This week Alice and Kim talk about an upcoming Mary Roach book, great new memoirs, and books about nature and the land. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This post contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, Book Riot may earn a commission. Nonfiction in the News Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach New Nonfiction The Third Pole: Mystery, Obsession, and Death on Mount Everest by Mark Synnott The Unfit Heiress: The Tragic Life and Scandalous Sterilization of Ann Cooper Hewitt by Audrey Clare Farley Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner We Are Bridges: A Memoir by Cassandra Lane I Am a Girl From Africa by Elizabeth Nyamayaro Marie Claire: “Anne Hathaway and Elizabeth Nyamayaro on Building Compassion and Gender Equity” The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915 by Joe Grinspan Science, Nature, and the Land The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land by Leah Penniman Reading Now Northern Light: Power, Land, and the Memory of Water by Kazim Ali City of Light, City of Poison by Holly Tucker See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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E82: Science, Nature, and the Land

This week Alice and Kim talk Islam, Christianity, and Scientology memoirs. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This post contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, Book Riot may earn a commission. Follow Up April 24: Readathon and Independent Bookstore Day Nonfiction in the News Amanda Seyfried to Play Elizabeth Holmes in Hulu Series ‘The Dropout’ [Variety] Simon & Schuster Acquires Mike Pence’s Autobiography [Publishers Weekly] Why Would Anyone Pay Andrew Cuomo $4 Million for a Book? [New Republic] New Nonfiction  My Broken Language: A Memoir by Quiara Alegría Hudes Pipe Dreams: The Urgent Global Quest to Transform the Toilet by Chelsea Wald Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less by Leidy Klotz From a Whisper to a Rallying Cry: The Killing of Vincent Chin and the Trial that Galvanized the Asian American Movement by Paula Yoo Quick Mentions Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden O’Keefe Children Under Fire: An American Crisis by John Woodrow Cox Religious Memoirs God Land: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America by Lyz Lenz Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church by Megan Phelps-Roper I Should Have Honor: A Memoir of Hope and Pride in Pakistan by Khalida Brohi  Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape by Jenna Miscavige Hill Reading Now A Promised Land by Barack Obama Broken (in the best possible way) by Jenny Lawson CONCLUSION 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 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.

E81: Religious Memoirs

This week Alice and Kim fangirl over Phoebe Robinson and share some favorite stories from American authors of East Asian descent. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This post contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, Book Riot may earn a commission. Nonfiction in the News Entertainment Weekly: “Phoebe Robinson’s next book is coming this fall — here are all the details” New Nonfiction North by Shakespeare: A Rogue Scholar’s Quest for the Truth Behind the Bard’s Work by Michael Blanding Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico by Juan Villoro The Empathy Diaries: A Memoir by Sherry Turkle When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong Books by East Asian Writers Reset: My Fight for Inclusion and Lasting Change by Ellen Pao The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays by Wesley Yang All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung Time: “My White Adoptive Parents Struggled to See Me as Korean. Would They Have Understood My Anger at the Rise in Anti-Asian Violence?” Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee Reading Now A Promised Land by Barack Obama City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris by Holly Tucker See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

E80: Great Books by #AAPI Writers

This week Alice and Kim talk about music nonfiction, including behind-the scenes narratives, memoirs, and guides. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This post contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, Book Riot may earn a commission. Follow Up Alice read Hidden Valley Road! Kim read Two Truths and a Lie! Kim guested on Get Booked. Nonfiction in the News Kate McKinnon Exits ‘The Dropout’ Hulu Limited Series about Theranos’ Elizabeth Holmes [Deadline] New Nonfiction  Follow the Flock : How Sheep Shaped Human Civilization by Sally Coulthard Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual by Luvvie Ajayi Jones  Already Toast : Caregiving and Burnout in America by Kate Washington Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America by Alex McGinnis Music and Musicians News: Paul McCartney’s upcoming memoir [Billboard] More Myself: A Journey by Alicia Keys with Michelle Burford Opera for Dummies by David Pogue and Scott Speck Open Book by Jessica Simpson Molto Agitato: The Mayhem Behind the Music at the Metropolitan Opera by Johanna Fiedler My Own Devices: True Stories from the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love by Dessa  Me & Patsy Kickin’ Up Dust: My Friendship with Patsy Cline by Loretta Lynn Reading Now KIM: The Fixed Stars by Molly Wizenberg The Smallest Lights in the Universe: A Memoir by Sara Seager ALICE: The Midnight Library by Matt Haig CONCLUSION You can find us on social media – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Dan Baker. Rate and review us 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.

