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New releases to soothe the soul! Books are still coming out, and some author events have pivoted to virtual ones, so check out your favorite author’s social media to see if you can attend an event you normally might not have been able to. This week has some excellent new releases, check ’em out:

Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic by Eric Eyre. A David vs. Goliath battle! This starts with a story you might have heard of: there was a pharmacy in Kermit, West Virginia, that distributed 12 million opioid pain pills in three years to a town with a population of 382 people. Yes. You read that correctly. Author Eyre’s local paper was the smallest newspaper ever to win a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting, and it broke the story. Read if you want to immerse yourself in a fight for justice.

More Myself: A Journey by Alicia Keys. Keys is a musician, activist, singer, composer, actress and pianist. She got a record deal by age 15 and won 5 Grammys by 21. In her new memoir, she talks about growing up in Hell’s Kitchen in the ’80s, her early exposure to jazz, and how she came to cut through all the noise surrounding her and discover who she really was.

 

 

Empire of the Black Sea: The Rise and Fall of the Mithridatic World by Duane W. Roller. Yeah, like I’m letting you all off without some in-depth nerdy-as-all-get-out history book. What is the Mithridatic world? I didn’t know! But I looked it up and I’ll tell you it has to do with the ancient world around 100 BCEish, and the kingdom of Pontos! There they were, holding out against the might of the Romans, until…*pause*….they did not. If you want to feel the dramatic suspense and noble despair of a lost cause while sitting in your living room, here you go.

Wow, No Thank You by Samantha Irby. We stan a new Samantha Irby release. Who doesn’t want to be whisked away from their cares and set directly into essays like “Girls Gone Mild” and “Late-1900s Time Capsule”? Irby’s writing is a balm unto these weary times. Maybe if we all tweet affirmations at her, she’ll write another one real fast.

 

 

Stay inside if you can, nonfictionites. Wash your hands, Clorox-wipe your phone, and read read read (while also taking a break to prevent eye strain!). If you are so inclined, check out COVID-19 Updates from the Bookish World. As always, you can find me on Twitter @itsalicetime and co-hosting the For Real podcast with Kim here at Book Riot. Until next time! Enjoy those facts, fellow nerds.

If you’re choosing to deal with your anxiety in ways other than “if I study the history of similar crises, perhaps I shall be better equipped for this one,” then these book picks may not be for you. I started thinking today about how people dealt with the influenza outbreak in 1917 (my great-aunt had it as a baby! she lived for so long!) and started looking up some well-reviewed nonfiction reads. Here they are!:

The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History by John M. Barry. This seems like a good overview of the influenza outbreak of 1918 if you’re looking for a straight-up history. It was on the NYT bestseller list for more than a year. “At the height of World War I, history’s most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four months than AIDS killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century.”

Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World by Laura Spinney. Ok, I am seriously so interested in this: “Laura Spinney traces the overlooked pandemic to reveal how the virus travelled across the globe, exposing mankind’s vulnerability and putting our ingenuity to the test. As socially significant as both world wars, the Spanish flu dramatically disrupted–and often permanently altered–global politics, race relations and family structures, while spurring innovation in medicine, religion and the arts. It was partly responsible, Spinney argues, for pushing India to independence, South Africa to apartheid and Switzerland to the brink of civil war. It also created the true “lost generation.””

The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time by John Kelly. Do you really want to lean into this virus/plague thing? Why not read about one of the most devastating plagues of all time and how it affected the world.

 

 

 

Balanced Books

Want some reads to balance this deep dive into the world as we know it today and instead practice some nice avoidance? Great. Check out:

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns) by Mindy Kaling. I read this while hiding in a room during a particularly stressful holiday party, and it. was. great. Mindy Kaling absolutely felt like my friend telling me smart, funny stories, and I love this book forever for providing some extreme comfort.

