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Easy Nonfiction to Start the Year

Podcast |: For Real
Publisher |: Book Riot
Media Type |: audio
Podknife tags |: Books,; Non-Fiction
Categories Via RSS |: Arts,; Books,; Society & Culture
Publication Date |: Jan 19, 2021
Episode Duration |: 00:43:55

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This week, Alice and Kim recommend easy nonfiction reads to start your year. 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 post contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, Book Riot may earn a commission. Follow Up Shoutout on Twitter from Ibram X. Kendi – Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain Nonfiction in the News Simon & Schuster Cancels Plans for Senator Hawley’s Book [The New York Times] New Nonfiction Aftershocks: A Memoir by Nadia Owusu You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price The Doctors Blackwell : How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura The Eagles of Heart Mountain : A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America by Bradford Pearson Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy by Adam Jentleson Bravey: Chasing Dreams, Befriending Pain, and Other Big Ideas by Alexi Pappas Easy Nonfiction to Start the Year Wild Game: My Mother, Her Secret, and Me by Adrienne Brodeur The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute by Zac Bissonnette Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology by Lawrence Weschler Reading Now KIM: Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey ALICE: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas 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

This week, Alice and Kim recommend easy nonfiction reads to start your year.

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 post contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, Book Riot may earn a commission.

Follow Up

Shoutout on Twitter from Ibram X. Kendi – Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain

Nonfiction in the News

schuster-josh-hawley-book.html">Simon & Schuster Cancels Plans for Senator Hawley’s Book [The New York Times]

New Nonfiction

Aftershocks: A Memoir by Nadia Owusu

You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin and Lacey Lamar

Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price

The Doctors Blackwell : How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura

The Eagles of Heart Mountain : A True Story of Football, Incarceration, and Resistance in World War II America by Bradford Pearson

Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy by Adam Jentleson

Bravey: Chasing Dreams, Befriending Pain, and Other Big Ideas by Alexi Pappas

Easy Nonfiction to Start the Year

Wild Game: My Mother, Her Secret, and Me by Adrienne Brodeur

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang

The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute by Zac Bissonnette

Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology by Lawrence Weschler

Reading Now

KIM: Memorial Drive by Natasha Trethewey

ALICE: The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

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

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