For Real

This week, Kim and Alice chat about the British royals they love (and love to hate), graphic memoirs (comics, not dirty stuff), and new books on Christianity, historical hospitals and Los Angeles.

Follow Up

Bachelor Nation by Amy Kaufman

New Books

The Darkening Age by Catherine Nixey (April 17 from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Damnation Island by Stacy Horn (May 15 from Algonquin)

The Mirage Factory by Gary Krist (May 15 from Crown)

Not that Bad, edited by Roxane Gay (May 1 from Harper)

British Royals Past and Present

Elizabeth the Queen by Sally Bedell Smith

Victoria: The Queen by Julia Baird

Elizabeth and Leicester by Sarah Gristwood

Princes at War by Deborah Cadbury

Game of Crowns by Christopher Andersen

Mary, Queen of Scots: A Study in Failure by Jenny Wormald

Penguin Monarchs series

Graphic Memoirs

Marbles by Ellen Forney

Displacement: A Travelogue by Lucy Knisley

A Bintel Brief by Liana Finck

Rolling Blackouts by Sarah Glidden

Tomboy by Liz Prince

Mentioned briefly and recommended -- Maus by Art Spiegelman and Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

What We're Reading Now

I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong (and his article on gender balance in reporting)

Dear Madam President by Jennifer Palmeri (and her interview on NPR's It's Been a Minute podcast)

The Escape of Charles II: After the Battle of Worcester by Richard Ollard

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Kim is joined by guest co-host Jeff O'Neal to talk about two of the biggest nonfiction-related news stories of the year, along with books for Mother's Day and Jeff's Busman's MBA.

This episode is sponsored by The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind by Barbara K. Lipska.

Follow Up and Nonfiction News

A Higher Loyalty sells 600,000 copies in the first week! 

The Golden State Killer has been caught! 

New Books

The Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil (April 24 from Crown)

Minority Leader by Stacey Abrams (April 24 from Henry Holt)

Beneath a Ruthless Sun by Gilbert King (April 24 from Riverhead)

The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson (April 24 from Viking)

Weekly Theme: Mother's Day

Tell Me More by Kelly Corrigan

Blood, Bones and Butter by Gabrielle Hamilton

Stuck in the Middle With You by Jennifer Finney Boylan

Hammer Head by Nina MacLaughlin

The Busman's MBA

Back to Work podcast by Dan Benjamin and Merlin Mann

Getting Things Done by David Allen

Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher and William L. Ury

Radical Candor by Kim Scott

Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

The Distraction Addiction by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

Bored and Brilliant by Manoush Zomorodi

Reading Now

Odd Girl Out by Laura James

The Power of Different by Gail Saltz

Neurotribes by Steve Silberman

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Please enjoy this bonus excerpt, courtesy of the Recommended podcast, featuring Jesmyn Ward recommending Edward E. Baptist's The Half Has Never Been Told.

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This week, Kim and Alice chat about the Victorian computer, an obsessive tennis coach, and how long we should hold onto those Beanie Babies.

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This week, Alice and Kim talking about Jane Austen superfans, snuffbox mussels and the rare "dragon fish," and books to give some context to the school shooting in Parkland, Florida and subsequent student activism.

This episode is sponsored by:

She Caused a Riot by Hannah Jewell

Everything Is Horrible and Wonderful by Stephanie Wittels Wachs

New Releases

Camp Austen by Ted Scheinman (March 6 from FSG Originals)

The Woman's Hour by Elaine Weiss (March 6 from Viking)

Visionary Women by Andrea Barnet (March 13 from Ecco)

The Last Wild Men of Borneo by Carl Hoffman (March 6 from William Morrow)

Disappointment River by Brian Castner (March 13 from Doubleday)

There Are No Dead Here by Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno (February 27 from Nation Books)

Theme of the Week: Spring Has Sprung

Wild and Rare by Adam Regn Arvidson

The Meadowlands by Robert Sullivan

The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver

Current Events Reads: Guns and Student Activism

Columbine by Dave Cullen

Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge

Witness the Revolution by Clara Bingham

What We're Reading

Political Tribes by Amy Chua

Grant by Ron Chernow

The Dragon Behind the Glass by Emily Voigt

The Extra Stuff

Books mentioned in passing:

The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs

Coming to My Senses by Alice Waters

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

Animals you might be curious about:

Snuffbox mussels

Asian arowana aka “dragon fish"

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This week, Alice and Kim discuss Idaho extremists, the women who made the internet, and how closely you should identify with Lord Byron (among other things).

We're sponsored this week by:

She Caused a Riot: 100 Unknown Women Who Built Cities, Sparked Revolutions, and Massively Crushed It by Mackenzi Lee

Everything Is Horrible and Wonderful by Stephanie Wittels Wachs

NEW RELEASES

Educated by Tara Westover (February 20th, 2018)

Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Claire L. Evans (March 6, 2018)

Fisherman's Blues by Anna Badkhen (March 13, 2018)

The Wonder Down Under: The Insider's Guide to the Anatomy, Biology, and Reality of the Vagina by Ellen Støkken Dahl and Nina Brochmann (March 6, 2018)

THEME OF THE WEEK: International Women's Day

In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park

I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War by Leymah Gbowee

A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa by Alexis Okeowo

FICTION/NONFICTION

White Houses by Amy Bloom

Eleanor and Hick by Susan Quinn

Black Panther by Ta-Nehisi Coates and World of Wakanda by Roxane Gay

Who Is the Black Panther by Jesse Holland

Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom

Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture by Ytasha L. Womack

WHAT WE'RE READING

I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara

Double Bind: Women on Ambition by Robin Romm

THE EXTRA STUFF

Books mentioned in passing:

The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Rise of the Rocket Girls by Nathalia Holt

The Radium Girls by Kate

Virgin: The Untouched History by Hanne Blank

Without You, There Is No Us by Suki Kim

Other Media:

The Dork Forest podcast (Michelle McNamara episodes)

100 Must-Read Titles About Women's History

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Kim Ukura and Alice Burton introduce For Real and talk favorite types of nonfiction and what they're reading now.

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