E79: Musician Nonfiction

This week, Kim and Alice revisit a favorite holiday, International Women’s Day, with true stories about women around the world. Plus, new nonfiction about medical history, flight attendants, and more. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This post contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, Book Riot may earn a commission. Nonfiction in the News ‘Nomadland’: How to Watch Grances McDormand and Chloé Zhao’s New Film on Hulu for Free [Rolling Stone] Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey Share Their Most ‘Personal’ Stories Yet in New Book Office BFFs [People] New Nonfiction Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion by Tori Telfer Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey’s Head, the Pope’s Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul by Brandy Schillace Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am by Julia Cook But You’re Still So Young: How Thirtysomethings Are Redefining Adulthood by Kayleen Schaefer Quick Mentions Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir by Elizabeth Miki Brina Flight of the Diamond Smugglers: A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa by Matthew Gavin Frank The Snatch Racket: The Kidnapping Epidemic That Terrorized 1930s America by Carolyn Cox The Girl Explorers: The Untold Story of the Globetrotting Women Who Trekked, Flew, and Fought Their Way Around the World by Jayne Zanglein International Women’s Day Freiheit!: The White Rose Graphic Novel by Andrea Grosso Ciponte The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang Things I’ve Been Silent About by Azar Nafisi Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS by Azadeh Moaveni Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang Reading Now Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice by Ellen McGarrahan Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

E78: Celebrating International Women's Day

This week Alice and Kim talk new nonfiction releases by Black authors. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This post contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, Book Riot may earn a commission. Nonfiction in the News From Michael Lewis, a ‘Superhero Story’ About the Pandemic [New York Times] Michelle Obama releasing a new edition of her memoir “Becoming” for young readers [CBS News] ‘Sex and the City’ Revival Assembles Writers’ Room, Adds Samantha Irby, Rachna Fruchbom, Keli Goff [Variety] New Nonfiction by Black Authors The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation by Anna Malaika Tubbs Surviving the White Gaze : A Memoir by Rebecca Carroll  Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019, edited by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain The African Lookbook : A Visual History of 100 Years of African Women by Catherine E. McKinley  Ida B. the Queen : The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells  by Michelle Duster The Black Panther Party : A Graphic Novel History by David F. Walker, illustrated by Marcus Kwame Anderson The Sum of Us : What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee Black Magic : What Black Leaders Learned from Trauma and Triumph by Chad Sanders  Grieving While Black : An Antiracist Take on Oppression and Sorrow by Breeshia Wade Reading Now KIM: The Mothers by Britt Bennett ALICE: The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America by Tamara Winfrey Harrison CONCLUSION 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 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.

E77: New Nonfiction by Black Authors

This week Alice and Kim share books about some of their favorite epic love stories and gush about some new (and awesome) historical true crime. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This post contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, Book Riot may earn a commission. Nonfiction in the News Here Are the Guest Editors for the Best American Series 2021 [LitHub] Just Don’t Call Her a Ghostwriter [New York Times] New Nonfiction Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice by Ellen McGarrahan The Rope: A True Story of Murder, Heroism, and the Dawn of the NAACP by Alex Tresniowski The Black Butterfly: The Harmful Politics of Race and Space in America by Lawrence T. Brown Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America’s Cheap Goods by Amelia Pang Epic Love Stories Gracie: A Love Story by George Burns One Hundred Names for Love by Diane Ackerman A Natural History of Love by Diane Ackerman Outlaw Marriages: The Hidden Histories of Fifteen Extraordinary Same-Sex Couples by Rodger Streitmatter Victoria The Queen by Julia Baird We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals by Gillian Gill Reading Now Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder by T.A. Willberg The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World by Abigail Tucker See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

E76: Epic (and True) Love Stories

This week, Alice and Kim recommend easy nonfiction reads to start your year. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This post contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, Book Riot may earn a commission. Follow Up Shoutout on Twitter from Ibram X. Kendi – Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi  and Keisha N. Blain Nonfiction in the News Simon & Schuster Cancels Plans for Senator Hawley’s Book [The New York Times] New Nonfiction Aftershocks: A Memoir by Nadia Owusu You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price The Doctors Blackwell : How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura  The Eagles of Heart Mountain : A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America by Bradford Pearson  Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy by Adam Jentleson Bravey: Chasing Dreams, Befriending Pain, and Other Big Ideas by Alexi Pappas  Easy Nonfiction to Start the Year Wild Game: My Mother, Her Secret, and Me by Adrienne Brodeur The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute by Zac Bissonnette Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology by Lawrence Weschler Reading Now KIM: Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey ALICE: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas CONCLUSION 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 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.

E75: Easy Nonfiction to Start the Year

This week Alice and Kim preview 21 of their most-anticipated new books from the first half of 2021. Plus, they discuss reading plans for the year and some of the best-reviewed books of 2020. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. Nonfiction in the News “The Best Reviewed Nonfiction of 2020 [LitHub] Most Anticipated Nonfiction of the First Half of 2021 White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind by Koa Beck The Beautiful Struggle (Adapted for Young Adults) by Ta-Nehisi Coates Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty by Maurice Chammah Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Costs of America’s Cheap Goods by Amelia Pang Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal by Mark Bittman Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication Overload by Cal Newport A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome by Emma Southon The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America by Kate Washington Night Rooms: Essays by Gina Nutt The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax System Impoverishes Black Americans–and How We Can Fix It by Dorothy A. Brown Every Day Is a Gift by Sen. Tammy Duckworth Pipe Dreams: The Urgent Global Quest to Transform the Toilet by Chelsea Wald Broken (In the Best Possible Way) by Jenny Lawson Persist by Elizabeth Warren White Magic by Elissa Washuta African Europeans: An Untold History by Olivette Otele The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion by Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell Reading Now Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May  New Women of the New South: The Leaders of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the Southern States by Marjorie Spruill Wheeler See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

E74: 21 Anticipated Books to Start 2021

This week Alice and Kim talk favorite nonfiction reads of 2020. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. Follow Up Storygraph Favorite Nonfiction of 2020 Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit by Eliese Colette Goldbach Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robery Kolker Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Shit, Actually by Lindy West We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half-Century of Silence by Becky Cooper Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan Jerkins Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century ed. By Alice Wong What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon Nonfiction We Missed in 2020 World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir by Natasha Trethewey The Fixed Stars by Molly Wizenberg Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deirdre Mask  White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad Reading Now KIM: The Devil’s Harvest: A Ruthless Killer, a Terrorized Community, and the Search for Justice in California’s Central Valley by Jessica Garrison ALICE: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke CONCLUSION 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 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.

E73: 2020 Nonfiction Favorites

This week Alice and Kim share books about familes, plus new nonfiction about mediocre white dudes, Mexican revolutionaries, and more. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. Nonfiction in the News The Obamas’ Higher Ground & ‘Adam Ruins Everything’s Adam Conover Team On Government Comedy Series For Netflix, Based On Michael Lewis’ ‘The Fifth Risk’ [Deadline] The 10 best books of 2020 [Washington Post] The 10 best books of 2020 [The New York Times] New Nonfiction Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico : Portraits of Soldaderas, Saints, and Subversives Edited by Kathy Sosa, Ellen Riojas Clark and Jennifer Speed Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy by Leslie Brody The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates by Robin Lane Fox Terrible and Wonderful Families Calypso by David Sedaris Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob Fun Home by Alison Bechdel The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue by Piu Eatwell Reading Now A Promised Land by Barack Obama Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

