In today's episode we are talking about two of our favorite non-fiction categories: feminist/women's studies titles and true crime! We also talk about all of the recent non-fiction books of all genres that we've read and the forthcoming books that have us super excited. In our intro, Adam shares some celebrity memoirs that he has recently read and enjoyed.
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Featured OverDrive Staff
Jill, Cindy, and Rachel K.
Intro (0:00-2:44)
You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) by Felicia Day
700 Sundays by Billy Crystal
Born Standing Up by Steve Martin
Big Library Read (2:45-5:49)
American Sniper by Chris Kyle
The Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
American Wife by Taya Kyle
Recent Reads (5:50-18:59)
Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter by Kate Clifford Larson
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu by Joshua Hammer
Attempting Normal by Marc Maron
A Mother's Reckoning by Sue Klebold
I Will Find You by Joanna Connors
All the Single Ladies by Rebecca Traister
Modern Romance by Aziz Ansarai
At the Existentialist Cafe by Sarah Bakewell
Feminist Studies/Women's Issues (19:00-23:09)
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
Not That Kind of Girl by Lena Dunham
True Crime (23:10-32:29)
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
The Good Nurse by Charles Graeber
Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
The Midnight Assassin by Skip Hollandsworth
Pretty Little Killers by Daleen Berr
My Story by Elizabeth Smart
A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard
Finding Me by Michelle Knight
Hope by Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus
Fatal Vision by Joe McGinnis
The Innocent Killer by Michael Griesbach
Worse than the Devil by Dean A. Strang
The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin
Forthcoming Titles and Other Books (32:30-End)
Hunger by Roxane Gay
Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman by Lindy West
Lust and Wonder by Augusten Burroughs
Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Porcelain by Moby
Paper by Mark Kurlansky
Salt by Mark Kurlansky
Longitude by Dava Sobel
Zero by Charles Seife
Mauve by Simon Garfield
A Mind of its Own by David M. Friedman
Grunt by Mary Roach
Maximum Security Book Club by Mikita Brottman
American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes, and Trial of Patty Hearst by Jeffrey Toobin
Days of Rage by Bryan Burrough
The Rise of the Rocket Girls by Nathalia Holt
The Arm by Jeff Passan
Becoming Grandma by Lesley Stahl
Music
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