Chicagoan and aspiring cryptozoologist Alice Burton has a B.A. in Comparative Literature and is an Archives Assistant with the Frances Willard Historical Society. When not booking or historying, she is singing soprano wherever people will have her. She will watch any documentary on Neanderthals or giant extinct animals, and has a Stockholm Syndrome-like love for Chicago and its winters. Blog: Reading Rambo Twitter: @itsalicetime
Missed out on some reads due to :waves hands at everything: last year? Catch up on some of the best 2020 nonfiction books on the shelves.
The list of Pulitzer Prize-winning books is dominated by white men, so we're highlighting winning nonfiction by women and people of color.
That Academy Award-winning movie you loved might have been adapted from a book. Check out these books behind Oscar-winning films.
This week Alice and Kim talk YA memoirs for your reading ease.
Fall down the rabbit holes of some quirky and informative microhistories, including Cubed: The Secret History of the Workplace by Nikil Saval.
We're looking at books about weird jobs or people breaking through and getting to do a job that hadn't been available to them.
Looking for more ways to incorporate and practice self care? Find a selection of informative nonfiction self care books here.
From bad science around women to a women's history of Islam, get an education around women's issues through these women's history books.
This week Alice and Kim talk Islam, Christianity, and Scientology memoirs.