E50: 50 Books for 50 Episodes

This week Alice and Kim highlight 50 awesome nonfiction books to celebrate their 50th episode! This episode is sponsored by Get Booked from Book Riot, Me and White Supremacy from Sourcebooks, and Book Riot Insiders. 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. Books Mentioned Bad Blood by John Carreyrou Building a Life Worth Living by Marsha M. Linehan The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown Unfollow by Megan Roper Phelps The Art of Choosing  by Sheena Iyengar A Woman’s Crusade by Mary Walton The Great Beanie Baby Bubble by Zac Bissonnette  Meaty by Samantha Irby The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum Moonbound by Jonathan Fetter-Vorm Without You There Is No Us by Suki Kim Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit Stiff by Mary Roach Spare Parts by Joshua Davis Word Freak by Stefan Fatsis  King Mob by Christopher Hibbert When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean Educated by Tara Westover My Squirrel Days by Ellie Kemper Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell Portage by Sue Leaf  White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo My Own Devices by Dessa  All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung The Distraction Addiction by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang Crash Override by Zoe Quinn How Star Wars Conquered the Universe by Chris Taylor The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish The Power of Meaning by Emily Esfahani Smith Never Caught by Erica Armstrong Dunbar The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee  They Can’t Kill Us All by Wesley Lowery From the Corner of the Oval by Beck Dorey-Stein American Heiress by Jeffrey Toobin Good Talk by Mira Jacob Political Tribes by Amy Chua The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison Amateur by Thomas Page McBee Knocking on Heaven’s Door by Katy Butler We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Leaving Orbit by Margaret Lazarus Dean The Ridiculous Race by Steve Hely and Vali Chandrasekaran Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara This Life is In Your Hands by Melissa Coleman The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert Reset by Ellen Pao

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