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Our Favorite Nonfiction of 2019
Episode 238

Our Favorite Nonfiction of 2019

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.Books discussed on the show:Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style by Benjamin DreyerTrick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion by Jia TolentinoThe Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. BroomZoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream by Carson VaughnWill 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 NagoskiDapper Dan: Made in Harlem: A Memoir by Daniel R. DayGood Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira JacobSay Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden KeefeBeeline: What Spelling Bees Reveal About Generation Z' New Path to Success by Shalini ShankarThings We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir by Jeannie VanascoOut Of The Shadows: A Memoir by Timea Nagy and Shannon MoroneyLong Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir by T Kira MaddenMaybe You Should Talk To Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori GottliebSolitary by Albert WoodfoxDuped: Double Lives, False Identities, and the Con Man I Almost Married by Abby EllisWhat we're reading:Children of Virtue and Vengeance (Legacy of Orisha) by Tomi AdeyemiMore books out this week:The Glittering Hour by Iona Grey The Road to Delano by John DeSimoneA New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution by Jeremy Popkin The Wonderful by Saskia SarginsonThe Dead Girls Club: A Novel by Damien Angelica Walters Regretting You by Colleen Hoover The Story of a Goat by Perumal Murugan, N Kalyan Raman (translator)The Hills Reply by Tarjei Vesaas, Elizabeth Rokkan (translator)Africaville by Jeffrey ColvinThe Wicked Redhead: A Wicked City Novel by Beatriz Williams All That's Bright and Gone: A Novel by Eliza Nellums Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition by Buddy LevySonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke, Christiane Marks (translator)Gatekeeper: Poems by Patrick JohnsonThe German House by Annette Hess, Elisabeth Lauffer (translator)A Faithful but Melancholy Account of Several Barbarities Lately Committed by Jason Brown See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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December 10, 201945m 44s

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Show Notes

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 RSSiTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book.

Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news.

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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

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