This week Alice and Kim wrap up 125 episodes of the For Real podcast by discussing their favorite reads of 2022 and reflecting on their favorite podcast episodes.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.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.KIM’S FAVORITES OF 2022How to Do Nothing by Jenny OdellWorld of Wonders by Aimee NezhukumatathilHow to Be Perfect by Michael SchurAncestor Trouble by Maud NewtonInvisible Child by Andrea ElliotThe World As It Is by Ben Rhodes In the Shadow of the Mountain by Sylvia Vasquez-LavadoDog Flowers by Danielle GellerALICE’S FAVORITES OF 2022A Most Remarkable Creature by Jonathan MeiburgGhosts in the Schoolyard by Eve L. EwingThe Line Becomes a River by Francisco CantúLooking for the Good War by Elizabeth D. SametThe Lost City of Z by David GrannCan’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? By Roz ChastTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns GoodwinTrans Mission by Alex BertieFAVORITE PODCAST EPISODESEpisode 13: Suffragists, Suffragettes, and Winning the VoteEpisode 23: The Arctic and the TropicsEpisode 34: Ahoy, We Sail the Sea of BooksEpisode 50: 50 Books for 50 EpisodesEpisode 53: Snake Math!Episode 67: After the Final RoseEpisode 70: YA Nonfiction, aka Nonfiction for Exhausted Adults Episode 91: Library Treasure HuntEpisode 92: The One With Mary Roach Episode 96: Fell in a Hole (AKA True Stories Underground)Episode 100: Episode 100!!!!Episode 123: Nonfiction Holiday Gift Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Alice and Kim wrap up 125 episodes of the For Real podcast by discussing their favorite reads of 2022 and reflecting on their favorite podcast episodes.Follow For Real using <a href="https://feeds.megaphone.fm/RNMG3370595533" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RSS</a>, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/for-real/id1353587430?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qj0fe1upFqGNwGoKJ6GkG?si=3r2HVMBwQWSjjwkSYqu9RQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spotify</a>, or <a href="https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=174921&amp;refid=stpr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stitcher</a>.For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our <a href="https://bookriot.com/newsletter/true-story/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">True Story newsletter</a>, edited by Kendra Winchester.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.<h2>KIM’S FAVORITES OF 2022</h2><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1612198554/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1612198554" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">How to Do Nothing</a> by Jenny Odell<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1571313656/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1571313656" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">World of Wonders</a> by Aimee Nezhukumatathil<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1982159316/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1982159316" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">How to Be Perfect</a> by Michael Schur<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812997921/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0812997921" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ancestor Trouble</a> by Maud Newton<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812986954/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0812986954" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Invisible Child </a>by Andrea Elliot<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525509372/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0525509372" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The World As It Is</a> by Ben Rhodes <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250776740/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1250776740" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">In the Shadow of the Mountain</a> by Sylvia Vasquez-Lavado<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1984820419/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1984820419" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dog Flowers</a> by Danielle Geller<h2>ALICE’S FAVORITES OF 2022</h2><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1101911549/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1101911549" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Most Remarkable Creature</a> by Jonathan Meiburg<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/022652616X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=022652616X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ghosts in the Schoolyard</a> by Eve L. Ewing<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735217734/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0735217734" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Line Becomes a River</a> by Francisco Cantú<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374219923/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0374219923" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Looking for the Good War</a> by Elizabeth D. Samet<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400078458/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1400078458" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Lost City of Z</a> by David Grann<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1632861011/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1632861011" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?</a> By Roz Chast<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743270754/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0743270754" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Team of Rivals</a> by Doris Kearns Goodwin<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316490326/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0316490326" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Trans Mission</a> by Alex Bertie<h2>FAVORITE PODCAST EPISODES</h2>Episode 13: <a href="https://bookriot.com/listen/suffragists-suffragettes-and-winning-the-vote/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Suffragists, Suffragettes, and Winning the Vote</a>Episode 23: <a href="https://bookriot.com/listen/the-arctic-the-tropics/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Arctic and the Tropics</a>Episode 34: <a href="https://bookriot.com/listen/ahoy-we-sail-the-sea-of-books/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ahoy, We Sail the Sea of Books</a>Episode 50: <a href="https://bookriot.com/listen/50-books-for-50-episodes/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">50 Books for 50 Episodes</a>Episode 53: <a href="https://bookriot.com/listen/snake-math/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Snake Math!</a>Episode 67: <a href="https://bookriot.com/listen/after-the-final-rose/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">After the Final Rose</a>Episode 70: <a href="https://bookriot.com/listen/ya-nonfiction-aka-nonfiction-for-exhausted-adults/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YA Nonfiction, aka Nonfiction for Exhausted Adults</a> Episode 91: <a href="https://bookriot.com/listen/library-treasure-hunt/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Library Treasure Hunt</a>Episode 92: <a href="https://bookriot.com/listen/the-one-with-mary-roach/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The One With Mary Roach </a>Episode 96: <a href="https://bookriot.com/listen/fell-in-a-hole-aka-true-stories-underground/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fell in a Hole (AKA True Stories Underground)</a>Episode 100: <a href="https://bookriot.com/listen/episode-100/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Episode 100!!!!</a>Episode 123: <a href="https://bookriot.com/listen/nonfiction-holiday-gift-guide-2/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Nonfiction Holiday Gift Guide</a> Learn more about your ad choices. 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The Final Episode

This week Alice and Kim talk about new nonfiction out in November and December, including memoirs, cold cases, orchid obsession, and more.Gift Tailored Book Recommendations this holiday season!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.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.Nonfiction in the NewsNew York Times: Best Books of the YearWashington Post: Best Books of the YearReader’s Digest: The National Book Foundation Announces 2022 National Book Award WinnersNew NonfictionFatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family by Rabia ChaudryDisability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World by Ben MattlinThe Forever Witness: How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder by Edward HumesQueen of Snails: A Graphic Memoir by Maureen BurdockA Coastline is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents by Mary-Alice DanielThe Mexican Witch Lifestyle: Brujeria Spells, Tarot, and Crystal Magic by Valeria RuelasAs Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age by Matthew CobbTwenty Dollars and Change: Harriet Tubman and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice and Democracy by Clarence LusaneElizabeth Taylor: The Grit &amp; Glamour of an Icon by Kate Andersen BrowerSilent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening by Douglas BrinkleyOrchid Muse: A History of Obsession in Fifteen Flowers by Erica HannickelThe Quentin Blake Book by Jenny UglowReading NowYear of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life by Alice WongThe Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science by Sam Kean Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Alice and Kim talk about new nonfiction out in November and December, including memoirs, cold cases, orchid obsession, and more.Gift <a href="https://mytbr.co/gift" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tailored Book Recommendations</a> this holiday season!Follow For Real using <a href="https://feeds.megaphone.fm/RNMG3370595533" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RSS</a>, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/for-real/id1353587430?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qj0fe1upFqGNwGoKJ6GkG?si=3r2HVMBwQWSjjwkSYqu9RQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spotify</a>, or <a href="https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=174921&amp;refid=stpr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stitcher</a>.For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our <a href="https://bookriot.com/newsletter/true-story/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">True Story newsletter</a>, edited by Kendra Winchester.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. <h2>Nonfiction in the News</h2><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/29/books/best-books-2022.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New York Times</a>: Best Books of the Year<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/11/17/best-books/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Washington Post</a>: Best Books of the Year<a href="https://www.rd.com/article/national-book-award-winners/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Reader’s Digest</a>: The National Book Foundation Announces 2022 National Book Award Winners <h2>New Nonfiction</h2><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1643750380/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1643750380" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family</a> by Rabia Chaudry<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807036455/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0807036455" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World</a> by Ben Mattlin<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1524746274/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1524746274" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Forever Witness: How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder</a> by Edward Humes<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1637790368/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1637790368" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Queen of Snails: A Graphic Memoir</a> by Maureen Burdock<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062960040/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0062960040" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Coastline is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents</a> by Mary-Alice Daniel<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1982178140/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1982178140" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Mexican Witch Lifestyle: Brujeria Spells, Tarot, and Crystal Magic</a> by Valeria Ruelas<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1541602854/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1541602854" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age</a> by Matthew Cobb<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0872868850/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0872868850" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twenty Dollars and Change: Harriet Tubman and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice and Democracy</a> by Clarence Lusane<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006306765X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=006306765X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit &amp; Glamour of an Icon</a> by Kate Andersen Brower<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0063212919/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0063212919" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening</a> by Douglas Brinkley<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393867285/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0393867285" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Orchid Muse: A History of Obsession in Fifteen Flowers</a> by Erica Hannickel<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0500094357/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0500094357" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Quentin Blake Book</a> by Jenny Uglow <h2>Reading Now</h2><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0593315391/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0593315391" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life</a> by Alice Wong<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316496510/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0316496510" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science</a> by Sam Kean Learn more about your ad choices. 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New Books By the End of the Year

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 make holiday gift guide recommendations.Follow For Real using <a href="https://feeds.megaphone.fm/RNMG3370595533" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RSS</a>, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/for-real/id1353587430?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qj0fe1upFqGNwGoKJ6GkG?si=3r2HVMBwQWSjjwkSYqu9RQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spotify</a>, or <a href="https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=174921&amp;refid=stpr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stitcher</a>.For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our <a href="https://bookriot.com/newsletter/true-story/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">True Story newsletter</a>, edited by Kendra Winchester and Kim Ukura.For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website <a href="https://bookriot.com/?post_type=podcast&amp;p=525524" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bookriot.com/listen/nonfiction-holiday-gift-guide/</a>.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Nonfiction Holiday Gift Guide

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 NEWSPrince 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 NONFICTIONWhite Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better by Regina Jackson and Saira RaoCheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America’s Edge by Ted ConoverThe Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family by Kerri K. GreenidgeAmong Tigers: Fighting to Bring Back Asia’s Big Cats by K. Ullas KaranthNATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTHHeart Berries: A Memoir by Teresa Marie MailhotThis Place: 150 Years RetoldDog Flowers: A Memoir, An Archive by Danielle GellerOur History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick EstesREADING NOWTomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle ZevinA 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 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 <a href="https://feeds.megaphone.fm/RNMG3370595533" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RSS</a>, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/for-real/id1353587430?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qj0fe1upFqGNwGoKJ6GkG?si=3r2HVMBwQWSjjwkSYqu9RQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spotify</a>, or <a href="https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=174921&amp;refid=stpr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stitcher</a>.For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our <a href="https://bookriot.com/newsletter/true-story/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">True Story newsletter</a>, edited by Kendra Winchester and Kim Ukura.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.<h2>NONFICTION IN THE NEWS</h2>Prince Harry’s Memoir Is Due in January. How Explosive Will It Be? [<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/26/books/prince-harry-memoir.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New York Times</a>]How Julie Powell and her ‘Julie/Julia’ blog changed food writing [<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2022/11/02/julie-powell-julia-child-food-writing/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Washington Post</a>]Keanu Reeves Exits Hulu’s ‘The Devil In The White City’ Limited Series [<a href="https://deadline.com/2022/10/keanu-reeves-exits-hulus-the-devil-in-the-white-city-limited-series-1235138702/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Deadline</a>]<h2>NEW NONFICTION</h2><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143136437/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0143136437" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better</a> by Regina Jackson and Saira Rao<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525521488/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0525521488" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America’s Edge</a> by Ted Conover<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1324090847/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1324090847" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family</a> by Kerri K. Greenidge<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1641606541/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1641606541" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Among Tigers: Fighting to Bring Back Asia’s Big Cats</a> by K. Ullas Karanth<h2>NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH</h2><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1640091602/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1640091602" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Heart Berries: A Memoir</a> by Teresa Marie Mailhot<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1553797582/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1553797582" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">This Place: 150 Years Retold</a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1984820419/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1984820419" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dog Flowers: A Memoir, An Archive</a> by Danielle Geller<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1786636727/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1786636727" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance</a> by Nick Estes<h2>READING NOW</h2><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0593321200/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0593321200" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow</a> by Gabrielle Zevin<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1101875704/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1101875704" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey</a> by Jonathan Meiburg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Books by Indigenous Authors

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 GiveawayThis content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.Fall Books Review, Part IThe 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. GómezStay True: A Memoir by Hua HsuThe Surprising Lives of Bark Beetles: Mighty Foresters of the Insect World by Jiri Hulcr, Marc AbrahamsGospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care by Rina RaphaelWolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street by Cin FabréFall Books Review, Part IIRest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia HerseyFen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis by Annie ProulxSomewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family by Erika HayasakiThe United States of Cryptids: A Tour of American Myths and Monsters by J.W. OckerHome Bound: An Uprooted Daughter’s Reflections on Belonging by Vanessa BeeAmerican Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America’s First Paramedics by Kevin HazzardReading NowKIM: Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha RaoALICE: The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont by Shawn LevyCONCLUSIONYou 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 new fall nonfiction.Follow For Real using <a href="https://feeds.megaphone.fm/RNMG3370595533" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RSS</a>, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/for-real/id1353587430?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qj0fe1upFqGNwGoKJ6GkG?si=3r2HVMBwQWSjjwkSYqu9RQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spotify</a>, or <a href="https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=174921&amp;refid=stpr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stitcher</a>.For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our <a href="https://bookriot.com/newsletter/true-story/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">True Story newsletter</a>, edited by Kendra Winchester and Kim Ukura.<a href="https://bookriot.com/giveaways/enter-to-win-reading-the-stars-by-book-riot/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Book Riot’s Reading the Stars Giveaway</a>This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. <h3>Fall Books Review, Part I</h3><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1541700988/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1541700988" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Stolen Year: How COVID Changed Children’s Lives, and Where We Go Now</a> by Anya Kamenetz <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1620977613/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1620977613" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Inventing Latinos : A New Story of American Racism</a> by Laura E. Gómez<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385547773/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0385547773" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stay True: A Memoir</a> by Hua Hsu<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1683402634/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1683402634" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Surprising Lives of Bark Beetles: Mighty Foresters of the Insect World</a> by Jiri Hulcr, Marc Abrahams<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250793009/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1250793009" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care</a> by Rina Raphael<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250816858/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1250816858" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street</a> by Cin Fabré <h3>Fall Books Review, Part II</h3><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316365211/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0316365211" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto </a>by Tricia Hersey<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1982173351/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1982173351" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis</a> by Annie Proulx<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1616209127/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1616209127" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family</a> by Erika Hayasaki<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1683693221/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1683693221" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The United States of Cryptids: A Tour of American Myths and Monsters</a> by J.W. Ocker<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1662601336/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1662601336" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Home Bound: An Uprooted Daughter’s Reflections on Belonging</a> by Vanessa Bee<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0306926075/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0306926075" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America’s First Paramedics</a> by Kevin Hazzard <h3>Reading Now</h3>KIM: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250309506/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1250309506" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Girls Burn Brighter</a> by Shobha RaoALICE: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525435662/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0525435662" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont</a> by Shawn Levy<h3> </h3><h3>CONCLUSION</h3>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 <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

New Fall Nonfiction

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 UpIn the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage by Silvia Vasquez-LavadoGiveaway: Reading the Stars by Book RiotNew NonfictionSavor: A Chef’s Hunger for More by Fatima Ali and Tarajia MorrellBlack Hollywood: Reimagining Iconic Movie Moments by Carell AugustusLife Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way by Kieran SetiyaLooking for the Hidden Folk: How Iceland’s Elves Can Save the Earth by Nancy Marie BrownWitches and BoatsThe Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy SchiffTituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies by Elaine G. BreslawCod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark KurlanskyWitches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem by Rosalyn SchanzerReading NowWho Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind by Fariha RóisínThis 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 reflect on visiting Salem, Massachusetts and discuss books about witches and boats.Follow For Real using <a href="https://feeds.megaphone.fm/RNMG3370595533" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RSS</a>, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/for-real/id1353587430?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qj0fe1upFqGNwGoKJ6GkG?si=3r2HVMBwQWSjjwkSYqu9RQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spotify</a>, or <a href="https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=174921&amp;refid=stpr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stitcher</a>.For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our <a href="https://bookriot.com/newsletter/true-story/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">True Story newsletter</a>, edited by Kendra Winchester and Kim Ukura.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. <h2>Follow Up</h2><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250776740/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1250776740" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage</a> by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado<a href="https://bookriot.com/giveaways/enter-to-win-reading-the-stars-by-book-riot/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Giveaway: Reading the Stars by Book Riot</a> <h2>New Nonfiction</h2><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0593355199/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0593355199" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Savor: A Chef’s Hunger for More</a> by Fatima Ali and Tarajia Morrell<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1728258391/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1728258391" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Black Hollywood: Reimagining Iconic Movie Moment</a>s by Carell Augustus<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0593538218/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0593538218" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way</a> by Kieran Setiya<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1639362282/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1639362282" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Looking for the Hidden Folk: How Iceland’s Elves Can Save the Earth</a> by Nancy Marie Brown <h2>Witches and Boats</h2><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/031620059X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=031620059X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Witches: Salem, 1692</a> by Stacy Schiff<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0814713076/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0814713076" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies</a> by Elaine G. Breslaw<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140275010/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0140275010" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World</a> by Mark Kurlansky<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1426308698/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1426308698" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem</a> by Rosalyn Schanzer <h2>Reading Now</h2><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0063077086/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0063077086" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind by Fariha Róisín</a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375703837/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0375703837" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War</a> by Drew Gilpin Faust Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Witches and Boats

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 NewsJung 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 GilbertDucks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate BeatonRunaway: Notes on the Myths that Made Me by Erin KeaneBrown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons by Anthony Christian OcampoWEEKLY THEME: HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTHIn the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage by Silvia Vasquez-LavadoThe Line Becomes a River by Francisco CantuBad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle HernándezIn the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane GuerreroREADING NOWKIM: The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha MukherjeeALICE: The Office BFFs by Jenna Fischer and Angela KinseyCONCLUSIONYou 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 Alice and Kim talk about nonfiction reads for Hispanic Heritage Month.Follow For Real using <a href="https://feeds.megaphone.fm/RNMG3370595533" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RSS</a>, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/for-real/id1353587430?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qj0fe1upFqGNwGoKJ6GkG?si=3r2HVMBwQWSjjwkSYqu9RQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spotify</a>, or <a href="https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=174921&amp;refid=stpr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stitcher</a>.For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our <a href="https://bookriot.com/newsletter/true-story/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">True Story newsletter</a>, 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 NewsJung Hae Chae Wins the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize [<a href="https://www.graywolfpress.org/news/jung-hae-chae-wins-graywolf-press-nonfiction-prize" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Graywolf Press</a>]2022 National Book Awards Longlist for Nonfiction [<a href="https://www.nationalbook.org/2022-national-book-awards-longlist-for-nonfiction/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">National Book Foundation</a>]Writer Samantha Irby calls her latest book ‘a devolution!’ [<a href="https://ew.com/books/samantha-irby-first-look-quietly-hostile/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Entertainment Weekly</a>]<h3>NEW NONFICTION </h3><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1541674359/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1541674359" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America’s Most-Read Woman</a> by Julia Scheeres and Allison Gilbert<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1770462899/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1770462899" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands</a> by Kate Beaton<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/195336831X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=195336831X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Runaway: Notes on the Myths that Made Me</a> by Erin Keane<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1479824259/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1479824259" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons</a> by Anthony Christian Ocampo<h3>WEEKLY THEME: HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH</h3><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250776740/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1250776740" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage</a> by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735217734/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0735217734" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Line Becomes a River</a> by Francisco Cantu<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1324004371/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1324004371" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands</a> by Kelly Lytle Hernández<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/125013496X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=125013496X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">In the Country We Love: My Family Divided</a> by Diane Guerrero<h3>READING NOW</h3>KIM: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/147673352X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=147673352X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Gene: An Intimate History</a> by Siddhartha MukherjeeALICE: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0063007592/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0063007592" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Office BFFs</a> by Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey<h3> </h3><h3>CONCLUSION</h3>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 <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Nonfic for Hispanic Heritage Month

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 NewsBarbara 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 NonfictionThinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better by Woo-Kyoung AhnOff with Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power by Eleanor HermanThe Godmother: Murder, Vengeance, and the Bloody Struggle of Mafia Women by Barbie Latza NadeauAfrica Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent by Dipo FaloyinThe Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max FisherYear of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life by Alice WongWomen in SportsHail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women’s Football League by Frankie de la Cretaz and Lyndsey D’ArcangeloDust Bowl Girls: The Inspiring Story of the Team That Barnstormed Its Way to Basketball Glory by Lydia ReederBaseball’s Leading Lady: Effa Manley and the Rise and Fall of the Negro Leagues by Andrea WilliamsCurveball: The Remarkable Story of Toni Stone the First Woman to Play Professional Baseball in the Negro League by Martha AckmannReading NowRomantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley by Charlotte GordonI Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff by Abbi Jacobson 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 <a href="https://feeds.megaphone.fm/RNMG3370595533" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RSS</a>, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/for-real/id1353587430?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qj0fe1upFqGNwGoKJ6GkG?si=3r2HVMBwQWSjjwkSYqu9RQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spotify</a>, or <a href="https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=174921&amp;refid=stpr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stitcher</a>.For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our <a href="https://bookriot.com/newsletter/true-story/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">True Story newsletter</a>, edited by Kendra Winchester and Kim Ukura.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. <h2>Nonfiction in the News</h2>Barbara Ehrenreich, author who challenged American Dream myths, dies at 81 [<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/09/02/ehrenreich-journalist-author-dies/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Washington Post</a>]Recommending Books Based on the Weirdest Facts They Taught Me [<a href="https://bookriot.com/weirdest-facts-from-nonfiction/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Book Riot</a>] <h2>New Nonfiction</h2><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250805953/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1250805953" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better</a> by Woo-Kyoung Ahn<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006309567X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=006309567X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Off with Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power</a> by Eleanor Herman<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143136119/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0143136119" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Godmother: Murder, Vengeance, and the Bloody Struggle of Mafia Women</a> by Barbie Latza Nadeau<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393881539/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0393881539" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent</a> by Dipo Faloyin<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/031670332X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=031670332X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World</a> by Max Fisher<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0593315391/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0593315391" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life</a> by Alice Wong <h2>Women in Sports</h2><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1645036626/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1645036626" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women’s Football League</a> by Frankie de la Cretaz and Lyndsey D’Arcangelo<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/161620740X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=161620740X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dust Bowl Girls: The Inspiring Story of the Team That Barnstormed Its Way</a> to Basketball Glory by Lydia Reeder<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250623723/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1250623723" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Baseball’s Leading Lady: Effa Manley and the Rise and Fall of the Negro Leagues</a> by Andrea Williams<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1613736568/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1613736568" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Curveball: The Remarkable Story of Toni Stone the First Woman to Play Professional Baseball in the Negro League</a> by Martha Ackmann <h2>Reading Now</h2><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812980476/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0812980476" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley</a> by Charlotte Gordon<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1538713276/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1538713276" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff</a> by Abbi Jacobson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Women in Sports

