Black History Month Reads
This week Alice and Kim talk Black History Month nonfiction reads for your TBR shelf.
This episode is sponsored by Random House and the Book Riot Read Harder Challenge.
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Nonfiction News
The Guardian: “Whitechapel mural will celebrate the lives of Jack the Ripper’s victims”
New Books
Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America’s Most Dangerous Cults by Mitch Weiss, Holbrook Mohr
The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story of China, the FBI, and Industrial Espionage by Mara Hvistendahl
A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home, ed. By Nicole Chung, Menshah Demary
Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics by Bruce Goldfarb
Black History Month
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittany Cooper
A Black Women’s History of the United States by Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross
Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine by Damon Tweedy
Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine by Emily Bernard
One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy by Carol Anderson
Reading Now
KIM: The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez
ALICE: Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages by Jack Hartnell
CONCLUSION
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