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.
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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
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New Books By the End of the Year
This week Alice and Kim talk about new nonfiction out in November and December, including memoirs, cold cases, orchid obsession, and more.
Gift Tailored Book Recommendations this holiday season!
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Nonfiction in the News
New York Times: Best Books of the Year
Washington Post: Best Books of the Year
Reader’s Digest: The National Book Foundation Announces 2022 National Book Award Winners
New Nonfiction
Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family by Rabia Chaudry
Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World by Ben Mattlin
The Forever Witness: How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder by Edward Humes
Queen of Snails: A Graphic Memoir by Maureen Burdock
A Coastline is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents by Mary-Alice Daniel
The Mexican Witch Lifestyle: Brujeria Spells, Tarot, and Crystal Magic by Valeria Ruelas
As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age by Matthew Cobb
Twenty Dollars and Change: Harriet Tubman and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice and Democracy by Clarence Lusane
Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon by Kate Andersen Brower
Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening by Douglas Brinkley
Orchid Muse: A History of Obsession in Fifteen Flowers by Erica Hannickel
The Quentin Blake Book by Jenny Uglow
Reading Now
Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life by Alice Wong
The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science by Sam Kean
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Nonfiction Holiday Gift Guide
This week Alice and Kim make holiday gift guide recommendations.
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Books by Indigenous Authors
This week Alice and Kim talk about books by Indigenous authors to recognize Native American Heritage Month. They also speculate about Prince Harry’s memoir and share exciting new nonfiction picks.
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NONFICTION IN THE NEWS
Prince Harry’s Memoir Is Due in January. How Explosive Will It Be? [New York Times]
How Julie Powell and her ‘Julie/Julia’ blog changed food writing [Washington Post]
Keanu Reeves Exits Hulu’s ‘The Devil In The White City’ Limited Series [Deadline]
NEW NONFICTION
White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better by Regina Jackson and Saira Rao
Cheap Land Colorado: Off-Gridders at America’s Edge by Ted Conover
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family by Kerri K. Greenidge
Among Tigers: Fighting to Bring Back Asia’s Big Cats by K. Ullas Karanth
NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH
Heart Berries: A Memoir by Teresa Marie Mailhot
This Place: 150 Years Retold
Dog Flowers: A Memoir, An Archive by Danielle Geller
Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes
READING NOW
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey by Jonathan Meiburg
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New Fall Nonfiction
This week Alice and Kim talk new fall nonfiction.
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Book Riot’s Reading the Stars Giveaway
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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
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