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. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices