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This week Alice and Kim talk about true stories that have been turned into movies! Plus, new nonfiction about feminism, capitalism, activism, and beavers. This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life, Chicago Review Press, 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. Nonfiction in the News LitHub: “Lars Horn has won the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize” New Nonfiction More Than a Woman by Caitlin Moran Having and Being Had by Eula Biss What Can I Do?: My Path from Climate Despair to Action by Jane Fonda Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter by Lan Cao and Harlan Margaret Van Cao Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Man’s Quest to Rewild Britain’s Waterways by Derek Gow Here She Is: T

This week Alice and Kim talk about upcoming nonfiction for the rest of 2020. This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm, Book Riot Insiders, and TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life.. 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 Winifred Gallager interview Nonfiction in the News Fact Checking Is the Core of Nonfiction Writing. Why Do So Many Publishers Refuse to Do It? Fall Nonfiction Preview — Buzzy Titles Shit, Actually : The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema by Lindy West Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen  OK Boomer, Let’s Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind by Jill Filipovic I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are by Rachel Bloom Med

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 L

This week Alice and Kim talk true crime, Tudor history, and anti-racist reads for your shelf. This episode is sponsored by Read or Dead, Book Riot’s mystery/thriller podcast, The Last Stargazers by Emily Levesque from Sourcebooks , and Flatiron Books, publisher of Being Lolita by Alisson Wood. 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. NONFICTION IN THE NEWS HBO Will Adapt Ta-Nehisi Coates’ ‘Between The World And Me’ NEW BOOKS Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness by Catherine Cho Uncrowned Queen: The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort by Nicola Tallis Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession, edited by Sarah Weinman She was the First! The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm by Katheryn Russell-Brown, illustrated by Eric Velasquez Intimations by Zadie Smith Sex and Lies: True Stories of Women’s Intimate Lives in the Arab World by Leila Sl

This week Alice and Kim talk about the Summer Olympics, including some of their favorite moments, the history of the games, and memoirs by Olympic athletes. This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life, Chasing the Light from HMH, 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. Nonfiction In the News Hollywood Reporter: “Phoebe Robinson to Launch New Book Imprint With Plume Publisher” New Books Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe by Mario Alejandro Ariza The Golden Thread: The Cold War and the Mysterious Death of Dag Hammarskjöldl by Ravi Somaiya The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarc

This week Alice and Kim talk travel books, Alaskan politics, and what the word multifarious means. This episode is sponsored by Becoming Duchess Goldblatt: A Memoir by Anonymous, published by HMH Books, Page Chaser, and Book Riot’s TBR. 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. New Books Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the 21st Century, ed. by Alice WongSEE ALSO: A Disability History of the United States By Kim E. Nielsen A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America’s First All-Black High School Rowing Team by Arshay Cooper The Multifarious Mr Banks: From Botany Bay to Kew, The Natural Historian Who Shaped the World by Toby Musgrave Of Bears and Ballots: An Alaskan Adventure in Small-Town Politics by Heather Lende Travel Nonfiction From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home by Tembi Locke Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell Everybody Was

This week Alice and Kim talk about podcast-ish audiobooks you can listen to even when you don’t have a commute, plus new books about voting, strippers, and murder on the high seas. This episode is sponsored by Hey YA, Book Riot’s own podcast about all things young adult lit, Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz, now available in paperback from Algonquin Books, and Harper Perennial and Twisted by Emma Dabiri. 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. Nonfiction in the News Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosch Sacramento Bee: “HBO releases trailer for documentary series on writer’s hunt for Golden State Killer” Shelf Awareness: “Publishers and Binc Team Up to Support Indies” New Books Thank You for Voting by Erin Geiger Smith Neon Girls by Jenny Worley Not a Gentleman’s Work by Gerard Koeppel See No Stranger by Valarie Kaur AUdiobooks That are Like Podcasts We’re Going

