This week Alice and Kim talk about nonfiction for Pride Month.

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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

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