Votes for Women! - a podcast by Book Riot

This week Alice and Kim talk about sister suffragettes, Scandinavian mysteries, and pirates.

This episode is sponsored by A Quick&Easy Guide to They Them Pronouns from Oni Press, In Good Hands by Stephanie MacKendrick from KCP Loft, and Lit Stitch: 25 Cross-Stitch Patterns for Book Lovers, made by Book Riot and Abrams.

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Nonfiction NewsBecoming is a Netflix documentary! [VIDEO]

Pulitzer Prize winnersHistoryWinner: “Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America,” by W. Caleb McDanielBiographyWinner: “Sontag: Her Life and Work,” by Benjamin MoserGeneral NonfictionWinner: “The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America,” by Greg GrandinWinner: “The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, and Care,” by Anne Boyer

USA Today: “New book to tell Harry and Meghan’s ‘real’ story (and defend them from critics)”New Books

Scandinavian Noir: In Pursuit of a Mystery by Wendy LesserEnemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History’s First Global Manhunt by Steven Johnson

Biography of Resistance: The Epic Battle Between People and Pathogens by Muhammad H. ZamanTogether: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World by Vivek H Murthy M.D.

Votes for Women!Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote by Susan Ware

Votes for Women!: American Suffragists and the Battle for the Ballot by Winifred ConklingAfrican American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920 by Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote by Elaine F. WeissBonus reads:Princess of the Hither Isles: A Black Suffragist’s Story from the Jim Crow South by Adele Logan AlexanderThe Myth of Seneca Falls by Lisa TetraultFunding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women’s Movement, 1870-1967 by Joan Marie Johnson

Reading NowKIM: Open Book by Jessica Simpson (audiobook)ALICE: Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy by John Julius Norwich

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