Podcasts about nonfiction reading

This week Alice and Kim highlight 50 awesome nonfiction books to celebrate their 50th episode! This episode is sponsored by Get Booked from Book Riot, Me and White Supremacy from Sourcebooks, and Book Riot Insiders. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. Books Mentioned Bad Blood by John Carreyrou Building a Life Worth Living by Marsha M. Linehan The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown Unfollow by Megan Roper Phelps The Art of Choosing  by Sheena Iyengar A Woman’s Crusade by Mary Walton The Great Beanie Baby Bubble by Zac Bissonnette  Meaty by Samantha Irby The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum Moonbound by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm Without You There Is No Us by Suki Kim Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit Stiff by Mary Roach Spare Parts by Joshua Davis Word Freak by Stefan Fatsis  King Mob by Christopher Hibbert When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean Educated by Tara Westover My Squirrel Days by Ellie Kemper Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell Portage by Sue Leaf  White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo My Own Devices by Dessa  All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung The Distraction Addiction by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang Crash Override by Zoe Quinn How Star Wars Conquered the Universe by Chris Taylor The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish The Power of Meaning by Emily Esfahani Smith Never Caught by Erica Armstrong Dunbar The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee  They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery From the Corner of the Oval by Beck Dorey-Stein American Heiress by Jeffrey Toobin Good Talk by Mira Jacob Political Tribes by Amy Chua The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison Amateur by Thomas Page McBee Knocking on Heaven’s Door by Katy Butler We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Leaving Orbit by Margaret Lazarus Dean The Ridiculous Race by Steve Hely and Vali Chandrasekaran Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara This Life is In Your Hands by Melissa Coleman The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert Reset by Ellen Pao

This week Alice and Kim talk classic Hollywood scandals and history, with some nonfiction picks to help you dive into the backstage world of 20th century film. This episode is sponsored by Fights by Joel Christian McGill, Book Riot’s Read Harder 2020 Challenge, and Novel Gazing, Book Riot’s new literary fiction podcast. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. NONFICTION NEWS The Hill: “New Stacey Abrams book to focus on voting rights” NEW BOOKS The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia by Emma Copley Eisenberg The Magical Language of Others by E.J. Koh Bubble in the Sun: The Florida Boom of the 1920s and How It Brought on the Great Depression by Christopher Knowlton Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Anna Wiener CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD SCANDALS The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History by Nathalia Holt The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O’Meara Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood by Karina Longworth The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont by Shawn Levy Scandals of Classic Hollywood: Sex, Deviance, and Drama from the Golden Age of American Cinema by Anne Helen Petersen Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood by William J. Mann READING NOW KIM: The Remix: How to Lead and Succeed in the Multigenerational Workplace by Lindsey Pollak ALICE: God Land: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America by Lyz Lenz CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out.

This week Alice and Kim talk about the failure of their 2019 reading resolutions and look ahead to some of the books they’re excited about in 2020. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Read Harder Challenge and Book Riot Insiders. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. NEW BOOKS And Then We Grew Up: On Creativity, Potential, and the Imperfect Art of Adulthood by Rachel Friedman Tonight We Bombed the U.S. Capitol: The Explosive Story of M19, America’s First Female Terrorist Group by William Rosenau ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2020 American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI by Kate Winkler Dawson A Black Woman’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country by Sierra Crane Murdoch Wine Girl: The Obstacles, Humiliations, and Triumphs of America’s Youngest Sommelier by Victoria James Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life by Marie Kondo Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit by Eliese Colette Goldbach How to Be Fine: What We Learned from Living by the Rules of 50 Self-Help Books by Jolenta Greenberg and Kristen Meinzer READING NOW Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown Lost Feast: Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food by Lenore Newman

This week Alice and Kim talk favorite nonfiction reads of 2019, including the women of Disney, a very lonely whale, and how to stop stress in its tracks. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Read Harder Journal and Libro.fm. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. NONFICTION NEWS Goodreads Choice Awards are out! 2019 FAVORITES Notes from a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi, Joshua David Stein Parkland by Dave Cullen Good Talk by Mira Jacob The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski The Queens of Animation by Nathalia Holt Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church by Megan Phelps-Roper Make it Scream, Make it Burn by Leslie Jamison Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World by Emma Southon No Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise Snyder 2019 MISSES Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino Know My Name by Chanel Miller Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness by Jennifer Berry Hawes The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness by Susannah Cahalan Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom READING NOW KIM: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir ALICE: Know My Name by Chanel Miller! Citizen by Claudia Rankine CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out.

This week Alice and Kim take a trip down memory lane to talk about books that appeared on best of the decade lists.  This episode is sponsored by Book Riot's Read Harder Journal, Book Riot's Read Harder 2020 Challenge, and Book Riot's Tailored Book Recommendations. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. Follow Up In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado New Books A Crisis of Peace: George Washington, the Newburgh Conspiracy, and the Fate of the American Revolution by David Head America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States by Erika Lee Best Books of the Decade Paste Magazine: The 25 Best Memoirs of the 2010s LitHub: The 20 Best Works of Nonfiction of the Decade Time: The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the 2010s Entertainment Weekly: Here are EW's top 10 nonfiction books of the decade The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert The Emperor of All Maladies by Sidhartha Mukherjee All the Single Ladies by Rebecca Traister The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara Dark Money by Jane Mayer Reading Now Guest House for Young Widows by Azadeh Moaveni 

This week Alice and Kim talk holiday gifts for the nonfiction book lover in your life. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Read Harder Journal, and Book Riot Insiders. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. NONFICTION IN THE NEWS National Book Award goes to Sarah Broom’s The Yellow House! HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE Q: I am looking for a book for my grandpa for the holidays on Sociology or Ethics. He is a former Criminology Professor and so hard to buy for. Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy Isenberg Q: My partner is a triathlete and loves to read books about or from cyclists and triathletes. There is not that many of them so he is running out of reading material, and I’m running out of ideas for gifts. Could you recommend good nonfiction on sport or by sportspeople? I think what he enjoys is reading about personal achievements. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown A Necessary Spectacle: Billie Jean King, Bobby Riggs, and the Tennis Match That Leveled the Game by Selena Roberts C.C. Pyle’s Amazing Foot Race: The True Story of the 1928 Coast-to-Coast Run Across America by Geoff Williams Q: I am looking for a book for my dad. And that is what I want – a good, solid dad book (frontlist) recommendation. Think The Pioneers by David McCullough or Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand. My dad is in his 80s and fairly conservative. Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race Around the World by Matthew Goodman The City Game: Triumph, Scandal, and a Legendary Basketball Team by Matthew Goodman The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M. Edsel American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race by Douglas Brinkley Q: I find a lot of the non-fiction I read is fairly heavy. Recent reads I’ve enjoyed are Invisible Women, Prisoners of Geography and Say Nothing, and although I’ve loved them all, all the war and death and sexism is hard going. So, I’d like your favourite happy, uplifting non-fiction on any topic to read over the holiday season! Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? And Other Questions You Should Have Answers to When You Work in the White House by Alyssa Mastromonaco From the Corner of the Oval by Beck Dorey-Stein The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir by Samantha Power The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey I Know I Am, But What Are You? by Samantha Bee The Wonder Trail: True Stories from Los Angeles to the End of the World by Steve Hely READING NOW KIM: In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado ALICE: Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out.

This week Alice and Kim chat about new November releases! Alice makes the Crusades sound interesting, Kim ponders likability and leadership, and both struggle with what to call nonfiction graphic novels. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Tailored Book Recommendations (aka TBR), Book Riot Insiders, and Run Like a Mother (the audiobook!). Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. Follow Up Send holiday gift guide questions to forreal@bookriot.com by November 20! Nonfiction in the News Slate: “The Library Popularity Index” American Library Association: #eBooksForAll New Books Bonanza! Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference, and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls by Jessica McDiarmid The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women by Mo Moulton Mudlark: In Search of London’s Past Along the River Thames by Lara Maiklem The Likeability Trap: How to Break Free and Succeed as You Are ‌by‌ ‌Alicia‌ ‌Menendez‌ ‌ The Accursed Tower: The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades by Roger Crowley Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women’s Fight for Their Rights by A D’Amico and Mikki Kendall Becoming RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Journey to Justice by Debbie Levy, illustrated by Whitney Gardner Reading Now Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow Without a Prayer: The Death of Lucas Leonard and How One Church Became a Cult by Susan Ashline

This week Alice and Kim talk plagues, Disney, and what Harry Houdini really thought about spiritualism. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Blind Date with a Book, and Dad’s Maybe Book by Tim O’Brien, published by HMH. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. NONFICTION IN THE NEWS Kirkus Prize winner: How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones “A memoir of coming to terms that’s written with masterful control of both style and material.” Washington Post: “Anonymous author of Trump ‘resistance’ op-ed to publish a tell-all book” NEW BOOKS Ordinary Girls: A Memoir by Jaquira Díaz The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History by Nathalia Holt The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini by Joe Posnanski Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong MEDICAL MYSTERIES Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan The Dancing Plague: The Strange, True Story of an Extraordinary Illness by John Waller The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic — and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story by Richard Preston READING NOW KIM: Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation by Andrew Marantz ALICE: The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Millicent Patrick by Mallory O’Meara! CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. LINKS NPR Article

This week Alice and Kim talk about some excellent new memoirs and dive deep into books about monsters. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Blind Date with a Book,Playlist: The Rebels and Revolutionaries of Sound by James Rhodes and illustrated by Martin O’Neill, and Change is the Only Constant by Ben Orlin, in hardcover from Black Dog and Leventhal. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. Follow Up NPR: "Here Are The Finalists For The 2019 National Book Awards" Fifty Works of English Literature We Could Do Without by Brigid Brophy, Michael Levey, Charles Osborne (1967) Nonfiction in the News Sports Illustrated: "She Won Athletes' Hearts. And Robbed Them Blind" Andrew Carnegie Medals Longlist Forbes: “Decluttering Expert Marie Kondo On Her Forthcoming Workplace and Career Advice Book ‘Joy At Work’” New Books How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim by Leah Vernon Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church by Megan Phelps-Roper Here Be Monsters The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara  Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kroger and Melanie R. Anderson Monsters in America: Our Historical Obsession with the Hideous and the Haunting by W. Scott Poole The Science of Monsters: The Truth About Zombies, Witches, Werewolves, Vampires, and Other Legendary Creatures by Meg Hafdahl, Kelly Florence Reading Now Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb Me by Elton John The Twilight Man: Rod Serling and the Birth of Television by Koren Shadmi

This week Alice and Kim talk about the National Book Award longlist, cozy books, and the best pig there ever was. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Blind Date, These Boys and Their Fathers by Don Waters, and Motherhood So White by Nefertiti Austin. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. FOLLOW UP BOOKS She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey NONFICTION IN THE NEWS National Book Award Longlist New York Times: “It’s a Fact: Mistakes Are Embarrassing the Publishing Industry” Impeachment: An American History NEW BOOKS Make it Scream, Make it Burn by Leslie Jamison On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics by Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah Daughtry and Minyon Moore Embrace Your Weird: Face Your Fears and Unleash Creativity by Felicia Day COZY NONFICTION The Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood by Sy Montgomery Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater: Essays on Crafting by Alanna Okun My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead READING NOW Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe Motherhood So White by Nefertiti Austin CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out.

This week Alice and Kim take a deep dive into eight great new books coming out in early September! This episode is sponsored by our giveaway of the best mysteries and thrillers of the year so far,Born to Fly by Steve Sheinkin, and Yale Needs Women from Sourcebooks. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. Follow Up The trailer for Just Mercy was released! Nonfiction in the News NBC News: Ex-aide to James Mattis claims Pentagon is holding up his memoir VOX: It’s time to talk about James Mattis’s involvement with the Theranos scandal New Book Bonanza Yale Needs Women: How the First Group of Girls Rewrote the Rules of an Ivy League Giant by Anne Gardiner Perkins She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty Crossfire Hurricane: Inside Donald Trump's War on the FBI by Josh Campbell Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS by Azadeh Moaveni The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls by Mona Eltahawy The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace by Patricia Wiltshire How To: Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe Reading Now Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America by James Poniewozik The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland by Jim Defede

This week Alice and Kim talk underdog robots, a school with no tests, and monsters of the Midwest. This is For Real. This episode is sponsored by the Book Riot Mystery Giveaway, What They Meant for Evil by Rebecca Deng, published by FaithWords and Book Riot’s Recommended. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. NONFICTION IN THE NEWS Ann Shen’s Bad Girls Throughout History is being made into a series. The film version of Bryan Stevenson’s Just Mercy will hit theaters in January 2020! NEW BOOKS Midwestern Strange: Hunting Monsters, Martians, and the Weird in Flyover Country by B.J. Hollars The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age by Bina Venkataraman Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession by Rachel Monroe Scan Artist : How Evelyn Wood Convinced the World That Speed-Reading Worked by Marcia Biederman SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK The Class: A Life-Changing Teacher, His World-Changing Kids, and the Most Inventive Classroom in America by Heather Won Tesoriero Law Touched Our Hearts: A Generation Remembers Brown v. Board of Education ed. By Mildred Wigfall Robinson and Richard J. Bonnie The Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession by Dana Goldstein Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream by Joshua Davis READING NOW KIM: Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski and Amelia ALICE: Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood by Karina Longworth CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out.

This week Alice and Kim talk about Barack Obama’s summer nonfiction picks, the world’s deadliest predator, and true stories inside cults and places with cult-like thinking. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Skin Deep by Gavin Evans, published by Oneworld Publications and Chase Darkness with Meby Billy Jensen. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. FOLLOW UP Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness and Liberation by Eli Clare NONFICTION IN THE NEWS Barack Obama’s summer reading list Publisher’s Weekly: Workman to Publish AOC Bio NEW BOOKS Breaking the Ocean: A Memoir of Race, Rebellion, and Reconciliation by Annahid Dashtgard The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers: Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power by Sady Doyle The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator by Timothy C. Winegard CULTS! Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith by Jon Krakauer The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and the People’s Temple by Jeff Guinn Without You, There is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea’s Elite by Suki Kim Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche by Haruki Murakami READING NOW Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist by Eli Saslow Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemptionby Laura Hillenbrand

This week Alice and Kim talk books for book lovers, Anna the fake heiress, and one of the most astounding women in the Roman world. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders. Check it out and sign up for your 14-day free trial at insiders.bookriot.com. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. Follow Up -Moon podcast Moonrise NEW BOOKS My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress by Rachel DeLoache Williams The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love With Me by Keah Brown Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World by Zahra Hankir Girl on the Block: A True Story of Coming of Age Behind the Counter by Jessica Wragg God Land: A Story of Faith, Loss, and Renewal in Middle America by Lyz Lenz Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World by Emma Southon Gross Anatomy: A Field Guide to Loving Your Body, Warts and All by Mara Altman BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS In honor of National Book Lover’s Day on August 9 What We See When We Read by Peter Mendelsund Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading Writing, ed. by Stephanie Stokes Oliver Book Love by Debbie Tung Bibliophile: An Illustrated Miscellany by Jane Mount My Life with Bob: Flawed Heroine Keeps Book of Books, Plot Ensues by Pamela Paul READING NOW KIM: The World’s Fastest Man: The Extraordinary Life of Major Taylorby Michael Kramish ALICE: American Heiress by Jeffrey Toobin You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork RATE AND REVIEW on ITUNES so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out.

