Our Favorite Nonfiction of 2021: December 21, 2021

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🗓️ 21 December 2021

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This week, Liberty and Tirzah discuss Crying in H Mart, The Natural Mother of the Child, Empire of Pain, and more of their favorite novels of 2021. Pick up an All the Books! shirt, sticker, and more right here. And follow All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, 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. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: Crying in H Mart: A Memoir by Michelle Zauner The Natural Mother of the Child: A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood by Krys Malcolm Belc Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Memoir of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood by Dawn Turner Trice Sure, I’ll Be Your Black Friend: Notes from the Other Side of the Fist Bump by Ben Philippe White Magic by Elissa Washuta The Quiet Zone: Unraveling the Mystery of a Town Suspended in Silence by Stephen Kurczy All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib Somebody’s Daughter: A Memoir by Ashley C. Ford The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a Nation’s Neglect of a Deadly Disease by Daisy Hernandez Revolution in Our Time: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People by Kekla Magoon Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett WHAT WE’RE READING: Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim Night of the Living Rez: Stories by Morgan Talty Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to all the books, a weekly show of recommendations and enthusiasm regarding
0:16.0	the week's new book releases.
0:17.7	This is Episode 342 and today we are talking about our favorite nonfiction of 2021.
0:22.7	I'm Liberty Hardy, here with Tears of Price and we're coming to you from BookRiot.com.
0:26.7	Tears of Hello!
0:27.7	Hey there!
0:28.7	Hey there!
0:29.7	How's it going?
0:30.7	Oh, it's, it's going, you know, it's, it's very much like last full week of work before
0:37.9	the end of the year vibes.
0:39.7	I'm tired, but we're, we're making it through.
0:43.0	Yeah, I've noticed that everyone seems quite stressed, not just up a bright, I mean, just
0:49.5	like everywhere.
0:50.5	Everyone seems like very tired, it's been a hard year and people are tired and it's
0:57.2	understandable, you know?
0:58.2	We all thought that things would be different by now and the holidays probably don't help
1:04.0	with that.
1:05.0	So I just wanted to tell everybody that I appreciate you and hang in there and I certainly appreciate
1:12.1	my host who have to like listen to me, complain about all my cat issues before we start recording
1:18.8	and like wait for me when I have the hiccups, like literal hiccups and and Jen Zink who has
1:24.6	to like take those hiccups out of the recording and like all this stuff.
1:28.2	I'm just very grateful for everybody, but I too, I'm very tired.
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