This week Alice and Kim talk all about voting, including some of its complications and contested history. Plus, new books on the Great Migration, caste systems, and more! This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life, Editorial Arts Academy for Freelance Book Editing 101, and Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community. Subscribe to 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 Michelle Obama Podcast The Greatest Love Story Ever Told: An Oral History by Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman New Books Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan Jerkins Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson Finish the Fight! The Brave and Revolutionary Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote by Veronica Chambers Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger: A Memoir by Lisa Donovan Books About Voting How the Post Office Created America by Winifred Gallagher She Votes: How U.S. Women Won Suffrage, and What Happened Next by Bridget Quinn One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Democracy by Carol Anderson The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States by Alexander Keyssar What You Need to Know About Voting–and Why by Kimberly L. Wehle Reading Now Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices