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Our Favorite Non-Fiction Reads

Our Favorite Non-Fiction Reads

Update: 2026-03-04
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This week, we're diving into a topic we haven't covered in 8 years of this podcast: Non-fiction! We aren't experts on the genre, so we asked our listeners about their favorites, too, and wow, did they have some books to share! 

 

Becca's Favorites

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

Open Book by Jessica Simpson

I'll Have What She's Having: How Nora Ephron's 3 Iconic Films Saved the Romantic Comedy by Erin Carlson

Edie: An American Girl by Jean Stein

No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNichol

 

Olivia's Favorites

A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst 

Maybe You Should Talk To Someone by Lori Gottlieb

1000 Words: A Writer's Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round by Jami Attenberg

Not My Type: One Woman Vs. a President by E Jean Caroll 

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Janette McCurdy

 

Listener Favorites

Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum

We Might Just Make It After All by Elyce Arons

People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry

Tranquility by Tuesday by Laura Vanderkam 

Disney High by Ashley Spencer

Farenheit 182 by Mark Hoppus with Dan Ozzi 

Homeschooled by Stefan Merrill Block 

Running Memoirs

Solito by Javier Zamora

 

Obsession

Becca - Love Story

Olivia - Jessie Buckley

 

What we read this week

Macmillan - Lady Tremaine by Rachel Hochhauser, read by Bessie Carter, is available wherever you listen to audiobooks! 

Olivia - Lady Tremaine by Rachel Hochauser

Becca - Lina & June by Genevieve Wheeler (out 12/8), Games: A Love Story by Anna Maria Volkova (out 6/2), Play it Again by Georgia Clark (out 6/16)

 

March's Book Club Pick - So Old, So Young by Grant Ginder

 

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Our Favorite Non-Fiction Reads

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Becca Freeman & Olivia Muenter