Our Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2023: December 12, 2023

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🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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This week, Liberty and Vanessa discuss Better Living Through Birding, Liliana’s Invincible Summer, In the Form of a Question, and more! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. It's happening, readers — we're bringing paperbacks! Whether you (or a reader you know and love) hate carrying around bulky hardcovers, you're on a budget, you want a wider range of recommendations, or all of the above, you can now get a paperback subscription from TBR, curated just for you by one of our Bibliologists. The holidays are here, and we've got three different levels for gifting to suit every budget. Get all the details at mytbr.co. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Books Discussed On the Show: Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World by Christian Cooper Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life by Amy Schneider Eyeliner: A Cultural History by Zahra Hankir We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian You Just Need to Lose Weight: and 19 Other Myths About Fat People by Aubrey Gordon The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel Creep: Accusations and Confessions by Myriam Gurba Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA by Theresa Runstedtler Poverty by America by Matthew Desmond The Theory of Everything Else: A Voyage Into the World of the Weird by Dan Schreiber Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America by Krista Burton How to Say Babylon: A Memoir by Safiya Sinclair The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church by Rachel L. Swarns Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World by John Vaillant The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race by Farah Karim-Cooper The Woman in Me by Britney Spears Queen B by Juno Dawson Celestial Monsters by Aiden Thomas The Dead Cat Tail Assassins by P. Djèlí Clark Confounding Oaths by Alexis Hall A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:23.8	your phone and Chromebook. You're listening to all the books, a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding the week's new book releases.
0:43.8	This is episode 442, and today we are talking
0:46.4	about some of our favorite non-fiction of 2023.
0:49.8	I'm Liberty Hardy here with Vanessa Diaz,
0:52.0	and we're coming to you from
0:52.7	book Riot.com. Vanessa hello! Hi we're back we're back I haven't gone to
0:59.4	record with you in a little bit yes. Tada! You didn't miss anything. I said a lot a lot a lot a lot
1:06.3	of words. Even more so last week than usual. That's okay. I just get really
1:11.2	excited to record.
1:13.0	It's funny we've been doing this for so long and yet we still, Liberty and I have talked about
1:17.2	off camera off recording. Like you still feel like a little bit of nervousness and like excited when you go to
1:23.1	podcast even though we've been doing this me for a few years live since like the
1:26.8	70s at this point.
1:27.8	Seriously it feels like it.
1:30.9	You just love talking. Yeah I think we're coming up on our ninth, ninth year, eighth year next year.
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