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 NEWSLeonardo 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-DyerRaising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis by Beth MacyDemocracy’s Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them by Dan BoukEating 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 LewisWEEKLY THEME: MIDDLE GRADE NONFICTIONYummy: A History of Desserts by Victoria Grace ElliotFree Lunch by Rex Ogle (AOC)The Eagle Huntress: The True Story of the Girl Who Soared Beyond Expectations by Aisholpan Nurgaiv with Liz WelchAll Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team by Christina SoontornvatReading NowKIM: My Imaginary Mary by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi MeadowsALICE: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-ReedCONCLUSIONYou 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 middle grade nonfiction reads.Follow For Real using <a href="https://feeds.megaphone.fm/RNMG3370595533" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RSS</a>, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/for-real/id1353587430?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qj0fe1upFqGNwGoKJ6GkG?si=3r2HVMBwQWSjjwkSYqu9RQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spotify</a>, or <a href="https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=174921&amp;refid=stpr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stitcher</a>.For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our <a href="https://bookriot.com/newsletter/true-story/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">True Story newsletter</a>, edited by Kendra Winchester and Kim Ukura.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission.<h3>NONFICTION IN THE NEWS</h3>Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese are Creating a Devil in the White City Series for Hulu [<a href="https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a26340920/leonardo-dicaprio-martin-scorsese-devil-in-the-white-city-series-hulu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Town and Country</a>]<h3>NEW NONFICTION </h3><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0593240316/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0593240316" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Mamas: What I Learned About Kids, Class, and Race from Moms Not Like Me</a> by Helena Andrews-Dyer<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316430226/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0316430226" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis</a> by Beth Macy<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374602549/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0374602549" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Democracy’s Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them</a> by Dan Bouk<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1469668459/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1469668459" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America</a> by Psyche A. Williams-Forson (Univ of NC Press)Quick Mentions<ul><li> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0063079658/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0063079658" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Walking in My Joy: In These Streets</a> by Jenifer Lewis</li></ul><h3>WEEKLY THEME: MIDDLE GRADE NONFICTION</h3><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0593124383/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0593124383" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Yummy: A History of Desserts</a> by Victoria Grace Elliot<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1324016949/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1324016949" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Free Lunch</a> by Rex Ogle (AOC)<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316522627/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0316522627" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Eagle Huntress: The True Story of the Girl Who Soared Beyond Expectations</a> by Aisholpan Nurgaiv with Liz Welch<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1536209457/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1536209457" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team</a> by Christina SoontornvatReading NowKIM: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062930079/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0062930079" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">My Imaginary Mary</a> by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi MeadowsALICE: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393337766/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0393337766" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family</a> by Annette Gordon-Reed CONCLUSIONYou 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 <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Middle Grade Nonfiction

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 NewsDavid McCullough, Best-Selling Explorer of America’s Past, Dies at 89 [New York Times]New BooksBright: A Memoir by Kiki PetrosinoA History of Delusions: The Glass King, a Substitute Husband and a Walking Corpse by Victoria ShepherdWhat the Children Told Us: The Untold Story of the Famous “Doll Test” and the Black Psychologists Who Changed the World by Tim SpoffordA Good Country: My Life in Twelve Towns and the Devastating Battle for a White America by Sofia Ali-KhanBooks We Read on Summer BreakThe Ugly Cry: A Memoir by Danielle HendersonStamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. KendiAmity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza GriswoldThe Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 by Joseph J. EllisThe World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House by Ben RhodesThe Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land by Sally DentonCrying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle ZaunerReading NowThe Scandalous Hamiltons: A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Fathers Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism by Bill ShafferGhosts 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

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 <a href="https://feeds.megaphone.fm/RNMG3370595533" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RSS</a>, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/for-real/id1353587430?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qj0fe1upFqGNwGoKJ6GkG?si=3r2HVMBwQWSjjwkSYqu9RQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spotify</a>, or <a href="https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=174921&amp;refid=stpr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stitcher</a>.For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our <a href="https://bookriot.com/newsletter/true-story/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">True Story newsletter</a>, edited by Kendra Winchester and Kim Ukura.This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. <h2>Nonfiction In the News</h2>David McCullough, Best-Selling Explorer of America’s Past, Dies at 89 [<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/08/books/david-mccullough-dead.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New York Times</a>] <h2>New Books</h2><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1946448923/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1946448923" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bright: A Memoir</a> by Kiki Petrosino<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0861540913/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0861540913" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A History of Delusions: The Glass King,</a> a Substitute Husband and a Walking Corpse by Victoria Shepherd<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1728248078/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1728248078" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">What the Children Told Us: The Untold Story of the Famous “Doll Test” and the Black Psychologists Who Changed the World</a> by Tim Spofford<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/059323703X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=059323703X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Good Country: My Life in Twelve Towns and the Devastating Battle for a White America</a> by Sofia Ali-Khan <h2>Books We Read on Summer Break</h2><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525559353/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0525559353" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Ugly Cry: A Memoir</a> by Danielle Henderson<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1568584636/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1568584636" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America</a> by Ibram X. Kendi<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250215072/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1250215072" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America</a> by Eliza Griswold<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080417248X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=080417248X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789</a> by Joseph J. Ellis<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525509356/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0525509356" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House</a> by Ben Rhodes<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/163149807X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=163149807X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised La</a>nd by Sally Denton<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525657746/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0525657746" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Crying in H Mart: A Memoir</a> by Michelle Zauner <h2>Reading Now</h2><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080654225X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=080654225X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Fathers Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism</a> by Bill Shaffer<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/022652616X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=022652616X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side</a> by Eve L. 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Books We Read on Summer Break

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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 BOOKSAnd Then We Grew Up: On Creativity, Potential, and the Imperfect Art of Adulthood by Rachel FriedmanTonight We Bombed the U.S. Capitol: The Explosive Story of M19, America’s First Female Terrorist Group by William RosenauANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2020American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI by Kate Winkler DawsonA Black Woman’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole GrossWow, No Thank You by Samantha IrbyYellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country by Sierra Crane MurdochWine Girl: The Obstacles, Humiliations, and Triumphs of America’s Youngest Sommelier by Victoria JamesMinor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park HongJoy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life by Marie KondoRust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit by Eliese Colette GoldbachHow to Be Fine: What We Learned from Living by the Rules of 50 Self-Help Books by Jolenta Greenberg and Kristen MeinzerREADING NOWDaring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené BrownLost Feast: Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food by Lenore NewmanSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 <a href="https://bookriot.com/category/read-harder/%22" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Book Riot’s Read Harder Challenge</a> and <a href="https://insiders.bookriot.com/?utm_source=podcasts&amp;utm_medium=preroll&amp;utm_campaign=prerolls-jan-20" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Book Riot Insiders</a>.Subscribe to For Real using <a href="https://rss.art19.com/for-real" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RSS</a>, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/for-real/id1353587430?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qj0fe1upFqGNwGoKJ6GkG?si=3r2HVMBwQWSjjwkSYqu9RQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spotify</a>, or <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=174921&amp;refid=stpr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stitcher</a>.For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our <a href="https://bookriot.com/newsletter/true-story/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">True Story newsletter</a>, edited by Kim Ukura.NEW BOOKS<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143132121/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0143132121" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">And Then We Grew Up: On Creativity, Potential, and the Imperfect Art of Adulthood</a> by Rachel Friedman<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1501170120/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1501170120" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tonight We Bombed the U.S. Capitol: The Explosive Story of M19, America’s First Female Terrorist Group</a> by William RosenauANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2020<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525539557/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0525539557" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI</a> by Kate Winkler Dawson<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807033553/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0807033553" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Black Woman’s History of the United States</a> by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525563482/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0525563482" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wow, No Thank You</a> by Samantha Irby<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399589155/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0399589155" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country</a> by Sierra Crane Murdoch<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062961675/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0062961675" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wine Girl: The Obstacles, Humiliations, and Triumphs of America’s Youngest Sommelier</a> by Victoria James<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1984820362/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1984820362" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning</a> by Cathy Park Hong<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316423327/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0316423327" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life</a> by Marie Kondo<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250239400/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1250239400" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit</a> by Eliese Colette Goldbach<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062957198/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0062957198" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">How to Be Fine: What We Learned from Living by the Rules of 50 Self-Help Books</a> by Jolenta Greenberg and Kristen MeinzerREADING NOW<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1592408419/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1592408419" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead</a> by Brené Brown<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1770414355/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1770414355" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lost Feast: Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food</a> by Lenore NewmanSee <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information. 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Exciting Nonfiction Coming in 2020