This week Alice and Kim talk about the Space Race, recommend books to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, and laugh at moon conspiracy theories. This episode is sponsored by Pre Loved Podcast, Becoming Superman by J. Michael Straczynski and Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss by Margaret Renkl. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. NEW BOOKS The Weil Conjectures by Karen Olsson They Called Us Enemy by George Takei Beneath the Tamarind Tree by Isha Sesay In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond by John Zada THE MOON Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly Moonbound by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm American Moonshot by Douglas Brinkley Galaxy Girls by Libby Jackson Apollo’s Legacy by Roger D. Launius Destination Moon by Richard Maurer READING NOW For the Love of Books by Graham Tarrant If All the Seas Were Ink by Ilana Kurshan The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean

This week Alice and Kim talk assassins, night witches, and the serial killer who was almost impossible to catch. This episode is sponsored by the Pre-Loved Podcast. Check it out on the podcatcher of your choice! And don’t forget to share For Real with nonfiction-loving friends/family/long-forged acquaintances on social media, tagging @bookriot. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. Follow Up John Oliver did a segment on climbing Mount Everest and how the “expedition industry has devalued a once-historic achievement” and also made it a lot more dangerous.   New Books Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected by Nnedi Okorafor  Reading Behind Bars: A Memoir of Literature, Law, and Life as a Prison Librarian by Jill Grunenwald  The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India’s Quest for Independence by Anita Anand  American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century by Maureen Callahan  Three Women by Lisa Taddeo  Outspoken: Why Women’s Voices Get Silenced and How to Set Them Freeby Veronica Rueckert    Young Adult Nonfiction Chasing Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson We Say #NeverAgain: Reporting by the Parkland Student Journalists, edited by Melissa Falkowski and Eric Garner Roses and Radicals: The Epic Story of How American Women Won the Right to Vote by Susan Zimet A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II by Elizabeth Wein Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson   Reading Now ALICE: Love Thy Neighbor: A Muslim Doctor’s Struggle for Home in Rural America by Ayaz Virji KIM: Rough Magic by Laura Palmer Leaving the Witness by Amber Scorah   CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork  RATE AND REVIEW us on ITUNES so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out.

This week Alice and Kim talk ridiculously long subtitles and books about the ocean, from the science of jellyfish to the true story of the mutiny on the HMS Bounty.  This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm audiobooks, Amazon Publishing, and Book Riot Insiders. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. FOLLOW UP Washington Post: “Book subtitles are getting ridiculously long. What is going on?” NEW BOOKS For the Love of Books by Graham Tarrant The Weather Machine by Andrew Blum A Death in the Rainforest by Don Kulick More Than Enough by Elaine Welteroth I Like to Watch by Emily Nussbaum NATIONAL OCEANS MONTH Spineless by Juli Berwald The Bounty by Caroline Alexander Fisherman’s Blues by Anna Badkhen Poseidon’s Steed by Helen Scales Hawaiki Rising by Dr. Sam Low READING NOW Exit West by Mohsin Hamid A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell

This week Alice and Kim talk about witches, Jehovah’s Witnesses, fungus-inspired crime, and what nonfiction to read for Pride Month. This episode is sponsored by All the Books, The Collected Schizophreniasby Esmé Weijun Wang, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, publishers of Reckoning: The Epic Battle Against Sexual Abuse and Harassment by Linda Hirshman. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. Follow Up KIM: Slow Burn podcast is doing a series on The Queen by Josh Levin (one of the editor’s behind Slow Burn) New Books Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life by Amber Scorah Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power by Pam Grossman This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto by Suketu Mehta The Truffle Underground: A Tale of Mystery, Mayhem, and Manipulation in the Shadowy Market of the World’s Most Expensive Fungus by Ryan Jacobs Naturally Tan: A Memoir by Tan France Formation: A Woman’s Memoir of Stepping Out of Line by Ryan Leigh Dostie Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness by Jennifer Berry Hawes The Last Pirate of New York: A Ghost Ship, a Killer, and the Birth of a Gangster Nation by Rich Cohen Blonde Rattlesnake: Burmah Adams, Tom White, and the 1933 Crime Spree That Terrorized Los Angeles by Julia Bricklin Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age by Darrel J. McLeod Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom by Katherine Eban Pride Month Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States by Samantha Allen Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir by Cherrie Moraga Prairie Silence: A Memoir by Melanie Hoffert The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals by Richard Plant We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime and Prejudice Before Stonewall by James Polchin The Stonewall Riots: Coming Out in the Streets by Gayle E Pitman Reading Now KIM: Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs ALICE: The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork RATE AND REVIEW on ITUNES so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out.

This week Kim and guest host Liberty Hardy talk new books and their favorite nonfiction of the year so far. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot and Audible. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. NEW BOOKS Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come: One Introvert’s Year of Saying Yesby Jessica Pan The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth by Josh Levin From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home by Tembi Locke Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall FAVORITE NONFICTION OF THE YEAR SO FAR Notes from a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi, Joshua David Stein Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep Parkland: Birth of a Movement by Dave Cullen Rough Magic: Riding the World’s Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan’s Cherry Blossoms by Naoko Abe The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Irelandby Patrick Radden Keefe READING NOW Southern Lady Code: Essays by Helen Ellis The Library of the Unwritten by by A. J. Hackwith (October 1)

This week Alice and Kim talk about Soviet spy cats, French history, and Harper Lee and a murder trial. This episode is sponsored by Kawaii Craft Life by Sosae Caetano and Dennis Caetano and Book Riot’s TBR. Check out Book Riot Insiders for the inside scoop! Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. New Books Rough Magic: Riding the World’s Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer  Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings The Unspeakable Mind: Stories of Trauma and Healing from the Frontlines of PTSD Science by Shaili Jain Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board by Vince Houghton Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep The Theft of a Decade: How the Baby Boomers Stole the Millennials’ Economic Future by Joseph C. Sternberg The Endeavour: The Ship That Changed the World by Peter Moore The Shadow King: The Life and Death of Henry VI by Lauren Johnson No Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise Synder The Castle on Sunset by Shawn Levy   Nonfiction About France KIM: The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo by Tom Reiss La Belle France: A Short History by Alistair Horne The Widow Clicquot: The Story of a Champagne Empire and the Woman Who Ruled It by Tilar J Mazzeo Veuve Clicquot Podcast  The Little Pleasures of Paris by Leslie Jonath Reading Now KIM: Becoming by Michelle Obama (audiobook) ALICE: Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies by Ross King   CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork on Twitter RATE AND REVIEW on ITUNES so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out.

This week Alice and Kim talk about spelling bee horror stories, why you should read about ancient scrolls, and nonfiction to read if you love (or even just sort of like) Star Wars. This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm and TBR, Book Riot’s new subscription service offering tailored book recommendations for readers of all stripes. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. FOLLOW UP Independent Bookstore Day Notes From a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi New York Times: “A Young Chef, and a Stunning Comeback” Good Talk by Mira Jacob My Favorite Murder podcast NEW BOOKS The Regency Years by Robert Morrison Beeline by Shalini Shankar Breaking the Bee documentary The Da Vinci Legacy by Jean Pierre Isbouts and Christopher Brown Magical Realism for Nonbelievers by Anika Fajardo The Role of the Scroll by Thomas Forrest Kelly Fall and Rise by Mitchell Zuckoff MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU How Star Wars Conquered the Universe by Chris Taylor The Making of Star Wars by J.W. Rinzler The World According to Star Wars by Cass R. Sunstein Wishful Drinking and The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher I Am C-3PO by Anthony Daniels and J.J. Abrams (November 4, 2019) Star Wars Meets the Eras of Feminism by Valerie Estelle Frankel READING NOW Without Precedent by Joel Richard Paul The Electric Woman by Tessa Fontaine

This week Alice and Kim talk about the guy who got Capone, a chef who got his start selling candy on the subway, and the first people to stand up to the KKK. This episode is sponsored by libro.fm, First Degree from Nimbus Publishing, and The Five from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. Follow Up My Own Devices by Dessa Tell Me How it Ends by Valeria Luiselli Kate McKinnon is also going to play Elizabeth Holmes for a Hulu adaptation Kidlit These Days New Books Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb Lotharingia: A Personal History of Europe’s Lost Country by Simon Winder The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father by Janny Scott Freedom’s Detective: The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan and the Man Who Masterminded America’s First War on Terror by Charles Lane Notes From a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi Fifty Things That Aren’t My Fault: Essays from the Grown-Up Years by Cathy Guisewhite Death and Taxes April 15 was Tax Day in the United States. In 1913, the 16th Amendment was ratified, permanently legalizing an income tax. A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and more Efficient Tax System by T.R. Reid Eliot Ness: The Rise and Fall of an American Hero by Douglas Perry Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh The Great Tax Wars: Lincoln–Teddy Roosevelt–Wilson How the Income Tax Transformed America by Steven R. Weisman Reading Now KIM: Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski PhD (Author), Amelia Nagoski DMA ALICE: The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule    You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork on Twitter RATE AND REVIEW on ITUNES so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out.

This week Alice and Kim talk about bookish murders, confidence tricksters, Craigslist cons and more new nonfiction. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. FOLLOW UP Rise and Kill First by Ronen Bergman Kitlit These Days, a new podcast from Book Riot NEW BOOKS Murder by the Book by Claire Harman No Happy Endings by Nora McInerny Death in Ten Minutes by Fern Riddell Good Talk by Mira Jacob The Life and Legend of Bras-Coupé by Bryan Wagner Native Country of the Heart by Cherríe Moraga The Five by Hallie Rubenhold CONFIDENCE TRICKSTERS The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse by Piu Eatwell The Big Con by David Maurer Race Me In a Lobster Suit by Kelly Mahon Caraboo: The Servant Girl Princess by Jennifer Raison The Mark Inside by Amy Reading READING NOW Lead from the Outside by Stacey Abrams Alexander Hamilton by Jonathan Hennessey, art by Justin Greenwood The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule

This week Alice and Kim talk about assassinations, small town murder, and why women’s bathroom lines are longer than men’s (spoiler: it’s the patriarchy!). This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. Follow Up The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019) (HBO documentary on Theranos)   New Books Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez The Trial of Lizzie Borden by Cara Robertson The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book’s Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey by Margaret Leslie Davis (People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks) Humanimal: How Homo sapiens Became Nature’s Most Paradoxical Creature―A New Evolutionary History by Adam Rutherford The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan’s Cherry Blossoms by Naoko Abe Pocahontas and the English Boys: Caught Between Cultures in Early Virginia by Karen Ordahl Kupperman Assassination Stories! The Death of Caesar: The Story of History’s Most Famous Assassinationby Barry Strauss Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell The Romanov Sisters by Helen Rappaport The Assassination of the Archduke: Sarajevo 1914 and the Romance That Changed the World by Greg King and Sue Woolmans Reading Now Who Thought This Was a Good Idea by Alyssa Mastromonaco So Here’s the Thing . . . by Alyssa Mastromonaco Kings of Georgian Britain by Catherine Curzon CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork on Twitter RATE AND REVIEW on ITUNES so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out.

This week Alice and Kim talk about a ton of March new releases and books to celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8. This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm audiobooks and The Lady from the Black Lagoon by Mallory O’Meara from Hanover Square Press. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. NEW BOOKS Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone by Brian Switek Devices and Desires: Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England by Kate Hubbard Women Warriors: An Unexpected History by Pamela D. Toler The Wrong End of the Table: A Mostly Comic Memoir of a Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit in by Ayser Salman Dannemora: Two Escaped Killers, Three Weeks of Terror, and the Largest Manhunt Ever in New York State by Charles Gardner An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago by Alex Kotlowitz Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States by Samantha Allen That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour by Sunita Puri America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today by Pamela Nadell Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powers, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine by Thomas Hager INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova The Queen of Katwe: A Story of Life, Chess, and One Extraordinary Girl’s Dream of Becoming a Grandmaster by Tim Crothers I Should Have Honor: A Memoir of Hope and Pride in Pakistan by Khalida Brohi Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge of History by Canyon Sam The Lonely War: One Woman’s Account of the Struggle for Modern Iranby Nazila Fathi Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin Americaby Dana Frank READING NOW This Is Where You Belong: The Art and Science of Loving the Place You Live by Melody Warnick Hot Protestants: A History of Puritanism in England and America by Michael P. Winship

This week, Alice and Kim discuss contemporary reads for Black History Month, an accidental con artist, and all new books to watch out for. This episode is sponsored by Audible and , Book Riot’s Swords and Spaceships newsletter. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. Follow Up True story podcast, The Dropout from ABC Radio, about Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes New Books The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America, ed. by Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman Parkland by Dave Cullen Brown, White, Black: An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion by Nishta J. Mehra Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman Black History Month II: Contemporary Voices When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele We Can’t Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival by Jabari Asim The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race, edited by Jesmyn Ward The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim Reading Now First Generations: Women in Colonial America by Carol Berkin Atomic Habits by James Clear CONCLUSION Find us on Twitter @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. RATE AND REVIEW on ITUNES so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out.

