A Nonfiction Holiday Gift Guide

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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