2020 Nonfiction Favorites

This week Alice and Kim talk favorite nonfiction reads of 2020. Subscribe to 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 Storygraph Favorite Nonfiction of 2020 Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit by Eliese Colette Goldbach Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robery Kolker Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close by Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio Shit, Actually by Lindy West We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half-Century of Silence by Becky Cooper Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots by Morgan Jerkins Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century ed. By Alice Wong What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon Nonfiction We Missed in 2020 World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir by Natasha Trethewey The Fixed Stars by Molly Wizenberg Vesper Flights by Helen Macdonald The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power by Deirdre Mask  White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad Reading Now KIM: The Devil’s Harvest: A Ruthless Killer, a Terrorized Community, and the Search for Justice in California’s Central Valley by Jessica Garrison ALICE: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke 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 so people can find us more easily, and subscribe 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