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This week Alice and Kim talk about true stories that have been turned into movies! Plus, new nonfiction about feminism, capitalism, activism, and beavers.

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Nonfiction in the News

LitHub: “Lars Horn has won the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize”

New Nonfiction

More Than a Woman by Caitlin Moran

Having and Being Had by Eula Biss

What Can I Do?: My Path from Climate Despair to Action by Jane Fonda

Family in Six Tones: A Refugee Mother, an American Daughter by Lan Cao and Harlan Margaret Van Cao

Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Man’s Quest to Rewild Britain’s Waterways by Derek Gow

Here She Is: The Complicated Reign of the Beauty Pageant in America by Hilary Levey Friedman

Books Into Movies

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

A Royal Affair: George III and His Scandalous Siblings by Stella Tilyar

Eat, Pray, Love, One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert

The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean

Reading Now

Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy by Margaret Sullivan

Witchfinders: A Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy by Malcolm Gaskill

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This week Alice and Kim talk about upcoming nonfiction for the rest of 2020.

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Follow Up

Winifred Gallager interview

Nonfiction in the News

Fact Checking Is the Core of Nonfiction Writing. Why Do So Many Publishers Refuse to Do It?

Fall Nonfiction Preview — Buzzy Titles

Shit, Actually : The Definitive, 100% Objective Guide to Modern Cinema by Lindy West

Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine

Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh

Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen 

OK Boomer, Let’s Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind by Jill Filipovic

I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are by Rachel Bloom

Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo

Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho

Fall Nonfiction Preview — Under the Radar Titles

The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket by Benjamin Lorr

Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All by Martha S. Jones

Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America by Maria Hinojosa

Dark Archives : A Librarian’s Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin by Megan Rosenbloom

A World Beneath the Sands : The Golden Age of Egyptology by Toby Wilkinson

We Keep the Dead Close A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence by Becky Cooper

Reading Now

KIM: The Smallest Lights in the Universe by Sara Seager

ALICE: Lady in Waiting by Anne Glenconner

CONCLUSION

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This week Alice and Kim talk all about voting, including some of its complications and contested history. Plus, new books on the Great Migration, caste systems, and more!

This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life, Editorial Arts Academy for Freelance Book Editing 101, and Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community.

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Follow Up

The Michelle Obama Podcast

The Greatest Love Story Ever Told: An Oral History by Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman

New Books

Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan Jerkins

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

Finish the Fight! The Brave and Revolutionary Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote by Veronica Chambers

Our Lady of Perpetual Hunger: A Memoir by Lisa Donovan

Books About Voting

How the Post Office Created America by Winifred Gallagher

She Votes: How U.S. Women Won Suffrage, and What Happened Next by Bridget Quinn

One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Democracy by Carol Anderson

The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States by Alexander Keyssar

What You Need to Know About Voting–and Why by Kimberly L. Wehle

Reading Now

Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman

The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

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This week Alice and Kim talk true crime, Tudor history, and anti-racist reads for your shelf.

This episode is sponsored by Read or Dead, Book Riot’s mystery/thriller podcast, The Last Stargazers by Emily Levesque from Sourcebooks , and Flatiron Books, publisher of Being Lolita by Alisson Wood.

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NONFICTION IN THE NEWS

HBO Will Adapt Ta-Nehisi Coates’ ‘Between The World And Me’

NEW BOOKS

Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness by Catherine Cho

Uncrowned Queen: The Fateful Life of Margaret Beaufort by Nicola Tallis

Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession, edited by Sarah Weinman

She was the First! The Trailblazing Life of Shirley Chisholm by Katheryn Russell-Brown, illustrated by Eric Velasquez

Intimations by Zadie Smith

Sex and Lies: True Stories of Women’s Intimate Lives in the Arab World by Leila Slimani 

ANTI-RACIST HISTORY

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

A Black Women’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross

1919 by Eve L. Ewing

READING NOW

ALICE: Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala

KIM: The Heir Affair by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan

The Rise of Kyoshi by F.C. Yee

CONCLUSION

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This week Alice and Kim talk about the Summer Olympics, including some of their favorite moments, the history of the games, and memoirs by Olympic athletes.

This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life, Chasing the Light from HMH, and Book Riot Insiders, the digital hangout spot for the Book Riot community.

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Nonfiction In the News

Hollywood Reporter: “Phoebe Robinson to Launch New Book Imprint With Plume Publisher”

New Books

Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe by Mario Alejandro Ariza

The Golden Thread: The Cold War and the Mysterious Death of Dag Hammarskjöldl by Ravi Somaiya

The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch by Miles Harvey

Miracle Country: A Memoir by Kendra Atleework

Trixie and Katya’s Guide to Modern Womanhood by Trixie Mattel and Katya

Summer Olympics Reads

The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown

The Games: A Global History of the Olympics by David Goldblatt

Forward: A Memoir by Abby Wambach 

Olympic Pride, American Prejudice: The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Blair Underwood, Deborah Riley Draper, and Travis Thrasher

Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, A Life in Balance by Simone Biles (with Michelle Burford)

Simone Biles and the handstand challenge

Reading Now

The House on the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab

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This week Alice and Kim talk travel books, Alaskan politics, and what the word multifarious means.

