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! 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. 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices