This week Alice and Kim talk YA memoirs for your reading ease.

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Nonfiction in the News

The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones 

Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay Writing a Personal Essay-Themed Book: ‘Ya’ll Know I Won’t Hold Back’ [People]

New Nonfiction 

You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience edited by Tarana Burke, Brené Brown

Why Peacocks? An Unlikely Search for Meaning in the World’s Most Magnificent Bird by Sean Flynn

African Europeans: An Untold History by Olivette Otele

Turning Pointe: How a New Generation of Dancers Is Saving Ballet from Itself by Chloe Angyal

Quick Mentions

Yay for YA Memoirs!

All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto by George M. Johnson

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

Girl Code: Gaming, Going Viral, and Getting It Done by Andrea Gonzales and Sophie Houser

Obsessed: A Memoir of My Life with OCD by Allison Britz

Reading Now

KIM: A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears) by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling

ALICE: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

CONCLUSION

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