For Real

This week Alice and Kim preview 21 of their most-anticipated new books from the first half of 2021. Plus, they discuss reading plans for the year and some of the best-reviewed books of 2020. 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 “The Best Reviewed Nonfiction of 2020 [LitHub] Most Anticipated Nonfiction of the First Half of 2021 White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind by Koa Beck The Beautiful Struggle (Adapted for Young Adults) by Ta-Nehisi Coates Let the Lord Sort Them: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty by Maurice Chammah Let Me Tell You What I Mean by Joan Didion Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Costs of America’s Cheap Goods by Amelia Pang Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A Hi