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🗓️ 13 September 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Amanda and Alice talk nonfiction about the Civil Rights movement, memoirs of interesting people, and more in this week’s (all nonfiction!) episode of Get Booked. This episode is sponsored by Book Riot’s TBR, Nobody Real, and LibraryReads. Subscribe to the podcast via RSS here, or via Apple Podcasts here. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. For listener feedback and questions, as well as a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Books Discussed Blood at the Root by Patrick Phillips Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen by Philip Dray History of the Philippines by Luis Francia Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History by Simon Winder An African in Greenland by Tété-Michel Kpomassie, James Kirkup (translator) The Ridiculous Race: 26,000 Miles, 2 Guides, 1 Globe, No Airplanes by Steve Hely and Vali Chandrasekaran Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova Salvation on Sand Mountain by Dennis Covington Frances and Bernard by Carlene Bauer Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs Make Trouble by Cecile Richards Happy Accidents: A Memoir by Jane Lynch Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World by Sarah Weinman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.8	to learn more. This episode of Get Booked is sponsored by TBR, Book Riot's new subscription service
0:34.5	offering tailored book recommendations for readers of all stripes.
0:38.1	Been dreaming of a stitch fix for books? Well, now it's here. Tell TBR about your reading
0:42.3	preferences and what you're looking for and sit back while your bibliologist handpicks
0:46.6	recommendations just for you. TBR offers plans to receive either hardcover books in the mail
0:51.8	or recommendations via email, so there's an option
0:54.5	for every budget.
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1:01.0	That's treat your shelf like your bookshelf because we love puns.
1:04.4	That's mytbr.com slash treat your shelf.
1:10.1	This is the Get Booked podcast, a weekly show for personalized reading recommendations.
1:14.0	This is episode 148 and we're recording on September 11th.
1:17.7	I'm Amanda Nelson and I'm here with Alice Burton, host of our nonfiction podcast for
1:21.5	real and we are coming to you from Book Riot. Welcome back. Oh, thank you. Thanks for having me. Alice has been on before with Kim,
1:31.1	right? Who is your co-host? Yes. Yes. So in honor of having a nonfiction Velocer reader,
1:37.7	this is going to be like a 99% nonfiction show. There is one fiction book that I'm going to
1:42.9	recommend later, but for the
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