This week Alice and Kim talk about the National Book Award longlist, cozy books, and the best pig there ever was.

This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Blind Date, These Boys and Their Fathers by Don Waters, and Motherhood So White by Nefertiti Austin.

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FOLLOW UP BOOKS

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey

NONFICTION IN THE NEWS

National Book Award Longlist

New York Times: “It’s a Fact: Mistakes Are Embarrassing the Publishing Industry”

Impeachment: An American History

NEW BOOKS

Make it Scream, Make it Burn by Leslie Jamison

On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics by Donna Brazile, Yolanda Caraway, Leah Daughtry and Minyon Moore

Embrace Your Weird: Face Your Fears and Unleash Creativity by Felicia Day

COZY NONFICTION

The Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood by Sy Montgomery

Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively

The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater: Essays on Crafting by Alanna Okun

My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead

READING NOW

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

Motherhood So White by Nefertiti Austin

CONCLUSION

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