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.

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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, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis

READING NOW

Awakening Your Ikigai by Ken Mogi

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan

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