This week Alice and Kim talk Pride reads, new release nonfiction, and more. This episode is sponsored by TBR and Book Riot Insiders. 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. Nonfiction in the News Entertainment Weekly: “Warner Bros. makes Just Mercy available for free as education on ‘systemic racism’” Book Riot: “Listen to Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi on Spotify New Books Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It by Jamie Margolin How We Show Up by Mia Birdsong Girls Garage: How to Use Any Tool, Tackle Any Project, and Build the World You Want to See by Emily Pilloton. The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir by Wayétu Moore Pride Month How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, Edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of

This week Alice and Kim talk about beauty pageants, Girl Scouts, '90s nostalgia through essays, and books for Mental Health Month. This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot's subscription service offering Tailored Book Recommendations for readers of all stripes, Write the World, publishers on Writers of Earth, and Libro FM. 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. New Books Troop 6000 by Nikita Stewart Miss World 1970 by Jennifer Hosten In Praise of Walking by Shane O’Mara Weird But Normal by Mia Mercado How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster Mental Health Month Happier at Home by Gretchen Rubin Burnout by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski Brave, Not Perfect by Reshma Saujani The Power of Meaning by Emily Esfahani Smith Reading Now We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Sha

This week Alice and Kim talk about sister suffragettes, Scandinavian mysteries, and pirates. This episode is sponsored by A Quick & Easy Guide to They Them Pronouns from Oni Press, In Good Hands by Stephanie MacKendrick from KCP Loft, and Lit Stitch: 25 Cross-Stitch Patterns for Book Lovers, made by Book Riot and Abrams. 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. Nonfiction News Becoming is a Netflix documentary! [VIDEO] Pulitzer Prize winners HistoryWinner: “Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America,” by W. Caleb McDanielBiographyWinner: “Sontag: Her Life and Work,” by Benjamin MoserGeneral NonfictionWinner: “The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America,” by Greg GrandinWinner: “The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care,” by Anne Boyer USA T

This week Alice and Kim talk books to read after you finishing marathoning shows like Tiger King and The Office, plus some of the best new releases from April. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot's TBR, Flatiron Books, publisher of Sigh, Gone by Phuc Tran, 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. Nonfiction News Hollwood Reporter: "Connie Britton, HBO Max Team for 'All the Single Ladies' Doc" New Books What We Carry by Maya Shanbhag Lang Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls by Nina Renata Aron The Compton Cowboys by Walter Thompson-Hernandez Becoming Kim Jong Un by Jung H. Pak Earth Almanac by Ted Williams No Justice in the Shadows byAlina Das The Golden Flea by Michael Rips Reading After Marathoning The Tribe of Tiger by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas No Beast So Fierce by Dane Huckelbrid

This week Alice and Kim talk new releases, Earth Day reads and more from the world of nonfiction. This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm, Book Riot Insiders, and TBR. 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. Nonfiction News Newsmaker: Stacey Abrams The Pulitzer Prize announcements are postponed. New Books American Harvest by Marie Mutsuki Mockett In the Waves: My Quest to Solve the Mystery of a Civil War Submarine by Rachel Lance Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life by Lulu Miller Dancing at the Pity Party: A Dead Mom Graphic Memoir by Tyler Feder Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui Alice Quick Mentions: The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States by Walter JohnsonThe Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deirdre Mask Kim Quick Mentions:Joy at Work: Organ

This week Alice and Kim talk quarantine reads, the inside scoop on royalty, and America’s youngest sommelier. This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm and Book Riot’s TBR. 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 COVID-19 Updates from the Bookish World Nonfiction News Woody Allen's book somehow still got published. New Books Shorter: Work Better, Smarter, and Less—Here's How by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s: An Oral History by Andy Greene Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like “Journey” in the Title by Leslie Gray Streeter Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown by Anne Glenconner Wine Girl: The Obstacles, Humiliations, and Triumphs of America's Youngest Sommelier by Victoria James Rebel Cinderella: From Rags to Riches t