 

 

Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets & Advice for Living Your Best Life by Ali Wong. You all with kids right now. I don’t even know how you’re doing it. But if you have a free minute, maybe check this out! Also check it out if you don’t have kids, ’cause I do not and I loved it. Wong “shares the wisdom she’s learned from a life in comedy and reveals stories from her life off stage, including the brutal singles life in New York (i.e. the inevitable confrontation with erectile dysfunction), reconnecting with her roots (and drinking snake blood) in Vietnam, tales of being a wild child growing up in San Francisco, and parenting war stories.” It’s hilarious and emotional, but not TOO emotional for these trying times.

Stay inside if you can, nonfictionites. Wash your hands, Clorox-wipe your phone, and read read read (while also taking a break to prevent eye strain!). If you are so inclined, check out COVID-19 Updates from the Bookish World. As always, you can find me on Twitter @itsalicetime and co-hosting the For Real podcast with Kim here at Book Riot. Until next time! Enjoy those facts, fellow nerds.

Is everyone staying safe and warm and caring for themselves and maybe reordering their bookshelves? Ok great, let’s jump into new nonfiction releases for the week:

Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO by David J. Halperin. So. Ok, hear me out. It’s published by Stanford University Press, and looks at “what [UFOs] tell us about ourselves as individuals, as a culture, and as a species.” Which is neat! Especially because we should all currently spend some time looking at the world like it’s a slight-of-hand magician that is very obviously holding something giant in its right hand, but we are gonna force ourselves to look at the left one for a bit, because we need a break. Maybe we should all just spend some time thinking about UFOs.

Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory by Claudio Saunt. So maybe you want to think about another tragedy, but one like, far removed in subject matter from this current situation. I used to study American disasters so much, my mom said if I ever got married, it would be on “some tragedy boat.” If you’d like to cathartically exorcise your emotions, check this out! It looks into how Native American “expulsion became national policy and describes the chaotic and deadly results of the operation to deport 80,000 men, women, and children.” This was in 1830 under the presidency of Andrew Jackson. Just wanted to highlight that.

The Office: The Untold Story of the Greatest Sitcom of the 2000s: An Oral History by Andy Greene. I am having an absolutely lovely time with this book. It goes from the idea of The Office in the UK to it being brought to America, its rocky start, and subsequent extreme success. Greene interviewed everybody for this book. Like most of America, I’m a massive Office fan, and this book couldn’t have come at a better time. If you want a total distraction, then here y’go.

Save Yourself: Essays by Cameron Esposito. Chicago comic Esposito spends this memoir telling her story up to the “big break” of moving to LA. So you learn about her childhood, becoming a comedian, coming out, and more.

Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown by Anne Glenconner. I requested this galley and was denied, presumably because my parents were in trade. So I can’t attest to its goodness, but Glenconner was lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret, who we all know was a real piece of work, so presumably it is at least fun. I usually hold some level of skepticism about tell-all books, but Glenconner is 87-years-old, so maybe she just feels (rightly) like people would be interested in her perspective about a very famous family.

Backlist Pairings

We’re Going to Need More Wine: Stories That Are Funny, Complicated, and True by Gabrielle Union. Nominated for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work, which is awesome, early 2000s icon Union uses her memoir to tackle “power, color, gender, feminism, and fame.” She shares what it was like growing up in white California suburbia and then spending summers with her black relatives in Nebraska, coping with crushes, puberty, and the divorce of her parents, and more. This somehow hasn’t been on my to-read list, but it is now.

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer. Historian Treuer wrote this as a counterpoint to Dee Brown’s well-known Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. He is emphatic about Native American history not ending with the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890, and he tells that story here. It was a finalist for the National Book Award and on the Carnegie Award longlist.

Stay inside if you can, nonfictionites. Wash your hands, Clorox-wipe your phone, and read read read (while also taking a break to prevent eye strain!). If you are so inclined, check out COVID-19 Updates from the Bookish World. As always, you can find me on Twitter @itsalicetime and co-hosting the For Real podcast with Kim here at Book Riot. Until next time! Enjoy those facts, fellow nerds.

