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Celebrating International Women's Day

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This week, Kim and Alice revisit a favorite holiday, International Women’s Day, with true stories about women around the world. Plus, new nonfiction about medical history, flight attendants, and more.

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Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am by Julia Cook

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The Snatch Racket: The Kidnapping Epidemic That Terrorized 1930s America by Carolyn Cox

The Girl Explorers: The Untold Story of the Globetrotting Women Who Trekked, Flew, and Fought Their Way Around the World by Jayne Zanglein

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This week, Kim and Alice revisit a favorite holiday, International Women’s Day, with true stories about women around the world. Plus, new nonfiction about medical history, flight attendants, and more.

Subscribe to For Real using RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or Stitcher.

For more nonfiction recommendations, sign up for our True Story newsletter, edited by Alice Burton.

This post contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, Book Riot may earn a commission.

Nonfiction in the News

‘Nomadland’: How to Watch Grances McDormand and Chloé Zhao’s New Film on Hulu for Free [Rolling Stone]

Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey Share Their Most ‘Personal’ Stories Yet in New Book Office BFFs [People]

New Nonfiction

Confident Women: Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion by Tori Telfer

Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey’s Head, the Pope’s Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul by Brandy Schillace

Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am by Julia Cook

But You’re Still So Young: How Thirtysomethings Are Redefining Adulthood by Kayleen Schaefer

Quick Mentions

Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir by Elizabeth Miki Brina

Flight of the Diamond Smugglers: A Tale of Pigeons, Obsession, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa by Matthew Gavin Frank

The Snatch Racket: The Kidnapping Epidemic That Terrorized 1930s America by Carolyn Cox

The Girl Explorers: The Untold Story of the Globetrotting Women Who Trekked, Flew, and Fought Their Way Around the World by Jayne Zanglein

International Women’s Day

Freiheit!: The White Rose Graphic Novel by Andrea Grosso Ciponte

The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang

Things I’ve Been Silent About by Azar Nafisi

Guest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS by Azadeh Moaveni

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

Reading Now

Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice by Ellen McGarrahan

Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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