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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