This week Alice and Kim talk about women in Congress, crossword puzzles, and two scary subjects, snakes and math! This episode is sponsored by TBR: Tailored Book Recommendations and Libro.FM. 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. Nonfiction News NPR: “Publisher Drops Woody Allen’s Book After Ronan Farrow Objects, Employees Walk Out” New Books The Firsts: The Inside Story of the Women Reshaping Congress by Jennifer Steinhauer A History of Islam in 21 Women by Hossein Kamaly Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi Thinking Inside the Box : Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can’t Live Without Them by Adrienne Raphel Snake Math! Book Riot has “20 of the Best Snake Books for Every Reader”? Book Riot: 3 Math Books for Pi Day How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics by Eugenia Cheng The

This week Alice and Kim talk about popular self-help books, admit to sometimes reading fiction, and revisit one of their favorite podcast topics, books to celebrate International Women’s Day! This episode is sponsored by Spirit Run by Noé Álvarez, on sale now from Catapult and Libro.fm. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week Alice and Kim talk Black History Month nonfiction reads for your TBR shelf. This episode is sponsored by Random House and the Book Riot Read Harder Challenge. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. Nonfiction News The Guardian: “Whitechapel mural will celebrate the lives of Jack the Ripper’s victims” New Books Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America’s Most Dangerous Cults by Mitch Weiss, Holbrook Mohr The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage by Mara Hvistendahl A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home, ed. By Nicole Chung, Menshah Demary Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics by Bruce Goldfarb Black History Month Eloquent Rage: A Black Femin

This week Alice and Kim highlight 50 awesome nonfiction books to celebrate their 50th episode! This episode is sponsored by Get Booked from Book Riot, Me and White Supremacy from Sourcebooks, and Book Riot Insiders. 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. Books Mentioned Bad Blood by John Carreyrou Building a Life Worth Living by Marsha M. Linehan The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown Unfollow by Megan Roper Phelps The Art of Choosing  by Sheena Iyengar A Woman’s Crusade by Mary Walton The Great Beanie Baby Bubble by Zac Bissonnette  Meaty by Samantha Irby The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum Moonbound by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm Without You There Is No Us by Suki Kim Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit Stiff by Mary Roach Spare Parts by Joshua Davis Word Freak by Stefan Fatsis  King Mob by Christopher Hibbert When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi The Orchid Thief b

This week Alice and Kim talk classic Hollywood scandals and history, with some nonfiction picks to help you dive into the backstage world of 20th century film. This episode is sponsored by Fights by Joel Christian McGill, Book Riot’s Read Harder 2020 Challenge, and Novel Gazing, Book Riot’s new literary fiction podcast. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. NONFICTION NEWS The Hill: “New Stacey Abrams book to focus on voting rights” NEW BOOKS The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia by Emma Copley Eisenberg The Magical Language of Others by E.J. Koh Bubble in the Sun: The Florida Boom of the 1920s and How It Brought on the Great Depression by Christopher Knowlton Uncanny Valley: A Memoir by Anna Wiener CLASSIC HOLLYWOOD SCANDALS The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History by Nath

This week Alice and Kim talk about the failure of their 2019 reading resolutions and look ahead to some of the books they’re excited about in 2020. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Read Harder Challenge and Book Riot Insiders. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. NEW BOOKS And Then We Grew Up: On Creativity, Potential, and the Imperfect Art of Adulthood by Rachel Friedman Tonight We Bombed the U.S. Capitol: The Explosive Story of M19, America’s First Female Terrorist Group by William Rosenau ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2020 American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI by Kate Winkler Dawson A Black Woman’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country by Sierra Crane Murdoch Wine Girl: The Obstacles, Humiliations, and Tri

This week Alice and Kim talk favorite nonfiction reads of 2019, including the women of Disney, a very lonely whale, and how to stop stress in its tracks. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Read Harder Journal and Libro.fm. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. NONFICTION NEWS Goodreads Choice Awards are out! 2019 FAVORITES Notes from a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi, Joshua David Stein Parkland by Dave Cullen Good Talk by Mira Jacob The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski The Queens of Animation by Nathalia Holt Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church b