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This week Alice and Kim talk about a ton of March new releases and books to celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8. This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm audiobooks and The Lady from the Black Lagoon by Mallory O’Meara from Hanover Square Press. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. NEW BOOKS Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone by Brian Switek Devices and Desires: Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England by Kate Hubbard Women Warriors: An Unexpected History by Pamela D. Toler The Wrong End of the Table: A Mostly Comic Memoir of a Muslim Arab American Woman Just Trying to Fit in by Ayser Salman Dannemora: Two Escaped Killers, Three Weeks of Terror, and the Largest Manhunt Ever in New York State by Charles Gardner An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago by Alex Kotlowitz Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States by Samantha Allen That Good Night: Life a

This week, Alice and Kim discuss contemporary reads for Black History Month, an accidental con artist, and all new books to watch out for. This episode is sponsored by Audible and , Book Riot’s Swords and Spaceships newsletter. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. Follow Up True story podcast, The Dropout from ABC Radio, about Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes New Books The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America, ed. by Nikesh Shukla and Chimene Suleyman Parkland by Dave Cullen Brown, White, Black: An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion by Nishta J. Mehra Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman Black History Month II: Contemporary Voices When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Ba

This week Alice and Kim talk about books to read for Black History Month and some nonfiction adjacent podcasts they love (plus more books). This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s TBR and Flatiron Books, and I Am Yours: A Shared Memoir by Reema Zaman, from Amberjack Publishing.. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. FOLLOW UP American Fire by Monica Hesse An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie Ice Diaries: An Antarctic Memoir by Jean McNeil A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland by William E. Glassley NEW BOOKS No Beast So Fierce by Dane Huckelbridge Dreyer’s English by Benjamin Dreyer The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang BuzzFeed: I’ve Been Committed To A Psych Ward Three Times — And It Never Helped Underground by Will Hunt WEEKLY THEME: BLACK HISTORY MONTH The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson The Portable Nineteenth-Century Africa

This week Alice and Kim talk arctic explorers, murder in the tropics, and the mixed reactions to nonfiction bestseller Girl, Wash Your Face. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Read Harder Journal. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. Follow Up Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis By the Book podcast BuzzFeed: “Girl, Wash Your Face” Is A Massive Best-Seller With A Dark Message Tidying Up with Marie Kondo New Books Duped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Marriedby Abby Ellin A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II by Elizabeth Wein It Was All a Dream: A New Generation Confronts the Broken Promise to Black America by Reniqua Allen The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive by Stephanie Land Weekly Theme: The Arctic Into Thin

This week Alice and Kim talk about nonfiction to help you with your New Year’s resolutions and the reading resolutions they’ve set for the year. This episode is sponsored by the Read Harder Journal by Book Riot. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. BOOKS WE GOT FOR CHRISTMAS How to Draw Almost Every Day by Kamo Romantic Outlaws by Charlotte Gordon Feminasty by Erin Gibson How Do We Look by Mary Beard The Assassination of Branwaine Spurge by M.T. Anderson and Eugene Yelchin Legendary Ladies by Ann Shen Educated by Tara Westover NEW BOOKS Trailblazer by Dorothy Butler Gilliam When Death Becomes Life by Joshua Mezrich Inheritance by Dani Shapiro The Truths We Hold by Kamala Harris Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom WEEKLY THEME: NEW YEAR, NEW YOU The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll How to Break Up With Your Phone by Catherine Price (2018) Presence by Amy Cuddy Girl, Was

This week, Alice and Kim talk all things Jane Austen, as well as the best nonfiction of 2018. This week’s episode of For Real is brought to you by the Book Riot Read Harder Journal and The Molecule of More By Daniel Z. Lieberman and Mike Long. Subscribe to For Real via Stitcher here, or via Apple Podcasts here. You can sign up for Book Riot's nonfiction newsletter True Story, edited by For Real's Kim Ukura here. Weekly Theme: Jane Austen A Smattering of Austen Titles Reading Austen in America by Juliette Wells A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen At Home With Jane Austen by Kim Wilson Tea With Jane Austen by Pen Vogler Jane Austen and the Fiction of Her Time by Mary Waldron What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Mullan A Brief Guide to Jane Austen by Charles Jennings Jane Austen Biography and Background Books Jane Austen by Carol Shields Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels by Deirdre Le Faye Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquer

In this week’s episode, Kim and Alice share a few last November new books, then jump into a holiday gift guide with recommendations for history buffs, video gamers, wine aficionados, nature lovers and more. This week’s episode of For Real is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Homer and the Holiday Miracle by Gwen Cooper, and Bare Minimum Parenting: The Ultimate Guide to Not Quite Ruining Your Child by James Breakwell. Follow Up The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart New Books Stranger’s Pose by Emmanuel Iduma The Woo-Woo by Lindsay Wong Seduction by Karina Longworth We the People by Erwin Chemerinsky Becoming by Michelle Obama Holiday Recommendation Guide: Reader Requests Population 485 by Michael Perry Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman Goodbye-to All That by Robert Graves Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger The Lost City of Z by David Grann Skyjack by Geoffrey Gray Salt, Fat, Acid and Heat by Samin N

For Real is sponsored this week by Book Riot Insiders, In the Name of the Children: An FBI Agent’s Relentless Pursuit of the Nation’s Worst Predators by Jeffrey Rinek from BenBella Books and Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel’s Classroom by Ariel Burger. FOLLOW UP Who Was series Holiday Gift Guide Episode! Email kim@riotnewmedia.com by November 20th if you need a nonfiction recommendation for a present, or want a book to put on your own gift list.   NEW BOOKS Gene Machine: The Race to Decipher the Secrets of the Ribosome by Venki Ramakrishnan Bringing Down the Colonel: A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the “Powerless” Woman Who Took on Washington by Patricia Miller Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward by Gemma Hartley A Tale of Two Murders: Guilt, Innocence, and the Execution of Edith Thompson by Laura Thompson First Comes Marriage: My Not-So-Typical American Love Story by Huda Al-Marashi End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World’s Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals by Ross D.E. MacPh

In this episode, Kim and Alice dive into some great young adult nonfiction reads and consider true stories connected to current events like Harry and Meagan’s royal visit to Australia and debates about immigration. This episode is sponsored by Bibliophile from Chronicle Books and Democracy Hacked by Martin Moore. Follow Up In The Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick New Books All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung Silicon Valley: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley by Cary McClelland Let It Bang: A Young Black Man's Reluctant Odyssey into Guns by R.J. Young In Pursuit: The Hunt for the Beltway Snipers by David Reichenbaugh Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood by Rose George The King and the Catholics: England, Ireland, and the Fight for Religious Freedom, 1780-1829 by Antonia Fraser Weekly Theme: YA Nonfiction Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers Hardcover by Deborah Heiligman #NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women, ed. By Mary Beth Leatherdal

This week, Alice and Kim discuss arson, mesmerism, and murder in a true crime-themed episode. Find your scary nonfiction here this month on For Real. This week’s episode is sponsored by Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margarita by Tim Federle, and The Golden Boy: A Doctor’s Journey With Addiction by Grant Matheson. Don’t forget to check out Book Riot’s new subscription service offering Tailored Book Recommendations for readers of all stripes. Visit mytbr.co to learn more. FOLLOW UP Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-Class Metropolis by Sam Anderson NEW BOOKS The Library Book by Susan Orlean Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster by Stephen L. Carter Noncompliant: A Lone Whistleblower Exposes the Giants of Wall Street by Carmen Segarra My Squirrel Days by Ellie Kemper In the

