E47: 2019 Nonfiction Favorites

For Real

English - December 24, 2019 12:00 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 136 ratings
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Previous Episode: 46: Best Nonfiction of the Decade

Next Episode: E48: Exciting Nonfiction Coming in 2020

This week Alice and Kim talk favorite nonfiction reads of 2019, including the women of Disney, a very lonely whale, and how to stop stress in its tracks.

This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s Read Harder Journal and Libro.fm.

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NONFICTION NEWS

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2019 FAVORITES

Notes from a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi, Joshua David Stein

Parkland by Dave Cullen

Good Talk by Mira Jacob

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski

The Queens of Animation by Nathalia Holt

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb

Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church by Megan Phelps-Roper

Make it Scream, Make it Burn by Leslie Jamison

Agrippina: The Most Extraordinary Woman of the Roman World by Emma Southon

No Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise Snyder

2019 MISSES

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep

Grace Will Lead Us Home: The Charleston Church Massacre and the Hard, Inspiring Journey to Forgiveness by Jennifer Berry Hawes

The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness by Susannah Cahalan

Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom

READING NOW

KIM: The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir

ALICE: Know My Name by Chanel Miller!

Citizen by Claudia Rankine

CONCLUSION

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