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 UPLocking Up Our Own by James Forman Jr.Dear Madam President by Jennifer PalmeriBombay Anna by Susan MorganNEW BOOKSWhat 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 EXPOThe 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 NOWCity of Devils by Paul French (July 2018, Picador)The Truth About Animals by Lucy CookeOTHER TITLESSioux Women by Virginia Driving Hawk SneveNewjack by Ted ConoverUnder the Black Flag by David CordinglySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 <a href="http://ookriot.com/bookstore500" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bookriot.com/bookstore500</a> before June 21 to enter. FOLLOW UP<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374537445/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0374537445" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Locking Up Our Own</a> by James Forman Jr.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1538713454/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1538713454" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dear Madam President</a> by Jennifer Palmeri<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0520252268/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0520252268" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bombay Anna</a> by Susan Morgan NEW BOOKS<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250180538/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1250180538" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">What Would the Great Economists Do?</a> by Linda Yueh (June 5, Picador)<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385542011/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0385542011" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Secret Token</a> by Andrew Lawler (June 5, Doubleday)<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062668943/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0062668943" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">First in Line</a> by Kate Andersen Brower (June 5, Harper)<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0253034620/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0253034620" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Woman at the Devil’s Door</a> by Sarah Beth Hopton (June 1, Indiana University Press) BOOK EXPO<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1421426625/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1421426625" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Impatient Dr. Lange</a> by Seema Yasmin (July 2018, Johns Hopkins University Press)<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1608469468/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1608469468" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Call Them By Their True Names</a> by Rebecca Solnit (September 2018, Haymarket)<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735223580/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0735223580" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">American Prisons</a> by Shane Bauer (September 2018, Penguin)<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1635571375/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1635571375" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">One Person, No Vote</a> by Carol Anderson (September 2018, Bloomsbury)<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1631492101/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1631492101" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Black Flags, Blue Waters</a> by Eric Jay Dolin (September 2018, Liveright)<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1941813186/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1941813186" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Born Criminal </a>by Angelica Shirley Carpenter (September 2018, South Dakota Historical Society Press)<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525562702/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0525562702" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Interior States</a> by Meghan O'Gieblyn (October 2018, Anchor Books)<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1468316443/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1468316443" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">8-Bit Apocalypse</a> by Alex Rubens (October 2018, Overlook Press)<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1631495119/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1631495119" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England</a> by Ruth Goodman (October 2018, Liveright) <a href="https://www.bookexpoamerica.com/en/Sessions/57395/BookExpo-Adult-Editors-Buzz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BEA EDITOR'S BUZZ</a> (Nonfiction)<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250089557/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1250089557" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Small Animals</a> by Kim Brooks (August 21, Flatiron Books)<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062661922/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0062661922" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Real Lolita </a>by Sarah Weinman (Sept. 11, Ecco/HarperCollins)<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735214204/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0735214204" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">There Will Be No Miracles Here</a> by Casey Gerald (October 2, Riverhead Books)<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316505110/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0316505110" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Maid</a> by Stephanie Land (January 2019, Hachette Books) READING NOW<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250170583/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1250170583" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">City of Devils</a> by Paul French (July 2018, Picador)<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465094643/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0465094643" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Truth About Animals</a> by Lucy Cooke OTHER TITLES<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1941813070/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1941813070" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sioux Women</a> by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375726624/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0375726624" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Newjack </a>by Ted Conover<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/081297722X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=081297722X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Under the Black Flag</a> by David CordinglySee <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information. 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#8 The Nonfiction of Book Expo

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 NEWSGoodreads Choice Awards are out!2019 FAVORITESNotes from a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi, Joshua David SteinParkland by Dave CullenGood Talk by Mira JacobThe Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun WangSay Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden KeefeBurnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski and Amelia NagoskiThe Queens of Animation by Nathalia HoltMaybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori GottliebUnfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church by Megan Phelps-RoperMake it Scream, Make it Burn by Leslie JamisonAgrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World by Emma SouthonNo Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise Snyder2019 MISSESTrick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia TolentinoKnow My Name by Chanel MillerFurious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey CepGrace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness by Jennifer Berry HawesThe Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness by Susannah CahalanThick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan CottomREADING NOWKIM: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth KolbertThe Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison WeirALICE: Know My Name by Chanel Miller!Citizen by Claudia RankineCONCLUSIONYou can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedorkRATE 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 <a href="https://bookriot.com/readharderjournal%20target=" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Book Riot’s Read Harder Journal</a> and <a href="https://bookriot.com/libro.fm/holiday?cmp=BR19" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Libro.fm</a>.Subscribe to For Real using <a href="https://rss.art19.com/for-real" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RSS</a>, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/for-real/id1353587430?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qj0fe1upFqGNwGoKJ6GkG?si=3r2HVMBwQWSjjwkSYqu9RQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spotify</a>, or <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=174921&amp;refid=stpr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stitcher</a>.For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our <a href="https://bookriot.com/newsletter/true-story/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">True Story newsletter</a>, edited by Kim Ukura.NONFICTION NEWS<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/choiceawards/best-books-2019" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Goodreads Choice Awards are out!</a>2019 FAVORITES<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1524732621/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1524732621" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Notes from a Young Black Chef</a> by Kwame Onwuachi, Joshua David Stein<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062882945/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0062882945" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Parkland</a> by Dave Cullen<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/039958904X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=039958904X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Good Talk</a> by Mira Jacob<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1555978274/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1555978274" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays</a> by Esmé Weijun Wang<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385521316/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0385521316" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland</a> by Patrick Radden Keefe<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/198481706X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=198481706X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle</a> by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316439150/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0316439150" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Queens of Animation</a> by Nathalia Holt<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1328662055/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1328662055" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed</a> by Lori Gottlieb<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374275831/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0374275831" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church</a> by Megan Phelps-Roper<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316259632/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0316259632" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Make it Scream, Make it Burn</a> by Leslie Jamison<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1643130781/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1643130781" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World</a> by Emma Southon<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1635570972/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1635570972" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">No Visible Bruises</a> by Rachel Louise Snyder2019 MISSES<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525510540/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0525510540" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion</a> by Jia Tolentino<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/073522370X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=073522370X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Know My Name</a> by Chanel Miller<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1101947861/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1101947861" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee</a> by Casey Cep<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250117763/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1250117763" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness</a> by Jennifer Berry Hawes<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1538715287/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1538715287" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness</a> by Susannah Cahalan<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1620975874/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1620975874" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Thick: And Other Essays</a> by Tressie McMillan CottomREADING NOWKIM: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250062187/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1250062187" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History</a> by Elizabeth Kolbert<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0802136834/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0802136834" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Six Wives of Henry VIII</a> by Alison WeirALICE: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/073522370X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=073522370X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Know My Name</a> by Chanel Miller!<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1555976905/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1555976905" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Citizen </a>by Claudia RankineCONCLUSIONYou can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedorkRATE 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 <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" 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2019 Nonfiction Favorites

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 NEWSNational Book Award goes to Sarah Broom’s The Yellow House!HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDEQ: 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 StevensonAnother Day in the Death of America by Gary YoungeWhite Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy IsenbergQ: 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 BrownA Necessary Spectacle: Billie Jean King, Bobby Riggs, and the Tennis Match That Leveled the Game by Selena RobertsC.C. Pyle’s Amazing Foot Race: The True Story of the 1928 Coast-to-Coast Run Across America by Geoff WilliamsQ: 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 GoodmanThe City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team by Matthew GoodmanThe Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M. EdselAmerican Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race by Douglas BrinkleyQ: 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 MastromonacoFrom the Corner of the Oval by Beck Dorey-SteinThe Education of an Idealist: A Memoir by Samantha PowerThe Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova BaileyI Know I Am, But What Are You? by Samantha BeeThe Wonder Trail: True Stories from Los Angeles to the End of the World by Steve HelyREADING NOWKIM: In the Dream House by Carmen Maria MachadoALICE: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack WeatherfordCONCLUSIONYou can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedorkRATE 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Alice and Kim talk holiday gifts for the nonfiction book lover in your life.This episode is sponsored by <a href="https://bookriot.com/bookriot.com/readharderjournal" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Book Riot’s Read Harder Journal</a>, and <a href="https://bookriot.com/insiders.bookriot.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Book Riot Insiders</a>.Subscribe to For Real using <a href="https://rss.art19.com/for-real" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RSS</a>, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/for-real/id1353587430?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qj0fe1upFqGNwGoKJ6GkG?si=3r2HVMBwQWSjjwkSYqu9RQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spotify</a>, or <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=174921&amp;refid=stpr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stitcher</a>.For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our <a href="https://bookriot.com/newsletter/true-story/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">True Story newsletter</a>, edited by Kim Ukura.NONFICTION IN THE NEWS<a href="https://bookriot.com/2019/11/21/2019-national-book-award-winners/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">National Book Award goes to</a> Sarah Broom’s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0802125085/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0802125085" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Yellow House</a>!HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDEQ: 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.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/081298496X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=081298496X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Just Mercy</a> by Bryan Stevenson<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/156858993X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=156858993X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Another Day in the Death of America</a> by Gary Younge<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143129678/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0143129678" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America</a> by Nancy IsenbergQ: 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.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07HD522MF/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=B07HD522MF" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics</a> by Daniel James Brown<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400051460/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1400051460" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Necessary Spectacle: Billie Jean King, Bobby Riggs, and the Tennis Match That Leveled the Game</a> by Selena Roberts<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594863199/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1594863199" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">C.C. Pyle’s Amazing Foot Race: The True Story of the 1928 Coast-to-Coast Run Across America</a> by Geoff WilliamsQ: 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.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345527275/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0345527275" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race Around the World</a> by Matthew Goodman<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1101882832/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1101882832" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team</a> by Matthew Goodman<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1599951509/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1599951509" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History</a> by Robert M. Edsel<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006265506X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=006265506X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race</a> by Douglas BrinkleyQ: 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!<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1455588229/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1455588229" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House</a> by Alyssa Mastromonaco<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525509127/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0525509127" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">From the Corner of the Oval </a>by Beck Dorey-Stein<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062820699/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0062820699" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir</a> by Samantha Power<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/161620642X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=161620642X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating</a> by Elisabeth Tova Bailey<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1439142742/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1439142742" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">I Know I Am, But What Are You?</a> by Samantha Bee<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525955011/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0525955011" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Wonder Trail: True Stories from Los Angeles to the End of the World</a> by Steve HelyREADING NOWKIM: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1644450038/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1644450038" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">In the Dream House</a> by Carmen Maria MachadoALICE: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0609809644/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0609809644" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World</a> by Jack WeatherfordCONCLUSIONYou can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedorkRATE 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 <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information. 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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 BOOKSSorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come: One Introvert’s Year of Saying Yes by Jessica PanThe Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth by Josh LevinFrom Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home by Tembi LockeSisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America by Jacquelyn Dowd HallFAVORITE NONFICTION OF THE YEAR SO FARNotes from a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi, Joshua David SteinFurious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey CepParkland: Birth of a Movement by Dave CullenRough Magic: Riding the World’s Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Prior-PalmerGood Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira JacobThe Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan’s Cherry Blossoms by Naoko AbeThe Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun WangSay Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden KeefeREADING NOWSouthern Lady Code: Essays by Helen EllisThe Library of the Unwritten by by A. J. Hackwith (October 1)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 <a href="https://bookriot.com/bookriot.com/audible" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Book Riot and Audible</a>.Subscribe to For Real using <a href="https://bookriot.com/%E2%80%9D" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RSS</a>, <a href="https://bookriot.com/%E2%80%9Dhttps://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/for-real/id1353587430?mt=2%E2%80%9D" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>, or <a href="https://bookriot.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=174921&amp;refid=stpr%E2%80%9D" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stitcher.</a>For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our <a href="https://bookriot.com/%E2%80%9Dhttps://bookriot.com/newsletter/true-story/%E2%80%9D" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">True Story newsletter</a>, edited by Kim Ukura.NEW BOOKS<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1449499236/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1449499236" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come: One Introvert’s Year of Saying Yes</a> by Jessica Pan<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/031651330X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=031651330X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth</a> by Josh Levin<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1501187651/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1501187651" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home</a> by Tembi Locke<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393047997/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0393047997" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America</a> by Jacquelyn Dowd HallFAVORITE NONFICTION OF THE YEAR SO FAR<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1524732621/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1524732621" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Notes from a Young Black Chef</a> by Kwame Onwuachi, Joshua David Stein<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1101947861/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1101947861" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee</a> by Casey Cep<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062882945/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0062882945" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Parkland: Birth of a Movement</a> by Dave Cullen<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1948226197/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1948226197" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rough Magic: Riding the World’s Loneliest Horse Race</a> by Lara Prior-Palmer<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/039958904X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=039958904X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations</a> by Mira Jacob<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1524733571/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1524733571" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan’s Cherry Blossoms</a> by Naoko Abe<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1555978274/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1555978274" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays</a> by Esmé Weijun Wang<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385521316/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0385521316" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland</a> by Patrick Radden KeefeREADING NOW<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385543891/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0385543891" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Southern Lady Code: Essays</a> by Helen Ellis<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1984806378/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1984806378" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Library of the Unwritten</a> by by A. J. Hackwith (October 1)See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

