Terrible and Wonderful Families
This week Alice and Kim share books about familes, plus new nonfiction about mediocre white dudes, Mexican revolutionaries, and more.
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Nonfiction in the News
The Obamas’ Higher Ground & ‘Adam Ruins Everything’s Adam Conover Team On Government Comedy Series For Netflix, Based On Michael Lewis’ ‘The Fifth Risk’ [Deadline]
The 10 best books of 2020 [Washington Post]
The 10 best books of 2020 [The New York Times]
New Nonfiction
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo
Revolutionary Women of Texas and Mexico : Portraits of Soldaderas, Saints, and Subversives Edited by Kathy Sosa, Ellen Riojas Clark and Jennifer Speed
Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh, Renegade Author of Harriet the Spy by Leslie Brody
The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates by Robin Lane Fox
Terrible and Wonderful Families
Calypso by David Sedaris
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue by Piu Eatwell
Reading Now
A Promised Land by Barack Obama
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens