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