#32 Our Favorite Nonfiction of the Year (So Far)

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 JewellEverything Is Horrible and Wonderful by Stephanie Wittels WachsNew ReleasesCamp 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 SprungWild and Rare by Adam Regn ArvidsonThe Meadowlands by Robert SullivanThe Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova BaileyAnimal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara KingsolverCurrent Events Reads: Guns and Student ActivismColumbine by Dave CullenAnother Day in the Death of America by Gary YoungeWitness the Revolution by Clara BinghamWhat We're ReadingPolitical Tribes by Amy ChuaGrant by Ron ChernowThe Dragon Behind the Glass by Emily VoigtThe Extra StuffBooks mentioned in passing:The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane JacobsComing to My Senses by Alice WatersThe Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth KolbertAnimals you might be curious about:Snuffbox musselsAsian arowana aka “dragon fish"See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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:<a href="https://aax-us-east.amazon-adsystem.com/x/c/QiZMBxVJtiP9TmvaXvJAWY4AAAFiOV-4WAEAAAFKATX2M_M/http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1492662925/ref=as_at/?imprToken=a23Rp3oRd9vUAFbYqiAhFg&amp;slotNum=0&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=w61&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1492662925" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">She Caused a Riot</a> by Hannah Jewell<a href="https://aax-us-east.amazon-adsystem.com/x/c/QiZMBxVJtiP9TmvaXvJAWY4AAAFiOV-4WAEAAAFKATX2M_M/http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1492664103/ref=as_at/?imprToken=a23Rp3oRd9vUAFbYqiAhFg&amp;slotNum=1&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=w61&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1492664103" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Everything Is Horrible and Wonderful</a> by Stephanie Wittels Wachs New Releases<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/086547821X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=086547821X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Camp Austen</a> by Ted Scheinman (March 6 from FSG Originals)<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525429727/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0525429727" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Woman's Hour</a> by Elaine Weiss (March 6 from Viking)<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062310720/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0062310720" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Visionary Women</a> by Andrea Barnet (March 13 from Ecco)<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062439022/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0062439022" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Last Wild Men of Borneo</a> by Carl Hoffman (March 6 from William Morrow)<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385541627/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0385541627" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Disappointment River</a> by Brian Castner (March 13 from Doubleday)<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1568585799/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1568585799" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">There Are No Dead Here</a> by Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno (February 27 from Nation Books) Theme of the Week: Spring Has Sprung<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1681340879/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1681340879" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wild and Rare</a> by Adam Regn Arvidson<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385495080/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0385495080" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Meadowlands</a> by Robert Sullivan<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/161620642X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=161620642X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating</a> by Elisabeth Tova Bailey<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060852569/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0060852569" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Animal, Vegetable, Miracle</a> by Barbara Kingsolver Current Events Reads: Guns and Student Activism<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446546925/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0446546925" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Columbine</a> by Dave Cullen<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/156858993X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=156858993X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Another Day in the Death of America</a> by Gary Younge<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812983262/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0812983262" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Witness the Revolution</a> by Clara Bingham What We're Reading<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399562850/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0399562850" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Political Tribes</a> by Amy Chua<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159420487X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=159420487X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Grant</a> by Ron Chernow<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1451678959/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1451678959" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Dragon Behind the Glass</a> by Emily Voigt The Extra StuffBooks mentioned in passing:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067974195X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=067974195X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Death and Life of Great American Cities</a> by Jane Jacobs<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/030771828X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=030771828X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Coming to My Senses</a> by Alice Waters<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250062187/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1250062187" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Sixth Extinction</a> by Elizabeth KolbertAnimals you might be curious about:<a href="https://www.fws.gov/midwest/endangered/clams/snuffbox/SnuffboxFactSheet.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Snuffbox mussels</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_arowana" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Asian arowana</a> aka “dragon fish"See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information. 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Spring Has Sprung

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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#3: We Heart Television (and Also Books)

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#4 Short Nonfiction You Can Readathon

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 NEWSKirkus 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 BOOKSOrdinary Girls: A Memoir by Jaquira DíazThe Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History by Nathalia HoltThe Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini by Joe PosnanskiDear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, &amp; Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali WongMEDICAL MYSTERIESBrain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah CahalanThe Dancing Plague: The Strange, True Story of an Extraordinary Illness by John WallerThe Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic — and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven JohnsonThe Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story by Richard PrestonREADING NOWKIM: Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation by Andrew MarantzALICE: The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Millicent Patrick by Mallory O’Meara!CONCLUSIONYou can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedorkRATE 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.LINKSNPR ArticleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Alice and Kim talk plagues, Disney, and what Harry Houdini really thought about spiritualism.This episode is sponsored by <a href="https://bookriot.com/bookriot.com/blinddate" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Book Riot’s Blind Date with a Book,</a> and <a href="https://www.hmhbooks.com/shop/books/Dads-Maybe-Book/9780358172352?utm_source=book-riot&amp;utm_medium=banner&amp;utm_campaign=obrien-fall2019&amp;utm_content=audiobook" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dad’s Maybe Book by Tim O’Brien, published by HMH</a>.Subscribe to For Real using <a href="https://rss.art19.com/for-real" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RSS</a>, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/for-real/id1353587430?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qj0fe1upFqGNwGoKJ6GkG?si=3r2HVMBwQWSjjwkSYqu9RQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spotify</a>, or <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=174921&amp;refid=stpr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stitcher</a>.For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our <a href="https://bookriot.com/newsletter/true-story/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">True Story newsletter</a>, edited by Kim Ukura. NONFICTION IN THE NEWS<a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/prize/2019/finalists/nonfiction/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kirkus Prize winner: How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones</a>“A memoir of coming to terms that’s written with masterful control of both style and material.”<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/anonymous-author-of-trump-resistance-op-ed-to-publish-a-tell-all-book/2019/10/22/b9ea2f42-f45a-11e9-ad8b-85e2aa00b5ce_story.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Washington Post: “Anonymous author of Trump ‘resistance’ op-ed to publish a tell-all book”</a> NEW BOOKS<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1616209135/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1616209135" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ordinary Girls: A Memoir</a> by Jaquira Díaz<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316439150/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0316439150" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History</a> by Nathalia Holt<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1501137239/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1501137239" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini</a> by Joe Posnanski<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/052550883X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=052550883X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, &amp; Advice for Living Your Best Life</a> by Ali Wong MEDICAL MYSTERIES<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1451621388/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1451621388" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness</a> by Susannah Cahalan<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1402219431/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1402219431" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Dancing Plague: The Strange, True Story of an Extraordinary Illness</a> by John Waller<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594482691/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1594482691" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic — and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World</a> by Steven Johnson<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385479565/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0385479565" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story</a> by Richard Preston READING NOWKIM: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525522263/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0525522263" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation</a> by Andrew MarantzALICE: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1335937803/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1335937803" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Millicent Patrick</a> by Mallory O’Meara! CONCLUSIONYou can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedorkRATE 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. LINKS<a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/10/12/769688182/tim-obrien-on-becoming-a-father-at-58" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NPR Article</a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Medical Mysteries

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 UpSend holiday gift guide questions to forreal@bookriot.com by November 20!Nonfiction in the NewsSlate: “The Library Popularity Index”American Library Association: #eBooksForAllNew 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 McDiarmidThe Witches Are Coming by Lindy WestThe Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women by Mo MoultonMudlark: In Search of London’s Past Along the River Thames by Lara MaiklemThe 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 CrowleyAmazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women’s Fight for Their Rights by A D’Amico and Mikki KendallBecoming RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Journey to Justice by Debbie Levy, illustrated by Whitney GardnerReading NowCatch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan FarrowWithout a Prayer: The Death of Lucas Leonard and How One Church Became a Cult by Susan AshlineSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 <a href="https://mytbr.co/?utm_source=podcast&amp;utm_medium=midroll&amp;utm_campaign=podcast-nov-19" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Book Riot’s Tailored Book Recommendations (aka TBR)</a>, <a href="http://insiders.bookriot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Book Riot Insiders</a>, and <a href="http://bit.ly/runlikeamotheraudiobook" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Run Like a Mother (the audiobook!)</a>.Subscribe to For Real using <a href="https://rss.art19.com/for-real" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RSS</a>, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/for-real/id1353587430?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qj0fe1upFqGNwGoKJ6GkG?si=3r2HVMBwQWSjjwkSYqu9RQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spotify</a>, or <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=174921&amp;refid=stpr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stitcher</a>.For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our <a href="https://bookriot.com/newsletter/true-story/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">True Story newsletter</a>, edited by Kim Ukura. Follow UpSend holiday gift guide questions to <a href="mailto:forreal@bookriot.com">forreal@bookriot.com</a> by November 20! Nonfiction in the NewsSlate: <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/10/most-popular-books-by-democratic-presidential-candidates-at-libraries.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">“The Library Popularity Index”</a>American Library Association: <a href="https://ebooksforall.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">#eBooksForAll</a> New Books Bonanza!<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1501160281/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1501160281" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls</a> by Jessica McDiarmid<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316449881/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0316449881" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Witches Are Coming</a> by Lindy West<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1541644476/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1541644476" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women</a> by Mo Moulton<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1631494961/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1631494961" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mudlark: In Search of London’s Past Along the River Thames</a> by Lara Maiklem<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062838768/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0062838768" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Likeability Trap: How to Break Free and Succeed as You Are</a> ‌by‌ ‌Alicia‌ ‌Menendez‌ ‌<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1541697340/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1541697340" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Accursed Tower: The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades</a> by Roger Crowley<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399581790/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0399581790" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women’s Fight for Their Rights</a> by A D’Amico and Mikki Kendall<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1534424563/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1534424563" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Becoming RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Journey to Justice</a> by Debbie Levy, illustrated by Whitney Gardner Reading Now<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316486639/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0316486639" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators</a> by Ronan Farrow<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1643130722/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1643130722" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Without a Prayer: The Death of Lucas Leonard and How One Church Became a Cult</a> by Susan AshlineSee <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information. 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A Second New Books Bonanza!

