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Submit ReviewThis week Alice and Kim wrap up 125 episodes of the For Real podcast by discussing their favorite reads of 2022 and reflecting on their favorite podcast episodes.
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How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell
World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur
Ancestor Trouble by Maud Newton
Invisible Child by Andrea Elliot
The World As It Is by Ben Rhodes
In the Shadow of the Mountain by Sylvia Vasquez-Lavado
Dog Flowers by Danielle Geller
A Most Remarkable Creature by Jonathan Meiburg
Ghosts in the Schoolyard by Eve L. Ewing
The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantú
Looking for the Good War by Elizabeth D. Samet
The Lost City of Z by David Grann
Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? By Roz Chast
Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Trans Mission by Alex Bertie
Episode 13: Suffragists, Suffragettes, and Winning the Vote
Episode 23: The Arctic and the Tropics
Episode 34: Ahoy, We Sail the Sea of Books
Episode 50: 50 Books for 50 Episodes
Episode 53: Snake Math!
Episode 67: After the Final Rose
Episode 70: YA Nonfiction, aka Nonfiction for Exhausted Adults
Episode 91: Library Treasure Hunt
Episode 92: The One With Mary Roach
Episode 96: Fell in a Hole (AKA True Stories Underground)
Episode 100: Episode 100!!!!
Episode 123: Nonfiction Holiday Gift Guide
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This week Alice and Kim talk about new nonfiction out in November and December, including memoirs, cold cases, orchid obsession, and more.
Gift Tailored Book Recommendations this holiday season!
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books-2022.html">New York Times: Best Books of the Year
Washington Post: Best Books of the Year
Reader’s Digest: The National Book Foundation Announces 2022 National Book Award Winners
Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family by Rabia Chaudry
Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World by Ben Mattlin
The Forever Witness: How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder by Edward Humes
Queen of Snails: A Graphic Memoir by Maureen Burdock
A Coastline is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents by Mary-Alice Daniel
The Mexican Witch Lifestyle: Brujeria Spells, Tarot, and Crystal Magic by Valeria Ruelas
As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age by Matthew Cobb
Twenty Dollars and Change: Harriet Tubman and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice and Democracy by Clarence Lusane
Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon by Kate Andersen Brower
Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening by Douglas Brinkley
Orchid Muse: A History of Obsession in Fifteen Flowers by Erica Hannickel
The Quentin Blake Book by Jenny Uglow
Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life by Alice Wong
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This week Alice and Kim make holiday gift guide recommendations.
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This week Alice and Kim talk about books by Indigenous authors to recognize Native American Heritage Month. They also speculate about Prince Harry’s memoir and share exciting new nonfiction picks.
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Prince Harry’s Memoir Is Due in January. How Explosive Will It Be? [harry-memoir.html">New York Times]
How Julie Powell and her ‘Julie/Julia’ blog changed food writing [Washington Post]
Keanu Reeves Exits Hulu’s ‘The Devil In The White City’ Limited Series [Deadline]
White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better by Regina Jackson and Saira Rao
Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America’s Edge by Ted Conover
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family by Kerri K. Greenidge
Among Tigers: Fighting to Bring Back Asia’s Big Cats by K. Ullas Karanth
Heart Berries: A Memoir by Teresa Marie Mailhot
Dog Flowers: A Memoir, An Archive by Danielle Geller
Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey by Jonathan Meiburg
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This week Alice and Kim talk new fall nonfiction.
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Book Riot’s Reading the Stars Giveaway
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The Stolen Year: How COVID Changed Children’s Lives, and Where We Go Now by Anya Kamenetz
Inventing Latinos : A New Story of American Racism by Laura E. Gómez
Stay True: A Memoir by Hua Hsu
The Surprising Lives of Bark Beetles: Mighty Foresters of the Insect World by Jiri Hulcr, Marc Abrahams
Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care by Rina Raphael
Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street by Cin Fabré
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey
Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis by Annie Proulx
Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family by Erika Hayasaki
The United States of Cryptids: A Tour of American Myths and Monsters by J.W. Ocker
Home Bound: An Uprooted Daughter’s Reflections on Belonging by Vanessa Bee
American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America’s First Paramedics by Kevin Hazzard
KIM: Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao
ALICE: The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont by Shawn Levy
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This week Alice and Kim reflect on visiting Salem, Massachusetts and discuss books about witches and boats.
