Show notes:

We love a good nonfiction book around here - memoir, self-help, history, you name it, we’ve read it. Today, we’re sharing 10 nonfiction recs with you, with some bonus recs from our podcast patrons. There is absolutely a nonfiction book out there for everyone. Happy listening!

 

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Something Bookish:

[3:36] M: 1) Writer’s Coaching 2) Our RTL pen

[5:09] S: Love Buzz by Neely Tubati Alexander - out May 2

 

Our Nonfiction Recs:

[11:55] S: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account Of The Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

[13:26] M: Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs

[15:17] S: The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country by Helen Russell

[16:39] M: Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

[18:20] S: The Beauty in Breaking by Michele Harper

[19:45] M: A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard

[21:05] S: You are a Badass at Making Money by Jen Sincero

[22:33] M: The Accidental Creative by Todd Henry

[23:32] S: Inside the NBA Bubble by Jared Dudley

[25:44] M: The Missing Teacher by Lani Cox

 

[27:23] Nonfiction Recs from Our Patrons:

• A Knock at Midnight by Brittany K Barnett

• Paris: The Memoir by Paris Hilton

• Stiff by Mary Roach

• How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith

• The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

• Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

• Know My Name by Chanel Miller

• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

• To Shake the Sleeping Self by Jedidiah Jenkins

• I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

• The Art of Dying Well by Katy Butler

• “You Just Need to Lose Weight” and 19 Other Myths About Fat People by Aubrey Gordon

• Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language by Amanda Montell

• Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and other Typographical Marks by Keith Houston

 

Also Mentioned:

Gallup poll on American reading habits

Episode 13: Our Nonfiction Must Haves

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