This week, Kim and Alice share some books that try to find the truth behind the supernatural or that might be perfect haunting reading in October. This episode is sponsored by Oxford University Press, LibraryReads, and TBR, Book Riot's new subscription service offering Tailored Book Recommendations for readers of all stripes. NEW BOOKS Behold, America: The Entangled History of "America First" and "the American Dream" by Sarah Churchwell The Ravenmaster: My Life With the Ravens at the Tower of London by Christopher Skaife Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger by Rebecca Traister Feuding Fan Dancers: Faith Bacon, Sally Rand, and the Golden Age of the Showgirl by Leslie Zemeckis Heart: A History by Sandeep Jauhar Six By Ten: Stories from Solitary, edited by Taylor Pendergrass TRUE STORIES OF THE SUPERNATURAL Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death by Deborah Blum The Secret History of the Jersey Devil: How Quakers, Hucksters, and Benjamin Franklin C

This episode of For Real is sponsored by The Good Neighbor by Maxwell King and The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman. FOLLOW UP READS The Class by Heather Won Tesario NEW BOOKS The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy by Paige Williams Call Them By Their True Names by Rebecca Solnit Seeds of Resistance: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply by Mark Schapiro  The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve Emre  The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War by Joanne Freeman The Art of Logic in an Illogical World by Eugenia Cheng  She Called Me Woman: Nigeria’s Queer Women Speak, edited by Azeenarh Mohammed, Chitra Nagarajan, Rafeeat Aliyu  WEEKLY THEME: Cozy Nonfiction for Fall House of Stone by Anthony Shadid The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living by Meik Wiking Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader by Anne Fadiman Travels With Charley in Search of America by John Steinbeck

In this week's episode, Kim and guest co-host Sharifah recommend books by people with interesting jobs and personal essay collections by smart and funny women. This episode is sponsored by Unapologetic by Charlene A Carruthers and Elizabeth Warren by Antonia Felix. Book Riot also wants to know about your reading habits. Hop over and take our Fall Reader Survey before Sept. 10 for a chance to win a $100 gift card to the Book Riot Store: bookriot.com/fallsurvey NEW BOOKS To Obama: With Love, Joy, Anger, and Hope by Jeanne Marie Laskas “Dear Mr. President” by Jeanne Marie Laskas in the Guardian Ten Letters by Eli Saslow Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? by Alyssa Mastromonaco The Class by Heather Won Tesoriero I Should Have Honor: A Memoir of Hope and Pride in Pakistan by Khalida Brohi Bureau of Spies by Steven T. Usdin The Provocative Colette by Annie Goetzinger Not Quite Not White by Sharmila Sen LABOR DAY/STORIES OF WORK Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from t

This week, Kim and Alice take a deep dive into books about the campaign for women's suffrage and the passage of the 19th Amendment in August 1920. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot Insiders, Girl Boner: The Good Girl’s Guide to Sexual Empowerment by August McLaughlin, and Tragedy Plus Time by Adam Cayton-Holland. NEW BOOKS A Deal with the Devil: The Dark and Twisted True Story of One of the Biggest Cons in History by Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man by Thomas Page McBee Reader, Come Home: The Fate of the Reading Brain in a Digital World by Maryanne Wolf A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin Proud: My Fight for An Unlikely American Dream by Ibtihaj Muhammad The Kill Jar: Obsession, Descent, and a Hunt for Detroit’s Most Notorious Serial Killer by J. Reuben Appelman WEEKLY THEME: WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE News: Hillary Clinton, Steven Spielberg Bringing Women's Voting Drama to TV For fun: Bad Romance - Women's Suffrage The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by E

This week, Kim and Alice talk presidential scandals, Victorian affairs, and the inside scoop on the Jell-O dynasty. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, Kim and Alice take a deep dive into types of nonfiction that are great for reading at the beach -- stunt and celebrity memoirs, science and nature stories, and historical true crime reads. While you’re here, don’t forget Book Riot’s YA giveaway! Go here to win $500 of the year’s best YA fiction and nonfiction: bookriot.com/500yagiveaway. FOLLOW UP From the Corner of the Oval by Beck Dorey-Stein Never Caught by Erica Armstrong Dunbar Drinking in America by Mark Edward Lender NEW BOOKS Barons of the Sea by Steven Ujifusa Blood and Ivy by Paul Collins A Bite-Sized History of France by Stephane Henaut (translated by Jeni Mitchell) Killing It: An Education by Camas Davis NONFICTION BEACH READS Stunt Memoirs! My Year with Eleanor by Noelle Hancock Word Freak by Stefan Fatsis The Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes The Lunatic Express by Carl Hoffman Nature/Science Books! A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson The