E72: Terrible and Wonderful Families

This week Alice and Kim share nonfiction gift recommendations for the holidays. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life., The New Sotheby’s Wine Encyclopedia by Tom Stevenson, and A Drop of Midnight by Jason Diakité. Follow Up We Keep the Dead Close by Becky Cooper Nonfiction in the News Carnegie Medals shortlist National Book Award winners New Nonfiction Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds : Ebola and the Ravages of History by Paul Farmer Loved and Wanted: A Memoir of Choice, Children, and Womanhood by Christa Parravani  I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are by Rachel Bloom Nonfiction Gift Guide Stuck in the Middle With You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan Redefining Realness by Janet Mock Threading My Prayer Rug by Sabeeha Rehman Laughing All the Way to the Mosque by Zarqa Nawaz https://bookriot.com/memoirs-by-muslim-women/ – Karuna Riazi Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer The White Darkness by David Grann The Wonder Trail: True Stories from Los Angeles to the End of the World by Steve Hely The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson Forward: A Memoir by Abby Wambach   Reset by Ellen Pao The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford The Lonely War: One Woman’s Account of the Struggle for Modern Iran Kindle by Nazila Fathi  Eiffel’s Tower: The Thrilling Story Behind Paris’s Beloved Monument and the Extraordinary World’s Fair That Introduced It by Jill Jonnes The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home by Denise Kiernan The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World by Patrik Svensson Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape by Lauret Savoy  Reading Now KIM: A Promised Land by Barack Obama  ALICE: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett CONCLUSION 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 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.

E71: Nonfiction Gift Guide

This week Alice and Kim give kudos to nonfiction authors with election victories and talk about good YA nonfiction options to read when you’re exhausted. This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life., Henry Holt & Co., and Whatbook. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. Nonfiction in the News Lead from the Outside: How to Build Your Future and Make Real Change by Stacey Abrams Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America by Stacey Abrams Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality by Sarah McBride New Nonfiction We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence by Becky Cooper Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: Essays by Kiese Laymon Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May YA Nonfiction The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives by Dashka Slater The Faithful Spy: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the Plot to Kill Hitler by John Hendrix An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States for Young People, adapted by Jean Mendoza and Debbie Reese The Borden Murders: Lizzie Borden and the Trial of the Century by Sarah Miller Reading Now The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

E70: YA Nonfiction, aka Nonfiction for Exhausted Adults

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This week, Alice and Kim talk new releases and Frankenstein author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. This episode is sponsored by the podcast Borrowed from the Brooklyn Public Library, The Limerence Imprint of Oni Press, and Nothing Like I Imagined by Mindy Kaling. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. Nonfiction in the News Bill Bryson ‘to retire from writing’ [The Telegraph] Ava DuVernay Back In Director’s Chair For ‘Caste’; Netflix Adaptation Of Acclaimed Isabel Wilkerson’s Best Seller [Deadline] by Amanda N’Duka Jeffrey Toobin of New Yorker Is Suspended After Zoom Incident [New York Times] by Johnny Diaz and Azi Paybarah New Nonfiction A Place for Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders The Fangirl’s Guide to the Universe: A Handbook for Girl Geeks by Sam Maggs What Would Frida Do? A Guide to Living Boldly by Arianna Davis Finding Latinx : In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity by Paola Ramos Shit, Actually: The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema by Lindy West Dark Archives: A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin by Megan Rosenbloom Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Frankenstein Mary’s Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein by Lila Judge Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon The Lady and Her Monsters: A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley’s Masterpiece by Roseanne Montillo Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters by Anne K. Mellor Reading Now KIM: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo ALICE: The Incredible Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League by Anita Orrock CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Our Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts 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.

E69: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Frankenstein

For Real is a biweekly nonfiction podcast that puts the spotlight on new books and old favorites that tell it like it is, or at least try to.