This week Alice and Kim talk about books to read for Black History Month and some nonfiction adjacent podcasts they love (plus more books). This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s TBR and Flatiron Books, and I Am Yours: A Shared Memoir by Reema Zaman, from Amberjack Publishing.. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. FOLLOW UP American Fire by Monica Hesse An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie Ice Diaries: An Antarctic Memoir by Jean McNeil A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland by William E. Glassley NEW BOOKS No Beast So Fierce by Dane Huckelbridge Dreyer’s English by Benjamin Dreyer The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang BuzzFeed: I’ve Been Committed To A Psych Ward Three Times — And It Never Helped Underground by Will Hunt WEEKLY THEME: BLACK HISTORY MONTH The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers, edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Grace of Silence by Michele Norris Negroland by Margo Jefferson To Keep the Waters Troubled by Linda O. McMurry NONFICTION + PODCASTS Podcast: Broken Harts Mel Magazine: The Sad, Strange Life and Death of Devonte Hart Podcast: In the Dark Podcast: Here to Make Friends A Girl’s Guide to Joining the Resistance by Emma Gray I Didn’t Come Here to Make Friends by Courtney Robertson Bachelor Nation by Amy Kaufman Podcast: Terrible, Thanks for Asking It’s Ok to Laugh: (Crying is Cool Too) by Nora McInerny Purmort READING NOW Victoria: The Queen by Julia Baird American Prison by Shane Bauer The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton (not nonfiction!)

This week Alice and Kim talk arctic explorers, murder in the tropics, and the mixed reactions to nonfiction bestseller Girl, Wash Your Face. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Read Harder Journal. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. Follow Up Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis By the Book podcast BuzzFeed: “Girl, Wash Your Face” Is A Massive Best-Seller With A Dark Message Tidying Up with Marie Kondo New Books Duped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Marriedby Abby Ellin A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II by Elizabeth Wein It Was All a Dream: A New Generation Confronts the Broken Promise to Black America by Reniqua Allen The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive by Stephanie Land Weekly Theme: The Arctic Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing Frozen in Time: An Epic Story of Survival and a Modern Quest for Lost Heroes of World War II by Mitchell Zuckoff Ada Blackjack: A True Tale of Survival in the Arctic by Jennifer Niven The Tropics Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala The Mapmaker’s Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon by Robert Whitaker The Third Bank of the River: Power and Survival in the Twenty-First-Century Amazon by Chris Feliciano Arnold Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen by Linda M. Heywood Reading Now American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover Remember the Ladies: Women in America, 1750-1815 by Linda Grant De Pauw CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork on Twitter RATE AND REVIEW on ITUNES so people can find us more easily, and subscribe so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out.

This week Alice and Kim talk about nonfiction to help you with your New Year’s resolutions and the reading resolutions they’ve set for the year. This episode is sponsored by the Read Harder Journal by Book Riot. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. BOOKS WE GOT FOR CHRISTMAS How to Draw Almost Every Day by Kamo Romantic Outlaws by Charlotte Gordon Feminasty by Erin Gibson How Do We Look by Mary Beard The Assassination of Branwaine Spurge by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin Legendary Ladies by Ann Shen Educated by Tara Westover NEW BOOKS Trailblazer by Dorothy Butler Gilliam When Death Becomes Life by Joshua Mezrich Inheritance by Dani Shapiro The Truths We Hold by Kamala Harris Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom WEEKLY THEME: NEW YEAR, NEW YOU The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll How to Break Up With Your Phone by Catherine Price (2018) Presence by Amy Cuddy Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis READING NOW Awakening Your Ikigai by Ken Mogi Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan

This week, Alice and Kim talk all things Jane Austen, as well as the best nonfiction of 2018. This week’s episode of For Real is brought to you by the Book Riot Read Harder Journal and The Molecule of More By Daniel Z. Lieberman and Mike Long. Subscribe to For Real via Stitcher here, or via Apple Podcasts here. You can sign up for Book Riot's nonfiction newsletter True Story, edited by For Real's Kim Ukura here. Weekly Theme: Jane Austen A Smattering of Austen Titles Reading Austen in America by Juliette Wells A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen At Home With Jane Austen by Kim Wilson Tea With Jane Austen by Pen Vogler Jane Austen and the Fiction of Her Time by Mary Waldron What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Mullan A Brief Guide to Jane Austen by Charles Jennings Jane Austen Biography and Background Books Jane Austen by Carol Shields Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels by Deirdre Le Faye Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World by Claire Harman Jane Austen in Popular Culture Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen by Deborah Yaffe All Roads Lead to Austen: A Year-long Journey with Jane by Amy Smith Fun Austen Titles & Covers Jane Austen, Game Theorist by Michael Suk-Young Chwe Why Jane Austen? by Rachel W. Brownstein Critics Favorites of 2018 New York Times: Top 10 Books of 2018 American Prison by Shane Bauer Educated by Tara Westover – also one of my favorites! Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs Washington Post: Best Books of 2018 Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister The Library Book by Susan Orlean The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantu On Desperate Ground by Hampton Sides One Person, No Vote by Carol Anderson Popsugar’s Best Nonfiction Books 2018 Tonight I’m Someone Else by Chelsea Hodson You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession by Piper Weiss I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara Would You Rather?: A Memoir of Growing Up and Coming Out by Katie Heaney Choose Your Own Disaster by Dana Schwartz Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession by Alice Bolin The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil Educated by Tara Westover (again!) Can You Tolerate This? By Ashleigh Young Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship by Kayleen Schaefer Our Favorites of 2018 KIM: All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung Bad Blood by John Carreyrou Tell Me More by Kelly Corrigan From the Corner of the Oval by Beck Dorey-Stein No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol   ALICE: Impeachment: An American History My Squirrel Days by Ellie Kemper The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman Bombay Anna: The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of the King & I Governess by Susan Morgan The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age by Myra MacPherson   READING NOW KIM: Left to Our Own Devices: Outsmarting Smart Technology to Reclaim Our Relationships, Health, and Focus by Margaret Morris ALICE: Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History by Tori Telfer The Magnolia Story by Chip and Joanna Gaines CONCLUSION Book Riot is taking the week off a Christmas, so this will be our last podcast of 2018! You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA - @itsalicetime and @kimthedork on Twitter, and don’t forget to rate and review us in your podcast app!

In this week’s episode, Kim and Alice share a few last November new books, then jump into a holiday gift guide with recommendations for history buffs, video gamers, wine aficionados, nature lovers and more. This week’s episode of For Real is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Homer and the Holiday Miracle by Gwen Cooper, and Bare Minimum Parenting: The Ultimate Guide to Not Quite Ruining Your Child by James Breakwell. Follow Up The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart New Books Stranger’s Pose by Emmanuel Iduma The Woo-Woo by Lindsay Wong Seduction by Karina Longworth We the People by Erwin Chemerinsky Becoming by Michelle Obama Holiday Recommendation Guide: Reader Requests Population 485 by Michael Perry Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman Goodbye-to All That by Robert Graves Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger The Lost City of Z by David Grann Skyjack by Geoffrey Gray Salt, Fat, Acid and Heat by Samin Nosrat The Cooking Gene by Michael W. Twitty Love, Loss, and What We Ate by Padma Lakshmi Holiday Recommendation Guide: General Recommendations Cork Dork by Bianca Bosker Tasting the Past by Kevin Begos The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf The Game Console by Evan Amos Console Wars by Blake J. Harris Extra Lives by Tom Bissell Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman Bibliophile by Jane Mount of Ideal Bookshelf Tolstoy and the Purple Chair by Nina Sankovitch Writer’s Under Surveillance Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown The Family Gene by Joselin Linder Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge Reading Now No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

