New Books By the End of the Year
This week Alice and Kim talk about new nonfiction out in November and December, including memoirs, cold cases, orchid obsession, and more.
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Nonfiction in the News
New York Times: Best Books of the Year
Washington Post: Best Books of the Year
Reader’s Digest: The National Book Foundation Announces 2022 National Book Award Winners
New Nonfiction
Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family by Rabia Chaudry
Disability Pride: Dispatches from a Post-ADA World by Ben Mattlin
The Forever Witness: How DNA and Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder by Edward Humes
Queen of Snails: A Graphic Memoir by Maureen Burdock
A Coastline is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents by Mary-Alice Daniel
The Mexican Witch Lifestyle: Brujeria Spells, Tarot, and Crystal Magic by Valeria Ruelas
As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age by Matthew Cobb
Twenty Dollars and Change: Harriet Tubman and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice and Democracy by Clarence Lusane
Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon by Kate Andersen Brower
Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening by Douglas Brinkley
Orchid Muse: A History of Obsession in Fifteen Flowers by Erica Hannickel
The Quentin Blake Book by Jenny Uglow
Reading Now
Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life by Alice Wong