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 UPRise and Kill First by Ronen BergmanKitlit These Days, a new podcast from Book RiotNEW BOOKSMurder by the Book by Claire HarmanNo Happy Endings by Nora McInernyDeath in Ten Minutes by Fern RiddellGood Talk by Mira JacobThe Life and Legend of Bras-Coupé by Bryan WagnerNative Country of the Heart by Cherríe MoragaThe Five by Hallie RubenholdCONFIDENCE TRICKSTERSThe Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse by Piu EatwellThe Big Con by David MaurerRace Me In a Lobster Suit by Kelly MahonCaraboo: The Servant Girl Princess by Jennifer RaisonThe Mark Inside by Amy ReadingREADING NOWLead from the Outside by Stacey AbramsAlexander Hamilton by Jonathan Hennessey, art by Justin GreenwoodThe Stranger Beside Me by Ann RuleSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Alice and Kim talk about bookish murders, confidence tricksters, Craigslist cons and more new nonfiction.This episode is sponsored by <a href="https://insiders.bookriot.com/?utm_source=podcast-preroll&amp;utm_medium=podcast&amp;utm_campaign=podcast-preroll-april-2019" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Book Riot Insiders</a>.Subscribe to For Real using <a href="https://bookriot.com/%E2%80%9D" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RSS</a>, <a href="https://bookriot.com/%E2%80%9Dhttps://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/for-real/id1353587430?mt=2%E2%80%9D" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>, or <a href="https://bookriot.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=174921&amp;refid=stpr%E2%80%9D" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stitcher.</a>For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our <a href="https://bookriot.com/%E2%80%9Dhttps://bookriot.com/newsletter/true-story/%E2%80%9D" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">True Story newsletter</a>, edited by Kim Ukura.FOLLOW UP<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400069718/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1400069718" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rise and Kill First</a> by Ronen Bergman<a href="https://bookriot.com/2019/03/21/kidlit-these-days-podcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kitlit These Days</a>, a new podcast from Book RiotNEW BOOKS<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525520392/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0525520392" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Murder by the Book</a> by Claire Harman<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062792407/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0062792407" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">No Happy Endings</a> by Nora McInerny<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/147366618X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=147366618X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Death in Ten Minutes</a> by Fern Riddell<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/039958904X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=039958904X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Good Talk</a> by Mira JacobThe Life and Legend of Bras-Coupé by Bryan Wagner<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374219664/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0374219664" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Native Country of the Heart</a> by Cherríe Moraga<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1328663817/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1328663817" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Five</a> by Hallie RubenholdCONFIDENCE TRICKSTERS<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1631492314/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1631492314" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse</a> by Piu Eatwell<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385495382/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0385495382" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Big Con</a> by David Maurer<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1683691040/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1683691040" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Race Me In a Lobster Suit</a> by Kelly Mahon<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1566561795/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1566561795" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Caraboo: The Servant Girl Princess</a> by Jennifer Raison<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307473597/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0307473597" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Mark Inside</a> by Amy ReadingREADING NOW<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250214807/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1250214807" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lead from the Outside</a> by Stacey Abrams<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/039958000X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=039958000X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Alexander Hamilton</a> by Jonathan Hennessey, art by Justin Greenwood<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1501139142/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1501139142" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Stranger Beside Me</a> by Ann RuleSee <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information. 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#28 Confidence Tricksters

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 UPWashington Post: “Book subtitles are getting ridiculously long. What is going on?”NEW BOOKSFor the Love of Books by Graham TarrantThe Weather Machine by Andrew BlumA Death in the Rainforest by Don KulickMore Than Enough by Elaine WelterothI Like to Watch by Emily NussbaumNATIONAL OCEANS MONTHSpineless by Juli BerwaldThe Bounty by Caroline AlexanderFisherman’s Blues by Anna BadkhenPoseidon’s Steed by Helen ScalesHawaiki Rising by Dr. Sam LowREADING NOWExit West by Mohsin HamidA Woman of No Importance by Sonia PurnellSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 <a href="https://bookriot.com/rinku?id=726085" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Libro.fm audiobooks</a>, <a href="https://bookriot.com/rinku?id=725552" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Amazon Publishing</a>, and <a href="https://bookriot.com/rinku?id=726165" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Book Riot Insiders</a>.Subscribe to For Real using <a href="https://bookriot.com/%E2%80%9D" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RSS</a>, <a href="https://bookriot.com/%E2%80%9Dhttps://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/for-real/id1353587430?mt=2%E2%80%9D" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>, or <a href="https://bookriot.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=174921&amp;refid=stpr%E2%80%9D" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stitcher.</a>For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our <a href="https://bookriot.com/%E2%80%9Dhttps://bookriot.com/newsletter/true-story/%E2%80%9D" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">True Story newsletter</a>, edited by Kim Ukura.FOLLOW UPWashington Post: <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/book-subtitles-are-getting-ridiculously-long-what-is-going-on/2019/06/04/3150bcc8-86c3-11e9-98c1-e945ae5db8fb_story.html?fbclid=IwAR0_jq4jqhh7qmH3hsepCbDI8TsW5SFvGM1rwmxMxM2DjQ7mJlhP3RfLB6M&amp;noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.4d17a6e88720" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">“Book subtitles are getting ridiculously long. What is going on?”</a>NEW BOOKS<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1510741577/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1510741577" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">For the Love of Books</a> by Graham Tarrant<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062368613/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0062368613" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Weather Machine</a> by Andrew Blum<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1616209046/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1616209046" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Death in the Rainforest</a> by Don Kulick<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525561587/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0525561587" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">More Than Enough</a> by Elaine Welteroth<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525508961/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0525508961" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">I Like to Watch</a> by Emily NussbaumNATIONAL OCEANS MONTH<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735211264/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0735211264" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spineless</a> by Juli Berwald<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0142004693/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0142004693" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Bounty</a> by Caroline Alexander<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594634874/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1594634874" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fisherman’s Blues</a> by Anna Badkhen<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1592405819/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1592405819" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Poseidon’s Steed</a> by Helen Scales<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0824877357/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0824877357" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hawaiki Rising</a> by Dr. Sam LowREADING NOW<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735212201/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0735212201" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Exit West</a> by Mohsin Hamid<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/073522529X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=073522529X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Woman of No Importance</a> by Sonia PurnellSee <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

#34 Ahoy, We Sail the Sea of Books

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 BOOKSShe Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan TwoheyNONFICTION IN THE NEWSNational Book Award LonglistNew York Times: “It’s a Fact: Mistakes Are Embarrassing the Publishing Industry”Impeachment: An American HistoryNEW BOOKSMake it Scream, Make it Burn by Leslie JamisonOn Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi KleinFor Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics by Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah Daughtry and Minyon MooreEmbrace Your Weird: Face Your Fears and Unleash Creativity by Felicia DayCOZY NONFICTIONThe Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood by Sy MontgomeryLife in the Garden by Penelope LivelyThe Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater: Essays on Crafting by Alanna OkunMy Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca MeadREADING NOWSay Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden KeefeMotherhood So White by Nefertiti AustinCONCLUSIONYou can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedorkRATE 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 <a href="https://bookriot.com/bookriot.com/blinddate" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Book Riot’s Blind Date</a>, <a href="https://www.uipress.uiowa.edu/books/9781609386795/these-boys-and-their-fathers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">These Boys and Their Fathers by Don Waters</a>, and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Motherhood-So-White-Parenting-America/dp/1492679011/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=motherhood+so+white&amp;qid=1568142007&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Motherhood So White by Nefertiti Austin</a>.Subscribe to For Real using <a href="https://rss.art19.com/for-real" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RSS</a>, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/for-real/id1353587430?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qj0fe1upFqGNwGoKJ6GkG?si=3r2HVMBwQWSjjwkSYqu9RQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spotify</a>, or <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=174921&amp;refid=stpr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stitcher</a>.For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our <a href="https://bookriot.com/newsletter/true-story/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">True Story newsletter</a>, edited by Kim Ukura.FOLLOW UP BOOKS<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525560343/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0525560343" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement</a> by Jodi Kantor and Megan TwoheyNONFICTION IN THE NEWS<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-2019-national-book-awards-longlist-nonfiction" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">National Book Award Longlist</a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/22/business/publishing-books-errors.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New York Times: “It’s a Fact: Mistakes Are Embarrassing the Publishing Industry”</a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1984853783/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1984853783" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Impeachment: An American History</a>NEW BOOKS<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316259632/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0316259632" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Make it Scream, Make it Burn</a> by Leslie Jamison<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1982129913/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1982129913" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal</a> by Naomi Klein<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07DQQP7MV/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=B07DQQP7MV" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics</a> by Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah Daughtry and Minyon Moore<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1982113227/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1982113227" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Embrace Your Weird: Face Your Fears and Unleash Creativity</a> by Felicia DayCOZY NONFICTION<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345496094/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0345496094" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood</a> by Sy Montgomery<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525558373/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0525558373" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Life in the Garden</a> by Penelope Lively<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250095638/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1250095638" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater: Essays on Crafting</a> by Alanna Okun<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307984761/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0307984761" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">My Life in Middlemarch</a> by Rebecca MeadREADING NOW<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385521316/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0385521316" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland</a> by Patrick Radden Keefe<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1492679011/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1492679011" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Motherhood So White</a> by Nefertiti AustinCONCLUSIONYou can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – <a href="https://twitter.com/itsalicetime" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@itsalicetime</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/kimthedork" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@kimthedork</a>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 <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