This week, Alice and Kim talk Revolutionary War history, Persian empresses, and the tragic fire that society buried. While you're here, don’t forget Book Riot’s YA giveaway! Go here to win $500 of the year’s best YA fiction and nonfiction. bookriot.com/500yagiveaway   NEW BOOKS Don't You Ever by Mary Carter Bishop                                   Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire by Robert E. Fiesler  Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan by Ruby Lal No One Tells You This: A Memoir by Glynnis MacNicol  From the Corner of the Oval by Rebecca Dorey-Stein   WEEKLY THEME: Revolutionary History Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation by Cokie Roberts The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell Jefferson’s Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America by Catherine Kerrison Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentles

This week, Kim and Alice dive into some new books and backlist reads to read during Pride Month (although, of course, they’re also great any time!). This week’s episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Annotated, an audio documentary podcast series about books, language, and reading. Give it a listen! NEW BOOKS Alone Time by Stephanie Rosenbloom Troublesome Science by Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall The Ambition Decisions by Hana Schank and Elizabeth Wallace 90s Bitch by Allison Yarrow Squeezed by Alissa Quart PRIDE MONTH! Dear John, I Love Jane by Candace Walsh Does Jesus Really Love Me? by Jeff Chu Jesus, the Bible, and Homosexuality by Jack Rogers Surpassing the Love of Men by Lillian Faderman Tomorrow Will be Different by Sarah McBride Then Comes Marriage by Roberta Kaplan with Lisa Dickey The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich READING NOW Black Dahlia, Red Rose by Piu Eatwell Text Me When You Get Home by Kayleen Schaefer OTHER TITLES Momo by Michael Ende See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy

This week, Kim and Alice do a recap of some of the best nonfiction of Book Expo America, the publishing industry's big trade show each spring. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Annotated and Recommended podcasts. Give them a listen! And don’t forget that Book Riot is giving away a $500 gift card to the bookstore of your choice. Go to bookriot.com/bookstore500 before June 21 to enter. FOLLOW UP Locking Up Our Own by James Forman Jr. Dear Madam President by Jennifer Palmeri Bombay Anna by Susan Morgan NEW BOOKS What Would the Great Economists Do? by Linda Yueh (June 5, Picador) The Secret Token by Andrew Lawler (June 5, Doubleday) First in Line by Kate Andersen Brower (June 5, Harper) Woman at the Devil’s Door by Sarah Beth Hopton (June 1, Indiana University Press) BOOK EXPO The Impatient Dr. Lange by Seema Yasmin (July 2018, Johns Hopkins University Press) Call Them By Their True Names by Rebecca Solnit (September 2018, Haymarket) American Prisons by Shane Bauer (September 2018, Penguin) One Person,

This week, Kim and Alice talk about books related to Memorial Day, lady serial killers, and some capital "R" Romantics. This episode is sponsored by American Fire by Monica Hesse. Follow Up Damnation Island and Imperfect Harmony by Stacy Horn New Books So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y'all Don't Even Know by Retta Baracoon by Zora Neal Hurston Great American Outpost by Maya Rao Like a Mother by Angela Garbes Feminist Freedom Warriors by Chandra Mohanty and Linda Carty Weekly Theme: Memorial Day Thank You for Your Service by David Finkel Drift by Rachel Maddow Mum's Army by Winifred Philips Ashley's War by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon A Life in Secrets by Sarah Helm Fiction/Nonfiction Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye Lady Killers by Tori Telfer Charlotte Brontë: A Fiery Heart by Claire Harman Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Romantic Outlaws by Charlotte Gordon Reading Now Bombay Anna by Susan Morgan Locking Up Our Own by James Forman Jr. Don't forget! Book Riot is giving away $500 to the bookstore of your choice. Visit bookriot.c