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In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
Giveaway: Reading the Stars by Book Riot
Savor: A Chef’s Hunger for More by Fatima Ali and Tarajia Morrell
Black Hollywood: Reimagining Iconic Movie Moments by Carell Augustus
Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way by Kieran Setiya
Looking for the Hidden Folk: How Iceland’s Elves Can Save the Earth by Nancy Marie Brown
The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff
Tituba, Reluctant Witch of Salem: Devilish Indians and Puritan Fantasies by Elaine G. Breslaw
Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
Witches: The Absolutely True Tale of Disaster in Salem by Rosalyn Schanzer
Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind by Fariha Róisín
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
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This week Alice and Kim talk about nonfiction reads for Hispanic Heritage Month.
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Nonfiction in the News
Jung Hae Chae Wins the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize [Graywolf Press]
2022 National Book Awards Longlist for Nonfiction [National Book Foundation]
Writer Samantha Irby calls her latest book ‘a devolution!’ [Entertainment Weekly]
Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America’s Most-Read Woman by Julia Scheeres and Allison Gilbert
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
Runaway: Notes on the Myths that Made Me by Erin Keane
Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons by Anthony Christian Ocampo
In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantu
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernández
In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero
KIM: The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
ALICE: The Office BFFs by Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey
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This week Kim and Alice go down a rabbit hole talking about A League of Their Own and talk nonfiction about women in sports.
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Barbara Ehrenreich, author who challenged American Dream myths, dies at 81 [Washington Post]
Recommending Books Based on the Weirdest Facts They Taught Me [Book Riot]
Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better by Woo-Kyoung Ahn
Off with Her Head: Three Thousand Years of Demonizing Women in Power by Eleanor Herman
The Godmother: Murder, Vengeance, and the Bloody Struggle of Mafia Women by Barbie Latza Nadeau
Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent by Dipo Faloyin
The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World by Max Fisher
Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life by Alice Wong
Hail Mary: The Rise and Fall of the National Women’s Football League by Frankie de la Cretaz and Lyndsey D’Arcangelo
Dust Bowl Girls: The Inspiring Story of the Team That Barnstormed Its Way to Basketball Glory by Lydia Reeder
Baseball’s Leading Lady: Effa Manley and the Rise and Fall of the Negro Leagues by Andrea Williams
Curveball: The Remarkable Story of Toni Stone the First Woman to Play Professional Baseball in the Negro League by Martha Ackmann
Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon
I Might Regret This: Essays, Drawings, Vulnerabilities, and Other Stuff by Abbi Jacobson
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This week Alice and Kim talk middle grade nonfiction reads.
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Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese are Creating a Devil in the White City Series for Hulu [Town and Country]
The Mamas: What I Learned About Kids, Class, and Race from Moms Not Like Me by Helena Andrews-Dyer
Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis by Beth Macy
Democracy’s Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them by Dan Bouk
Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America by Psyche A. Williams-Forson (Univ of NC Press)
Quick Mentions
Yummy: A History of Desserts by Victoria Grace Elliot
Free Lunch by Rex Ogle (AOC)
The Eagle Huntress: The True Story of the Girl Who Soared Beyond Expectations by Aisholpan Nurgaiv with Liz Welch
All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team by Christina Soontornvat
Reading Now
KIM: My Imaginary Mary by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows
ALICE: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
CONCLUSION
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This week Alice and Kim catch up on all the books they read during their summer break. Plus, they share some new memoirs and social history titles.
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David McCullough, Best-Selling Explorer of America’s Past, Dies at 89 [mccullough-dead.html">New York Times]
Bright: A Memoir by Kiki Petrosino
A History of Delusions: The Glass King, a Substitute Husband and a Walking Corpse by Victoria Shepherd
What the Children Told Us: The Untold Story of the Famous “Doll Test” and the Black Psychologists Who Changed the World by Tim Spofford
A Good Country: My Life in Twelve Towns and the Devastating Battle for a White America by Sofia Ali-Khan
The Ugly Cry: A Memoir by Danielle Henderson
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 by Joseph J. Ellis
The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House by Ben Rhodes
The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land by Sally Denton
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner
The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Fathers Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism by Bill Shaffer
Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side by Eve L. Ewing
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