Our Favorite Nonfiction of 2019
This week, Liberty and Kelly discuss Dapper Dan, Beeline, Good Talk, and more great nonfiction books from 2019.
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Books discussed on the show:
Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin Dreyer
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino
The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom
Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream by Carson Vaughn
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty and Dianné Ruz |
Burnout: The Secrets To Unlocking The Stress Cycle by Emily and Amelia Nagoski
Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem: A Memoir by Daniel R. Day
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
Beeline: What Spelling Bees Reveal About Generation Z’ New Path to Success by Shalini Shankar
Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco
Out Of The Shadows: A Memoir by Timea Nagy and Shannon Moroney
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir by T Kira Madden
Maybe You Should Talk To Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb
Solitary by Albert Woodfox
Duped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Married by Abby Ellis
What we’re reading:
Children of Virtue and Vengeance (Legacy of Orisha) by Tomi Adeyemi
More books out this week:
The Glittering Hour by Iona Grey
The Road to Delano by John DeSimone
A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy Popkin
The Wonderful by Saskia Sarginson
The Dead Girls Club: A Novel by Damien Angelica Walters
Regretting You by Colleen Hoover
The Story of a Goat by Perumal Murugan, N Kalyan Raman (translator)
The Hills Reply by Tarjei Vesaas, Elizabeth Rokkan (translator)
Africaville by Jeffrey Colvin
The Wicked Redhead: A Wicked City Novel by Beatriz Williams
All That’s Bright and Gone: A Novel by Eliza Nellums
Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition by Buddy Levy
Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke, Christiane Marks (translator)
Gatekeeper: Poems by Patrick Johnson
The German House by Annette Hess, Elisabeth Lauffer (translator)
A Faithful but Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed by Jason Brown
