Audre Lorde gets her flowers in Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ Survival Is a Promise, a masterful, poetic biography of the literar and feminist icon.
In 2022, Ketanji Brown Jackson made history as the first Black woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court. In her memoir, Lovely One, Jackson recounts her childhood in Miami, her teenage years participating in high school speech and debate, her time as an undergrad and law student at Harvard and her triumphant career. Throughout, Jackson credits her parents—both educators—and ancestors who taught her to challenge the status quo.
With candor and humor, Connie Chung shares the highs and lows of her trailblazing career as a journalist in her invigorating memoir, Connie.
Gillian Anderson asked women to send her their sexual fantasies. The result is a provocative, original volume that will help women and genderqueer people feel more empowered and less ashamed.
Elyse Graham’s thrilling history of how scholars and librarians helped the U.S. outsmart the Nazis is a pulpy delight.
Wright Thompson reckons with the culture of the Mississippi Delta and the murder of Emmett Till in his brilliant, probing history, The Barn.
Tales of child stardom are always juicy, and Ashley Spencer’s Disney High promises to poke many bears. Spencer investigates The Disney Channel’s early aughts, when kid actors like Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez and the Jonas Brothers became celebrities, and the corporate powers that be made millions off their work. Expect private feuds, public meltdowns, on-set disasters and shady dealings.
Ta-Nehisi Coates wrestles with the weighty responsibility of being a writer in The Message, a powerful collection of essays.
In her new memoir, Lifeform, Jenny Slate beckons readers into her wonderfully idiosyncratic, colorfully kaleidoscopic mind as she recounts her latest adventures with signature whimsy.
Call Me By Your Name author André Aciman recounts his pivotal coming-of-age in Rome in his sparkling memoir, Roman Year.
In her plucky, intimate memoir, Glory Edim, the creator of the Well-Read Black Girl book club, tethers the books and authors she has found and loved to her own rocky journey of self-discovery—it’s reader catnip.
It’s perhaps easier to list the entertainment roles Keke Palmer hasn’t held than those she has. (The Emmy winner and Nope star probably has not been a gaffer—though we wouldn’t put it past her.) Whether she’s acting, producing, recording music, writing scripts or hosting a variety of TV shows, Palmer dominates the industry. In Master of Me, Palmer goes behind the scenes of her extraordinary career, revealing personal challenges and the tools she has used to move forward. Her story is sure to inspire.
Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass, returns with a powerful meditation on economics rooted in abundance and sharing.
Sarah Aziza’s stunning memoir, The Hollow Half, traces her Palestinian family’s history of violent displacement and embraces their legacy of survival and love.
Mary Annette Pember’s Medicine River is a searing history of dehumanizing and often abusive Indian boarding schools.
The captivating Sister, Sinner chronicles the life of the spellbinding, complicated celebrity evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson.
Stephen S. Hall’s Slither will make you marvel at what we can learn from snakes, if only we can swap fear for curiosity and disgust for appreciation.
Bonnie Tsui’s multifaceted celebration of muscles is an appealing, enlightening guide to understanding and appreciating our own strength.
Stephanie Sabbe’s Interiors of a Storyteller weaves memoir with interior design and is recommended for Southerners, designers and fans of storytelling of all stripes.
Lost at Sea is a decade-spanning chronicle about people who have lived on a flotilla of houseboats on the California coast, and a record of the sustaining power of community.
An admirable testament to the power of local journalism, The Fairbanks Four investigates the wrongful murder conviction of four Alaskan men.
Poet Heather Christle traces the lives of her mother and Virginia Woolf in her meditative and often-beautiful memoir, In the Rhododendrons.
