This week Alice and Kim highlight 50 awesome nonfiction books to celebrate their 50th episode!

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Books Mentioned

Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

Building a Life Worth Living by Marsha M. Linehan

The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

Unfollow by Megan Roper Phelps

The Art of Choosing  by Sheena Iyengar

A Woman’s Crusade by Mary Walton

The Great Beanie Baby Bubble by Zac Bissonnette 

Meaty by Samantha Irby

The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum

Moonbound by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm

Without You There Is No Us by Suki Kim

Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

Stiff by Mary Roach

Spare Parts by Joshua Davis

Word Freak by Stefan Fatsis 

King Mob by Christopher Hibbert

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean

Educated by Tara Westover

My Squirrel Days by Ellie Kemper

Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell

Portage by Sue Leaf 

White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

My Own Devices by Dessa 

All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung

The Distraction Addiction by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

Crash Override by Zoe Quinn

How Star Wars Conquered the Universe by Chris Taylor

The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish

The Power of Meaning by Emily Esfahani Smith

Never Caught by Erica Armstrong Dunbar

The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee 

They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery

From the Corner of the Oval by Beck Dorey-Stein

American Heiress by Jeffrey Toobin

Good Talk by Mira Jacob

Political Tribes by Amy Chua

The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison

Amateur by Thomas Page McBee

Knocking on Heaven’s Door by Katy Butler

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Leaving Orbit by Margaret Lazarus Dean

The Ridiculous Race by Steve Hely and Vali Chandrasekaran

Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink

Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick

Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara

This Life is In Your Hands by Melissa Coleman

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

Reset by Ellen Pao

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