Hi, nonfiction fans! Reporting to you from my bunker in Chicago with dwindling Coca-Cola supplies, but staying strong nonetheless. Wow, things are happening in the world. With that in mind, I put together some quarantine reads for today, which I’m defining as “books you maybe always meant to get around to but you never had the time.” Well, friends, the time is now. Here we go:

Good-Bye to All That by Robert Graves. I’ve been meaning to read this for some time. Poet Graves wrote this memoir in 1929, and the “unsentimental and frequently comic treatment of the banalities and intensities of the life of a British army officer in the First World War gave Graves fame.” If you’re interested in what can happen after a major event changes a society, here you go.

 

 

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass. If you had to read this in high school (I did), then I suggest a re-read as an adult. Douglass was a social justice powerhouse in the 19th century, fighting not only for the rights of African Americans, but for women’s suffrage. He attended the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 and was friends with Abraham Lincoln. His 1845 memoir was so popular that it’s still in print today. It’s a pretty quick read too, so, bonus points.

 

I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb. Oh man, I have been wanting to read this for a while, but I tend to forget about very popular memoirs because my jam is extremely specific 19th century historical reads, like “Bostonian Thimble Makers: 1845-1862.” But I started this once and loved it, so my plan is to quarantine-read it. Yousafzai is clearly an inspirational figure of our time and is doing more than her share of the work that we should all be taking part in.

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin. I haven’t read a single book about Lincoln, and I feel like I…keep meaning to? So this extremely well-regarded book is one for the #QuarantineReads list. Kearns Goodwin’s thesis is that Lincoln’s success was because “he possessed an extraordinary ability to put himself in the place of other men, to experience what they were feeling, to understand their motives and desires.” Empathy! How novel.

Stay inside if you can, nonfictionites. Wash your hands, Clorox-wipe your phone, and read read read (while also taking a break to prevent eye strain!). If you are so inclined, check out COVID-19 Updates from the Bookish World. As always, you can find me on Twitter @itsalicetime and co-hosting the For Real podcast with Kim here at Book Riot. Until next time! Enjoy those facts, fellow nerds.

YOU ALL. Omg. Okay, obviously a million things are going on in the world right now (mostly related to one same big thing), but I am extremely glad I get to promote people’s nonfiction new releases this week (and some backlist picks!) because book tours are canceled, stores are doing ship-to-sender only, and bookstores and authors need our support more now than ever. With that in mind, here are nonfiction new releases for March 17, 2020:

Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener by Kimberly A. Hamlin. Gardner was born Alice Chenoweth, but after having an affair with a married man and being named in Ohio newspapers, she changed her name and moved to New York City. Which is a real burning bridges move and I approve of it. She fought for suffrage and died as the highest-ranking woman in federal government. Seems like a good curl-up-on-the-couch book.

 

Thinking Inside the Box: Adventures with Crosswords and the Puzzling People Who Can’t Live Without Them by Adrienne Raphel. This book is a delight. Even if you aren’t good at crossword puzzles (*points to self*), it’s still fascinating to hear about those who are obsessed with them, how they’re created, and what their history is. If you want something light to skip through, here y’go.

 

 

The Lady’s Handbook for Her Mysterious Illness: A Memoir by Sarah Ramey. For years, Sarah Ramey suffered through an unknown illness that few medical professionals would take seriously. Her memoir deals with the struggle to be believed, as well as live her life in the face of something she had no idea how to treat. It’s being called “a memoir with a mission.”

 

 

Broken Glass: Mies van der Rohe, Edith Farnsworth, and the Fight Over a Modern Masterpiece by Alex Beam. Do you know what a Farnsworth House is? It’s basically a glass rectangle of a house, and people LOVE them. Except Edith Farnsworth, who commissioned it and found it impossible to live in (aesthetics vs utility, amirite?). This new release tells the story Farnsworth’s battle with architect van der Rohe over the house she hated.

Backlist Highlights

Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain. This tells the history of how fast food became one of the greatest generators of black wealth in America. Chatelain looks at how fast food restaurants saturated black neighborhoods, how they were initially seen as a path to improved quality of life, and what their current effects are.

 

 

Music to My Years: A Mixtape Memoir by Cristela Alonzo. For something lighter in the nonfiction realm, check out comedian Alonzo as she talks about growing up as a first-generation American, the time she made tap shoes out of bottle caps, and the struggles she faced coming up in the worlds of writing and comedy. I’ve watched her standup and she is hilarious.

 

Stay safe, nonfictionites! Practice social distancing, read or listen to books, support authors, and absorb those facts. As always, you can find me on Twitter @itsalicetime and co-hosting the For Real podcast with Kim here at Book Riot. Until next time!

We’re taking Friday the 13th and Women’s History Month and smushing them together for this very special edition of True Story. What does Friday the 13th mean to you! Creepy, unlucky, potentially gross things? Also POWER and the supernatural. Those are the themes of this week’s books! Enjoy.

Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History by Tori Telfer. Woman serial killers may not be as well known, but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. Telfer, who wrote a “Lady Killers” series on Jezebel, profiles fourteen women, including Nannie Doss, Erzsébet Báthory, and Kate Bender, and looks into why even when women do horrific things, they tend not to be seen as a threat (hint: it’s sexism).

Infamous Lady: The True Story of Countess Erzsébet Báthory by Kimberly L. Craft. Right, so speaking of Báthory, have you ever wondered what’s actually true about her absolutely terrifying life story? Craft offers a biography I am extremely interested in, as she looks through letters, documents, and trial transcripts to try and separate fact from fiction (something very much applauded among nonfictionites!). Read this and then “actually” your friends when they inevitably bring up this 16th-century Hungarian countess in casual conversation.

Legendary Ladies: 50 Goddesses to Empower and Inspire You by Ann Shen. Friday the 13th doesn’t have to be all scary! Although some of these goddesses are (lookin’ at you, Kali), albeit in an awesome way. Shen also did Bad Girls Throughout History, and has really cornered the market on beautifully illustrated anthologies of ladies. Here she takes you through goddess mythology, including the Chinese deity Mazu, Hopi and Navajo goddess Spider Woman, and Greek goddess Tyche.

Basic Witches: How to Summon Success, Banish Drama, and Raise Hell with Your Coven by Jaya Saxena and Jess Zimmerman. Yeah, like we’re getting through this list without a witch book. Witches: so hot right now. If you’re interested in an easy how-to sort of guide, this is it. It mixes things like “Our Favorite Pop Culture Witches” with “How to Clothe Yourself in Literal Darkness” and “A Collaborative Ritual to Deepen Friendship.”

As always, you can find me on Twitter @itsalicetime and co-hosting the For Real podcast with Kim here at Book Riot. Until next time! Enjoy those facts, fellow nerds.

Do you ever stare at your bookshelves thinking, ‘…well. At least I won’t run out of things to read.’ When I was 11, I was running low on things I was interested in reading, and I wished that that would never happen again, and it has NOT. New release nonfiction days are great because we officially have more collected facts, more stories of people’s lives, and more of everything else nonfiction encompasses. Our knowledge as a species is always growing and we’re self-correcting previous knowledge and it’s awesome. So! With that in mind, here’re your new releases for the week of March 9th!

Whiter: Asian American Women on Skin Color and Colorism ed. by Nikki Khanna. First-hand accounts from 30 Asian American women about how skin color impacts their lives. Contributors range in age, nationality, and profession, and their essays feature a wide range of topics related to their experiences with skin color bias. Editor Khana is a sociology professor and the author of Biracial in America: Forming and Performing Racial Identity.

