Our Favorite Nonfiction of 2019

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🗓️ 10 December 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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This week, Liberty and Kelly discuss Dapper Dan, Beeline, Good Talk, and more great nonfiction books from 2019. This episode was sponsored the St. John’s College, Ritual, and With a Little Help From My Friends. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify 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: Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin Dreyer Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia Tolentino The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. Broom Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream by Carson Vaughn Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty and Dianné Ruz | Burnout: The Secrets To Unlocking The Stress Cycle by Emily and Amelia Nagoski Dapper Dan: Made in Harlem: A Memoir by Daniel R. Day Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe Beeline: What Spelling Bees Reveal About Generation Z’ New Path to Success by Shalini Shankar Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco Out Of The Shadows: A Memoir by Timea Nagy and Shannon Moroney Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir by T Kira Madden Maybe You Should Talk To Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb Solitary by Albert Woodfox Duped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Married by Abby Ellis What we’re reading: Children of Virtue and Vengeance (Legacy of Orisha) by Tomi Adeyemi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:55.0	This is episode 238 and today we are talking about our favorite non-fiction books of 2019.
1:01.0	I'm Liberty Hardy here with Kelly Jensen and we're coming to you from bookriot.com.
1:05.0	Woo-hoo! Hey! Are you ready to tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
1:10.0	Yes indeed and in fact I'm so excited to talk about truth and only the truth that I
1:17.0	beg to be the person to be on this episode rather than the person who does
1:22.1	fiction so I was like I've read a lot more non-fiction this who does fiction.
1:22.6	So I was like, I've read a lot more non-fiction this year than fiction.
1:25.4	And so I'm ready.
1:26.9	That's excellent.
1:28.3	I feel like I read almost entirely fiction this year.
1:31.6	I'm getting ready to do like a yearly wrap up and I'll see
1:34.6	if that's actually true but I did a bad job reading non-fiction and yeah non-fiction this year.
1:40.3	I think but what I did read was incredible I can't wait to start talking about it but first we're
1:46.1	going to tell you about today's sponsor. Nothing will ever be quite as magical as a school book fair, but we're recapturing some of that magic with the new release index.
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