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After the Final Rose Sep 29, 2020

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This week, Kim and Alice dive into books by and about folks in The Bachelor universe. Plus, thoughts on Obama’s upcoming memoir and all sorts of new books!

This episode is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life. and The Mason House, available now from Lanternfish Press, and Henry Holt and Company.

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Nonfiction in the News

New York Times: “Obama’s Memoir A Promised Land Coming in November”

New Books

The Writer’s Library: The Authors You Love on the Books That Changed Their Lives by Nancy Pearl and Jeff Schwager

Clutter: An Untidy History by Jennifer Howard

Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen Land by Toni Jensen

Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes by Elizabeth Lesser

A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom by Brittany K. Barnett

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

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

Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh

Bachelor and Bachelorette Books

It’s Not Okay: Turning Heartbreak into Happily Never After by Andi Dorfman

I Didn’t Come Here to Make Friends: Confessions of a Reality Show Villain by Courtney Robertson

Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America’s Favorite Guilty Pleasure by Amy Kaufman

Happily Ever After: The Life-Changing Power of a Grateful Heart by Trista Sutter

The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl by Issa Rae

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling

Reading Now

Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman’s Search for Justice in Indian Country by Sierra Crane Murdoch

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

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Books You Can Watch Sep 15, 2020

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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.

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

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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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Fall Nonfiction Preview Sep 01, 2020

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

This episode is sponsored by Libro.fm, Book Riot Insiders, and TBR, Book Riot’s subscription service offering reading recommendations personalized to your reading life..

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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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Vote (Seriously, Do it!) Aug 18, 2020

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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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Anti-Racist History Aug 04, 2020

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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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When You Miss the Summer Olympics Jul 21, 2020

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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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Travel Narratives Jul 07, 2020

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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

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Audiobooks Like Podcasts Jun 23, 2020

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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