Cozy Nonfiction Part II

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 UPFrom the Corner of the Oval by Beck Dorey-SteinNever Caught by Erica Armstrong DunbarDrinking in America by Mark Edward LenderNEW BOOKSBarons of the Sea by Steven UjifusaBlood and Ivy by Paul CollinsA Bite-Sized History of France by Stephane Henaut (translated by Jeni Mitchell)Killing It: An Education by Camas DavisNONFICTION BEACH READSStunt Memoirs! My Year with Eleanor by Noelle HancockWord Freak by Stefan FatsisThe Year of Yes by Shonda RhimesThe Lunatic Express by Carl HoffmanNature/Science Books!A Year in Provence by Peter MayleThe Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth KolbertAstrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse TysonThe Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova BaileyA Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill BrysonThe Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan EganThe Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy MontgomeryLight/Historical True Crime!The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah BlumEmpty Mansions by Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr.The Girls of Murder City by Douglas PerryMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtThe Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover BartlettComedy Memoirs!Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy KalingMe Talk Pretty One Day by David SedarisThe Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany HaddishFresh Off the Boat: A Memoir by Eddie HuangI Know I Am But What Are You by Samantha BeeHyperbole and a Half by Allie BroshSo Close to Being the Sh*t, Y’All Don’t Even Know by RettaREADING NOWBad Blood by John CarreyrouFighting Chance by Faye DuddenOTHERAsk a Slave (web series)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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: <a href="https://bookriot.com/500yagiveaway" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">bookriot.com/500yagiveaway</a>. FOLLOW UP<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525509127/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0525509127" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">From the Corner of the Oval</a> by Beck Dorey-Stein<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1501126393/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1501126393" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Never Caught</a> by Erica Armstrong Dunbar<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1455513857/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1455513857" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Drinking in America</a> by Mark Edward Lender NEW BOOKS<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1476745978/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1476745978" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Barons of the Sea</a> by Steven Ujifusa<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393245160/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0393245160" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Blood and Ivy</a> by Paul Collins<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1620972514/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1620972514" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Bite-Sized History of France</a> by Stephane Henaut (translated by Jeni Mitchell)<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1101980079/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1101980079" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Killing It: An Education</a> by Camas Davis NONFICTION BEACH READSStunt Memoirs! <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061875015/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0061875015" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">My Year with Eleanor</a> by Noelle Hancock<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0142002267/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0142002267" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Word Freak</a> by Stefan Fatsis<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1476777128/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1476777128" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Year of Yes</a> by Shonda Rhimes<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1784977381/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1784977381" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Lunatic Express</a> by Carl HoffmanNature/Science Books!<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679731148/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0679731148" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Year in Provence</a> by Peter Mayle<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250062187/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1250062187" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Sixth Extinction</a> by Elizabeth Kolbert<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393609391/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0393609391" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Astrophysics for People in a Hurry</a> by Neil deGrasse Tyson<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/161620642X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=161620642X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating</a> by Elisabeth Tova Bailey<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/076790818X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=076790818X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Short History of Nearly Everything</a> by Bill Bryson<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393355551/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0393355551" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Death and Life of the Great Lakes</a> by Dan Egan<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1451697724/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1451697724" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness</a> by Sy MontgomeryLight/Historical True Crime!<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/014311882X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=014311882X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Poisoner’s Handbook</a> by Deborah Blum<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345534530/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0345534530" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Empty Mansions</a> by Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr.<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143119222/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0143119222" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Girls of Murder City</a> by Douglas Perry<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679751521/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0679751521" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil</a> by John Berendt<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594484813/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1594484813" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Man Who Loved Books Too Much</a> by Allison Hoover BartlettComedy Memoirs!<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307886271/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0307886271" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?</a> by Mindy Kaling<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316776963/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0316776963" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Me Talk Pretty One Day</a> by David Sedaris<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1501181823/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1501181823" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Last Black Unicorn</a> by Tiffany Haddish<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812983351/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0812983351" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir</a> by Eddie Huang<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1439142742/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1439142742" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">I Know I Am But What Are You</a> by Samantha Bee<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0224095374/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0224095374" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hyperbole and a Half</a> by Allie BroshSo Close to Being the Sh*t, Y’All Don’t Even Know by Retta READING NOW<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/152473165X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=152473165X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bad Blood</a> by John Carreyrou<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199376433/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0199376433" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fighting Chance</a> by Faye Dudden OTHER<a href="http://www.askaslave.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ask a Slave</a> (web series)See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information. 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#11 Nonfiction Beach Reads

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 UpTrue story podcast, The Dropout from ABC Radio, about Theranos and Elizabeth HolmesNew BooksThe Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America, ed. by Nikesh Shukla and Chimene SuleymanParkland by Dave CullenBrown, White, Black: An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion by Nishta J. MehraWayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya HartmanSounds Like Titanic: A Memoir by Jessica Chiccehitto HindmanBlack History Month II: Contemporary VoicesWhen They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha BandeleWe Can’t Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival by Jabari AsimThe Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race, edited by Jesmyn WardThe Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. TwittyThe New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle AlexanderWell-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory EdimReading NowFirst Generations: Women in Colonial America by Carol BerkinAtomic Habits by James ClearCONCLUSIONFind 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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 <a href="https://bookriot.com/bookriot.com/audible" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Audible</a> and , <a href="https://bookriot.com/sffgiveaway" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Book Riot’s Swords and Spaceships newsletter</a>.Subscribe to For Real using <a href="https://bookriot.com/%E2%80%9D" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RSS</a>, <a href="https://bookriot.com/%E2%80%9Dhttps://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/for-real/id1353587430?mt=2%E2%80%9D" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>, or <a href="https://bookriot.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=174921&amp;refid=stpr%E2%80%9D" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stitcher.</a>For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our <a href="https://bookriot.com/%E2%80%9Dhttps://bookriot.com/newsletter/true-story/%E2%80%9D" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">True Story newsletter</a>, edited by Kim Ukura.Follow UpTrue story podcast, <a href="http://abcradio.com/podcasts/the-dropout/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Dropout</a> from ABC Radio, about Theranos and Elizabeth HolmesNew Books<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/031652428X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=031652428X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America</a>, ed. by Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062882945/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0062882945" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Parkland </a>by Dave Cullen<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250133556/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1250133556" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Brown, White, Black: An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion</a> by Nishta J. Mehra<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393285677/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0393285677" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval</a> by Saidiya Hartman<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393651649/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0393651649" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir</a> by Jessica Chiccehitto HindmanBlack History Month II: Contemporary Voices<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250171083/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1250171083" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir</a> by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250174538/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1250174538" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">We Can’t Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival</a> by Jabari Asim<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1501126350/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1501126350" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race</a>, edited by Jesmyn Ward<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062379291/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0062379291" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South</a> by Michael W. Twitty<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07N8H53Z8/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=B07N8H53Z8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness</a> by Michelle Alexander<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525619771/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0525619771" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves</a> by Glory EdimReading Now<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0809016060/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0809016060" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">First Generations: Women in Colonial America</a> by Carol Berkin<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735211299/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0735211299" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Atomic Habits</a> by James ClearCONCLUSIONFind 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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#25 Black History Month Pt II

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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Kim and Alice talk presidential scandals, Victorian affairs, and the inside scoop on the Jell-O dynasty.See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

#12 Scandal!

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.Subscribe to For Real via Stitcher here, or via Apple Podcasts here. You can sign up for Book Riot's nonfiction newsletter True Story, edited by For Real's Kim Ukura here.Weekly Theme: Jane AustenA Smattering of Austen TitlesReading Austen in America by Juliette WellsA Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane AustenAt Home With Jane Austen by Kim WilsonTea With Jane Austen by Pen VoglerJane Austen and the Fiction of Her Time by Mary WaldronWhat Matters in Jane Austen? by John MullanA Brief Guide to Jane Austen by Charles JenningsJane Austen Biography and Background BooksJane Austen by Carol ShieldsJane Austen: A Life by Claire TomalinJane Austen: The World of Her Novels by Deirdre Le FayeJane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World by Claire HarmanJane Austen in Popular CultureAmong the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen by Deborah YaffeAll Roads Lead to Austen: A Year-long Journey with Jane by Amy Smith Fun Austen Titles &amp; CoversJane Austen, Game Theorist by Michael Suk-Young ChweWhy Jane Austen? by Rachel W. BrownsteinCritics Favorites of 2018New 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 2018KIM:All You Can Ever Know by Nicole ChungBad Blood by John CarreyrouTell Me More by Kelly CorriganFrom the Corner of the Oval by Beck Dorey-SteinNo One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol ALICE:Impeachment: An American HistoryMy Squirrel Days by Ellie KemperThe Real Lolita by Sarah WeinmanBombay Anna: The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of the King &amp; I Governess by Susan MorganThe Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age by Myra MacPherson READING NOWKIM: Left to Our Own Devices: Outsmarting Smart Technology to Reclaim Our Relationships, Health, and Focus by Margaret MorrisALICE: Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History by Tori Telfer The Magnolia Story by Chip and Joanna GainesCONCLUSIONBook 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 <a href="https://bookriot.com/readharderjournal" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Book Riot Read Harder Journal</a> and <a href="https://secure.adnxs.com/clktrb?id=715457" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Molecule of More By Daniel Z. Lieberman and Mike Long.</a> Subscribe to For Real via Stitcher <a href="https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/book-riot/for-real" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>, or via Apple Podcasts <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/for-real/id1353587430?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. You can sign up for Book Riot's nonfiction newsletter True Story, edited by For Real's Kim Ukura <a href="https://bookriot.com/newsletter/true-story/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. Weekly Theme: Jane Austen A Smattering of Austen Titles<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1350012041/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1350012041" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Reading Austen in America</a> by Juliette Wells<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400068053/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1400068053" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen</a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0789212099/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0789212099" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">At Home With Jane Austen</a> by Kim Wilson<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1782493425/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1782493425" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tea With Jane Austen</a> by Pen Vogler<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521003881/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0521003881" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jane Austen and the Fiction of Her Time</a> by Mary Waldron<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1620400421/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1620400421" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">What Matters in Jane Austen?</a> by John Mullan<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1780330464/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1780330464" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Brief Guide to Jane Austen</a> by Charles Jennings Jane Austen Biography and Background Books<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/2762123720/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=2762123720" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jane Austen by Carol Shields</a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679766766/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0679766766" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jane Austen: A Life</a> by Claire Tomalin<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0711222789/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0711222789" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels</a> by Deirdre Le Faye<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805082581/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0805082581" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World</a> by Claire Harman Jane Austen in Popular Culture<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AXS6BFM/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=B00AXS6BFM" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen</a> by Deborah Yaffe<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008846VK8/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=B008846VK8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">All Roads Lead to Austen: A Year-long Journey with Jane</a> by Amy Smith Fun Austen Titles &amp; Covers<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0691162441/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0691162441" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jane Austen, Game Theorist</a> by Michael Suk-Young Chwe<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0231153902/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0231153902" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Why Jane Austen?</a> by Rachel W. Brownstein Critics Favorites of 2018New York Times: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/29/books/review/best-books.html?module=inline" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Top 10 Books of 2018</a><ul> <li> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735223580/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0735223580" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">American Prison</a> by Shane Bauer</li> <li> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399590501/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0399590501" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Educated</a> by Tara Westover – also one of my favorites!</li> <li> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1416590315/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1416590315" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Frederick Douglass</a> by David W. Blight</li> <li> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594204225/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1594204225" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">How to Change Your Mind</a> by Michael Pollan</li> <li> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0802128238/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0802128238" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Small Fry</a> by Lisa Brennan-Jobs</li> </ul> Washington Post: <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/entertainment/books/best-books-of-2018/?utm_term=.2f6dffe558db" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Best Books of 2018</a><ul> <li> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1501181793/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1501181793" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Good and Mad</a> by Rebecca Traister</li> <li> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1476740186/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1476740186" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Library Book</a> by Susan Orlean</li> <li> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735217718/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0735217718" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Line Becomes a River</a> by Francisco Cantu</li> <li> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385541155/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0385541155" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">On Desperate Ground</a> by Hampton Sides</li> <li> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1635571375/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1635571375" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">One Person, No Vote</a> by Carol Anderson</li> </ul> <a href="https://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/Best-Nonfiction-Books-2018-45165159" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Popsugar’s Best Nonfiction Books 2018</a><ul> <li> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250170192/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1250170192" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tonight I’m Someone Else</a> by Chelsea Hodson</li> <li> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062456571/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0062456571" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession</a> by Piper Weiss</li> <li> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062319787/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0062319787" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">I’ll Be Gone in the Dark</a> by Michelle McNamara</li> <li> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B072QV4YZ2/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=B072QV4YZ2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Would You Rather?: A Memoir of Growing Up and Coming Out</a> by Katie Heaney</li> <li> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1478970391/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1478970391" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Choose Your Own Disaster</a> by Dana Schwartz</li> <li> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062657143/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0062657143" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession</a> by Alice Bolin</li> <li> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0451495322/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0451495322" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After</a> by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil</li> <li> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399590501/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0399590501" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Educated</a> by Tara Westover (again!)</li> <li> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525534032/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0525534032" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Can You Tolerate This?</a> By Ashleigh Young</li> <li> <a 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href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/039958837X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=039958837X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tell Me More</a> by Kelly Corrigan<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525509127/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0525509127" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">From the Corner of the Oval</a> by Beck Dorey-Stein<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1501163132/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1501163132" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">No One Tells You This</a> by Glynnis MacNicol ALICE:<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1984853783/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1984853783" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Impeachment: An American History</a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1501163345/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1501163345" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">My Squirrel Days</a> by Ellie Kemper<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062661922/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0062661922" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Real Lolita</a> by Sarah Weinman<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0520252268/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0520252268" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Bombay Anna: The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of the King &amp; I Governess</a> by Susan Morgan<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446570249/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0446570249" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age</a> by Myra MacPherson READING NOWKIM: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07KJSNFJK/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=B07KJSNFJK" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Left to Our Own Devices: Outsmarting Smart Technology to Reclaim Our Relationships, Health, and Focus</a> by Margaret MorrisALICE: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062433733/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0062433733" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History</a> by Tori Telfer <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0718079183/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0718079183" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Magnolia Story</a> by Chip and Joanna 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#21 The Jane Austen Episode

