For Real

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