Favorite Nonfiction of 2016

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🗓️ 20 December 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

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This week, Liberty and Rebecca discuss Ghostland, The Gene, Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, and more of their favorite nonfiction books of 2016. This episode was sponsored by ThirdLove and Comic Bento. 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. Books discussed on the show: Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain by Phoebe Robinson The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks by Terry Tempest Williams Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin On Living by Kerry Egan Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World by Baz Dreisinger Everything is Teeth by Evie Wyld and Joe Sumner Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man’s Education by Mychal Denzel Smith What we’re reading: Over the Plain Houses by Julia Franks Walden by Henry David Thoreau Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:44.3	enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases. This is episode 86 and today we
0:49.2	are talking about our favorite non-fiction of 2016. I'm Liberty Hardy
0:53.6	with my fellow podcast Rebecca Shinsky and we're coming to you from Book Riot.com.
0:58.0	Hello, it's time for the truth! Yes, it is time for the truth.
1:04.2	And the truth is that we are doing a double-headed
1:06.6	this morning.
1:07.3	So we just finished our fiction episode like 20 minutes ago.
1:10.8	So the dog is like still asleep on the floor and I still don't have my
1:16.6	good podcasting mic because it's still broken and the new one is still shipping.
1:20.3	Still not wearing pants. So we're coming to our listeners by this episode from like two
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