For Real is sponsored this week by Book Riot Insiders, In the Name of the Children: An FBI Agent’s Relentless Pursuit of the Nation’s Worst Predators by Jeffrey Rinek from BenBella Books and Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom by Ariel Burger. FOLLOW UP Who Was series Holiday Gift Guide Episode! Email kim@riotnewmedia.com by November 20th if you need a nonfiction recommendation for a present, or want a book to put on your own gift list.   NEW BOOKS Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome by Venki Ramakrishnan Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the “Powerless” Woman Who Took on Washington by Patricia Miller Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward by Gemma Hartley A Tale of Two Murders: Guilt, Innocence, and the Execution of Edith Thompson by Laura Thompson First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story by Huda Al-Marashi End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World’s Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals by Ross D.E. MacPhee   Shout-Outs to: Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA by Shane O’Sullivan Beyonce in Formation: Remixing Black Feminism by Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey by Mark Dery   WEEKLY THEME: Book Awards! Carnegie Award Shortlist: The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantu Longlist: High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing by Ben Austen National Book Award Finalist: Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh Longlist: One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson   SEGMENT THREE: Colonialism King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation by Colin G. Calloway (Oxford University Press) 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann   READING NOW Brothers of the Gun: A Memoir of the Syrian War by Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll I’d Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life by Anne Bogel   CONCLUSION Find us on Twitter @itsalicetime and @kimthedork.

In this episode, Kim and Alice dive into some great young adult nonfiction reads and consider true stories connected to current events like Harry and Meagan’s royal visit to Australia and debates about immigration. This episode is sponsored by Bibliophile from Chronicle Books and Democracy Hacked by Martin Moore. Follow Up In The Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick New Books All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung Silicon Valley: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley by Cary McClelland Let It Bang: A Young Black Man's Reluctant Odyssey into Guns by R.J. Young In Pursuit: The Hunt for the Beltway Snipers by David Reichenbaugh Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood by Rose George The King and the Catholics: England, Ireland, and the Fight for Religious Freedom, 1780-1829 by Antonia Fraser Weekly Theme: YA Nonfiction Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers Hardcover by Deborah Heiligman #NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women, ed. By Mary Beth Leatherdale and Lisa Charleyboy Mary’s Monster: Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein by Lita Judge Being Jazz: My Life As a (Transgender) Teen by Jazz Jennings Our Stories, Our Voices: 21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America, edited by Amy Reed Current Events Reads American Princess: The Love Story of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry by Leslie Carroll Tomorrow Will be Different by Sarah McBride Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration by Ana Raquel Minian Reading Now How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Zinblatt (via Barack Obama’s current reading recommendations) The Evangelicals by Frances Fitzgerald

This week, Alice and Kim discuss arson, mesmerism, and murder in a true crime-themed episode. Find your scary nonfiction here this month on For Real. This week’s episode is sponsored by Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margarita by Tim Federle, and The Golden Boy: A Doctor’s Journey With Addiction by Grant Matheson. Don’t forget to check out Book Riot’s new subscription service offering Tailored Book Recommendations for readers of all stripes. Visit mytbr.co to learn more. FOLLOW UP Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-Class Metropolis by Sam Anderson NEW BOOKS The Library Book by Susan Orlean Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster by Stephen L. Carter Noncompliant: A Lone Whistleblower Exposes the Giants of Wall Street by Carmen Segarra My Squirrel Days by Ellie Kemper In the Hurricane’s Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown by Nathaniel Philbrick Impeachment: An American History by by Jon Meacham, Timothy Naftali, Peter Baker, and Jeffrey Engel WEEKLY THEME: True Crime Bonanza The Red Parts by Maggie Nelson The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule After the Eclipse: A Mother’s Murder and a Daughter’s Search by Sarah Perry I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara The Infamous Harry Hayward: A True Account of Murder and Mesmerism in Gilded Age Minneapolis by Shawn Francis Peters American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land by Monica Hesse SEGMENT THREE: Short Nonfiction II Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions by Valeria Luiselli My Friend Dahmer by Derk Backderf Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit READING NOW Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister The Good Pig by Sy Montgomery In Cold Blood by Truman Capote EXTRAS Allie Brosh/Felicia Day Interview

This week, Kim and Alice share some books that try to find the truth behind the supernatural or that might be perfect haunting reading in October. This episode is sponsored by Oxford University Press, LibraryReads, and TBR, Book Riot's new subscription service offering Tailored Book Recommendations for readers of all stripes. NEW BOOKS Behold, America: The Entangled History of "America First" and "the American Dream" by Sarah Churchwell The Ravenmaster: My Life With the Ravens at the Tower of London by Christopher Skaife Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger by Rebecca Traister Feuding Fan Dancers: Faith Bacon, Sally Rand, and the Golden Age of the Showgirl by Leslie Zemeckis Heart: A History by Sandeep Jauhar Six By Ten: Stories from Solitary, edited by Taylor Pendergrass TRUE STORIES OF THE SUPERNATURAL Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death by Deborah Blum The Secret History of the Jersey Devil: How Quakers, Hucksters, and Benjamin Franklin Created a Monster by Brian Regal and Frank J. Esposito American Ghost: A Family's Extraordinary History on the Desert Frontier by Hannah Nordhaus The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures by Aaron Mahnke RIP READING CHALLENGE Readers Imbibing Peril Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life by Laura Thompson Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey READING NOW Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser Fallout: Conspiracy, Cover-Up, and the Making of the Atomic Bomb by Peter Watson

This episode of For Real is sponsored by The Good Neighbor by Maxwell King and The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman. FOLLOW UP READS The Class by Heather Won Tesario NEW BOOKS The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy by Paige Williams Call Them By Their True Names by Rebecca Solnit Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply by Mark Schapiro  The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve Emre  The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne Freeman The Art of Logic in an Illogical World by Eugenia Cheng  She Called Me Woman: Nigeria’s Queer Women Speak, edited by Azeenarh Mohammed, Chitra Nagarajan, Rafeeat Aliyu  WEEKLY THEME: Cozy Nonfiction for Fall House of Stone by Anthony Shadid The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living by Meik Wiking Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman Travels With Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck SEGMENT THREE: Great Subtitles Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea & of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists & Fools Including the Author Who Went in Search of Them by Donovan Hohn Heaven’s Ditch: God, Gold, and Murder on the Erie Canal by Jack Kelly The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner by Judy Melinek READING NOW 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown Knocking on Heaven’s Door by Katy Butler QUESTIONS/COMMENTS? Find us on Twitter @itsalicetime and @kimthedork  

In this week's episode, Kim and guest co-host Sharifah recommend books by people with interesting jobs and personal essay collections by smart and funny women. This episode is sponsored by Unapologetic by Charlene A Carruthers and Elizabeth Warren by Antonia Felix. Book Riot also wants to know about your reading habits. Hop over and take our Fall Reader Survey before Sept. 10 for a chance to win a $100 gift card to the Book Riot Store: bookriot.com/fallsurvey NEW BOOKS To Obama: With Love, Joy, Anger, and Hope by Jeanne Marie Laskas “Dear Mr. President” by Jeanne Marie Laskas in the Guardian Ten Letters by Eli Saslow Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? by Alyssa Mastromonaco The Class by Heather Won Tesoriero I Should Have Honor: A Memoir of Hope and Pride in Pakistan by Khalida Brohi Bureau of Spies by Steven T. Usdin The Provocative Colette by Annie Goetzinger Not Quite Not White by Sharmila Sen LABOR DAY/STORIES OF WORK Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty From Here to Eternity by Caitlin Doughty This is Just My Face by Gabourey Sidibe It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War by Lynsey Addario MOSTLY FUNNY PERSONAL ESSAYS We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby A Field Guide to Awkward Silences by Alexandra Petri Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney Cooper One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul READING NOW Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood The Infamous Harry Hayward by Shawn Francis Peters

