This week Alice and Kim share nonfiction gift recommendations for the holidays. 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. This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life., The New Sotheby’s Wine Encyclopedia by Tom Stevenson, and A Drop of Midnight by Jason Diakité. Follow Up We Keep the Dead Close by Becky Cooper Nonfiction in the News Carnegie Medals shortlist National Book Award winners New Nonfiction Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds : Ebola and the Ravages of History by Paul Farmer Loved and Wanted: A Memoir of Choice, Children, and Womanhood by Christa Parravani  I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are by Rachel Bloom Nonfiction Gift Guide Stuck in the Middle With You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders by Jennifer Finney Boylan Redefining Realness by Janet Mock Threading My Prayer Rug by Sabeeha Rehman Laughing All the Way to the Mosque by Zarqa Nawaz https://bookriot.com/memoirs-by-muslim-women/ – Karuna Riazi Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer The White Darkness by David Grann The Wonder Trail: True Stories from Los Angeles to the End of the World by Steve Hely The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World by Steven Johnson Forward: A Memoir by Abby Wambach   Reset by Ellen Pao The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford The Lonely War: One Woman’s Account of the Struggle for Modern Iran Kindle by Nazila Fathi  Eiffel’s Tower: The Thrilling Story Behind Paris’s Beloved Monument and the Extraordinary World’s Fair That Introduced It by Jill Jonnes The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home by Denise Kiernan The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World by Patrik Svensson Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape by Lauret Savoy  Reading Now KIM: A Promised Land by Barack Obama  ALICE: The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork  Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink 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