Our Favorite Nonfiction of the Year (So Far)
This week Kim and guest host Liberty Hardy talk new books and their favorite nonfiction of the year so far.
This episode is sponsored by Book Riot and Audible.
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New Books
Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come: One Introvert’s Year of Saying Yes by Jessica Pan
The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth by Josh Levin
From Scratch: A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding Home by Tembi Locke
Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of America by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
Favorite Nonfiction of the Year So Far
Notes from a Young Black Chef by Kwame Onwuachi, Joshua David Stein
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep
Parkland: Birth of a Movement by Dave Cullen
Rough Magic: Riding the World’s Loneliest Horse Race by Lara Prior-Palmer
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob
The Sakura Obsession: The Incredible Story of the Plant Hunter Who Saved Japan’s Cherry Blossoms by Naoko Abe
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
by Patrick Radden Keefe
Reading Now
Southern Lady Code: Essays by Helen Ellis
The Library of the Unwritten by by A. J. Hackwith (October 1)
