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This week Alice and Kim wrap up 125 episodes of the For Real podcast by discussing their favorite reads of 2022 and reflecting on their favorite podcast episodes. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kendra Winchester. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. KIM’S FAVORITES OF 2022 How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell World of Wonders by Aimee Nezhukumatathil How to Be Perfect by Michael Schur Ancestor Trouble by Maud Newton Invisible Child by Andrea Elliot The World As It Is by Ben Rhodes In the Shadow of the Mountain by Sylvia Vasquez-Lavado Dog Flowers by Danielle Geller ALICE’S FAVORITES OF 2022 A Most Remarkable Creature by Jonathan Meiburg Ghosts in the Schoolyard by Eve L. Ewing The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantú Looking for the Good War by Elizabeth D. Samet The Lost City of Z by David Grann Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? By Roz Chast Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin Trans Mission by Alex Bertie FAVORITE PODCAST EPISODES Episode 13: Suffragists, Suffragettes, and Winning the Vote Episode 23: The Arctic and the Tropics Episode 34: Ahoy, We Sail the Sea of Books Episode 50: 50 Books for 50 Episodes Episode 53: Snake Math! Episode 67: After the Final Rose Episode 70: YA Nonfiction, aka Nonfiction for Exhausted Adults Episode 91: Library Treasure Hunt Episode 92: The One With Mary Roach Episode 96: Fell in a Hole (AKA True Stories Underground) Episode 100: Episode 100!!!! Episode 123: Nonfiction Holiday Gift Guide Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Alice and Kim make holiday gift guide recommendations. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kendra Winchester and Kim Ukura. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website https://bookriot.com/listen/nonfiction-holiday-gift-guide/. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Alice and Kim talk new fall nonfiction. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kendra Winchester and Kim Ukura. Book Riot’s Reading the Stars Giveaway This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Fall Books Review, Part I The Stolen Year: How COVID Changed Children’s Lives, and Where We Go Now by Anya Kamenetz Inventing Latinos : A New Story of American Racism by Laura E. Gómez Stay True: A Memoir by Hua Hsu The Surprising Lives of Bark Beetles: Mighty Foresters of the Insect World by Jiri Hulcr, Marc Abrahams Gospel of Wellness: Gyms, Gurus, Goop, and the False Promise of Self-Care by Rina Raphael Wolf Hustle: A Black Woman on Wall Street by Cin Fabré Fall Books Review, Part II Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis by Annie Proulx Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family by Erika Hayasaki The United States of Cryptids: A Tour of American Myths and Monsters by J.W. Ocker Home Bound: An Uprooted Daughter’s Reflections on Belonging by Vanessa Bee American Sirens: The Incredible Story of the Black Men Who Became America’s First Paramedics by Kevin Hazzard Reading Now KIM: Girls Burn Brighter by Shobha Rao ALICE: The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont by Shawn Levy CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts and Spotify so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Alice and Kim talk about nonfiction reads for Hispanic Heritage Month. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kendra Winchester and Kim Ukura. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News Jung Hae Chae Wins the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize [Graywolf Press] 2022 National Book Awards Longlist for Nonfiction [National Book Foundation] Writer Samantha Irby calls her latest book ‘a devolution!’ [Entertainment Weekly] NEW NONFICTION Listen, World!: How the Intrepid Elsie Robinson Became America’s Most-Read Woman by Julia Scheeres and Allison Gilbert Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton Runaway: Notes on the Myths that Made Me by Erin Keane Brown and Gay in LA: The Lives of Immigrant Sons by Anthony Christian Ocampo WEEKLY THEME: HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH In the Shadow of the Mountain: A Memoir of Courage by Silvia Vasquez-Lavado The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantu Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernández In the Country We Love: My Family Divided by Diane Guerrero READING NOW KIM: The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee ALICE: The Office BFFs by Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Our amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts and Spotify so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Alice and Kim talk middle grade nonfiction reads. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kendra Winchester and Kim Ukura. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. NONFICTION IN THE NEWS Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese are Creating a Devil in the White City Series for Hulu [Town and Country] NEW NONFICTION The Mamas: What I Learned About Kids, Class, and Race from Moms Not Like Me by Helena Andrews-Dyer Raising Lazarus: Hope, Justice, and the Future of America’s Overdose Crisis by Beth Macy Democracy’s Data: The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them by Dan Bouk Eating While Black: Food Shaming and Race in America by Psyche A. Williams-Forson (Univ of NC Press) Quick Mentions Walking in My Joy: In These Streets by Jenifer Lewis WEEKLY THEME: MIDDLE GRADE NONFICTION Yummy: A History of Desserts by Victoria Grace Elliot Free Lunch by Rex Ogle (AOC) The Eagle Huntress: The True Story of the Girl Who Soared Beyond Expectations by Aisholpan Nurgaiv with Liz Welch All Thirteen: The Incredible Cave Rescue of the Thai Boys’ Soccer Team by Christina Soontornvat Reading Now KIM: My Imaginary Mary by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows ALICE: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts and Spotify so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While Kim and Alice take a short summer break, enjoy this episode from the archive about reading for self care! Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News National Book Critics Circle Award Winners Announced [Book Riot] Best-Selling Author Brené Brown Promotes Meaningful Change in Trailer for HBO Max’s ‘Atlas of the Heart’ [The Wrap] New Nonfiction Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us by Colleen Kinder Dress Code: Unlocking Fashion from the New Look to Millennial Pink by Veronique Hyland You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation by Julissa Arce Hell’s Half-Acre: The Untold Story of the Benders, America’s First Serial Killer Family by Susan Jonusas All the White Friends I Couldn’t Keep: Hope – and Hard Pills to Swallow – About Fighting for Black Lives by Andre Henry Burning My Roti: Breaking Barriers as a Queer Indian Woman by Sharan Dhaliwal Reads for Self Care World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil Calypso by David Sedaris The Lazy Genius Way: Embrace What Matters, Ditch What Doesn’t, and Get Stuff Done by Kendra Adachi Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin Reading Now The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Alice and Kim talk about upcoming nonfiction for 2022. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kendra Winchester and Kim Ukura. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News Former Chronicle reporter signs deal with Jamie Lee Curtis on Paradise Fire movie [Datebook] New Nonfiction, Part 2 The Tomorrow Game: Rival Teenagers, Their Race for a Gun, and a Community United to Save Them by Sudhir Venkatesh ( The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land by Sally Denton Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings by Chrysta Bilton Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe Return to Uluru: The Hidden History of a Murder in Outback Australia by Mark McKenna Asian American Histories of the United States by Catherine Ceniza Choy The Fishermen and the Dragon: Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast by Kirk Wallace Johnson We Are Still Here: Afghan Women on Courage, Freedom, and the Fight to Be Heard by Nahid Shahalimi Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew by Michael W. Twitty All the Women in My Brain by Betty Gilpin Bad Vibes Only: (and Other Things I Bring to the Table) by Nora McInerny Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees by Jared Farmer American Caliph: The True Story of a Muslim Mystic, a Hollywood Epic, and the 1977 Siege of Washington, DC by Shahan Mufti Egypt’s Golden Couple: When Akhenaten and Nefertiti Were Gods on Earth by John and Colleen Darnell The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee Reading Now KIM: The Monster’s Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World by David K. Randall ALICE: The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. by Peniel E. Joseph CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts and Spotify so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Alice and Kim talk about nonfiction for Pride Month. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Follow Up KIM: Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott Nonfiction in the News Three Women: Lisa Taddeo Shares a Vivid First Look at Her Adaptation [Vanity Fair] New Nonfiction Battling the Big Lie: How Fox, Facebook, and the MAGA Media Are Destroying America by Dan Pfeiffer The Monster’s Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World by David K. Randall The Wine-Dark Sea Within : A Turbulent History of Blood by Dr. Dhun Sethna The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I by Lindsey Fitzharris 1368: China and the Making of the Modern World by Ali Humayun Akhtar Weekly Theme: Queer Books Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby Queer, There, and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World by Sarah Prager (Author), Zoe More O’Ferrall (Illustrator) Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls by T Kira Madden Reading Now KIM: The Puzzler: One Man’s Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life by A.J. Jacobs (Author), Greg Pliska (Contributor) ALICE: Girls Can Kiss Now by Jill Gutowitz CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts and Spotify so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Alice and Kim talk voting reads. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton and Kim Ukura. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News Betty Gilpin Inks Deal with Macmillan’s Flatiron Books for Personal Essay Collection [Deadline] Los Angeles Times Book Prizes Winners Announced [LA Times] Biography – Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane by Paul Auster Autobiographical Prose – Real Estate: A Living Autobiography by Deborah Levy Current Interest – Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could by Adam Schiff History – Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer Science and Technology – The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein New Nonfiction The Power of Dignity: How Transforming Justice Can Heal Our Communities by Judge Victoria Pratt Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernández 37 Questions with Kelly Lytle Hernández Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy by Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel Born to Be Hanged : The Epic Story of the Gentlemen Pirates Who Raided the South Seas, Rescued a Princess, and Stole a Fortune by Keith Thomson Weekly Theme: Voting One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson Drawing the Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Voting in America by Tommy Jenkins (Author), Kati Lacker (Illustrator) Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America by Stacey Abrams Say It Louder!: Black Voters, White Narratives, and Saving Our Democracy by Tiffany Cross Suffrage: Women’s Long Battle for the Vote by Ellen Carol Dubois Reading Now KIM: The Woman All Spies Fear: Code Breaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman and Her Hidden Life by Amy Butler Greenfield ALICE: Lincoln in Private by Ronald C. White CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts and Spotify so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Alice and Kim talk about nonfiction adapted for young readers. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. Follow Up The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont The Lazy Genius Way by Kendra Adachi New Nonfiction Sisters of Mokama: The Pioneering Women Who Brought Hope and Healing to India by Jyoti Thottam Slaves for Peanuts : A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Crop That Changed History by Jori Lewis Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs by Juli Berwald Murder on the Mountain : Crime, Passion, and Punishment in Gilded Age New Jersey by Peter J. Wosh, Patricia L. Schall The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire by Tom Sancton How to Sell a Poison : The Rise, Fall, and Toxic Return of DDT by Elena Conis Khabaar: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory, and Family by Madhushree Gosh Weekly Theme: YA Adaptations of Adult Nonfiction Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverted Kids by Susan Cain Hidden Figures Young Readers’ by Margot Lee Shetterly Just Mercy: A True Story of the Fight for Justice by Bryan Stevenson Notes from a Young Black Chef: A Memoir by Kwame Onwuachi with Joshua David Stein Reading Now KIM: Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation by Maud Newton ALICE: House of Abraham by Stephen Berry CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts and Spotify so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Alice and Kim talk about trans women authors. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction in the News Netflix Orders White House Mystery Drama ‘The Residence’ From Shondaland, ‘For the People’ Creator [Variety] New Nonfiction Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation by Erika Krouse Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times by Azar Nafisi I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times by Mónica Guzmán Lady Icarus: Balloonmania and the Brief, Bold Life of Sophie Blanchard by Deborah Haynes Weekly Theme: Books by Trans Women Fairest by Meredith Talusan How to Fail as a Pop Star: A Play by Vivek Shraya To My Trans Sisters by Charlie Craggs Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality by Sarah McBride Reading Now KIM: From Hollywood with Love: The Rise and Fall (and Rise Again) of the Romantic Comedy by Scott Meslow ALICE: The Lincoln Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill America’s 16th President—and Why It Failed by Brad Meltzer and Josh Mensch CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts and Spotify so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Alice and Kim talk nonfiction about the first ladies. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Follow Up And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts Nonfiction in the News The Inside Story of the Banning of “Maus.” It’s Dumber Than You Think. [Mother Jones] How to Fight Books Bans and Challenges [Book Riot] How to Use FOIA [Book Riot] Claire Foy To Star in ‘An Ugly Truth’ Adaptation [Kirkus Reviews] New Nonfiction Black American Refugee: Escaping the Narcissism of the American Dream by Tiffanie Drayton Woodsqueer: Crafting a Sustainable Rural Life by Gretchen Legler The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System by Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American by Laura Gao Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder by Rachel Rear Weekly Theme: First Ladies First Women: The Grace and Power of America’s Modern First Ladies by Kate Andersen Brower Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady by Susan Quinn Meaning of Michelle: 16 Writers on the Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own by Veronica Chambers The Adams Women: Abigail and Louisa Adams, Their Sisters and Daughters by Paul C. Nagel Reading Now KIM: No Cure for Being Human: (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) by Kate Bowler ALICE: Letters to a Young Poet by Rilke CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts and Spotify so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Alice and Kim talk about nonfiction highlights for 2022. Follow For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton and Kim Ukura. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nonfiction We’re Looking Forward To, Part I Let’s Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World by Danielle Friedman Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir by Bob Odenkirk Manifesto: On Never Giving Up by Bernardine Evaristo The Urge: Our History of Addiction by Carl Erik Fisher South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze by Laura Shin There Are No Accidents: The Deadly Rise of Injury and Disaster—Who Profits and Who Pays the Price by Jessie Singer Nonfiction We’re Looking Forward To, Part II Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation by Maud Newton Murder on the Mountain: Crime, Passion, and Punishment in Gilded Age New Jersey by Peter J. Wosh, Patricia L. Schall Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free by Sarah Weinman Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change by Angela Garbes Reading Now KIM: Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can’t Live Without Them by Adrienne Raphel ALICE: A Visitor’s Guide to Victorian England by Michelle Higgs CONCLUSION You can find us on SOCIAL MEDIA – @itsalicetime and @kimthedork. Amazing Audio Editing for this episode was done by Jen Zink. RATE AND REVIEW on Apple Podcasts or Spotify so people can find us more easily, and follow us there so you can get our new episodes the minute they come out. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices