For Real

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 Resista