This week, Alice and Kim talk about new nonfiction releases for the rest of 2021. Follow 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 content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Favorites of the Year So Far Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood by Cheryl Diamond You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories about Racism by Amber Ruffin, Lacey Lamar Follow the Flock: How Sheep Shaped Human Civilization by Sally Coulthard Anticipated Nonfiction Swan Dive: The Making of a Rogue Ballerina by Georgina Pazcoguin Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond by Halimah Marcus Hard Landings: Looking Into the Future for a Child With Autism by Cammie McGovern Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them by Siân Evans Beautiful Country: A Memoir by Qian Julie Wang Chen Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America by Eyal Press We Are Not Broken by George M. Johnson Castaway Mountain: Love and Loss Among the Wastepickers of Mumbai by Saumya Roy Personal Effects: What Recovering the Dead Teaches Me About Caring for the Living by Robert A. Jensen  White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality by Sheryll Cashin She Kills Me: The True Stories of History’s Deadliest Women by Jennifer Wright Praying to the West: How Muslims Shaped the Americas by Omar Mouallem Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller by Nadia Wassef Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia by Greg Mitman  These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett This Will All Be Over Soon: A Memoir by Cecily Strong Reading Now KIM: People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry ALICE: Square Haunting by Francesca Wade 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 follow us there 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