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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 2022 How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur Ancestor Trouble by Maud Newton Invisible Child by Andrea Elliot The World As It Is by Ben Rhodes  In the Shadow of the Mountain by Sylvia Vasquez-Lavado Dog Flowers by Danielle Geller ALICE'S FAVORITES OF 2022 A Most Remarkable Creature by Jonathan Meiburg Ghosts in the Schoolyard by Eve L. Ewing The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantú Looking for the Good War by Elizabeth D. Samet The Lost City of Z by David Grann Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? By Roz Chast Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin Trans Mission by Alex Bertie FAVORITE PODCAST EPISODES Episode 13: Suffragists, Suffragettes, and Winning the Vote Episode 23: The Arctic and the Tropics Episode 34: Ahoy, We Sail the Sea of Books Episode 50: 50 Books for 50 Episodes Episode 53: Snake Math! Episode 67: After the Final Rose Episode 70: YA Nonfiction, aka Nonfiction for Exhausted Adults  Episode 91: Library Treasure Hunt Episode 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 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 News New York Times: Best Books of the Year Washington Post: Best Books of the Year Reader's Digest: The National Book Foundation Announces 2022 National Book Award Winners New Nonfiction Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family by Rabia Chaudry Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World by Ben Mattlin The Forever Witness: How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder by Edward Humes Queen of Snails: A Graphic Memoir by Maureen Burdock A Coastline is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents by Mary-Alice Daniel The Mexican Witch Lifestyle: Brujeria Spells, Tarot, and Crystal Magic by Valeria Ruelas As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age by Matthew Cobb Twenty Dollars and Change: Harriet Tubman and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice and Democracy by Clarence Lusane Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon by Kate Andersen Brower Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening by Douglas Brinkley Orchid Muse: A History of Obsession in Fifteen Flowers by Erica Hannickel The Quentin Blake Book by Jenny Uglow Reading Now Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong The 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 make holiday gift guide recommendations. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kendra Winchester and Kim Ukura. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website https://bookriot.com/listen/nonfiction-holiday-gift-guide/. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Alice and Kim talk about books by Indigenous authors to recognize Native American Heritage Month. They also speculate about Prince Harry's memoir and share exciting new nonfiction picks. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kendra Winchester and Kim Ukura. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. NONFICTION IN THE NEWS Prince Harry's Memoir Is Due in January. How Explosive Will It Be? [New York Times] How Julie Powell and her ‘Julie/Julia' blog changed food writing [Washington Post] Keanu Reeves Exits Hulu's ‘The Devil In The White City' Limited Series [Deadline] NEW NONFICTION White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better by Regina Jackson and Saira Rao Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America's Edge by Ted Conover The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family by Kerri K. Greenidge Among Tigers: Fighting to Bring Back Asia's Big Cats by K. Ullas Karanth NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH Heart Berries: A Memoir by Teresa Marie Mailhot This Place: 150 Years Retold Dog Flowers: A Memoir, An Archive by Danielle Geller Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes READING NOW Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey by Jonathan Meiburg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Alice and Kim talk new fall nonfiction. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kendra Winchester and Kim Ukura. Book Riot's Reading the Stars Giveaway This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Fall Books Review, Part I The Stolen Year: How COVID Changed Children's Lives, and Where We Go Now by Anya Kamenetz  Inventing Latinos : A New Story of American Racism by Laura E. Gómez Stay True: A Memoir by Hua Hsu The Surprising Lives of Bark Beetles: Mighty Foresters of the Insect World by Jiri Hulcr, Marc Abrahams Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care by Rina Raphael Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street by Cin Fabré Fall Books Review, Part II Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis by Annie Proulx Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family by Erika Hayasaki The United States of Cryptids: A Tour of American Myths and Monsters by J.W. Ocker Home Bound: An Uprooted Daughter's Reflections on Belonging by Vanessa Bee American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America's First Paramedics by Kevin Hazzard Reading Now KIM: Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao ALICE: The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont by Shawn Levy CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts and Spotify so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Alice and Kim reflect on visiting Salem, Massachusetts and discuss books about witches and boats. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kendra Winchester and Kim Ukura. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Follow Up In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado Giveaway: Reading the Stars by Book Riot New Nonfiction Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More by Fatima Ali and Tarajia Morrell Black Hollywood: Reimagining Iconic Movie Moments by Carell Augustus Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way by Kieran Setiya Looking for the Hidden Folk: How Iceland's Elves Can Save the Earth by Nancy Marie Brown Witches and Boats The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies by Elaine G. Breslaw Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem by Rosalyn Schanzer Reading Now Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind by Fariha Róisín This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Alice and Kim talk about nonfiction reads for Hispanic Heritage Month. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kendra Winchester and Kim Ukura. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News Jung Hae Chae Wins the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize [Graywolf Press] 2022 National Book Awards Longlist for Nonfiction [National Book Foundation] Writer Samantha Irby calls her latest book ‘a devolution!' [Entertainment Weekly] NEW NONFICTION  Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America's Most-Read Woman by Julia Scheeres and Allison Gilbert Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton Runaway: Notes on the Myths that Made Me by Erin Keane Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons by Anthony Christian Ocampo WEEKLY THEME: HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantu Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernández In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero READING NOW KIM: The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee ALICE: The Office BFFs by Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Our amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts and Spotify so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Kim and Alice go down a rabbit hole talking about A League of Their Own and talk nonfiction about women in sports. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kendra Winchester and Kim Ukura. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News Barbara Ehrenreich, author who challenged American Dream myths, dies at 81 [Washington Post] Recommending Books Based on the Weirdest Facts They Taught Me [Book Riot] New Nonfiction Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better by Woo-Kyoung Ahn Off with Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power by Eleanor Herman The Godmother: Murder, Vengeance, and the Bloody Struggle of Mafia Women by Barbie Latza Nadeau Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent by Dipo Faloyin The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong Women in Sports Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women's Football League by Frankie de la Cretaz and Lyndsey D'Arcangelo Dust Bowl Girls: The Inspiring Story of the Team That Barnstormed Its Way to Basketball Glory by Lydia Reeder Baseball's Leading Lady: Effa Manley and the Rise and Fall of the Negro Leagues by Andrea Williams Curveball: The Remarkable Story of Toni Stone the First Woman to Play Professional Baseball in the Negro League by Martha Ackmann Reading Now Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff by Abbi Jacobson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Alice and Kim talk middle grade nonfiction reads. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kendra Winchester and Kim Ukura. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. NONFICTION IN THE NEWS Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese are Creating a Devil in the White City Series for Hulu [Town and Country] NEW NONFICTION  The Mamas: What I Learned About Kids, Class, and Race from Moms Not Like Me by Helena Andrews-Dyer Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America's Overdose Crisis by Beth Macy Democracy's Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them by Dan Bouk Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America by Psyche A. Williams-Forson (Univ of NC Press) Quick Mentions Walking in My Joy: In These Streets by Jenifer Lewis WEEKLY THEME: MIDDLE GRADE NONFICTION Yummy: A History of Desserts by Victoria Grace Elliot Free Lunch by Rex Ogle (AOC) The Eagle Huntress: The True Story of the Girl Who Soared Beyond Expectations by Aisholpan Nurgaiv with Liz Welch All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys' Soccer Team by Christina Soontornvat Reading Now KIM: My Imaginary Mary by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows ALICE: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts and Spotify so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Alice and Kim catch up on all the books they read during their summer break. Plus, they share some new memoirs and social history titles. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kendra Winchester and Kim Ukura. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction In the News David McCullough, Best-Selling Explorer of America's Past, Dies at 89 [New York Times] New Books Bright: A Memoir by Kiki Petrosino A History of Delusions: The Glass King, a Substitute Husband and a Walking Corpse by Victoria Shepherd What the Children Told Us: The Untold Story of the Famous “Doll Test” and the Black Psychologists Who Changed the World by Tim Spofford A Good Country: My Life in Twelve Towns and the Devastating Battle for a White America by Sofia Ali-Khan Books We Read on Summer Break The Ugly Cry: A Memoir by Danielle Henderson Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 by Joseph J. Ellis The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House by Ben Rhodes The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land by Sally Denton Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner Reading Now The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Fathers Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism by Bill Shaffer Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago's South Side by Eve L. Ewing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While Kim and Alice take a short summer break, enjoy this episode from the archive about reading for self care! Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News National Book Critics Circle Award Winners Announced [Book Riot] Best-Selling Author Brené Brown Promotes Meaningful Change in Trailer for HBO Max's ‘Atlas of the Heart' [The Wrap] New Nonfiction Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us by Colleen Kinder Dress Code: Unlocking Fashion from the New Look to Millennial Pink by Veronique Hyland You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation by Julissa Arce Hell's Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family by Susan Jonusas All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: Hope – and Hard Pills to Swallow – About Fighting for Black Lives by Andre Henry Burning My Roti: Breaking Barriers as a Queer Indian Woman by Sharan Dhaliwal Reads for Self Care World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil Calypso by David Sedaris The Lazy Genius Way: Embrace What Matters, Ditch What Doesn't, and Get Stuff Done by Kendra Adachi Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin Reading Now The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While Kim and Alice take a short summer break, enjoy this episode from the archive! Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. NONFICTION WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO, PART I Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World by Danielle Friedman Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir by Bob Odenkirk Manifesto: On Never Giving Up by Bernardine Evaristo The Urge: Our History of Addiction by Carl Erik Fisher South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze by Laura Shin There Are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster—Who Profits and Who Pays the Price by Jessie Singer NONFICTION WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO, PART II Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation by Maud Newton Murder on the Mountain: Crime, Passion, and Punishment in Gilded Age New Jersey by Peter J. Wosh, Patricia L. Schall  Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain  Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free by Sarah Weinman  Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change by Angela Garbes READING NOW KIM: Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them by Adrienne Raphel ALICE: A Visitor's Guide to Victorian England by Michelle Higgs CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Alice and Kim talk about upcoming nonfiction for 2022. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kendra Winchester and Kim Ukura. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News Former Chronicle reporter signs deal with Jamie Lee Curtis on Paradise Fire movie [Datebook] New Nonfiction, Part 2 The Tomorrow Game: Rival Teenagers, Their Race for a Gun, and a Community United to Save Them by Sudhir Venkatesh ( The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land by Sally Denton Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings by Chrysta Bilton Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe Return to Uluru: The Hidden History of a Murder in Outback Australia by Mark McKenna Asian American Histories of the United States by Catherine Ceniza Choy The Fishermen and the Dragon: Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast by Kirk Wallace Johnson  We Are Still Here: Afghan Women on Courage, Freedom, and the Fight to Be Heard by Nahid Shahalimi Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew by Michael W. Twitty All the Women in My Brain by Betty Gilpin Bad Vibes Only: (and Other Things I Bring to the Table) by Nora McInerny Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees by Jared Farmer American Caliph: The True Story of a Muslim Mystic, a Hollywood Epic, and the 1977 Siege of Washington, DC by Shahan Mufti Egypt's Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth by John and Colleen Darnell The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee Reading Now KIM: The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World by David K. Randall  ALICE: The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. by Peniel E. Joseph CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts and Spotify so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Alice and Kim talk about books on disability activism to recognize the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Plus, new nonfiction about divorce colonies, fangirls, and more. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kendra Winchester and Kim Ukura. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News ‘Tiny Beautiful Things' Series Adaptation Casts Kathryn Hahn [Collider] Olympian Nathan Chen To Publish Memoir in Fall [Kirkus] New Nonfiction The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier by April White Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It by Kaitlyn Tiffany We Refuse to Forget: A True Story of Black Creeks, American Identity, and Power by Caleb Gayle Cabin Fever: The Harrowing Journey of a Cruise Ship at the Dawn of a Pandemic by Michael Smith and Jonathan Franklin City of Refugees: The Story of Three Newcomers Who Breathed Life into a Dying American Town by Susan Hartman Disability Activism Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma The Disability Experience: Working Toward Belonging by Hannalora Leavitt and Belle Wuthrich Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann and Kristen Joiner Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally by Emily Ladau A Disability History of the United States by Kim E. Nielsen Reading Now Flying Solo: A Novel by Linda Holmes Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness by Elizabeth D. Samet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Alice and Kim talk about nonfiction for Pride Month. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Follow Up KIM: Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott Nonfiction in the News Three Women: Lisa Taddeo Shares a Vivid First Look at Her Adaptation [Vanity Fair] New Nonfiction  Battling the Big Lie: How Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA Media Are Destroying America by Dan Pfeiffer  The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World by David K. Randall The Wine-Dark Sea Within : A Turbulent History of Blood by Dr. Dhun Sethna The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I by Lindsey Fitzharris 1368: China and the Making of the Modern World by Ali Humayun Akhtar Weekly Theme: Queer Books Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby Queer, There, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World by Sarah Prager (Author), Zoe More O'Ferrall (Illustrator) Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden Reading Now KIM: The Puzzler: One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life by A.J. Jacobs (Author), Greg Pliska (Contributor) ALICE: Girls Can Kiss Now by Jill Gutowitz CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts and Spotify so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Alice and Kim talk about books for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month plus new releases from charming superheroes, football coaches, and more. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Follow Up The Woman All Spies Fear: Code Breaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman and Her Hidden Life by Amy Butler Greenfield Nonfiction in the News Taraji P. Henson in Talks to Produce and Star in ‘Queenie' for BET Studios [Variety] Colin Kaepernick to Publish a Young Adult Memoir [New York Times] New Nonfiction Hometown Victory: A Coach's Story of Football, Fate, and Coming Home by Keanon Lowe with Justin Spizman Public Faces, Secret Lives: A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement by Wendy L. Rouse His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story by Simu Liu Her Country: How the Women of Country Music Became the Success They Were Never Supposed to Be by Marissa R. Moss Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University by Richard White Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month American Harvest: God, Country, and Farming in the Heartland by Marie Mutsuki Mockett Heart of Fire: An Immigrant Daughter's Story by Mazie Hirono Rest: Why You Get More Done When You Work Less by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now by Jeff Yang and Phil Yu and Philip Wang Reading Now Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival, and Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliot My Body by Emily Ratajkowski Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Alice and Kim talk voting reads. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton and Kim Ukura. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News Betty Gilpin Inks Deal with Macmillan's Flatiron Books for Personal Essay Collection [Deadline] Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Winners Announced [LA Times] Biography – Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane by Paul Auster Autobiographical Prose – Real Estate: A Living Autobiography by Deborah Levy Current Interest – Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could by Adam Schiff History – Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer Science and Technology – The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein New Nonfiction The Power of Dignity: How Transforming Justice Can Heal Our Communities by Judge Victoria Pratt Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernández 37 Questions with Kelly Lytle Hernández Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy by Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel Born to Be Hanged : The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune by Keith Thomson  Weekly Theme: Voting One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson Drawing the Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Voting in America by Tommy Jenkins (Author), Kati Lacker (Illustrator) Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America by Stacey Abrams Say It Louder!: Black Voters, White Narratives, and Saving Our Democracy by Tiffany Cross Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote by Ellen Carol Dubois Reading Now KIM: The Woman All Spies Fear: Code Breaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman and Her Hidden Life by Amy Butler Greenfield ALICE: Lincoln in Private by Ronald C. White CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts and Spotify so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Alice and Kim share some books about odd jobs plus cover new nonfiction about Hong Kong, prison, and cold cases. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Follow Up Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can't Live Without Them by Adrienne Raphel How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Michael Schur Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation by Maud Newton New Nonfiction Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong by Louisa Lim Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis Free: Two Years, Six Lives, and the Long Journey Home by Lauren Kessler Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases by Paul Holes Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives by Mary Laura Philpot Some of My Best Friends: Essays on Lip Service by Tajja Isen Books About Jobs Hammer Head: The Making of a Carpenter by Nina MacLaughlin The Ravenmaster: My Life with the Ravens at the Tower of London by Christopher Skaife Just Pursuit: A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness by Laura Coates Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty Reading Now The Trayvon Generation by Elizabeth Alexander Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Alice and Kim talk about nonfiction adapted for young readers. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. Follow Up The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi New Nonfiction  Sisters of Mokama: The Pioneering Women Who Brought Hope and Healing to India by Jyoti Thottam Slaves for Peanuts : A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History by Jori Lewis Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs by Juli Berwald Murder on the Mountain : Crime, Passion, and Punishment in Gilded Age New Jersey by Peter J. Wosh, Patricia L. Schall The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire by Tom Sancton How to Sell a Poison : The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT by Elena Conis Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family by Madhushree Gosh  Weekly Theme: YA Adaptations of Adult Nonfiction Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverted Kids by Susan Cain Hidden Figures Young Readers' by Margot Lee Shetterly Just Mercy: A True Story of the Fight for Justice by Bryan Stevenson Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir by Kwame Onwuachi with Joshua David Stein Reading Now KIM: Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation by Maud Newton ALICE: House of Abraham by Stephen Berry CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts and Spotify so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Alice and Kim chat about their current obsessions (Lincoln and fraudsters, respectively), discuss reading for self care, and preview new nonfiction about strangers, assimilation, serial killers, and more. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News National Book Critics Circle Award Winners Announced [Book Riot] Best-Selling Author Brené Brown Promotes Meaningful Change in Trailer for HBO Max's ‘Atlas of the Heart' [The Wrap] New Nonfiction Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us by Colleen Kinder Dress Code: Unlocking Fashion from the New Look to Millennial Pink by Veronique Hyland You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation by Julissa Arce Hell's Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family by Susan Jonusas All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: Hope – and Hard Pills to Swallow – About Fighting for Black Lives by Andre Henry Burning My Roti: Breaking Barriers as a Queer Indian Woman by Sharan Dhaliwal Reads for Self Care World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil Calypso by David Sedaris The Lazy Genius Way: Embrace What Matters, Ditch What Doesn't, and Get Stuff Done by Kendra Adachi Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin Reading Now The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Alice and Kim talk about trans women authors. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News Netflix Orders White House Mystery Drama ‘The Residence' From Shondaland, ‘For the People' Creator [Variety] New Nonfiction  Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation by Erika Krouse Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times by Azar Nafisi I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times by Mónica Guzmán Lady Icarus: Balloonmania and the Brief, Bold Life of Sophie Blanchard by Deborah Haynes Weekly Theme: Books by Trans Women Fairest by Meredith Talusan How to Fail as a Pop Star: A Play by Vivek Shraya To My Trans Sisters by Charlie Craggs Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality by Sarah McBride Reading Now KIM: From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy by Scott Meslow ALICE: The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America's 16th President—and Why It Failed by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts and Spotify so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out.

This week Alice and Kim revisit one of their favorite topics, International Women's Day, with stories from women around the world. Plus, new nonfiction about Flat Earthers, abolition, and Greek myths. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News West Africans and the history of smallpox inoculation: Q&A with Elise A. Mitchell [Royal Society] 4 lessons from the life of global health visionary Paul Farmer [Vox] Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World by Tracy Kidder Britney Spears set to pen tell-all book in bombshell $15M deal [Page Six] New Nonfiction Off the Edge: Flat Earthers, Conspiracy Culture, and Why People Will Believe Anything by Kelly Weill The Republic of Violence: The Tormented Rise of Abolition in Andrew Jackson's America by J. D. Dickey What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes International Women's Day Infamous Lady: The True Story of Countess Erzsébet Báthory by Kimberly L. Craft It's Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race, edited by Mariam Khan Njinga of Angola: Africa's Warrior Queen by Linda M. Heywood Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot by Masha Gessen To ‘Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War by Tera W. Hunter Reading Now White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue … and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation by Lauren Michele Jackson The Story of You: An Enneagram Journey to Becoming Your True Self by Ian Morgan Cron The Taking of Jemima Boone: Colonial Settlers, Tribal Nations, and the Kidnap That Shaped America by Matthew Pearl

This week Alice and Kim talk nonfiction about the first ladies. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Follow Up And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts Nonfiction in the News The Inside Story of the Banning of “Maus.” It's Dumber Than You Think. [Mother Jones] How to Fight Books Bans and Challenges [Book Riot] How to Use FOIA [Book Riot] Claire Foy To Star in ‘An Ugly Truth' Adaptation [Kirkus Reviews] New Nonfiction  Black American Refugee: Escaping the Narcissism of the American Dream by Tiffanie Drayton Woodsqueer: Crafting a Sustainable Rural Life by Gretchen Legler  The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American by Laura Gao Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder by Rachel Rear   Weekly Theme: First Ladies First Women: The Grace and Power of America's Modern First Ladies by Kate Andersen Brower Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady by Susan Quinn Meaning of Michelle: 16 Writers on the Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own by Veronica Chambers The Adams Women: Abigail and Louisa Adams, Their Sisters and Daughters by Paul C. Nagel Reading Now KIM: No Cure for Being Human: (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) by Kate Bowler ALICE: Letters to a Young Poet by Rilke CONCLUSION 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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, Kim and Alice share reads for Black History Month, plus new nonfiction about cobalt, China, Vikings, and clothing. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News 2022 Carnegie Medals [American Library Association] A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraqib Get a first look at David Sedaris' new essay collection [Entertainment Weekly] Happy-Go-Lucky by David Sedaris New Nonfiction Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern by Jing Tsu Cobalt: Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower by Charlie Angus Worn: A People's History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser River Kings: A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads by Cat Jarman Architects of an American Landscape: Henry Hobson Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, and the Reimagining of America's Public and Private Spaces by Hugh Howard Seven Games: A Human History by Oliver Roeder Black History Month Reads The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin Overground Railroad: The Green Book & Roots of Black Travel in America by Candacy Taylor White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue … and Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation by Lauren Michele Jackson The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. by Peniel E. Joseph Reading Now The Sentence by Louise Erdrich Medicine in the Middle Ages by Juliana Cummings See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week Alice and Kim talk about nonfiction highlights for 2022. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton and Kim Ukura. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week Alice and Kim celebrate recording 100 episodes for For Real by chatting about their podcast origin story, reminiscing about the bookish internet of the 2010s, and revisiting some childhood favorites across genres. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Episode Links Episode 1: International Women's Day Episode 50: 50 Books for 50 Episodes Episode 96: Fell in a Hold (AKA True Stories Underground) Baking Powder Wars: The Cutthroat Food Fight that Revolutionized Cooking by Linda Civitello Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keen The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner The Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters (Amelia Peabody Series) Reading Now Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week Alice and Kim talk about nonfiction highlights of 2021. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week Kim and Alice explore the vast and interesting world of birds and birding with memoirs and illustrated bird guides. Plus, new collections of essays, historical nonfiction, and more! This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Follow Up Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller by Nadia Wassef Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala Nonfiction in the News Barack Obama May Become A 3-Time Winner (But It's Not What You Think) by David Moye [HuffPost] New Nonfiction We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World, edited by Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura Dark Tourist: Essays by Hasanthika Sirisena Sea State: A Memoir by Tabitha Lasley Deliberate Evil: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Daniel Webster, and the 1830 Murder of a Salem Slave Trader by Edward J. Renehan Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home by Charlie Warzel and Anne Helen Petersen Birds! What It's Like to Be a Bird: From Flying to Nesting, Eating to Singing – What Birds Are Doing, and Why by David Allen Sibley The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham Field Notes from an Unintentional Birder: A Memoir by Julia Zarankin H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald Reading Now This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life by Nigel Poor and Earlonne Woods The Ancient Guide to Modern Life by Natalie Haynes See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week Alice and Kim talk about nonfiction picks for holiday gifts. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week Alice and Kim dig deep for nonfiction about things you find underground, plus share new nonfiction about sports, food, and history. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Follow Up The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA by Jorge L. Contreras Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez Nonfiction in the News 2021 Kirkus Prize Winners Announced [Book Riot] Scottie Pippen Takes Aim at Michael Jordan in New Book [New York Times] New Nonfiction Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women's Football League by Britni de la Cretaz and Lyndsey D'Arcangelo Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in Americaby Mayukh Sen Black and Blue: A Memoir of Racism and Resilience by Veronica Gorrie An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States by Kyle T. Mays Fell in a Hole Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness by Neil Swidey The Mole People: Life in the Tunnels Beneath New York City by Jennifer Toth The Hidden Stories Behind Our Structuresby Roma Agrawal Accidental Archaeologists: True Stories of Unexpected Discoveriesby Sarah Albee Reading Now The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Mattersby Priya Parker Chanel's Riviera: Glamour, Decadence, and Survival in Peace and War, 1930-1944by Anne de Courcy See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week Kim and Alice talk about books by Arab women writers, plus new nonfiction about gene patents, colonialism in the 1860s, and medieval manuscripts. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News Instagram: Ijeoma Oluo's new newsletter Instagram: Bachelor Nation Publishes New Nonfiction The Gilded Page: The Secret Lives of Medieval Manuscripts by Mary Wellesley The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World by Edward Shawcross Concepcion: An Immigrant Family's Fortunes by Albert Samaha Best Wishes, Warmest Regards: The Story of Schitt's Creek by Daniel Levy, Eugene Levy The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to Determine Who Owns Your DNA by Jorge L. Contreras Arab Women Writers Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World, edited by Zahra Hankir A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics and Religion in Saudi Arabia by Madawi Al-Rasheed Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution by Mona Eltahawy Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman's Awakening by Manal Al-Sharif Reading Now Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman by Erica Armstrong Dunbar See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week Alice and Kim talk about creepy, spooky, and scary nonfiction for the Halloween season. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton and Kim Ukura. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Follow Up Our holiday gift guide episode coming up November 23 — send us your requests at forreal@bookriot.com by November 15! It's Book Riot's birthday and there's special merch. Nonfiction in the News 2021 National Book Awards Finalists Announced [National Book Awards] Estate of Henrietta Lacks sues biotechnical company for nonconsensual use of her cells [CNN] New Nonfiction  I'm Possible: A Story of Survival, a Tuba, and the Small Miracle of a Big Dream by Richard Antoine White Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers from Past and Present by Adrienne Keene Smile: The Story of a Face by Sarah Ruhl On Animals by Susan Orlean Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre by Brandy Colbert  Weekly Theme: Spooky Nonfiction The Unidentified: Mythical Monsters, Alien Encounters, and Our Obsession with the Unexplained by Colin Dickey The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror by David J. Skal White Magic: Essays by Elissa Washuta Yurei Attack!: The Japanese Ghost Survival Guide by Hiroko Yoda and Matt Alt Reading Now KIM: Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller by Nadia Wassef ALICE: The Phantom Prince by Elizabeth Kendall CONCLUSION ALICE: You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink KIM: RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week Alice and Kim highlight nonfiction books by Hispanic and Latinx authors. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton and Kim Ukura. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News Historian of Race in America Gets an Unusual Four-Book Deal [New York Times]  2021 National Book Award Longlists [NPR]  New Nonfiction  America Calling: A Foreign Student in a Country of Possibility by Rajika Bhandari Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays by Phoebe Robinson – Tiny Reparations Books No Cure for Being Human: (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) by Kate Bowler True Raiders: The Untold Story of the 1909 Expedition to Find the Legendary Ark of the Covenant by Brad Ricca Weekly Theme: Hispanic Heritage Month National Hispanic American Heritage Month 2021  Who is Hispanic? [Pew Research Center] Hispanic Or Latino? A Guide For The U.S. Presidential Campaign [NPR] Once Upon a Quinceanera: Coming of Age in the USA by Julia Alvarez My Sister: How One Sibling's Transition Changed Us Both by Selenis and Marizol Leyva The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú From Coveralls to Zoot Suits : The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front by Elizabeth Rachel Escobedo Quick Mentions In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz Reading Now KIM: Harlem Shuffle: A Novel by Colson Whitehead   ALICE: My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones CONCLUSION 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 follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week Kim and Alice interview nonfiction powerhouse Mary Roach about renegade animals, tiger penises, and her amazing use of footnotes. Plus, new nonfiction about Chicago, online shopping, and segregation. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Follow Up The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence by Stephen Kurczy Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire by Lizzie Johnson New Nonfiction Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood by Dawn Turner Arriving Today: From Factory Floor to Front Door – Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy by Christopher Mims Code Name Badass: The True Story of Virginia Hall by Heather Demetrios White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality by Sheryll Cashin Beautiful Country: A Memoir by Qian Julie Wang We Are Not Broken by George M. Johnson Chasing the Truth: A Young Journalist's Guide to Investigative Reporting by Ruby Shamir, Jodi Kantor, and Megan Twohey Interview with Mary Roach Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach Reading Now Dragon Hoops by Gene Luen Yang We Sold Our Souls: A Novel by Grady Hendrix See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week Alice and Kim browse the library and find some surprising nonfiction reads. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News Blood, labs and fraud: Theranos's Elizabeth Holmes is about to go on trial [Washington Post] New Nonfiction  Seeing Ghosts: A Memoir by Kat Chow Doctoring the Black Death: Medieval Europe's Medical Response to Plague by John Aberth   Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire by Lizzie Johnson The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics by Mae Ngai  Weekly Theme: Library Treasure Hunt Futureface: A Family Mystery, An Epic Quest, and the Secret of Belonging by Alex Wagner Chanel's Riviera: Glamour, Decadence, and Survival in Peace and War, 1930-1944 by Anne De Courcy Brave, Not Perfect: Fear Less, Fail More, and Live Bolder by Reshma Saujani Crazy Brave: A Memoir by Joy Harjo Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs by Keena Roberts The Ways of My Grandmothers by Beverly Hungry Wolf (1998) Reading Now KIM: The Box in the Woods by Maureen Johnson ALICE: Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobez du Mez CONCLUSION 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 follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week Kim and Alice battle through the “Delta Grumpies” to discuss stories they'd like to see adapted for television and film, plus cover new nonfiction from August. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News John Lithgow Joins Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's ‘Killers of the Flower Moon' [Variety] New Nonfiction Belly of the Beast : The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da'Shaun L. Harrison On Compromise: Art, Politics, and the Fate of an American Ideal by Rachel Greenwald Smith The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us by Meg Lowman The Last Nomad: Coming of Age in the Somali Desert by Shugri Said Salh True Stories to Adapt The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah Broom American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse Hudson Bay Bound: Two Women, One Dog, Two Thousand Miles to the Arctic by Natalie Warren Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir by Nicole Chung Reading Now Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking by Jon Acuff American Sherlock by Kate Winkler Dawson See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week Alice and Kim talk Disney reads! Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Reportedly Working on a Book About “Leadership and Philanthropy” [Vanity Fair] Molly Shannon Writes Memoir [People] New Nonfiction  The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence by Stephen Kurczy The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World by Arthur Herman  Lifelines: A Doctor's Journey in the Fight for Public Health by Dr. Leana Wen WASPS: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy by Michael Knox Beran Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina by Georgina Pazcoguin Breathing Fire: Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Lines of California's Wildfires by Jaime Lowe Learning in Public: Lessons for a Racially Divided America from My Daughter's School by Courtney E. Martin Violent Order: Essays on the Nature of Police by David Correia, Tyler Wall  Weekly Theme: Disney Disney's Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park that Changed the World by Richard Snow The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History by Nathalia Holt Project Future: The Inside Story Behind the Creation of Disney World by Chad Denver Emerson Oswald the Lucky Rabbit: The Search for the Lost Disney Cartoons by David A. Bossert, David Gerstein Reading Now KIM: An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination by Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang ALICE: My Name's Yours, What's Alaska by Alaska CONCLUSION 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 follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week Kim and Alice chat about why heists are so much fun to read about, Barack Obama's summer nonfiction picks, and more upcoming new books. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News Barack Obama's Summer Reading List [Book Riot] Two Iconic American Writers Join Howard to Create a Center to Help Educate the Next Generation of Black Journalists [Howard University] Tenure Struggle Ends with Hannah-Jones Charting New Course [Associated Press] New Nonfiction Easy Crafts for the Insane: A Mostly Funny Memoir of Mental Illness and Making Things by Kelly Williams Brown The Passion of Anne Hutchinson: An Extraordinary Woman, the Puritan Patriarchs, and the World They Made and Lost by Marilyn Westerkamp Better to Have Gone: Love, Death, and the Quest for Utopia in Auroville by Akash Kapur The Brilliant Abyss: Exploring the Majestic Hidden Life of the Deep Ocean and the Looming Threat that Imperils It by Helen Scales After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort by Eric Dean Wilson Surviving Mexico: Resistance and Resilience Among Journalists in the Twenty-first Century by Celeste González de Bustamante and Jeannine E. Relly Heists! Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History by Scott Andrew Selby and Greg Campbell The Great Pearl Heist: London's Greatest Thief and Scotland Yard's Hunt for the World's Most Valuable Necklace by Molly Caldwell Crosby Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World's Most Notorious Jewel Thief by Doris Payne (with Zelda Lockhart) Vanished Smile: The Mysterious Theft of Mona Lisa by R.A. Scotti Reading Now Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City by Tanya Talaga The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East (1978-1984) by Riad Sattouf See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, Alice and Kim talk about new nonfiction releases for the rest of 2021. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Favorites of the Year So Far Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood by Cheryl Diamond You'll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar Follow the Flock: How Sheep Shaped Human Civilization by Sally Coulthard Anticipated Nonfiction Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina by Georgina Pazcoguin Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond by Halimah Marcus Hard Landings: Looking Into the Future for a Child With Autism by Cammie McGovern Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them by Siân Evans Beautiful Country: A Memoir by Qian Julie Wang Chen Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America by Eyal Press We Are Not Broken by George M. Johnson Castaway Mountain: Love and Loss Among the Wastepickers of Mumbai by Saumya Roy Personal Effects: What Recovering the Dead Teaches Me About Caring for the Living by Robert A. Jensen  White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality by Sheryll Cashin She Kills Me: The True Stories of History's Deadliest Women by Jennifer Wright Praying to the West: How Muslims Shaped the Americas by Omar Mouallem Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller by Nadia Wassef Empire of Rubber: Firestone's Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia by Greg Mitman  These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett This Will All Be Over Soon: A Memoir by Cecily Strong Reading Now KIM: People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry ALICE: Square Haunting by Francesca Wade CONCLUSION 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 follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week Kim and Alice do some armchair traveling by discussing books about road trips and share new nonfiction about yoga, cults, and cons. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News 2021 Pulitzer Prizes [Pulitzer.org] Nonfiction Book by Margaret Atwood Coming in 2022 [Kirkus] It's Everything Change [Matter] Janet Malcolm, elegant and incisive writer for the New Yorker, dies at 86 [The Washington Post] New Nonfiction Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood by Cheryl Diamond Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance by Jessamyn Stanley Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America by Scott Borchert Blue: In Search of Nature's Rarest Color by Kai Kupferschmidt Thanks for Waiting: The Joy (& Weirdness) of Being a Late Bloomer by Doree Shafrir The Afrominimalist's Guide to Living with Less by Christine Platt Road Trips Quakeland: On the Road to America's Next Devastating Earthquake by Kathryn Miles Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem Don't Make Me Pull Over!: An Informal History of the Family Road Trip by Richard Ratay Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity by Paola Ramos Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States by Samantha Allen Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan Jerkins Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad Reading Now The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice by Scott Ellsworth The Girls by Emma Cline See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week Alice and Kim talk LGBTQ+ reads for Pride Month. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News Roxane Gay Starts Publishing Imprint With Grove Atlantic [NYT] New Nonfiction  Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir by Ashley C. Ford Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World by Elinor Cleghorn Black Snake: Standing Rock, the Dakota Access Pipeline, and Environmental Justice by Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys  Quick Mentions! The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America by Carol Anderson The Kissing Bug : A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation's Neglect of a Deadly Disease by Daisy Hernández Hola Papi: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons by John Paul Brammer As a Woman: What I Learned about Power, Sex, and the Patriarchy after I Transitioned by Paula Stone Williams LGBTQ+ Reads The Winners of the 2021 Lambda Literary Awards Transgender Nonfiction: The Black Trans Prayer Book by J. Mase III and Dane Figueroa Edidi LGBTQ Nonfiction: The Lonely Letters by Ashon T. Crawley Bisexual Nonfiction: wow, no thank you by Samantha Irby Lesbian Memoir/Biography: My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland Gay Memoir/Biography: A Dutiful Boy: A Memoir of a Gay Muslim's Journey to Acceptance by Mohsin Zaidi LGBTQ Studies: Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World by Zakiyyah Iman Johnson Gender: A Graphic Guide by Meg-John Barker and Jules Scheele We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family by Amy Ellis Nutt My Sister: How One Sibling's Transition Changed Us Both by Marizol Leyva and Selenis Leyva Reading Now KIM: Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reed Lightning Flowers: My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving of Life by Katherine E. Standefer ALICE: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari CONCLUSION 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 follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week Alice and Kim talk books that explore unsolved historical mysteries and share new nonfiction about Black rebellion, nostalgic essays about travel, and more. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News Barack & Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Adapting Heather McGhee’s ‘The Sum of Us’ As Spotify Podcast Series [Deadline] Greta Lee To Star In, Write & EP Series Adaptation Of Cathy Park Hong’s Book ‘Minor Feelings’ With A24 [Yahoo] Film of Michael Lewis’ ‘The Premonition’ in Works [Kirkus] New Nonfiction The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion by Aminatta Forna Electric City: The Lost History of Ford and Edison’s American Utopia by Thomas Hager Downeast: Five Maine Girls and the Unseen Story of Rural America by Gigi Georges America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s by Elizabeth Hinton Better, Not Bitter: Living on Purpose in the Pursuit of Racial Justice by Yusef Salaam Tastes Like War by Grace Cho History’s Mysteries Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident by Donnie Eichar Sensational: The Hidden History of America’s “Girl Stunt Reporters” by Kim Todd Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew by Brian Hicks The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking by Brendan I. Koerner Reading Now Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars: Space, Exploration, and Life on Earth by Kate Greene All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells Three Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton by Gail Crowther See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.