E24: #24 Black History Month and True Story Podcasts

This week Alice and Kim talk about books to read for Black History Month and some nonfiction adjacent podcasts they love (plus more books). This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s TBR and Flatiron Books, and I Am Yours: A Shared Memoir by Reema Zaman, from Amberjack Publishing.. Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Stitcher. For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Kim Ukura. FOLLOW UP American Fire by Monica Hesse An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie Ice Diaries: An Antarctic Memoir by Jean McNeil A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland by William E. Glassley NEW BOOKS No Beast So Fierce by Dane Huckelbridge Dreyer’s English by Benjamin Dreyer The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang BuzzFeed: I’ve Been Committed To A Psych Ward Three Times — And It Never Helped Underground by Will Hunt WEEKLY THEME: BLACK HISTORY MONTH The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers, edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Grace of Silence by Michele Norris Negroland by Margo Jefferson To Keep the Waters Troubled by Linda O. McMurry NONFICTION + PODCASTS Podcast: Broken Harts Mel Magazine: The Sad, Strange Life and Death of Devonte Hart Podcast: In the Dark Podcast: Here to Make Friends A Girl’s Guide to Joining the Resistance by Emma Gray I Didn’t Come Here to Make Friends by Courtney Robertson Bachelor Nation by Amy Kaufman Podcast: Terrible, Thanks for Asking It’s Ok to Laugh: (Crying is Cool Too) by Nora McInerny Purmort READING NOW Victoria: The Queen by Julia Baird American Prison by Shane Bauer The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton (not nonfiction!)