Celebrating International Women's Day - a podcast by Book Riot

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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‘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 TelferMr. 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 CookBut You’re Still So Young: How Thirtysomethings Are Redefining Adulthood by Kayleen Schaefer

Quick MentionsSpeak, 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 FrankThe 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 ZangleinInternational Women’s Day

Freiheit!: The White Rose Graphic Novel by Andrea Grosso CiponteThe Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir by Kao Kalia Yang

Things I’ve Been Silent About by Azar NafisiGuest House for Young Widows: Among the Women of ISIS by Azadeh Moaveni

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung ChangReading Now

Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice by Ellen McGarrahanHidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
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