Our Favorite Non-Fiction Reads
Bad On Paper
Becca Freeman
4.8 • 4.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 March 2026
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
This week, we're diving into a topic we haven't covered in 8 years of this podcast: Non-fiction! We aren't experts on the genre, so we asked our listeners about their favorites, too, and wow, did they have some books to share!
Becca's Favorites
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
Edie: An American Girl by Jean Stein
No One Tells You This by Glynnis MacNichol
Olivia's Favorites
A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst
Maybe You Should Talk To Someone by Lori Gottlieb
Not My Type: One Woman Vs. a President by E Jean Caroll
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Janette McCurdy
Listener Favorites
Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum
We Might Just Make It After All by Elyce Arons
People Who Eat Darkness by Richard Lloyd Parry
Tranquility by Tuesday by Laura Vanderkam
Farenheit 182 by Mark Hoppus with Dan Ozzi
Homeschooled by Stefan Merrill Block
Running Memoirs
Obsession
Becca - Love Story
Olivia - Jessie Buckley
What we read this week
Macmillan - Lady Tremaine by Rachel Hochhauser, read by Bessie Carter, is available wherever you listen to audiobooks!
Olivia - Lady Tremaine by Rachel Hochauser
Becca - Lina & June by Genevieve Wheeler (out 12/8), Games: A Love Story by Anna Maria Volkova (out 6/2), Play it Again by Georgia Clark (out 6/16)
March's Book Club Pick - So Old, So Young by Grant Ginder
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone back to Bad on Paper podcast. I'm Becca Freeman. And I'm Olivia Mentor. |
| 0:23.1 | And today we're talking about a book topic that I don't think we have broached in the almost eight years of this podcast, which is a whole episode about nonfiction books. |
| 0:33.3 | Yeah, maybe we should do a disclaimer that we are not experts, but I do want to say that we did get recs from all of you. |
| 0:41.6 | And we have a wide range of nonfiction picks to choose from. |
| 0:45.4 | So we're going to hit a little bit of everything. |
| 0:47.2 | I'm a little intimidated about this episode because nonfiction is so not my lane. |
| 0:51.8 | It's somewhere where I don't feel like I have any authority to |
| 0:56.1 | recommend things as a book person. Well, that's why we call in recruits. So I think it'll be good |
| 1:03.0 | also to have nonfiction wrecks from us who are not necessarily nonfiction readers. Because I think |
| 1:09.4 | a lot of people don't read that much nonfiction. |
| 1:12.3 | So if we're recommending these books, you know that they're going to be good, even if nonfiction |
| 1:17.4 | isn't your thing like us. All right, Olivia. Get me into some highs. Tell me your high this week. |
| 1:22.2 | My high was on Saturday night. I went to dinner with some friends, and then we went and saw Wuthering Heights. |
| 1:29.7 | And I've seen so many takes on this movie, so many endless takes. And I didn't really know what |
| 1:37.0 | to expect. I like Jacob Allorty, of course. I'm but a human woman, just a human, really. |
| 1:43.1 | That's all it takes to love him and appreciate his being. |
| 1:47.6 | I was going to say his breadth, like his size. That sounded so strange. I feel like I'm objectifying |
| 1:53.1 | him too much. Anyway, I like him, but, you know, I wasn't like this is my movie of the year or |
| 1:58.7 | anything. I do love Wuthering Heights, haven't read it in its entirety since high school, probably. |
| 2:03.9 | And I had seen so many people say they didn't like it. |
| 2:07.0 | And I get why. |
| 2:08.8 | I get why. |
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