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.
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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