This week, Kim and Alice take a deep dive into books about the campaign for women's suffrage and the passage of the 19th Amendment in August 1920. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Girl Boner: The Good Girl’s Guide to Sexual Empowerment by August McLaughlin, and Tragedy Plus Time by Adam Cayton-Holland. NEW BOOKS A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History by Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man by Thomas Page McBee Reader, Come Home: The Fate of the Reading Brain in a Digital World by Maryanne Wolf A Life of My Ownby Claire Tomalin Proud: My Fight for An Unlikely American Dream by Ibtihaj Muhammad The Kill Jar: Obsession, Descent, and a Hunt for Detroit’s Most Notorious Serial Killer by J. Reuben Appelman WEEKLY THEME: WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE News: Hillary Clinton, Steven Spielberg Bringing Women's Voting Drama to TV For fun: Bad Romance - Women's Suffrage The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine Weiss A Woman’s Crusade: Alice Paul and the Battle for the Ballot by Mary Walton The Myth of Seneca Falls by Lisa Tetrault Quick Hits: Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York Stateby Susan Goodier / Lucy Stone: An Unapologetic Life by Sally G. McMillen / Fighting Chance: The Struggle Over Woman Suffrage and Black Suffrage in Reconstruction America by Faye E. Dudden / To Keep the Waters Troubled: The Life of Ida B. Wells by Linda O. McMurry / Frances Willard: A Biography by Ruth Bordin / The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age by Myra MacPherson FICTION/NONFICTION Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else by Chrystia Freeland Singapore: Unlikely Power by John Curtis Perry The Dinner List by Rebecca Searle Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. by Sam Wasson (2010) The Slenderman Mysteries: An Internet Urban Legend Comes to Life by Nick Redfern The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah Pilgrim’s Wilderness by Tom Kizzia READING NOW Yes We (Still) Can by Dan Pfeiffer Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown The Secret Token by Andrew Lawler Forever Nerdy by Brian Posen

This week, Kim and Alice talk presidential scandals, Victorian affairs, and the inside scoop on the Jell-O dynasty.

This week, Kim and Alice take a deep dive into types of nonfiction that are great for reading at the beach -- stunt and celebrity memoirs, science and nature stories, and historical true crime reads. While you’re here, don’t forget Book Riot’s YA giveaway! Go here to win $500 of the year’s best YA fiction and nonfiction: bookriot.com/500yagiveaway. FOLLOW UP From the Corner of the Oval by Beck Dorey-Stein Never Caught by Erica Armstrong Dunbar Drinking in America by Mark Edward Lender NEW BOOKS Barons of the Sea by Steven Ujifusa Blood and Ivy by Paul Collins A Bite-Sized History of France by Stephane Henaut (translated by Jeni Mitchell) Killing It: An Education by Camas Davis NONFICTION BEACH READS Stunt Memoirs! My Year with Eleanor by Noelle Hancock Word Freak by Stefan Fatsis The Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes The Lunatic Express by Carl Hoffman Nature/Science Books! A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson The Death and Life of the Great Lakes by Dan Egan The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness by Sy Montgomery Light/Historical True Crime! The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum Empty Mansions by Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr. The Girls of Murder City by Douglas Perry Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt The Man Who Loved Books Too Much by Allison Hoover Bartlett Comedy Memoirs! Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? by Mindy Kaling Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir by Eddie Huang I Know I Am But What Are You by Samantha Bee Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y’All Don’t Even Know by Retta READING NOW Bad Blood by John Carreyrou Fighting Chance by Faye Dudden OTHER Ask a Slave (web series)

This week, Alice and Kim talk Revolutionary War history, Persian empresses, and the tragic fire that society buried. While you're here, don’t forget Book Riot’s YA giveaway! Go here to win $500 of the year’s best YA fiction and nonfiction. bookriot.com/500yagiveaway   NEW BOOKS Don't You Ever by Mary Carter Bishop                                   Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire by Robert E. Fiesler  Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan by Ruby Lal No One Tells You This: A Memoir by Glynnis MacNicol  From the Corner of the Oval by Rebecca Dorey-Stein   WEEKLY THEME: Revolutionary History Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation by Cokie Roberts The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell Jefferson’s Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America by Catherine Kerrison Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar   SEGMENT THREE: Fiction/Nonfiction The Ensemble by Aja Gabel Gone by Min Kym The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte How to Build a Dinosaur: The New Science of Reverse Evolution by Jack Horner and James Gorman   READING NOW Stalking God by Anjali Kumar Drinking in America: A History by Mark Edward Lender   OTHER Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell Age of Jackson Podcast

This week, Kim and Alice dive into some new books and backlist reads to read during Pride Month (although, of course, they’re also great any time!). This week’s episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Annotated, an audio documentary podcast series about books, language, and reading. Give it a listen! NEW BOOKS Alone Time by Stephanie Rosenbloom Troublesome Science by Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall The Ambition Decisions by Hana Schank and Elizabeth Wallace 90s Bitch by Allison Yarrow Squeezed by Alissa Quart PRIDE MONTH! Dear John, I Love Jane by Candace Walsh Does Jesus Really Love Me? by Jeff Chu Jesus, the Bible, and Homosexuality by Jack Rogers Surpassing the Love of Men by Lillian Faderman Tomorrow Will be Different by Sarah McBride Then Comes Marriage by Roberta Kaplan with Lisa Dickey The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich READING NOW Black Dahlia, Red Rose by Piu Eatwell Text Me When You Get Home by Kayleen Schaefer OTHER TITLES Momo by Michael Ende

This week, Kim and Alice do a recap of some of the best nonfiction of Book Expo America, the publishing industry's big trade show each spring. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Annotated and Recommended podcasts. Give them a listen! And don’t forget that Book Riot is giving away a $500 gift card to the bookstore of your choice. Go to bookriot.com/bookstore500 before June 21 to enter. FOLLOW UP Locking Up Our Own by James Forman Jr. Dear Madam President by Jennifer Palmeri Bombay Anna by Susan Morgan NEW BOOKS What Would the Great Economists Do? by Linda Yueh (June 5, Picador) The Secret Token by Andrew Lawler (June 5, Doubleday) First in Line by Kate Andersen Brower (June 5, Harper) Woman at the Devil’s Door by Sarah Beth Hopton (June 1, Indiana University Press) BOOK EXPO The Impatient Dr. Lange by Seema Yasmin (July 2018, Johns Hopkins University Press) Call Them By Their True Names by Rebecca Solnit (September 2018, Haymarket) American Prisons by Shane Bauer (September 2018, Penguin) One Person, No Vote by Carol Anderson (September 2018, Bloomsbury) Black Flags, Blue Waters by Eric Jay Dolin (September 2018, Liveright) Born Criminal by Angelica Shirley Carpenter (September 2018, South Dakota Historical Society Press) Interior States by Meghan O'Gieblyn (October 2018, Anchor Books) 8-Bit Apocalypse by Alex Rubens (October 2018, Overlook Press) How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England by Ruth Goodman (October 2018, Liveright) BEA EDITOR'S BUZZ (Nonfiction) Small Animals by Kim Brooks (August 21, Flatiron Books) The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman (Sept. 11, Ecco/HarperCollins) There Will Be No Miracles Here by Casey Gerald (October 2, Riverhead Books) Maid by Stephanie Land (January 2019, Hachette Books) READING NOW City of Devils by Paul French (July 2018, Picador) The Truth About Animals by Lucy Cooke OTHER TITLES Sioux Women by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve Newjack by Ted Conover Under the Black Flag by David Cordingly

This week, Kim and Alice talk about books related to Memorial Day, lady serial killers, and some capital "R" Romantics. This episode is sponsored by American Fire by Monica Hesse. Follow Up Damnation Island and Imperfect Harmony by Stacy Horn New Books So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y'all Don't Even Know by Retta Baracoon by Zora Neal Hurston Great American Outpost by Maya Rao Like a Mother by Angela Garbes Feminist Freedom Warriors by Chandra Mohanty and Linda Carty Weekly Theme: Memorial Day Thank You for Your Service by David Finkel Drift by Rachel Maddow Mum's Army by Winifred Philips Ashley's War by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon A Life in Secrets by Sarah Helm Fiction/Nonfiction Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye Lady Killers by Tori Telfer Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart by Claire Harman Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Romantic Outlaws by Charlotte Gordon Reading Now Bombay Anna by Susan Morgan Locking Up Our Own by James Forman Jr. Don't forget! Book Riot is giving away $500 to the bookstore of your choice. Visit bookriot.com/bookstore500 to enter!  

This week, Kim and Alice chat about the British royals they love (and love to hate), graphic memoirs (comics, not dirty stuff), and new books on Christianity, historical hospitals and Los Angeles. Follow Up Bachelor Nation by Amy Kaufman New Books The Darkening Age by Catherine Nixey (April 17 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Damnation Island by Stacy Horn (May 15 from Algonquin) The Mirage Factory by Gary Krist (May 15 from Crown) Not that Bad, edited by Roxane Gay (May 1 from Harper) British Royals Past and Present Elizabeth the Queen by Sally Bedell Smith Victoria: The Queen by Julia Baird Elizabeth and Leicester by Sarah Gristwood Princes at War by Deborah Cadbury Game of Crowns by Christopher Andersen Mary, Queen of Scots: A Study in Failure by Jenny Wormald Penguin Monarchs series Graphic Memoirs Marbles by Ellen Forney Displacement: A Travelogue by Lucy Knisley A Bintel Brief by Liana Finck Rolling Blackouts by Sarah Glidden Tomboy by Liz Prince Mentioned briefly and recommended -- Maus by Art Spiegelman and Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi What We're Reading Now I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong (and his article on gender balance in reporting) Dear Madam President by Jennifer Palmeri (and her interview on NPR's It's Been a Minute podcast) The Escape of Charles II: After the Battle of Worcester by Richard Ollard

Kim is joined by guest co-host Jeff O'Neal to talk about two of the biggest nonfiction-related news stories of the year, along with books for Mother's Day and Jeff's Busman's MBA. This episode is sponsored by The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind by Barbara K. Lipska. Follow Up and Nonfiction News A Higher Loyaltysells 600,000 copies in the first week!  The Golden State Killer has been caught!  New Books The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil (April 24 from Crown) Minority Leader by Stacey Abrams (April 24 from Henry Holt) Beneath a Ruthless Sun by Gilbert King (April 24 from Riverhead) The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson (April 24 from Viking) Weekly Theme: Mother's Day Tell Me More by Kelly Corrigan Blood, Bones and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton Stuck in the Middle With You by Jennifer Finney Boylan Hammer Head by Nina MacLaughlin The Busman's MBA Back to Work podcast by Dan Benjamin and Merlin Mann Getting Things Done by David Allen Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher and William L. Ury Radical Candor by Kim Scott Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman The Distraction Addiction by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang Bored and Brilliant by Manoush Zomorodi Reading Now Odd Girl Out by Laura James The Power of Different by Gail Saltz Neurotribes by Steve Silberman

Please enjoy this bonus excerpt, courtesy of the Recommended podcast, featuring Jesmyn Ward recommending Edward E. Baptist's The Half Has Never Been Told.

This week, Kim and Alice chat about the Victorian computer, an obsessive tennis coach, and how long we should hold onto those Beanie Babies.

This week, Alice and Kim talking about Jane Austen superfans, snuffbox mussels and the rare "dragon fish," and books to give some context to the school shooting in Parkland, Florida and subsequent student activism. This episode is sponsored by: She Caused a Riot by Hannah Jewell Everything Is Horrible and Wonderful by Stephanie Wittels Wachs New Releases Camp Austen by Ted Scheinman (March 6 from FSG Originals) The Woman's Hour by Elaine Weiss (March 6 from Viking) Visionary Women by Andrea Barnet (March 13 from Ecco) The Last Wild Men of Borneo by Carl Hoffman (March 6 from William Morrow) Disappointment River by Brian Castner (March 13 from Doubleday) There Are No Dead Here by Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno (February 27 from Nation Books) Theme of the Week: Spring Has Sprung Wild and Rare by Adam Regn Arvidson The Meadowlands by Robert Sullivan The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver Current Events Reads: Guns and Student Activism Columbine by Dave Cullen Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge Witness the Revolution by Clara Bingham What We're Reading Political Tribes by Amy Chua Grant by Ron Chernow The Dragon Behind the Glass by Emily Voigt The Extra Stuff Books mentioned in passing: The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs Coming to My Senses by Alice Waters The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert Animals you might be curious about: Snuffbox mussels Asian arowana aka “dragon fish"

This week, Alice and Kim discuss Idaho extremists, the women who made the internet, and how closely you should identify with Lord Byron (among other things). We're sponsored this week by: She Caused a Riot: 100 Unknown Women Who Built Cities, Sparked Revolutions, and Massively Crushed It by Mackenzi Lee Everything Is Horrible and Wonderful by Stephanie Wittels Wachs   NEW RELEASES Educated by Tara Westover (February 20th, 2018) Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Claire L. Evans (March 6, 2018) Fisherman's Blues by Anna Badkhen (March 13, 2018) The Wonder Down Under: The Insider's Guide to the Anatomy, Biology, and Reality of the Vagina by Ellen Støkken Dahl and Nina Brochmann (March 6, 2018)   THEME OF THE WEEK: International Women's Day In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War by Leymah Gbowee A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa by Alexis Okeowo   FICTION/NONFICTION White Houses by Amy Bloom Eleanor and Hick by Susan Quinn Black Panther by Ta-Nehisi Coates and World of Wakanda by Roxane Gay Who Is the Black Panther by Jesse Holland Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture by Ytasha L. Womack   WHAT WE'RE READING I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara Double Bind: Women on Ambition by Robin Romm   THE EXTRA STUFF Books mentioned in passing: The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly Rise of the Rocket Girls by Nathalia Holt The Radium Girls by Kate Virgin: The Untouched History by Hanne Blank Without You, There Is No Us by Suki Kim Other Media: The Dork Forest podcast (Michelle McNamara episodes) 100 Must-Read Titles About Women's History

Kim Ukura and Alice Burton introduce For Real and talk favorite types of nonfiction and what they're reading now.

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