Read Me, Los Angeles: Exploring L.A.’s Book Culture by Katie Orphan. Learn more about Los Angeles’s distinctive bookish scene through interviews with L.A. writers, “day trips in search of favorite fictional characters, from Marlowe to Weetzie Bat; author quotes galore; curated lists of the must-read L.A. books, from fiction to history to poetry; a look at where writers have lived and worked in the City of Angels” and more. Side note on this, when I stayed near Venice Beach, I visited Small World Books and requested an LA-focused book not by a douchey guy, and they pointed me to Eve Babitz. Great bookstore.

A History of Islam in 21 Women by Hossein Kamaly. From Mecca in the 600s to present day Europe and America, Kamaly tells the stories of 21 Muslim women and their impact on society, including “first believer” Khadija, Mughal empress Nur Jahan, and acclaimed architect Zaha Hadid.

The Smartphone Society: Technology, Power, and Resistance in the New Gilded Age by Nicole Aschoff. Most of us spend a lot of time with our phones, so we should probably spend some time thinking about how that’s impacting us. Aschoff looks at how our phones are made, how the companies that make them are using our data, and other aspects of our daily phone life that we should be aware of. Short but dense, you’ll feel more informed about the choices you make after reading it.

As always, you can find me on Twitter @itsalicetime and co-hosting the For Real podcast with Kim here at Book Riot. Until next time! Enjoy those facts, fellow nerds.

It’s Women’s History Month! It’s the history of half the human race. Which is rather broad. This week, we’re sticking with a broader view of women’s history as opposed to dialing down into the realm of solo biographies (that’s for later this month!). Enjoy these awesome women-focused reads.

Women in Sports: 50 Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win by Rachel Ignotofsky. I sometimes find myself avoiding compilations because they lack a narrative arc, but when I do read them, I find the briefer stories stay with me. With that in mind! Here’s a compilation of 50 stories about women athletes, including Billie Jean King, Simone Biles, and “skateboarding pioneer” Patti McGee. I looked up Patti McGee and she is iconic.

Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y. Davis. Sure, women in 1960s and ’70s America were being liberated, but which women? This modern classic by Angela Davis looks at the women’s movement in America from the mid-19th century to the early ’80s and shows the racism and classism that have been woven in since the beginning.

Sky Train: Tibetan Women on the Edge of History by Canyon Sam. Sam travels through Tibet, gathering oral histories of life under Chinese occupation from women elders, and speaks to educators, child brides, gulag survivors, aristocrats in exile, and more. Sam is a third-generation Chinese American and also discusses her own experience as she takes the new Chinese sky train through Tibet.

Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years by Elizabeth Wayland Barber. Just because you don’t read about women in ancient times doesn’t mean they weren’t there or that they didn’t have a powerful impact on society. Barber’s book starts with the idea that 20,000 years ago, women were “making and wearing the first clothing created from spun fibers,” and that until the Industrial Revolution, “the fiber arts” were a huge part of the economy. If you want more info on this extremely overlooked contribution to society at large, check this out.

So excited about this month! I hope you’re ready for some amazing women-centered nonfiction reads, because they will be coming at you every Friday. As always, you can find me on Twitter @itsalicetime and co-hosting the For Real podcast with Kim here at Book Riot. Until next time! Enjoy those facts, fellow nerds.

I hope you’re ready for some awesome new books, ’cause I got ’em. Memoirs, histories, science, and more — nonfiction covers it all. We’re 1/6th through the year, so just think about how many more books we have to talk about for 2020! So exciting. Very hyped.

Legendary Children: The First Decade of RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life by Lorenzo Marquez and Tom Fitzgerald. FINALLY a history of American queer culture that pairs momentous historical events with aspects of RuPaul’s Drag Race. We’re talking the Werk Room, the Library, the Pit Crew, etc. The book is centered around the idea that “RuPaul and company devised a show that serves as an actual museum of queer cultural and social history, drawing on queer traditions and the work of legendary figures going back nearly a century.” Start your engines!