This episode is sponsored by Becoming Duchess Goldblatt: A Memoir by Anonymous, published by HMH Books, Page Chaser, and Book Riot’s TBR.

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New Books

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the 21st Century, ed. by Alice Wong
SEE ALSO: A Disability History of the United States By Kim E. Nielsen

A Most Beautiful Thing: The True Story of America’s First All-Black High School Rowing Team by Arshay Cooper

The Multifarious Mr Banks: From Botany Bay to Kew, The Natural Historian Who Shaped the World by Toby Musgrave

Of Bears and Ballots: An Alaskan Adventure in Small-Town Politics by Heather Lende

Travel Nonfiction

From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home by Tembi Locke

Unfamiliar Fishes by Sarah Vowell

Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story by Amanda Vaill

A Stranger in the Village: Two Centuries of African-American Travel Writing by Farah J. Griffin (Editor), Cheryl J. Fish (Editor)

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

Reading Now

KIM: Eliza Hamilton: The Extraordinary Life and Times of the Wife of Alexander Hamilton by Tilar J. Mazzeo

ALICE: Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas

CONCLUSION

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This week Alice and Kim talk about podcast-ish audiobooks you can listen to even when you don’t have a commute, plus new books about voting, strippers, and murder on the high seas.

This episode is sponsored by Hey YA, Book Riot’s own podcast about all things young adult lit, Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz, now available in paperback from Algonquin Books, and Harper Perennial and Twisted by Emma Dabiri.

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Nonfiction in the News

Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosch

Sacramento Bee: “HBO releases trailer for documentary series on writer’s hunt for Golden State Killer”

Shelf Awareness: “Publishers and Binc Team Up to Support Indies”

New Books

Thank You for Voting by Erin Geiger Smith

Neon Girls by Jenny Worley

Not a Gentleman’s Work by Gerard Koeppel

See No Stranger by Valarie Kaur

AUdiobooks That are Like Podcasts

We’re Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union

Southern Lady Code by Helen Ellis

Stiff by Mary Roach

Self-Inflicted Wounds by Aisha Tyler

Reading Now

Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker

The Woman’s Hour by Elaine Weiss

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This week Alice and Kim talk Pride reads, new release nonfiction, and more.

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Nonfiction in the News

Entertainment Weekly: “Warner Bros. makes Just Mercy available for free as education on ‘systemic racism’”

Book Riot: “Listen to Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi on Spotify

New Books

Youth to Power: Your Voice and How to Use It by Jamie Margolin

How We Show Up by Mia Birdsong

Girls Garage: How to Use Any Tool, Tackle Any Project, and Build the World You Want to See by Emily Pilloton.

The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir by Wayétu Moore

Pride Month

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, Edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones

The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America by Eric Cervini

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele

Reading Now

KIM: Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets by Feminista Jones

The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom

ALICE: Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom

CONCLUSION

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This week Alice and Kim talk about beauty pageants, Girl Scouts, '90s nostalgia through essays, and books for Mental Health Month.

This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot's subscription service offering Tailored Book Recommendations for readers of all stripes, Write the World, publishers on Writers of Earth, and Libro FM.

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New Books

Troop 6000 by Nikita Stewart

Miss World 1970 by Jennifer Hosten

In Praise of Walking by Shane O’Mara

Weird But Normal by Mia Mercado

How to Read Nonfiction Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster

Mental Health Month

Happier at Home by Gretchen Rubin

Burnout by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski

Brave, Not Perfect by Reshma Saujani

The Power of Meaning by Emily Esfahani Smith

Reading Now

We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry

Save Me the Plums by Ruth Reichl

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

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This week Alice and Kim talk about sister suffragettes, Scandinavian mysteries, and pirates.

This episode is sponsored by A Quick & Easy Guide to They Them Pronouns from Oni Press, In Good Hands by Stephanie MacKendrick from KCP Loft, and Lit Stitch: 25 Cross-Stitch Patterns for Book Lovers, made by Book Riot and Abrams.

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Nonfiction News

Becoming is a Netflix documentary! [VIDEO]

Pulitzer Prize winners

History
Winner: “Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America,” by W. Caleb McDaniel
Biography
Winner: “Sontag: Her Life and Work,” by Benjamin Moser
General Nonfiction
Winner: “The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America,” by Greg Grandin
Winner: “The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care,” by Anne Boyer

USA Today: “New book to tell Harry and Meghan’s ‘real’ story (and defend them from critics)”

New Books

Scandinavian Noir: In Pursuit of a Mystery by Wendy Lesser

Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History’s First Global Manhunt by Steven Johnson

Biography of Resistance: The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens by Muhammad H. Zaman

Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World by Vivek H Murthy M.D.

Votes for Women!

Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote by Susan Ware

Votes for Women!: American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot by Winifred Conkling

African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920 by Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine F. Weiss

Bonus reads:
Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim Crow South by Adele Logan Alexander
The Myth of Seneca Falls by Lisa Tetrault
Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women’s Movement, 1870-1967 by Joan Marie Johnson

Reading Now

KIM: Open Book by Jessica Simpson (audiobook)
ALICE: Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy by John Julius Norwich

CONCLUSION

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