This week, Alice and Kim talk all things Jane Austen, as well as the best nonfiction of 2018.

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Weekly Theme: Jane Austen

A Smattering of Austen Titles

Reading Austen in America by Juliette Wells

A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen

At Home With Jane Austen by Kim Wilson

Tea With Jane Austen by Pen Vogler

Jane Austen and the Fiction of Her Time by Mary Waldron

What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Mullan

A Brief Guide to Jane Austen by Charles Jennings

 

Jane Austen Biography and Background Books

Jane Austen by Carol Shields

Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin

Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels by Deirdre Le Faye

Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World by Claire Harman

 

Jane Austen in Popular Culture

Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen by Deborah Yaffe

All Roads Lead to Austen: A Year-long Journey with Jane by Amy Smith

 

Fun Austen Titles & Covers

Jane Austen, Game Theorist by Michael Suk-Young Chwe

Why Jane Austen? by Rachel W. Brownstein

Critics Favorites of 2018

New York Times: Top 10 Books of 2018

• American Prison by Shane Bauer
• Educated by Tara Westover – also one of my favorites!
• Frederick Douglass by David W. Blight
• How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
• Small Fry by Lisa Brennan-Jobs

Washington Post: Best Books of 2018

• Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister
• The Library Book by Susan Orlean
• The Line Becomes a River by Francisco Cantu
• On Desperate Ground by Hampton Sides
• One Person, No Vote by Carol Anderson

Popsugar’s Best Nonfiction Books 2018

• Tonight I’m Someone Else by Chelsea Hodson
• You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession by Piper Weiss
• I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
• Would You Rather?: A Memoir of Growing Up and Coming Out by Katie Heaney
• Choose Your Own Disaster by Dana Schwartz
• Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession by Alice Bolin
• The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil
• Educated by Tara Westover (again!)
• Can You Tolerate This? By Ashleigh Young
• Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship by Kayleen Schaefer 

Our Favorites of 2018

KIM:

All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung

Bad Blood by John Carreyrou

Tell Me More by Kelly Corrigan

From the Corner of the Oval by Beck Dorey-Stein

No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNicol

 

ALICE:

Impeachment: An American History

My Squirrel Days by Ellie Kemper

The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman

Bombay Anna: The Real Story and Remarkable Adventures of the King & I Governess by Susan Morgan

The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age by Myra MacPherson

 

READING NOW

KIM: Left to Our Own Devices: Outsmarting Smart Technology to Reclaim Our Relationships, Health, and Focus by Margaret Morris

ALICE: Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History by Tori Telfer
The Magnolia Story by Chip and Joanna Gaines

CONCLUSION

Book Riot is taking the week off a Christmas, so this will be our last podcast of 2018!

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