The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where We Go From Here by Hope Jahren. From the author of Lab Girl comes a book that asks: “how can we learn to live on a finite planet?” If you’re looking for a walk through the science behind the key inventions that release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere as well as actions we can take to fight back, this is it. As someone who feels much more reassured when they know how something works, I’m very excited about this book.

Rust: A Memoir of Steel and Grit by Eliese Colette Goldbach. Kim talks about this on this week’s episode of For Real and it sounds like a fascinating, layered story. Goldbach writes about her work in a steel mill after college, her childhood in the Rust Belt, her struggle with addiction, and the “unexpected warmth and camaraderie” she found among the people she worked with. It’s being compared to Educated, which is a definite plus in my book.

Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils by David Farrier. What will the earth look like to future archaeologists? What are we leaving for them to discover? Farrier explores this idea, looking at a range of items from chicken bones to nuclear storage. He goes from the Baltic Sea to the Great Barrier Reef and provides a new lens for us to view the world of today.

We Are Not Here to Be Bystanders: A Memoir of Love & Resistance by Linda Sarsour. Sarsour is known in part for being the co-chair of the 2017 Women’s March, which became a global phenomenon. In her memoir, she shares her experience of growing up as a Palestinian Muslim American and a feminist. If you’re looking for a path towards activism, she explains how she learned to become a community organizer and full-time activist. Sarsour is a sometimes-controversial figure, and while I haven’t read her memoir yet, her contribution to such a huge moment in 21st century feminism alone puts her on this new release list.

That’s it for new releases this week! You can find me on Twitter @itsalicetime and co-hosting the For Real podcast with Kim here at Book Riot. Until next time! Enjoy those facts, fellow nerds.

We’re closing out Black History Month with some awesome reads to carry you into the rest of the year. We’ve got singers, we’ve got mathematicians, we’ve got chess players! No matter what your interest (as long as it’s one of those three), you’re covered this week!

Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly. You’ve seen the movie. Probably. Now read the book! Central figure Katherine Johnson died this week at 101 (someone on Twitter said a very fun math thing about this). This book has history, it has tragedy, it has triumph, it shines a light on the previously overlooked and unsung genius women who helped get us into space. Check it out!

 

The Sound of Freedom: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America by Raymond Arsenault. Let’s talk real quick about Marian Anderson. She was the first Black person to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in NYC. Not the first Black American; the first Black person from ANY country. Opera is an incredibly international art form, and the Met is the best opera house in the country, so the fact their first Black performer only got onto the stage in 1955 is shameful. But years before that, Anderson, roundly acclaimed as an amazing singer, was refused permission by the Daughters of the American Revolution to sing to an integrated audience in Constitution Hall in Washington, DC. So Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt worked with her on an alternative solution: she instead performed on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Easter Sunday, 1939. This book tells that story.

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday by Angela Y. Davis. Davis looks at three blues singers who seriously impacted the genre and provides “the historical, social, and political contexts with which to reinterpret the performances and lyrics… Davis demonstrates how the roots of the blues extend beyond a musical tradition to serve as a consciousness-raising vehicle for American social memory.” Pull up Spotify or your music app of choice and make this book an awesome multimedia experience.

The Queen of Katwe: A Story of Life, Chess, and One Extraordinary Girl’s Dream of Becoming a Grandmaster by Tim Crothers. Phiona Mutesi grew up in a slum called Katwe in Uganda, selling maize in a street market. She discovered an after-school program about chess and by age 11, she was her country’s junior chess champion. As a teenager, she flew to Siberia in her quest to become a grandmaster.

 

Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More by Janet Mock. Transgender rights activist Mock’s first book describes her life from her childhood in Hawaii, her work in the sex industry to pay for her own hormone therapy, her career at People magazine, and her relationship with later-husband Aaron Tredwell. Redefining Realness won the Stonewall Book Award and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.

That’s it for new releases this week! You can find me on Twitter at itsalicetime and co-hosting the For Real podcast with Kim here at Book Riot. Until next time! Enjoy those facts, fellow nerds.