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All the Books!

Best Fiction of 2015, Dec. 22, 2015

All the Books!

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Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2015

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss some of their favorite nonfiction books of 2015, including Between the World and Me, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, and Rain. This episode was sponsored by the DK Holiday Gift Generator and FabFitFun. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS or iTunes and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books discussed on the show: The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife, and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue by Piu Marie Eatwell Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski Ph.D. Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein Dear Mr. You by Mary-Louise Parker Leaving Orbit: Notes from the Last Days of American Spaceflight by Margaret Lazarus Dean Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga by Pamela Newkirk Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer Rain: A Natural and Cultural History by Cynthia Barnett H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald What we’re reading: Mr. Splitfoot by Samantha Hunt Three-Martini Lunch by Suzanne Rindell Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:46.0

This is episode 33, and today we are talking about some of our favorite non-fiction books of 2015.

0:52.0

I'm Liberty Hardy here with my fellow well redhead

0:54.2

Rebecca Shinsky and we're coming to you from book riot.com. Hello!

0:57.6

Hello! I can talk again! Yay! It's very exciting. That's not really an issue for me because I don't usually speak to people, you know, in the week. Just you.

1:08.0

Sometimes my boyfriend. I think that last week when my voice sounded so rough, it was because you were the first human that I had talked to in my entire work day.

1:17.0

Yeah, I just say with books.

1:19.0

Yeah, between the time that my husband left the house for his office and the time that we talked I don't think I used my voice at all.

1:27.2

It's a practice. Apparently or like keep things warmed up or something but But we're back this week.

1:33.9

It's our last, like 20, this is our last like 2015 content show.

1:38.6

Correct.

1:39.6

We'll have another show next week when it is still 2015, but next week's show will be a look ahead at some of the books of 2016 that we're

1:46.0

the most excited about. So I know I'm pleased to be wrapping up the year. Me too.

1:51.6

It's been a good year. Oh my goodness yes. Yes and you I think maybe

1:57.2

we mentioned it on the last show but if we didn't or if you heard it but you haven't

2:01.2

had a chance to look at it yet.

2:02.6

Listeners, Liberty spent a day a couple weeks ago

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