All the Books!

Favorite Nonfiction of 2016


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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Ghostland, The Gene, Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, and more of their favorite nonfiction books of 2016.

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Books discussed on the show:

Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey

The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee

You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson

The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks by Terry Tempest Williams

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin

On Living by Kerry Egan

Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson

Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World by Baz Dreisinger

Everything is Teeth by Evie Wyld and Joe Sumner

Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man’s Education by Mychal Denzel Smith


What we’re reading:

Over the Plain Houses by Julia Franks

Walden by Henry David Thoreau

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