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In this week’s episode, Kim and Alice share a few last November new books, then jump into a holiday gift guide with recommendations for history buffs, video gamers, wine aficionados, nature lovers and more.
This week’s episode of For Real is sponsored by
Book Riot Insiders,
Homer and the Holiday Miracle by Gwen Cooper, and
Bare Minimum Parenting: The Ultimate Guide to Not Quite Ruining Your Child by James Breakwell.
Follow Up
The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey C. Stewart
New Books
Stranger’s Pose by Emmanuel Iduma
The Woo-Woo by Lindsay Wong
Seduction by Karina Longworth
We the People by Erwin Chemerinsky
Becoming by Michelle Obama
Holiday Recommendation Guide: Reader Requests
Population 485 by Michael Perry
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
Goodbye-to All That by Robert Graves
Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger
The Lost City of Z by David Grann
Skyjack by Geoffrey Gray
Salt, Fat, Acid and Heat by Samin Nosrat
The Cooking Gene by Michael W. Twitty
Love, Loss, and What We Ate by Padma Lakshmi
Holiday Recommendation Guide: General Recommendations
Cork Dork by Bianca Bosker
Tasting the Past by Kevin Begos
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf
The Game Console by Evan Amos
Console Wars by Blake J. Harris
Extra Lives by Tom Bissell
Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman
Bibliophile by Jane Mount of Ideal Bookshelf
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair by Nina Sankovitch
Writer’s Under Surveillance
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
The Family Gene by Joselin Linder
Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge
Reading Now
No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
