty Pleasure by Amy Kaufman
Happily Ever After: The Life-Changing Power of a Grateful Heart by Trista Sutter
The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling
Reading Now
Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country by Sierra Crane Murdoch
I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are by Rachel Bloom See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk about true stories that have been turned into movies! Plus, new nonfiction about feminism, capitalism, activism, and beavers.
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Nonfiction in the News
LitHub: “Lars Horn has won the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize”
New Nonfiction
More Than a Woman by Caitlin Moran
Having and Being Had by Eula Biss
What Can I Do?: My Path from Climate Despair to Action by Jane Fonda
Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter by Lan Cao and Harlan Margaret Van Cao
Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Man’s Quest to Rewild Britain’s Waterways by Derek Gow
Here She Is: The Complicated Reign of the Beauty Pageant in America by Hilary Levey Friedman
Books Into Movies
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
A Royal Affair: George III and His Scandalous Siblings by Stella Tilyar
Eat, Pray, Love, One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean
Reading Now
Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy by Margaret Sullivan
Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy by Malcolm Gaskill See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk about upcoming nonfiction for the rest of 2020.
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Follow Up
Winifred Gallager interview
Nonfiction in the News
Fact Checking Is the Core of Nonfiction Writing. Why Do So Many Publishers Refuse to Do It?
Fall Nonfiction Preview — Buzzy Titles
Shit, Actually : The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema by Lindy West
Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine
Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh
Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen
OK Boomer, Let’s Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind by Jill Filipovic
I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are by Rachel Bloom
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho
Fall Nonfiction Preview — Under the Radar Titles
The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr
Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones
Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America by Maria Hinojosa
Dark Archives : A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin by Megan Rosenbloom
A World Beneath the Sands : The Golden Age of Egyptology by Toby Wilkinson
We Keep the Dead Close A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence by Becky Cooper
Reading Now
KIM: The Smallest Lights in the Universe by Sara Seager
ALICE: Lady in Waiting by Anne Glenconner
CONCLUSION
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This week Alice and Kim talk all about voting, including some of its complications and contested history. Plus, new books on the Great Migration, caste systems, and more!
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Follow Up
The Michelle Obama Podcast
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told: An Oral History by Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman
New Books
Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan Jerkins
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
Finish the Fight! The Brave and Revolutionary Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote by Veronica Chambers
Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger: A Memoir by Lisa Donovan
Books About Voting
How the Post Office Created America by Winifred Gallagher
She Votes: How U.S. Women Won Suffrage, and What Happened Next by Bridget Quinn
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Democracy by Carol Anderson
The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States by Alexander Keyssar
What You Need to Know About Voting–and Why by Kimberly L. Wehle
Reading Now
Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman
The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk true crime, Tudor history, and anti-racist reads for your shelf.
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NONFICTION IN THE NEWS
HBO Will Adapt Ta-Nehisi Coates’ ‘Between The World And Me’
NEW BOOKS
Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness by Catherine Cho
Uncrowned Queen: The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort by Nicola Tallis
Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession, edited by Sarah Weinman
She was the First! The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm by Katheryn Russell-Brown, illustrated by Eric Velasquez
Intimations by Zadie Smith
Sex and Lies: True Stories of Women’s Intimate Lives in the Arab World by Leila Slimani
ANTI-RACIST HISTORY
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
A Black Women’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
1919 by Eve L. Ewing
READING NOW
ALICE: Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
KIM: The Heir Affair by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan
The Rise of Kyoshi by F.C. Yee
CONCLUSION
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This week Alice and Kim talk about the Summer Olympics, including some of their favorite moments, the history of the games, and memoirs by Olympic athletes.
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Nonfiction In the News
Hollywood Reporter: “Phoebe Robinson to Launch New Book Imprint With Plume Publisher”
New Books
Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe by Mario Alejandro Ariza
The Golden Thread: The Cold War and the Mysterious Death of Dag Hammarskjöldl by Ravi Somaiya
The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch by Miles Harvey
Miracle Country: A Memoir by Kendra Atleework
Trixie and Katya’s Guide to Modern Womanhood by Trixie Mattel and Katya
Summer Olympics Reads
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
The Games: A Global History of the Olympics by David Goldblatt
Forward: A Memoir by Abby Wambach
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice: The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Blair Underwood, Deborah Riley Draper, and Travis Thrasher
Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, A Life in Balance by Simone Biles (with Michelle Burford)
Simone Biles and the handstand challenge
Reading Now
The House on the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk travel books, Alaskan politics, and what the word multifarious means.
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New Books
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the 21st Century, ed. by Alice WongSEE ALSO: A Disability History of the United States By Kim E. Nielsen
A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America’s First All-Black High School Rowing Team by Arshay Cooper
The Multifarious Mr Banks: From Botany Bay to Kew, The Natural Historian Who Shaped the World by Toby Musgrave
Of Bears and Ballots: An Alaskan Adventure in Small-Town Politics by Heather Lende
Travel Nonfiction
From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home by Tembi Locke
Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell
Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story by Amanda Vaill
A Stranger in the Village: Two Centuries of African-American Travel Writing by Farah J. Griffin (Editor), Cheryl J. Fish (Editor)
The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks by Terry Tempest Williams
Reading Now
KIM: Eliza Hamilton: The Extraordinary Life and Times of the Wife of Alexander Hamilton by Tilar J. Mazzeo
ALICE: Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas
CONCLUSION
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This week Alice and Kim talk about podcast-ish audiobooks you can listen to even when you don’t have a commute, plus new books about voting, strippers, and murder on the high seas.
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Nonfiction in the News
Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosch
Sacramento Bee: “HBO releases trailer for documentary series on writer’s hunt for Golden State Killer”
Shelf Awareness: “Publishers and Binc Team Up to Support Indies”
New Books
Thank You for Voting by Erin Geiger Smith
Neon Girls by Jenny Worley
Not a Gentleman’s Work by Gerard Koeppel
See No Stranger by Valarie Kaur
AUdiobooks That are Like Podcasts
We’re Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union
Southern Lady Code by Helen Ellis
Stiff by Mary Roach
Self-Inflicted Wounds by Aisha Tyler
Reading Now
Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
The Woman’s Hour by Elaine Weiss See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk Pride reads, new release nonfiction, and more.
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Nonfiction in the News
Entertainment Weekly: “Warner Bros. makes Just Mercy available for free as education on ‘systemic racism’”
Book Riot: “Listen to Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi on Spotify
New Books
Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It by Jamie Margolin
How We Show Up by Mia Birdsong
Girls Garage: How to Use Any Tool, Tackle Any Project, and Build the World You Want to See by Emily Pilloton.
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir by Wayétu Moore
Pride Month
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, Edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones
The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America by Eric Cervini
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele
Reading Now
KIM: Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets by Feminista Jones
The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom
ALICE: Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom
CONCLUSION
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This week Alice and Kim talk about beauty pageants, Girl Scouts, '90s nostalgia through essays, and books for Mental Health Month.
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New Books
Troop 6000 by Nikita Stewart
Miss World 1970 by Jennifer Hosten
In Praise of Walking by Shane O’Mara
Weird But Normal by Mia Mercado
How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster
Mental Health Month
Happier at Home by Gretchen Rubin
Burnout by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski
Brave, Not Perfect by Reshma Saujani
The Power of Meaning by Emily Esfahani Smith
Reading Now
We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry
Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk about sister suffragettes, Scandinavian mysteries, and pirates.
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Nonfiction News
Becoming is a Netflix documentary! [VIDEO]
Pulitzer Prize winners
HistoryWinner: “Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America,” by W. Caleb McDanielBiographyWinner: “Sontag: Her Life and Work,” by Benjamin MoserGeneral NonfictionWinner: “The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America,” by Greg GrandinWinner: “The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care,” by Anne Boyer
USA Today: “New book to tell Harry and Meghan’s ‘real’ story (and defend them from critics)”
New Books
Scandinavian Noir: In Pursuit of a Mystery by Wendy Lesser
Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History’s First Global Manhunt by Steven Johnson
Biography of Resistance: The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens by Muhammad H. Zaman
Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World by Vivek H Murthy M.D.
Votes for Women!
Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote by Susan Ware
Votes for Women!: American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot by Winifred Conkling
African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920 by Rosalyn Terborg-Penn
The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine F. Weiss
Bonus reads:Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim Crow South by Adele Logan AlexanderThe Myth of Seneca Falls by Lisa TetraultFunding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women’s Movement, 1870-1967 by Joan Marie Johnson
Reading Now
KIM: Open Book by Jessica Simpson (audiobook)ALICE: Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy by John Julius Norwich
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This week Alice and Kim talk books to read after you finishing marathoning shows like Tiger King and The Office, plus some of the best new releases from April.
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Nonfiction News
Hollwood Reporter: "Connie Britton, HBO Max Team for 'All the Single Ladies' Doc"
New Books
What We Carry by Maya Shanbhag Lang
Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls by Nina Renata Aron
The Compton Cowboys by Walter Thompson-Hernandez
Becoming Kim Jong Un by Jung H. Pak
Earth Almanac by Ted Williams
No Justice in the Shadows byAlina Das
The Golden Flea by Michael Rips
Reading After Marathoning
The Tribe of Tiger by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
No Beast So Fierce by Dane Huckelbridge
The Office by Andy Greene
Cubed by Nikil Saval
The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
Angela Davis: An Autobiography by Angela Y. Davis
Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions by Gloria Steinem
When Everything Changed by Gail Collins
Homicide by David Simon
Forensics by Val McDermid
Reading Now
A Field Guide to Awkward Silences by Alexandra Petri
In the Woods by Tana French See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk new releases, Earth Day reads and more from the world of nonfiction.
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Nonfiction News
Newsmaker: Stacey Abrams
The Pulitzer Prize announcements are postponed.
New Books
American Harvest by Marie Mutsuki Mockett
In the Waves: My Quest to Solve the Mystery of a Civil War Submarine by Rachel Lance
Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller
Dancing at the Pity Party: A Dead Mom Graphic Memoir by Tyler Feder
Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui
Alice Quick Mentions: The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States by Walter JohnsonThe Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deirdre Mask
Kim Quick Mentions:Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life by Marie Kondo, Scott SonensheinMore than Ready: Be Strong and Be You…and Other Lessons for Women of Color on the Rise by Cecilia Muñoz
Earth Day
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go From Here by Hope Jahren
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have by Tatiana Schlossberg
Reading Now
KIM: Writers and Lovers by Lily King
ALICE: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
CONCLUSION
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This week Alice and Kim talk quarantine reads, the inside scoop on royalty, and America’s youngest sommelier.
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Follow Up
COVID-19 Updates from the Bookish World
Nonfiction News
Woody Allen's book somehow still got published.
New Books
Shorter: Work Better, Smarter, and Less—Here's How by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s: An Oral History by Andy Greene
Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like “Journey” in the Title by Leslie Gray Streeter
Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown by Anne Glenconner
Wine Girl: The Obstacles, Humiliations, and Triumphs of America's Youngest Sommelier by Victoria James
Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes by Adam Hochschild
My Sister: How One Sibling's Transition Changed Us Both by Selenis and Marizol Leyva
Quarantine Reads
Obama Administration memoirsKIM: The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir by Samantha Power
West Wingers: Stories from the Dream Chasers, Change Makers, and Hope Creators Inside the Obama White House by Gautam Raghavan
Comedic memoirs:ALICE: Agorafabulous!: Dispatches from My Bedroom by Sara Benincasa
Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay by Phoebe Robinson
A long book I’ve been putting off readingKIM: The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison
ALICE: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond
A book about how I feel right nowKIM: How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell
Reading Now
KIM: American Spy by Lauren Wilkerson
ALICE: The Garlic Papers: A Small Garlic Farm in the Age of Global Vampires by Stanley Crawford
CONCLUSION
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This week Alice and Kim talk about women in Congress, crossword puzzles, and two scary subjects, snakes and math!
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Nonfiction News
NPR: “Publisher Drops Woody Allen’s Book After Ronan Farrow Objects, Employees Walk Out”
New Books
The Firsts: The Inside Story of the Women Reshaping Congress by Jennifer Steinhauer
A History of Islam in 21 Women by Hossein Kamaly
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
Thinking Inside the Box : Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can’t Live Without Them by Adrienne Raphel
Snake Math!
Book Riot has “20 of the Best Snake Books for Every Reader”?
Book Riot: 3 Math Books for Pi Day
How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics by Eugenia Cheng
The Book of Snakes: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from around the World by Mark O’Shea
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data by Charles Wheelan
Serpent’s Tale: Snakes in Folklore and Literature ed. By Gregory McNamee
Reading Now
A Murderous Relation by Deanna Raybourn
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk about popular self-help books, admit to sometimes reading fiction, and revisit one of their favorite podcast topics, books to celebrate International Women’s Day!
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This week Alice and Kim talk Black History Month nonfiction reads for your TBR shelf.
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Nonfiction News
The Guardian: “Whitechapel mural will celebrate the lives of Jack the Ripper’s victims”
New Books
Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America’s Most Dangerous Cults by Mitch Weiss, Holbrook Mohr
The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage by Mara Hvistendahl
A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home, ed. By Nicole Chung, Menshah Demary
Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics by Bruce Goldfarb
Black History Month
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittany Cooper
A Black Women’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine by Damon Tweedy
Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine by Emily Bernard
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson
Reading Now
KIM: The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness by Susannah CahalanInvisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
ALICE: Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages by Jack Hartnell
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This week Alice and Kim highlight 50 awesome nonfiction books to celebrate their 50th episode! This episode is sponsored by Get Booked from Book Riot, Me and White Supremacy from Sourcebooks, and Book Riot Insiders. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. Books Mentioned Bad Blood by John Carreyrou Building a Life Worth Living by Marsha M. Linehan The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown Unfollow by Megan Roper Phelps The Art of Choosing by Sheena Iyengar A Woman’s Crusade by Mary Walton The Great Beanie Baby Bubble by Zac Bissonnette Meaty by Samantha Irby The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum Moonbound by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm Without You There Is No Us by Suki Kim Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit Stiff by Mary Roach Spare Parts by Joshua Davis Word Freak by Stefan Fatsis King Mob by Christopher Hibbert When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean Educated by Tara Westover My Squirrel Days by Ellie Kemper Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell Portage by Sue Leaf White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo My Own Devices by Dessa All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung The Distraction Addiction by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang Crash Override by Zoe Quinn How Star Wars Conquered the Universe by Chris Taylor The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish The Power of Meaning by Emily Esfahani Smith Never Caught by Erica Armstrong Dunbar The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery From the Corner of the Oval by Beck Dorey-Stein American Heiress by Jeffrey Toobin Good Talk by Mira Jacob Political Tribes by Amy Chua The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison Amateur by Thomas Page McBee Knocking on Heaven’s Door by Katy Butler We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Leaving Orbit by Margaret Lazarus Dean The Ridiculous Race by Steve Hely and Vali Chandrasekaran Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara This Life is In Your Hands by Melissa Coleman The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert Reset by Ellen Pao See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk classic Hollywood scandals and history, with some nonfiction picks to help you dive into the backstage world of 20th century film. This episode is sponsored by Fights by Joel Christian McGill, Book Riot’s Read Harder 2020 Challenge, and Novel Gazing, Book Riot’s new literary fiction podcast. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. NONFICTION NEWS The Hill: “New Stacey Abrams book to focus on voting rights” NEW BOOKS The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia by Emma Copley Eisenberg The Magical Language of Others by E.J. Koh Bubble in the Sun: The Florida Boom of the 1920s and How It Brought on the Great Depression by Christopher Knowlton Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Anna Wiener CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD SCANDALS The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History by Nathalia Holt The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O’Meara Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood by Karina Longworth The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont by Shawn Levy Scandals of Classic Hollywood: Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American Cinema by Anne Helen Petersen Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood by William J. Mann READING NOW KIM: The Remix: How to Lead and Succeed in the Multigenerational Workplace by Lindsey Pollak ALICE: God Land: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America by Lyz Lenz CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk about the failure of their 2019 reading resolutions and look ahead to some of the books they’re excited about in 2020. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Read Harder Challenge and Book Riot Insiders. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. NEW BOOKS And Then We Grew Up: On Creativity, Potential, and the Imperfect Art of Adulthood by Rachel Friedman Tonight We Bombed the U.S. Capitol: The Explosive Story of M19, America’s First Female Terrorist Group by William Rosenau ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2020 American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI by Kate Winkler Dawson A Black Woman’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country by Sierra Crane Murdoch Wine Girl: The Obstacles, Humiliations, and Triumphs of America’s Youngest Sommelier by Victoria James Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life by Marie Kondo Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit by Eliese Colette Goldbach How to Be Fine: What We Learned from Living by the Rules of 50 Self-Help Books by Jolenta Greenberg and Kristen Meinzer READING NOW Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown Lost Feast: Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food by Lenore Newman See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk favorite nonfiction reads of 2019, including the women of Disney, a very lonely whale, and how to stop stress in its tracks. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Read Harder Journal and Libro.fm. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. NONFICTION NEWS Goodreads Choice Awards are out! 2019 FAVORITES Notes from a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi, Joshua David Stein Parkland by Dave Cullen Good Talk by Mira Jacob The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski The Queens of Animation by Nathalia Holt Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church by Megan Phelps-Roper Make it Scream, Make it Burn by Leslie Jamison Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World by Emma Southon No Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise Snyder 2019 MISSES Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino Know My Name by Chanel Miller Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness by Jennifer Berry Hawes The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness by Susannah Cahalan Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom READING NOW KIM: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir ALICE: Know My Name by Chanel Miller! Citizen by Claudia Rankine CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim take a trip down memory lane to talk about books that appeared on best of the decade lists. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot's Read Harder Journal, Book Riot's Read Harder 2020 Challenge, and Book Riot's Tailored Book Recommendations. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. Follow Up In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado New Books A Crisis of Peace: George Washington, the Newburgh Conspiracy, and the Fate of the American Revolution by David Head America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee Best Books of the Decade Paste Magazine: The 25 Best Memoirs of the 2010s LitHub: The 20 Best Works of Nonfiction of the Decade Time: The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the 2010s Entertainment Weekly: Here are EW's top 10 nonfiction books of the decade The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert The Emperor of All Maladies by Sidhartha Mukherjee All the Single Ladies by Rebecca Traister The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara Dark Money by Jane Mayer Reading Now Guest House for Young Widows by Azadeh Moaveni See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk holiday gifts for the nonfiction book lover in your life. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Read Harder Journal, and Book Riot Insiders. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. NONFICTION IN THE NEWS National Book Award goes to Sarah Broom’s The Yellow House! HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE Q: I am looking for a book for my grandpa for the holidays on Sociology or Ethics. He is a former Criminology Professor and so hard to buy for. Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg Q: My partner is a triathlete and loves to read books about or from cyclists and triathletes. There is not that many of them so he is running out of reading material, and I’m running out of ideas for gifts. Could you recommend good nonfiction on sport or by sportspeople? I think what he enjoys is reading about personal achievements. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown A Necessary Spectacle: Billie Jean King, Bobby Riggs, and the Tennis Match That Leveled the Game by Selena Roberts C.C. Pyle’s Amazing Foot Race: The True Story of the 1928 Coast-to-Coast Run Across America by Geoff Williams Q: I am looking for a book for my dad. And that is what I want – a good, solid dad book (frontlist) recommendation. Think The Pioneers by David McCullough or Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. My dad is in his 80s and fairly conservative. Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race Around the World by Matthew Goodman The City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team by Matthew Goodman The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M. Edsel American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race by Douglas Brinkley Q: I find a lot of the non-fiction I read is fairly heavy. Recent reads I’ve enjoyed are Invisible Women, Prisoners of Geography and Say Nothing, and although I’ve loved them all, all the war and death and sexism is hard going. So, I’d like your favourite happy, uplifting non-fiction on any topic to read over the holiday season! Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House by Alyssa Mastromonaco From the Corner of the Oval by Beck Dorey-Stein The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir by Samantha Power The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey I Know I Am, But What Are You? by Samantha Bee The Wonder Trail: True Stories from Los Angeles to the End of the World by Steve Hely READING NOW KIM: In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado ALICE: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim chat about new November releases! Alice makes the Crusades sound interesting, Kim ponders likability and leadership, and both struggle with what to call nonfiction graphic novels. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Tailored Book Recommendations (aka TBR), Book Riot Insiders, and Run Like a Mother (the audiobook!). Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura.
Follow Up Send holiday gift guide questions to forreal@bookriot.com by November 20!
Nonfiction in the News Slate: “The Library Popularity Index” American Library Association: #eBooksForAll
New Books Bonanza! Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls by Jessica McDiarmid The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women by Mo Moulton Mudlark: In Search of London’s Past Along the River Thames by Lara Maiklem The Likeability Trap: How to Break Free and Succeed as You Are by Alicia Menendez The Accursed Tower: The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades by Roger Crowley Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women’s Fight for Their Rights by A D’Amico and Mikki Kendall Becoming RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Journey to Justice by Debbie Levy, illustrated by Whitney Gardner
Reading Now Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow Without a Prayer: The Death of Lucas Leonard and How One Church Became a Cult by Susan Ashline See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk plagues, Disney, and what Harry Houdini really thought about spiritualism. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Blind Date with a Book, and Dad’s Maybe Book by Tim O’Brien, published by HMH. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura.
NONFICTION IN THE NEWS Kirkus Prize winner: How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones “A memoir of coming to terms that’s written with masterful control of both style and material.” Washington Post: “Anonymous author of Trump ‘resistance’ op-ed to publish a tell-all book”
NEW BOOKS Ordinary Girls: A Memoir by Jaquira Díaz The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History by Nathalia Holt The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini by Joe Posnanski Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong
MEDICAL MYSTERIES Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan The Dancing Plague: The Strange, True Story of an Extraordinary Illness by John Waller The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic — and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story by Richard Preston
READING NOW KIM: Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation by Andrew Marantz ALICE: The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Millicent Patrick by Mallory O’Meara!
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This week Alice and Kim talk about some excellent new memoirs and dive deep into books about monsters. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Blind Date with a Book, Playlist: The Rebels and Revolutionaries of Sound by James Rhodes and illustrated by Martin O’Neill, and Change is the Only Constant by Ben Orlin, in hardcover from Black Dog and Leventhal. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura.
Follow Up NPR: "Here Are The Finalists For The 2019 National Book Awards" Fifty Works of English Literature We Could Do Without by Brigid Brophy, Michael Levey, Charles Osborne (1967)
Nonfiction in the News Sports Illustrated: "She Won Athletes' Hearts. And Robbed Them Blind" Andrew Carnegie Medals Longlist Forbes: “Decluttering Expert Marie Kondo On Her Forthcoming Workplace and Career Advice Book ‘Joy At Work’”
New Books How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim by Leah Vernon Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church by Megan Phelps-Roper
Here Be Monsters The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kroger and Melanie R. Anderson Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting by W. Scott Poole The Science of Monsters: The Truth About Zombies, Witches, Werewolves, Vampires, and Other Legendary Creatures by Meg Hafdahl, Kelly Florence
Reading Now Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb Me by Elton John The Twilight Man: Rod Serling and the Birth of Television by Koren Shadmi See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk about the National Book Award longlist, cozy books, and the best pig there ever was. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Blind Date, These Boys and Their Fathers by Don Waters, and Motherhood So White by Nefertiti Austin. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. FOLLOW UP BOOKS She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey NONFICTION IN THE NEWS National Book Award Longlist New York Times: “It’s a Fact: Mistakes Are Embarrassing the Publishing Industry” Impeachment: An American History NEW BOOKS Make it Scream, Make it Burn by Leslie Jamison On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics by Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah Daughtry and Minyon Moore Embrace Your Weird: Face Your Fears and Unleash Creativity by Felicia Day COZY NONFICTION The Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood by Sy Montgomery Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater: Essays on Crafting by Alanna Okun My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead READING NOW Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe Motherhood So White by Nefertiti Austin CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim take a deep dive into eight great new books coming out in early September! This episode is sponsored by our giveaway of the best mysteries and thrillers of the year so far, Born to Fly by Steve Sheinkin, and Yale Needs Women from Sourcebooks. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. Follow Up The trailer for Just Mercy was released! Nonfiction in the News NBC News: Ex-aide to James Mattis claims Pentagon is holding up his memoir VOX: It’s time to talk about James Mattis’s involvement with the Theranos scandal New Book Bonanza Yale Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant by Anne Gardiner Perkins She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty Crossfire Hurricane: Inside Donald Trump's War on the FBI by Josh Campbell Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS by Azadeh Moaveni The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls by Mona Eltahawy The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace by Patricia Wiltshire How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe Reading Now Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America by James Poniewozik The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim Defede See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk underdog robots, a school with no tests, and monsters of the Midwest. This is For Real. This episode is sponsored by the Book Riot Mystery Giveaway, What They Meant for Evil by Rebecca Deng, published by FaithWords and Book Riot’s Recommended. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. NONFICTION IN THE NEWS Ann Shen’s Bad Girls Throughout History is being made into a series. The film version of Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy will hit theaters in January 2020! NEW BOOKS Midwestern Strange: Hunting Monsters, Martians, and the Weird in Flyover Country by B.J. Hollars The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age by Bina Venkataraman Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession by Rachel Monroe Scan Artist : How Evelyn Wood Convinced the World That Speed-Reading Worked by Marcia Biederman SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK The Class: A Life-Changing Teacher, His World-Changing Kids, and the Most Inventive Classroom in America by Heather Won Tesoriero Law Touched Our Hearts: A Generation Remembers Brown v. Board of Education ed. By Mildred Wigfall Robinson and Richard J. Bonnie The Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession by Dana Goldstein Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream by Joshua Davis READING NOW KIM: Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski and Amelia ALICE: Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood by Karina Longworth CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk about Barack Obama’s summer nonfiction picks, the world’s deadliest predator, and true stories inside cults and places with cult-like thinking. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Skin Deep by Gavin Evans, published by Oneworld Publications and Chase Darkness with Meby Billy Jensen. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. FOLLOW UP Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation by Eli Clare NONFICTION IN THE NEWS Barack Obama’s summer reading list Publisher’s Weekly: Workman to Publish AOC Bio NEW BOOKS Breaking the Ocean: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Reconciliation by Annahid Dashtgard The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power by Sady Doyle The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator by Timothy C. Winegard CULTS! Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and the People’s Temple by Jeff Guinn Without You, There is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea’s Elite by Suki Kim Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami READING NOW Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist by Eli Saslow Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemptionby Laura Hillenbrand See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk books for book lovers, Anna the fake heiress, and one of the most astounding women in the Roman world. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders. Check it out and sign up for your 14-day free trial at insiders.bookriot.com. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. Follow Up -Moon podcast Moonrise NEW BOOKS My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress by Rachel DeLoache Williams The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me by Keah Brown Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World by Zahra Hankir Girl on the Block: A True Story of Coming of Age Behind the Counter by Jessica Wragg God Land: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America by Lyz Lenz Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World by Emma Southon Gross Anatomy: A Field Guide to Loving Your Body, Warts and All by Mara Altman BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS In honor of National Book Lover’s Day on August 9 What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading Writing, ed. by Stephanie Stokes Oliver Book Love by Debbie Tung Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany by Jane Mount My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues by Pamela Paul READING NOW KIM: The World’s Fastest Man: The Extraordinary Life of Major Taylorby Michael Kramish ALICE: American Heiress by Jeffrey Toobin You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork RATE AND REVIEW on ITUNES so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk about the Space Race, recommend books to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, and laugh at moon conspiracy theories. This episode is sponsored by Pre Loved Podcast, Becoming Superman by J. Michael Straczynski and Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss by Margaret Renkl. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. NEW BOOKS The Weil Conjectures by Karen Olsson They Called Us Enemy by George Takei Beneath the Tamarind Tree by Isha Sesay In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond by John Zada THE MOON Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly Moonbound by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm American Moonshot by Douglas Brinkley Galaxy Girls by Libby Jackson Apollo’s Legacy by Roger D. Launius Destination Moon by Richard Maurer READING NOW For the Love of Books by Graham Tarrant If All the Seas Were Ink by Ilana Kurshan The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk assassins, night witches, and the serial killer who was almost impossible to catch. This episode is sponsored by the Pre-Loved Podcast. Check it out on the podcatcher of your choice! And don’t forget to share For Real with nonfiction-loving friends/family/long-forged acquaintances on social media, tagging @bookriot. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura.
Follow Up John Oliver did a segment on climbing Mount Everest and how the “expedition industry has devalued a once-historic achievement” and also made it a lot more dangerous. New Books Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected by Nnedi Okorafor Reading Behind Bars: A Memoir of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian by Jill Grunenwald The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India’s Quest for Independence by Anita Anand American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century by Maureen Callahan Three Women by Lisa Taddeo Outspoken: Why Women’s Voices Get Silenced and How to Set Them Freeby Veronica Rueckert Young Adult Nonfiction Chasing Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson We Say #NeverAgain: Reporting by the Parkland Student Journalists, edited by Melissa Falkowski and Eric Garner Roses and Radicals: The Epic Story of How American Women Won the Right to Vote by Susan Zimet A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II by Elizabeth Wein Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson Reading Now ALICE: Love Thy Neighbor: A Muslim Doctor’s Struggle for Home in Rural America by Ayaz Virji KIM: Rough Magic by Laura Palmer Leaving the Witness by Amber Scorah CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork RATE AND REVIEW us on ITUNES so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk ridiculously long subtitles and books about the ocean, from the science of jellyfish to the true story of the mutiny on the HMS Bounty. This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm audiobooks, Amazon Publishing, and Book Riot Insiders. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. FOLLOW UP Washington Post: “Book subtitles are getting ridiculously long. What is going on?” NEW BOOKS For the Love of Books by Graham Tarrant The Weather Machine by Andrew Blum A Death in the Rainforest by Don Kulick More Than Enough by Elaine Welteroth I Like to Watch by Emily Nussbaum NATIONAL OCEANS MONTH Spineless by Juli Berwald The Bounty by Caroline Alexander Fisherman’s Blues by Anna Badkhen Poseidon’s Steed by Helen Scales Hawaiki Rising by Dr. Sam Low READING NOW Exit West by Mohsin Hamid A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk about witches, Jehovah’s Witnesses, fungus-inspired crime, and what nonfiction to read for Pride Month. This episode is sponsored by All the Books, The Collected Schizophreniasby Esmé Weijun Wang, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, publishers of Reckoning: The Epic Battle Against Sexual Abuse and Harassment by Linda Hirshman. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. Follow Up KIM: Slow Burn podcast is doing a series on The Queen by Josh Levin (one of the editor’s behind Slow Burn)
New Books Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life by Amber Scorah Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power by Pam Grossman This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto by Suketu Mehta The Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World’s Most Expensive Fungus by Ryan Jacobs Naturally Tan: A Memoir by Tan France Formation: A Woman’s Memoir of Stepping Out of Line by Ryan Leigh Dostie Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness by Jennifer Berry Hawes The Last Pirate of New York: A Ghost Ship, a Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster Nation by Rich Cohen Blonde Rattlesnake: Burmah Adams, Tom White, and the 1933 Crime Spree That Terrorized Los Angeles by Julia Bricklin Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age by Darrel J. McLeod Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom by Katherine Eban
Pride Month Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States by Samantha Allen Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir by Cherrie Moraga Prairie Silence: A Memoir by Melanie Hoffert The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals by Richard Plant We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall by James Polchin The Stonewall Riots: Coming Out in the Streets by Gayle E Pitman
Reading Now KIM: Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs ALICE: The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean
CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork RATE AND REVIEW on ITUNES so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Kim and guest host Liberty Hardy talk new books and their favorite nonfiction of the year so far. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot and Audible. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. NEW BOOKS Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come: One Introvert’s Year of Saying Yes by Jessica Pan The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth by Josh Levin From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home by Tembi Locke Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall FAVORITE NONFICTION OF THE YEAR SO FAR Notes from a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi, Joshua David Stein Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep Parkland: Birth of a Movement by Dave Cullen Rough Magic: Riding the World’s Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan’s Cherry Blossoms by Naoko Abe The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe READING NOW Southern Lady Code: Essays by Helen Ellis The Library of the Unwritten by by A. J. Hackwith (October 1) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk about Soviet spy cats, French history, and Harper Lee and a murder trial. This episode is sponsored by Kawaii Craft Life by Sosae Caetano and Dennis Caetano and Book Riot’s TBR. Check out Book Riot Insiders for the inside scoop! Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura.
New Books Rough Magic: Riding the World’s Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings The Unspeakable Mind: Stories of Trauma and Healing from the Frontlines of PTSD Science by Shaili Jain Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board by Vince Houghton Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep The Theft of a Decade: How the Baby Boomers Stole the Millennials’ Economic Future by Joseph C. Sternberg The Endeavour: The Ship That Changed the World by Peter Moore The Shadow King: The Life and Death of Henry VI by Lauren Johnson No Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise Synder The Castle on Sunset by Shawn Levy Nonfiction About France KIM: The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss La Belle France: A Short History by Alistair Horne The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It by Tilar J Mazzeo Veuve Clicquot Podcast The Little Pleasures of Paris by Leslie Jonath
Reading Now KIM: Becoming by Michelle Obama (audiobook) ALICE: Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies by Ross King CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork on Twitter RATE AND REVIEW on ITUNES so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk about spelling bee horror stories, why you should read about ancient scrolls, and nonfiction to read if you love (or even just sort of like) Star Wars. This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm and TBR, Book Riot’s new subscription service offering tailored book recommendations for readers of all stripes. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. FOLLOW UP Independent Bookstore Day Notes From a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi New York Times: “A Young Chef, and a Stunning Comeback” Good Talk by Mira Jacob My Favorite Murder podcast NEW BOOKS The Regency Years by Robert Morrison Beeline by Shalini Shankar Breaking the Bee documentary The Da Vinci Legacy by Jean Pierre Isbouts and Christopher Brown Magical Realism for Nonbelievers by Anika Fajardo The Role of the Scroll by Thomas Forrest Kelly Fall and Rise by Mitchell Zuckoff MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU How Star Wars Conquered the Universe by Chris Taylor The Making of Star Wars by J.W. Rinzler The World According to Star Wars by Cass R. Sunstein Wishful Drinking and The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher I Am C-3PO by Anthony Daniels and J.J. Abrams (November 4, 2019) Star Wars Meets the Eras of Feminism by Valerie Estelle Frankel READING NOW Without Precedent by Joel Richard Paul The Electric Woman by Tessa Fontaine See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk about the guy who got Capone, a chef who got his start selling candy on the subway, and the first people to stand up to the KKK. This episode is sponsored by libro.fm, First Degree from Nimbus Publishing, and The Five from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. Follow Up My Own Devices by Dessa Tell Me How it Ends by Valeria Luiselli Kate McKinnon is also going to play Elizabeth Holmes for a Hulu adaptation Kidlit These Days New Books Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb Lotharingia: A Personal History of Europe’s Lost Country by Simon Winder The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father by Janny Scott Freedom’s Detective: The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan and the Man Who Masterminded America’s First War on Terror by Charles Lane Notes From a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi Fifty Things That Aren’t My Fault: Essays from the Grown-Up Years by Cathy Guisewhite Death and Taxes April 15 was Tax Day in the United States. In 1913, the 16th Amendment was ratified, permanently legalizing an income tax. A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and more Efficient Tax System by T.R. Reid Eliot Ness: The Rise and Fall of an American Hero by Douglas Perry Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh The Great Tax Wars: Lincoln–Teddy Roosevelt–Wilson How the Income Tax Transformed America by Steven R. Weisman Reading Now KIM: Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski PhD (Author), Amelia Nagoski DMA ALICE: The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork on Twitter RATE AND REVIEW on ITUNES so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk about bookish murders, confidence tricksters, Craigslist cons and more new nonfiction. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. FOLLOW UP Rise and Kill First by Ronen Bergman Kitlit These Days, a new podcast from Book Riot NEW BOOKS Murder by the Book by Claire Harman No Happy Endings by Nora McInerny Death in Ten Minutes by Fern Riddell Good Talk by Mira Jacob The Life and Legend of Bras-Coupé by Bryan Wagner Native Country of the Heart by Cherríe Moraga The Five by Hallie Rubenhold CONFIDENCE TRICKSTERS The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse by Piu Eatwell The Big Con by David Maurer Race Me In a Lobster Suit by Kelly Mahon Caraboo: The Servant Girl Princess by Jennifer Raison The Mark Inside by Amy Reading READING NOW Lead from the Outside by Stacey Abrams Alexander Hamilton by Jonathan Hennessey, art by Justin Greenwood The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk about assassinations, small town murder, and why women’s bathroom lines are longer than men’s (spoiler: it’s the patriarchy!).
This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. Follow Up The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019) (HBO documentary on Theranos) New Books Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez The Trial of Lizzie Borden by Cara Robertson The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book’s Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey by Margaret Leslie Davis (People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks) Humanimal: How Homo sapiens Became Nature’s Most Paradoxical Creature―A New Evolutionary History by Adam Rutherford The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan’s Cherry Blossoms by Naoko Abe Pocahontas and the English Boys: Caught Between Cultures in Early Virginia by Karen Ordahl Kupperman Assassination Stories! The Death of Caesar: The Story of History’s Most Famous Assassinationby Barry Strauss Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell The Romanov Sisters by Helen Rappaport The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance That Changed the World by Greg King and Sue Woolmans Reading Now Who Thought This Was a Good Idea by Alyssa Mastromonaco So Here’s the Thing . . . by Alyssa Mastromonaco Kings of Georgian Britain by Catherine Curzon CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork on Twitter RATE AND REVIEW on ITUNES so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week Alice and Kim talk about a ton of March new releases and books to celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8. This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm audiobooks and The Lady from the Black Lagoon by Mallory O’Meara from Hanover Square Press. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. NEW BOOKS Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone by Brian Switek Devices and Desires: Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England by Kate Hubbard Women Warriors: An Unexpected History by Pamela D. Toler The Wrong End of the Table: A Mostly Comic Memoir of a Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit in by Ayser Salman Dannemora: Two Escaped Killers, Three Weeks of Terror, and the Largest Manhunt Ever in New York State by Charles Gardner An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago by Alex Kotlowitz Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States by Samantha Allen That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour by Sunita Puri America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today by Pamela Nadell Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powers, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine by Thomas Hager INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova The Queen of Katwe: A Story of Life, Chess, and One Extraordinary Girl’s Dream of Becoming a Grandmaster by Tim Crothers I Should Have Honor: A Memoir of Hope and Pride in Pakistan by Khalida Brohi Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge of History by Canyon Sam The Lonely War: One Woman’s Account of the Struggle for Modern Iranby Nazila Fathi Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin Americaby Dana Frank READING NOW This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live by Melody Warnick Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America by Michael P. Winship See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Alice and Kim discuss contemporary reads for Black History Month, an accidental con artist, and all new books to watch out for. This episode is sponsored by Audible and , Book Riot’s Swords and Spaceships newsletter. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. Follow Up True story podcast, The Dropout from ABC Radio, about Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes New Books The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America, ed. by Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman Parkland by Dave Cullen Brown, White, Black: An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion by Nishta J. Mehra Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman Black History Month II: Contemporary Voices When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele We Can’t Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival by Jabari Asim The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race, edited by Jesmyn Ward The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim Reading Now First Generations: Women in Colonial America by Carol Berkin Atomic Habits by James Clear CONCLUSION Find us on Twitter @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. RATE AND REVIEW on ITUNES so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out.
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This week Alice and Kim talk about books to read for Black History Month and some nonfiction adjacent podcasts they love (plus more books). This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s TBR and Flatiron Books, and I Am Yours: A Shared Memoir by Reema Zaman, from Amberjack Publishing.. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. FOLLOW UP American Fire by Monica Hesse An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie Ice Diaries: An Antarctic Memoir by Jean McNeil A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland by William E. Glassley NEW BOOKS No Beast So Fierce by Dane Huckelbridge Dreyer’s English by Benjamin Dreyer The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang BuzzFeed: I’ve Been Committed To A Psych Ward Three Times — And It Never Helped Underground by Will Hunt WEEKLY THEME: BLACK HISTORY MONTH The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers, edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Grace of Silence by Michele Norris Negroland by Margo Jefferson To Keep the Waters Troubled by Linda O. McMurry NONFICTION + PODCASTS Podcast: Broken Harts Mel Magazine: The Sad, Strange Life and Death of Devonte Hart Podcast: In the Dark Podcast: Here to Make Friends A Girl’s Guide to Joining the Resistance by Emma Gray I Didn’t Come Here to Make Friends by Courtney Robertson Bachelor Nation by Amy Kaufman Podcast: Terrible, Thanks for Asking It’s Ok to Laugh: (Crying is Cool Too) by Nora McInerny Purmort READING NOW Victoria: The Queen by Julia Baird American Prison by Shane Bauer The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton (not nonfiction!)
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This week Alice and Kim talk arctic explorers, murder in the tropics, and the mixed reactions to nonfiction bestseller Girl, Wash Your Face. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Read Harder Journal. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura.
Follow Up Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis By the Book podcast BuzzFeed: “Girl, Wash Your Face” Is A Massive Best-Seller With A Dark Message Tidying Up with Marie Kondo
New Books Duped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Marriedby Abby Ellin A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II by Elizabeth Wein It Was All a Dream: A New Generation Confronts the Broken Promise to Black America by Reniqua Allen The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive by Stephanie Land
Weekly Theme: The Arctic Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff Ada Blackjack: A True Tale of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Niven
The Tropics Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala The Mapmaker’s Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon by Robert Whitaker The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First-Century Amazon by Chris Feliciano Arnold Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen by Linda M. Heywood
Reading Now American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover Remember the Ladies: Women in America, 1750-1815 by Linda Grant De Pauw
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This week Alice and Kim talk about nonfiction to help you with your New Year’s resolutions and the reading resolutions they’ve set for the year. This episode is sponsored by the Read Harder Journal by Book Riot. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. BOOKS WE GOT FOR CHRISTMAS How to Draw Almost Every Day by Kamo Romantic Outlaws by Charlotte Gordon Feminasty by Erin Gibson How Do We Look by Mary Beard The Assassination of Branwaine Spurge by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin Legendary Ladies by Ann Shen Educated by Tara Westover NEW BOOKS Trailblazer by Dorothy Butler Gilliam When Death Becomes Life by Joshua Mezrich Inheritance by Dani Shapiro The Truths We Hold by Kamala Harris Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom WEEKLY THEME: NEW YEAR, NEW YOU The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll How to Break Up With Your Phone by Catherine Price (2018) Presence by Amy Cuddy Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis READING NOW Awakening Your Ikigai by Ken Mogi Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Alice and Kim talk all things Jane Austen, as well as the best nonfiction of 2018.
This week’s episode of For Real is brought to you by the Book Riot Read Harder Journal and The Molecule of More By Daniel Z. Lieberman and Mike Long.
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Weekly Theme: Jane Austen
A Smattering of Austen Titles Reading Austen in America by Juliette Wells A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen At Home With Jane Austen by Kim Wilson Tea With Jane Austen by Pen Vogler Jane Austen and the Fiction of Her Time by Mary Waldron What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Mullan A Brief Guide to Jane Austen by Charles Jennings
Jane Austen Biography and Background Books Jane Austen by Carol Shields Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels by Deirdre Le Faye Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World by Claire Harman
Jane Austen in Popular Culture Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen by Deborah Yaffe All Roads Lead to Austen: A Year-long Journey with Jane by Amy Smith
Fun Austen Titles & Covers Jane Austen, Game Theorist by Michael Suk-Young Chwe Why Jane Austen? by Rachel W. Brownstein
Critics Favorites of 2018 New York Times: Top 10 Books of 2018
American Prison by Shane Bauer
Educated by Tara Westover – also one of my favorites!
Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Washington Post: Best Books of 2018
Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantu
On Desperate Ground by Hampton Sides
One Person, No Vote by Carol Anderson
Popsugar’s Best Nonfiction Books 2018
Tonight I’m Someone Else by Chelsea Hodson
You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession by Piper Weiss
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
Would You Rather?: A Memoir of Growing Up and Coming Out by Katie Heaney
Choose Your Own Disaster by Dana Schwartz
Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession by Alice Bolin
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil
Educated by Tara Westover (again!)
Can You Tolerate This? By Ashleigh Young
Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship by Kayleen Schaefer
Our Favorites of 2018 KIM: All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung Bad Blood by John Carreyrou Tell Me More by Kelly Corrigan From the Corner of the Oval by Beck Dorey-Stein No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol ALICE: Impeachment: An American History My Squirrel Days by Ellie Kemper The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman Bombay Anna: The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of the King & I Governess by Susan Morgan The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age by Myra MacPherson READING NOW KIM: Left to Our Own Devices: Outsmarting Smart Technology to Reclaim Our Relationships, Health, and Focus by Margaret Morris ALICE: Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History by Tori Telfer The Magnolia Story by Chip and Joanna Gaines
CONCLUSION Book Riot is taking the week off a Christmas, so this will be our last podcast of 2018! You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA - @itsalicetime and @kimthedork on Twitter, and don’t forget to rate and review us in your podcast app! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this week’s episode, Kim and Alice share a few last November new books, then jump into a holiday gift guide with recommendations for history buffs, video gamers, wine aficionados, nature lovers and more. This week’s episode of For Real is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Homer and the Holiday Miracle by Gwen Cooper, and Bare Minimum Parenting: The Ultimate Guide to Not Quite Ruining Your Child by James Breakwell.
Follow Up The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart
New Books Stranger’s Pose by Emmanuel Iduma The Woo-Woo by Lindsay Wong Seduction by Karina Longworth We the People by Erwin Chemerinsky Becoming by Michelle Obama
Holiday Recommendation Guide: Reader Requests Population 485 by Michael Perry Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman Goodbye-to All That by Robert Graves Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger The Lost City of Z by David Grann Skyjack by Geoffrey Gray Salt, Fat, Acid and Heat by Samin Nosrat The Cooking Gene by Michael W. Twitty Love, Loss, and What We Ate by Padma Lakshmi
Holiday Recommendation Guide: General Recommendations Cork Dork by Bianca Bosker Tasting the Past by Kevin Begos The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf The Game Console by Evan Amos Console Wars by Blake J. Harris Extra Lives by Tom Bissell Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman Bibliophile by Jane Mount of Ideal Bookshelf Tolstoy and the Purple Chair by Nina Sankovitch Writer’s Under Surveillance Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown The Family Gene by Joselin Linder Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge
Reading Now No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
For Real is sponsored this week by Book Riot Insiders, In the Name of the Children: An FBI Agent’s Relentless Pursuit of the Nation’s Worst Predators by Jeffrey Rinek from BenBella Books and Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom by Ariel Burger.
FOLLOW UP Who Was series Holiday Gift Guide Episode! Email kim@riotnewmedia.com by November 20th if you need a nonfiction recommendation for a present, or want a book to put on your own gift list. NEW BOOKS Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome by Venki Ramakrishnan Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the “Powerless” Woman Who Took on Washington by Patricia Miller Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward by Gemma Hartley A Tale of Two Murders: Guilt, Innocence, and the Execution of Edith Thompson by Laura Thompson First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story by Huda Al-Marashi End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World’s Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals by Ross D.E. MacPhee Shout-Outs to: Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA by Shane O’Sullivan Beyonce in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism by Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery WEEKLY THEME: Book Awards! Carnegie Award Shortlist: The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantu Longlist: High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing by Ben Austen
National Book Award Finalist: Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh Longlist: One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson SEGMENT THREE: Colonialism King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation by Colin G. Calloway (Oxford University Press) 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann READING NOW Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War by Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll I’d Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life by Anne Bogel CONCLUSION Find us on Twitter @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this episode, Kim and Alice dive into some great young adult nonfiction reads and consider true stories connected to current events like Harry and Meagan’s royal visit to Australia and debates about immigration. This episode is sponsored by Bibliophile from Chronicle Books and Democracy Hacked by Martin Moore.
Follow Up In The Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
New Books All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung Silicon Valley: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley by Cary McClelland Let It Bang: A Young Black Man's Reluctant Odyssey into Guns by R.J. Young In Pursuit: The Hunt for the Beltway Snipers by David Reichenbaugh Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood by Rose George The King and the Catholics: England, Ireland, and the Fight for Religious Freedom, 1780-1829 by Antonia Fraser
Weekly Theme: YA Nonfiction Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers Hardcover by Deborah Heiligman
NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women, ed. By Mary Beth Leatherdale and Lisa Charleyboy
Mary’s Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein by Lita Judge Being Jazz: My Life As a (Transgender) Teen by Jazz Jennings Our Stories, Our Voices: 21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America, edited by Amy Reed
Current Events Reads American Princess: The Love Story of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry by Leslie Carroll Tomorrow Will be Different by Sarah McBride Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration by Ana Raquel Minian
Reading Now How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Zinblatt (via Barack Obama’s current reading recommendations) The Evangelicals by Frances Fitzgerald See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Alice and Kim discuss arson, mesmerism, and murder in a true crime-themed episode. Find your scary nonfiction here this month on For Real. This week’s episode is sponsored by Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margarita by Tim Federle, and The Golden Boy: A Doctor’s Journey With Addiction by Grant Matheson. Don’t forget to check out Book Riot’s new subscription service offering Tailored Book Recommendations for readers of all stripes. Visit mytbr.co to learn more. FOLLOW UP Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-Class Metropolis by Sam Anderson NEW BOOKS The Library Book by Susan Orlean Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster by Stephen L. Carter Noncompliant: A Lone Whistleblower Exposes the Giants of Wall Street by Carmen Segarra My Squirrel Days by Ellie Kemper In the Hurricane’s Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown by Nathaniel Philbrick Impeachment: An American History by by Jon Meacham, Timothy Naftali, Peter Baker, and Jeffrey Engel WEEKLY THEME: True Crime Bonanza The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule After the Eclipse: A Mother’s Murder and a Daughter’s Search by Sarah Perry I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara The Infamous Harry Hayward: A True Account of Murder and Mesmerism in Gilded Age Minneapolis by Shawn Francis Peters American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse SEGMENT THREE: Short Nonfiction II Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions by Valeria Luiselli My Friend Dahmer by Derk Backderf Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit READING NOW Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister The Good Pig by Sy Montgomery In Cold Blood by Truman Capote EXTRAS Allie Brosh/Felicia Day Interview See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Kim and Alice share some books that try to find the truth behind the supernatural or that might be perfect haunting reading in October. This episode is sponsored by Oxford University Press, LibraryReads, and TBR, Book Riot's new subscription service offering Tailored Book Recommendations for readers of all stripes.
NEW BOOKS Behold, America: The Entangled History of "America First" and "the American Dream" by Sarah Churchwell The Ravenmaster: My Life With the Ravens at the Tower of London by Christopher Skaife Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger by Rebecca Traister Feuding Fan Dancers: Faith Bacon, Sally Rand, and the Golden Age of the Showgirl by Leslie Zemeckis Heart: A History by Sandeep Jauhar Six By Ten: Stories from Solitary, edited by Taylor Pendergrass
TRUE STORIES OF THE SUPERNATURAL Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death by Deborah Blum The Secret History of the Jersey Devil: How Quakers, Hucksters, and Benjamin Franklin Created a Monster by Brian Regal and Frank J. Esposito American Ghost: A Family's Extraordinary History on the Desert Frontier by Hannah Nordhaus The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures by Aaron Mahnke
RIP READING CHALLENGE Readers Imbibing Peril Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life by Laura Thompson Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey
READING NOW Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser Fallout: Conspiracy, Cover-Up, and the Making of the Atomic Bomb by Peter Watson See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This episode of For Real is sponsored by The Good Neighbor by Maxwell King and The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman. FOLLOW UP READS The Class by Heather Won Tesario NEW BOOKS The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy by Paige Williams Call Them By Their True Names by Rebecca Solnit Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply by Mark Schapiro The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve Emre The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne Freeman The Art of Logic in an Illogical World by Eugenia Cheng She Called Me Woman: Nigeria’s Queer Women Speak, edited by Azeenarh Mohammed, Chitra Nagarajan, Rafeeat Aliyu WEEKLY THEME: Cozy Nonfiction for Fall House of Stone by Anthony Shadid The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living by Meik Wiking Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman Travels With Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck SEGMENT THREE: Great Subtitles Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea & of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists & Fools Including the Author Who Went in Search of Them by Donovan Hohn Heaven’s Ditch: God, Gold, and Murder on the Erie Canal by Jack Kelly The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek READING NOW 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown Knocking on Heaven’s Door by Katy Butler QUESTIONS/COMMENTS? Find us on Twitter @itsalicetime and @kimthedork See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In this week's episode, Kim and guest co-host Sharifah recommend books by people with interesting jobs and personal essay collections by smart and funny women. This episode is sponsored by Unapologetic by Charlene A Carruthers and Elizabeth Warren by Antonia Felix. Book Riot also wants to know about your reading habits. Hop over and take our Fall Reader Survey before Sept. 10 for a chance to win a $100 gift card to the Book Riot Store: bookriot.com/fallsurvey
NEW BOOKS To Obama: With Love, Joy, Anger, and Hope by Jeanne Marie Laskas “Dear Mr. President” by Jeanne Marie Laskas in the Guardian Ten Letters by Eli Saslow Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? by Alyssa Mastromonaco The Class by Heather Won Tesoriero I Should Have Honor: A Memoir of Hope and Pride in Pakistan by Khalida Brohi Bureau of Spies by Steven T. Usdin The Provocative Colette by Annie Goetzinger Not Quite Not White by Sharmila Sen
LABOR DAY/STORIES OF WORK Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty From Here to Eternity by Caitlin Doughty This is Just My Face by Gabourey Sidibe It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War by Lynsey Addario
MOSTLY FUNNY PERSONAL ESSAYS We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby A Field Guide to Awkward Silences by Alexandra Petri Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul
READING NOW Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood The Infamous Harry Hayward by Shawn Francis Peters See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Kim and Alice take a deep dive into books about the campaign for women's suffrage and the passage of the 19th Amendment in August 1920. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Girl Boner: The Good Girl’s Guide to Sexual Empowerment by August McLaughlin, and Tragedy Plus Time by Adam Cayton-Holland.
NEW BOOKS A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History by Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man by Thomas Page McBee Reader, Come Home: The Fate of the Reading Brain in a Digital World by Maryanne Wolf A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin Proud: My Fight for An Unlikely American Dream by Ibtihaj Muhammad The Kill Jar: Obsession, Descent, and a Hunt for Detroit’s Most Notorious Serial Killer by J. Reuben Appelman
WEEKLY THEME: WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE News: Hillary Clinton, Steven Spielberg Bringing Women's Voting Drama to TV For fun: Bad Romance - Women's Suffrage The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine Weiss A Woman’s Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot by Mary Walton The Myth of Seneca Falls by Lisa Tetrault Quick Hits: Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State by Susan Goodier / Lucy Stone: An Unapologetic Life by Sally G. McMillen / Fighting Chance: The Struggle Over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America by Faye E. Dudden / To Keep the Waters Troubled: The Life of Ida B. Wells by Linda O. McMurry / Frances Willard: A Biography by Ruth Bordin / The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age by Myra MacPherson
FICTION/NONFICTION Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else by Chrystia Freeland Singapore: Unlikely Power by John Curtis Perry The Dinner List by Rebecca Searle Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. by Sam Wasson (2010) The Slenderman Mysteries: An Internet Urban Legend Comes to Life by Nick Redfern The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah Pilgrim’s Wilderness by Tom Kizzia
READING NOW Yes We (Still) Can by Dan Pfeiffer Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown The Secret Token by Andrew Lawler Forever Nerdy by Brian Posen See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Kim and Alice talk presidential scandals, Victorian affairs, and the inside scoop on the Jell-O dynasty. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Kim and Alice take a deep dive into types of nonfiction that are great for reading at the beach -- stunt and celebrity memoirs, science and nature stories, and historical true crime reads. While you’re here, don’t forget Book Riot’s YA giveaway! Go here to win $500 of the year’s best YA fiction and nonfiction: bookriot.com/500yagiveaway.
FOLLOW UP From the Corner of the Oval by Beck Dorey-Stein Never Caught by Erica Armstrong Dunbar Drinking in America by Mark Edward Lender
NEW BOOKS Barons of the Sea by Steven Ujifusa Blood and Ivy by Paul Collins A Bite-Sized History of France by Stephane Henaut (translated by Jeni Mitchell) Killing It: An Education by Camas Davis
NONFICTION BEACH READS Stunt Memoirs! My Year with Eleanor by Noelle Hancock Word Freak by Stefan Fatsis The Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes The Lunatic Express by Carl Hoffman Nature/Science Books! A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery Light/Historical True Crime! The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum Empty Mansions by Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr. The Girls of Murder City by Douglas Perry Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett Comedy Memoirs! Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir by Eddie Huang I Know I Am But What Are You by Samantha Bee Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y’All Don’t Even Know by Retta
READING NOW Bad Blood by John Carreyrou Fighting Chance by Faye Dudden
OTHER Ask a Slave (web series) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Alice and Kim talk Revolutionary War history, Persian empresses, and the tragic fire that society buried. While you're here, don’t forget Book Riot’s YA giveaway! Go here to win $500 of the year’s best YA fiction and nonfiction. bookriot.com/500yagiveaway NEW BOOKS Don't You Ever by Mary Carter Bishop Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire by Robert E. Fiesler Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan by Ruby Lal No One Tells You This: A Memoir by Glynnis MacNicol From the Corner of the Oval by Rebecca Dorey-Stein WEEKLY THEME: Revolutionary History Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation by Cokie Roberts The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell Jefferson’s Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America by Catherine Kerrison Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar SEGMENT THREE: Fiction/Nonfiction The Ensemble by Aja Gabel Gone by Min Kym The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte How to Build a Dinosaur: The New Science of Reverse Evolution by Jack Horner and James Gorman READING NOW Stalking God by Anjali Kumar Drinking in America: A History by Mark Edward Lender OTHER Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell Age of Jackson Podcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Kim and Alice dive into some new books and backlist reads to read during Pride Month (although, of course, they’re also great any time!). This week’s episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Annotated, an audio documentary podcast series about books, language, and reading. Give it a listen!
NEW BOOKS Alone Time by Stephanie Rosenbloom Troublesome Science by Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall The Ambition Decisions by Hana Schank and Elizabeth Wallace 90s Bitch by Allison Yarrow Squeezed by Alissa Quart
PRIDE MONTH! Dear John, I Love Jane by Candace Walsh Does Jesus Really Love Me? by Jeff Chu Jesus, the Bible, and Homosexuality by Jack Rogers Surpassing the Love of Men by Lillian Faderman Tomorrow Will be Different by Sarah McBride Then Comes Marriage by Roberta Kaplan with Lisa Dickey The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
READING NOW Black Dahlia, Red Rose by Piu Eatwell Text Me When You Get Home by Kayleen Schaefer
OTHER TITLES Momo by Michael Ende See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Kim and Alice do a recap of some of the best nonfiction of Book Expo America, the publishing industry's big trade show each spring. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Annotated and Recommended podcasts. Give them a listen! And don’t forget that Book Riot is giving away a $500 gift card to the bookstore of your choice. Go to bookriot.com/bookstore500 before June 21 to enter.
FOLLOW UP Locking Up Our Own by James Forman Jr. Dear Madam President by Jennifer Palmeri Bombay Anna by Susan Morgan
NEW BOOKS What Would the Great Economists Do? by Linda Yueh (June 5, Picador) The Secret Token by Andrew Lawler (June 5, Doubleday) First in Line by Kate Andersen Brower (June 5, Harper) Woman at the Devil’s Door by Sarah Beth Hopton (June 1, Indiana University Press)
BOOK EXPO The Impatient Dr. Lange by Seema Yasmin (July 2018, Johns Hopkins University Press) Call Them By Their True Names by Rebecca Solnit (September 2018, Haymarket) American Prisons by Shane Bauer (September 2018, Penguin) One Person, No Vote by Carol Anderson (September 2018, Bloomsbury) Black Flags, Blue Waters by Eric Jay Dolin (September 2018, Liveright) Born Criminal by Angelica Shirley Carpenter (September 2018, South Dakota Historical Society Press) Interior States by Meghan O'Gieblyn (October 2018, Anchor Books) 8-Bit Apocalypse by Alex Rubens (October 2018, Overlook Press) How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England by Ruth Goodman (October 2018, Liveright)
BEA EDITOR'S BUZZ (Nonfiction) Small Animals by Kim Brooks (August 21, Flatiron Books) The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman (Sept. 11, Ecco/HarperCollins) There Will Be No Miracles Here by Casey Gerald (October 2, Riverhead Books) Maid by Stephanie Land (January 2019, Hachette Books)
READING NOW City of Devils by Paul French (July 2018, Picador) The Truth About Animals by Lucy Cooke
OTHER TITLES Sioux Women by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve Newjack by Ted Conover Under the Black Flag by David Cordingly See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Kim and Alice talk about books related to Memorial Day, lady serial killers, and some capital "R" Romantics. This episode is sponsored by American Fire by Monica Hesse. Follow Up Damnation Island and Imperfect Harmony by Stacy Horn New Books So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y'all Don't Even Know by Retta Baracoon by Zora Neal Hurston Great American Outpost by Maya Rao Like a Mother by Angela Garbes Feminist Freedom Warriors by Chandra Mohanty and Linda Carty Weekly Theme: Memorial Day Thank You for Your Service by David Finkel Drift by Rachel Maddow Mum's Army by Winifred Philips Ashley's War by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon A Life in Secrets by Sarah Helm Fiction/Nonfiction Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye Lady Killers by Tori Telfer Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart by Claire Harman Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Romantic Outlaws by Charlotte Gordon Reading Now Bombay Anna by Susan Morgan Locking Up Our Own by James Forman Jr. Don't forget! Book Riot is giving away $500 to the bookstore of your choice. Visit bookriot.com/bookstore500 to enter! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Kim and Alice chat about the British royals they love (and love to hate), graphic memoirs (comics, not dirty stuff), and new books on Christianity, historical hospitals and Los Angeles.
Follow Up Bachelor Nation by Amy Kaufman
New Books The Darkening Age by Catherine Nixey (April 17 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Damnation Island by Stacy Horn (May 15 from Algonquin) The Mirage Factory by Gary Krist (May 15 from Crown) Not that Bad, edited by Roxane Gay (May 1 from Harper)
British Royals Past and Present Elizabeth the Queen by Sally Bedell Smith Victoria: The Queen by Julia Baird Elizabeth and Leicester by Sarah Gristwood Princes at War by Deborah Cadbury Game of Crowns by Christopher Andersen Mary, Queen of Scots: A Study in Failure by Jenny Wormald Penguin Monarchs series
Graphic Memoirs Marbles by Ellen Forney Displacement: A Travelogue by Lucy Knisley A Bintel Brief by Liana Finck Rolling Blackouts by Sarah Glidden Tomboy by Liz Prince Mentioned briefly and recommended -- Maus by Art Spiegelman and Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
What We're Reading Now I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong (and his article on gender balance in reporting) Dear Madam President by Jennifer Palmeri (and her interview on NPR's It's Been a Minute podcast) The Escape of Charles II: After the Battle of Worcester by Richard Ollard See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kim is joined by guest co-host Jeff O'Neal to talk about two of the biggest nonfiction-related news stories of the year, along with books for Mother's Day and Jeff's Busman's MBA. This episode is sponsored by The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind by Barbara K. Lipska.
Follow Up and Nonfiction News A Higher Loyalty sells 600,000 copies in the first week! The Golden State Killer has been caught!
New Books The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil (April 24 from Crown) Minority Leader by Stacey Abrams (April 24 from Henry Holt) Beneath a Ruthless Sun by Gilbert King (April 24 from Riverhead) The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson (April 24 from Viking)
Weekly Theme: Mother's Day Tell Me More by Kelly Corrigan Blood, Bones and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton Stuck in the Middle With You by Jennifer Finney Boylan Hammer Head by Nina MacLaughlin
The Busman's MBA Back to Work podcast by Dan Benjamin and Merlin Mann Getting Things Done by David Allen Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher and William L. Ury Radical Candor by Kim Scott Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman The Distraction Addiction by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang Bored and Brilliant by Manoush Zomorodi
Reading Now Odd Girl Out by Laura James The Power of Different by Gail Saltz Neurotribes by Steve Silberman See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Please enjoy this bonus excerpt, courtesy of the Recommended podcast, featuring Jesmyn Ward recommending Edward E. Baptist's The Half Has Never Been Told. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Kim and Alice chat about the Victorian computer, an obsessive tennis coach, and how long we should hold onto those Beanie Babies. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Alice and Kim talking about Jane Austen superfans, snuffbox mussels and the rare "dragon fish," and books to give some context to the school shooting in Parkland, Florida and subsequent student activism. This episode is sponsored by: She Caused a Riot by Hannah Jewell Everything Is Horrible and Wonderful by Stephanie Wittels Wachs
New Releases Camp Austen by Ted Scheinman (March 6 from FSG Originals) The Woman's Hour by Elaine Weiss (March 6 from Viking) Visionary Women by Andrea Barnet (March 13 from Ecco) The Last Wild Men of Borneo by Carl Hoffman (March 6 from William Morrow) Disappointment River by Brian Castner (March 13 from Doubleday) There Are No Dead Here by Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno (February 27 from Nation Books)
Theme of the Week: Spring Has Sprung Wild and Rare by Adam Regn Arvidson The Meadowlands by Robert Sullivan The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Current Events Reads: Guns and Student Activism Columbine by Dave Cullen Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge Witness the Revolution by Clara Bingham
What We're Reading Political Tribes by Amy Chua Grant by Ron Chernow The Dragon Behind the Glass by Emily Voigt
The Extra Stuff Books mentioned in passing: The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs Coming to My Senses by Alice Waters The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert Animals you might be curious about: Snuffbox mussels Asian arowana aka “dragon fish" See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
This week, Alice and Kim discuss Idaho extremists, the women who made the internet, and how closely you should identify with Lord Byron (among other things). We're sponsored this week by: She Caused a Riot: 100 Unknown Women Who Built Cities, Sparked Revolutions, and Massively Crushed It by Mackenzi Lee Everything Is Horrible and Wonderful by Stephanie Wittels Wachs NEW RELEASES Educated by Tara Westover (February 20th, 2018) Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Claire L. Evans (March 6, 2018) Fisherman's Blues by Anna Badkhen (March 13, 2018) The Wonder Down Under: The Insider's Guide to the Anatomy, Biology, and Reality of the Vagina by Ellen Støkken Dahl and Nina Brochmann (March 6, 2018) THEME OF THE WEEK: International Women's Day In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War by Leymah Gbowee A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa by Alexis Okeowo FICTION/NONFICTION White Houses by Amy Bloom Eleanor and Hick by Susan Quinn Black Panther by Ta-Nehisi Coates and World of Wakanda by Roxane Gay Who Is the Black Panther by Jesse Holland Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture by Ytasha L. Womack WHAT WE'RE READING I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara Double Bind: Women on Ambition by Robin Romm THE EXTRA STUFF Books mentioned in passing: The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly Rise of the Rocket Girls by Nathalia Holt The Radium Girls by Kate Virgin: The Untouched History by Hanne Blank Without You, There Is No Us by Suki Kim Other Media: The Dork Forest podcast (Michelle McNamara episodes) 100 Must-Read Titles About Women's History See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Kim Ukura and Alice Burton introduce For Real and talk favorite types of nonfiction and what they're reading now. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.