This episode of For Real is sponsored by The Good Neighbor by Maxwell King and The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman.FOLLOW UP READSThe Class by Heather Won TesarioNEW BOOKSThe Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy by Paige WilliamsCall Them By Their True Names by Rebecca SolnitSeeds 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 FreemanThe 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 ShadidThe Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living by Meik WikingEx Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne FadimanTravels With Charley in Search of America by John SteinbeckSEGMENT THREE: Great SubtitlesMoby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea &amp; of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists &amp; Fools Including the Author Who Went in Search of Them by Donovan HohnHeaven’s Ditch: God, Gold, and Murder on the Erie Canal by Jack KellyThe Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon WinchesterWorking Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy MelinekREADING NOW99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig BrownKnocking on Heaven’s Door by Katy ButlerQUESTIONS/COMMENTS?Find us on Twitter @itsalicetime and @kimthedork See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode of For Real is sponsored by <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1419727729/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1419727729" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Good Neighbor</a> by Maxwell King and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062661922/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0062661922" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Real Lolita</a> by Sarah Weinman.FOLLOW UP READS<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399181849/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0399181849" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Class</a> by Heather Won TesarioNEW BOOKS<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0316382531/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0316382531" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy</a> by Paige Williams<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1608469468/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1608469468" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Call Them By Their True Names</a> by Rebecca Solnit<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1510705767/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1510705767" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply</a> by Mark Schapiro <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385541902/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0385541902" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing</a> by Merve Emre <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374154775/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0374154775" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War</a> by Joanne Freeman<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1541672488/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1541672488" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Art of Logic in an Illogical World</a> by Eugenia Cheng <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1911115596/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1911115596" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">She Called Me Woman: Nigeria’s Queer Women Speak</a>, edited by Azeenarh Mohammed, Chitra Nagarajan, Rafeeat Aliyu WEEKLY THEME: Cozy Nonfiction for Fall <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0544002199/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0544002199" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">House of Stone</a> by Anthony Shadid<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062658808/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0062658808" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living</a> by Meik Wiking<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374527229/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0374527229" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader</a> by Anne Fadiman<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0140053204/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0140053204" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Travels With Charley in Search of America</a> by John SteinbeckSEGMENT THREE: Great Subtitles<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143120506/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0143120506" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea &amp; of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists &amp; Fools Including the Author Who Went in Search of Them</a> by Donovan Hohn<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1250131529/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1250131529" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Heaven’s Ditch: God, Gold, and Murder on the Erie Canal</a> by Jack Kelly<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060839783/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0060839783" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary</a> by Simon Winchester<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1476727260/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1476727260" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner</a> by Judy MelinekREADING NOW<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374906041/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0374906041" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret</a> by Craig Brown<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1451641982/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1451641982" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Knocking on Heaven’s Door</a> by Katy ButlerQUESTIONS/COMMENTS?Find us on Twitter @itsalicetime and @kimthedork See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information. 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#15 Cozy Nonfiction for Fall

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.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 <a href="https://insiders.bookriot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Book Riot Insiders</a>, <a href="https://oneworld-publications.com/skin-deep-hb.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Skin Deep by Gavin Evans, published by Oneworld Publications</a> and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Chase-Darkness-Me-True-Crime-Started/dp/1492685852/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=chase+darkness+with+me&amp;qid=1564763020&amp;s=gateway&amp;sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chase Darkness with Meby Billy Jensen</a>. Subscribe to For Real using <a href="https://rss.art19.com/for-real" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RSS</a>, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/for-real/id1353587430?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qj0fe1upFqGNwGoKJ6GkG?si=3r2HVMBwQWSjjwkSYqu9RQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spotify</a>, or <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=174921&amp;refid=stpr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stitcher</a>. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our <a href="https://bookriot.com/newsletter/true-story/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">True Story newsletter</a>, edited by Kim Ukura. FOLLOW UP <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0822360314/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0822360314" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation</a> by Eli Clare NONFICTION IN THE NEWS <a href="https://www.facebook.com/barackobama/posts/10156922814871749?__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARA5KL0_FPJ7vcCOgUMd_WYkfnSYQOPExOyN2Ya_R-xMbhFtfrNxpn-vK0vvIIAfFwKc5JOK3B4RIO9CU3lEcKEQmIm0CajpCc2tU_jZXqMTxhJ4Wx1z_a94Aj13oPvvd9wL3b3lM1M4DoMCSiRcpjP8PcSu_1ZSSw3nebItlRuB4CCxUaa0DgfnYaDxx-I9smog5BbYPrWANriiiHog7Zyzz3t57j0TlFqUQZDyOunUnMG4fStU31IyrKvQqstbFE1fXh2j5iefUEhDwMtLHVb_RYgRbwjuKvit744fNPB8HqHY35wESuWGfZ4suFaoGqfl-xfitwc&amp;__tn__=-R" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Barack Obama’s summer reading list</a> Publisher’s Weekly: <a href="https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/book-deals/article/80859-workman-to-publish-aoc-bio.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Workman to Publish AOC Bio</a> NEW BOOKS <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1487006470/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1487006470" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Breaking the Ocean: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Reconciliation</a> by Annahid Dashtgard <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0802125085/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0802125085" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Yellow House: A Memoir</a> by Sarah M. Broom <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1612197922/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1612197922" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power</a> by Sady Doyle <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1524743410/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1524743410" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator</a> by Timothy C. Winegard CULTS! <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400032806/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1400032806" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith</a> by Jon Krakauer <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1476763836/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1476763836" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and the People’s Temple</a> by Jeff Guinn <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0307720659/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0307720659" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Without You, There is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea’s Elite</a> by Suki Kim <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003XT604U/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=B003XT604U" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche</a> by Haruki Murakami READING NOW <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/052543495X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=052543495X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist</a> by Eli Saslow <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400064163/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1400064163" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption</a>by Laura Hillenbrand See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information. 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Cults and Cult-Like Communities

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 UpThe trailer for Just Mercy was released!Nonfiction in the NewsNBC News: Ex-aide to James Mattis claims Pentagon is holding up his memoirVOX: It’s time to talk about James Mattis’s involvement with the Theranos scandalNew Book BonanzaYale Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant by Anne Gardiner PerkinsShe Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan TwoheyWill My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin DoughtyCrossfire Hurricane: Inside Donald Trump's War on the FBI by Josh CampbellGuest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS by Azadeh MoaveniThe Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls by Mona EltahawyThe Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace by Patricia WiltshireHow To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall MunroeReading NowAudience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America by James PoniewozikThe Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim DefedeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Alice and Kim take a deep dive into eight great new books coming out in early September!This episode is sponsored by <a href="https://bookriot.com/2019/09/03/win-the-best-mystery-thrillers-of-the-year-so-far/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">our giveaway of the best mysteries and thrillers of the year so far,</a> <a href="https://read.macmillan.com/lp/born-to-fly/?utm_source=bookriot&amp;utm_medium=adbanner&amp;utm_term=bookriot-midrollpodcast&amp;utm_content=na-buy-buynow&amp;utm_campaign=9781626721302" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Born to Fly by Steve Sheinkin</a>, and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Yale-Needs-Women-Rewrote-League/dp/149268774X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=yale+needs+women&amp;qid=1566934834&amp;s=gateway&amp;sr=8-1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Yale Needs Women from Sourcebooks</a>.Subscribe to For Real using <a href="https://rss.art19.com/for-real" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RSS</a>, <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/for-real/id1353587430?mt=2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/0Qj0fe1upFqGNwGoKJ6GkG?si=3r2HVMBwQWSjjwkSYqu9RQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spotify</a>, or <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=174921&amp;refid=stpr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stitcher</a>.For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our <a href="https://bookriot.com/newsletter/true-story/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">True Story newsletter</a>, edited by Kim Ukura.Follow Up<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVQbeG5yW78" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The trailer for Just Mercy was released</a>!Nonfiction in the NewsNBC News: <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/ex-aide-james-mattis-claims-pentagon-holding-his-memoir-n1047716" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ex-aide to James Mattis claims Pentagon is holding up his memoir</a>VOX: <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/8/31/20839873/james-mattis-book-theranos" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">It’s time to talk about James Mattis’s involvement with the Theranos scandal</a>New Book Bonanza<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/149268774X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=149268774X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Yale Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant</a> by Anne Gardiner Perkins<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525560343/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0525560343" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement</a> by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/039365270X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=039365270X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death</a> by Caitlin Doughty<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/161620950X/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=161620950X" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Crossfire Hurricane: Inside Donald Trump's War on the FBI</a> by Josh Campbell<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399179755/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0399179755" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS</a> by Azadeh Moaveni<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807013811/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0807013811" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls</a> by Mona Eltahawy<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525542213/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0525542213" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace</a> by Patricia Wiltshire<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525537090/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0525537090" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems</a> by Randall MunroeReading Now<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1631494422/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=1631494422" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America</a> by James Poniewozik<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060559713/ref=as_li_tf_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=boorio-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399349&amp;creativeASIN=0060559713" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland</a> by Jim DefedeSee <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information. 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