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#21 The Jane Austen Episode
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 Conquered the World by Claire Harman
Jane Austen in Popular Culture
Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen by Deborah Yaffe
All Roads Lead to Austen: A Year-long Journey with Jane by Amy Smith
Fun Austen Titles & Covers
Jane Austen, Game Theorist by Michael Suk-Young Chwe
Why Jane Austen? by Rachel W. Brownstein
Critics Favorites of 2018
New York Times: Top 10 Books of 2018
American Prison by Shane Bauer
Educated by Tara Westover – also one of my favorites!
Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Washington Post: Best Books of 2018
Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantu
On Desperate Ground by Hampton Sides
One Person, No Vote by Carol Anderson
Popsugar’s Best Nonfiction Books 2018
Tonight I’m Someone Else by Chelsea Hodson
You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession by Piper Weiss
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
Would You Rather?: A Memoir of Growing Up and Coming Out by Katie Heaney
Choose Your Own Disaster by Dana Schwartz
Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession by Alice Bolin
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil
Educated by Tara Westover (again!)
Can You Tolerate This? By Ashleigh Young
Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship by Kayleen Schaefer
Our Favorites of 2018
KIM:
All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
Tell Me More by Kelly Corrigan
From the Corner of the Oval by Beck Dorey-Stein
No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol
ALICE:
Impeachment: An American History
My Squirrel Days by Ellie Kemper
The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman
Bombay Anna: The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of the King & I Governess by Susan Morgan
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age by Myra MacPherson
READING NOW
KIM: Left to Our Own Devices: Outsmarting Smart Technology to Reclaim Our Relationships, Health, and Focus by Margaret Morris
ALICE: Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History by Tori Telfer
The Magnolia Story by Chip and Joanna Gaines
CONCLUSION
Book Riot is taking the week off a Christmas, so this will be our last podcast of 2018!
You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA - @itsalicetime and @kimthedork on Twitter, and don’t forget to rate and review us in your podcast app!
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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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 Conquered the World by Claire Harman
Jane Austen in Popular Culture
Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen by Deborah Yaffe
All Roads Lead to Austen: A Year-long Journey with Jane by Amy Smith
Fun Austen Titles & Covers
Jane Austen, Game Theorist by Michael Suk-Young Chwe
Why Jane Austen? by Rachel W. Brownstein
Critics Favorites of 2018
New York Times: Top 10 Books of 2018
American Prison by Shane Bauer
Educated by Tara Westover – also one of my favorites!
Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Washington Post: Best Books of 2018
Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantu
On Desperate Ground by Hampton Sides
One Person, No Vote by Carol Anderson
Popsugar’s Best Nonfiction Books 2018
Tonight I’m Someone Else by Chelsea Hodson
You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession by Piper Weiss
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
Would You Rather?: A Memoir of Growing Up and Coming Out by Katie Heaney
Choose Your Own Disaster by Dana Schwartz
Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession by Alice Bolin
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil
Educated by Tara Westover (again!)
Can You Tolerate This? By Ashleigh Young
Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship by Kayleen Schaefer
Our Favorites of 2018
KIM:
All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
Tell Me More by Kelly Corrigan
From the Corner of the Oval by Beck Dorey-Stein
No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol
ALICE:
Impeachment: An American History
My Squirrel Days by Ellie Kemper
The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman
Bombay Anna: The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of the King & I Governess by Susan Morgan
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age by Myra MacPherson
READING NOW
KIM: Left to Our Own Devices: Outsmarting Smart Technology to Reclaim Our Relationships, Health, and Focus by Margaret Morris
ALICE: Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History by Tori Telfer
The Magnolia Story by Chip and Joanna Gaines
CONCLUSION
Book Riot is taking the week off a Christmas, so this will be our last podcast of 2018!
You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA - @itsalicetime and @kimthedork on Twitter, and don’t forget to rate and review us in your podcast app!
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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