Neko Case’s memoir, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You, is an ode to the persistent ability to love, and how it transforms our lives.
Rich Benjamin reckons with his family’s exile from Haiti in his vivid, novelistic memoir, Talk to Me.
Thomas Dai’s intimate essay collection and travelogue, Take My Name but Say It Slow, reflects on his life growing up queer and Chinese American in Tennessee.
Sweet but never saccharine, Sarah Perry’s collection of essays about candy, Sweet Nothings, is a book worth savoring.
Bonny Reichert’s How to Share an Egg is a beautifully written, eye-opening memoir that movingly shows how food—and writing about it—can bridge divides and heal generations.
Jennifer Finney Boylan’s latest memoir-in-essays, Cleavage, is a sometimes funny, sometimes elegiac, meditation on gender, parenthood and coming to terms with herself.
Stars of groundbreaking early 2000s lesbian drama series The L Word, Kate Moennig and Leisha Hailey reflect on the legacy of the series in their co-authored memoir, So Gay for You: Friendship, Found Family, and the Show That Started It All. Sharing behind-the-scenes stories and on-set anecdotes, Moennig and Hailey reflect on the show’s impact on politics, culture and the queer community. And most of all, they tell the story of the bonds among castmates and their big, gay friendship in this intimate celebrity memoir.
Scaachi Koul made waves with her buzzy, hilarious debut memoir, One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter, in 2017. She’ll treat readers again with its follow-up, Sucker Punch, a memoir-in-essays about what happens when great expectations are dashed but you gotta keep on truckin’.
The Sexual Assault Survivors’ Rights Act was unanimously approved in the House and Senate in 2016, establishing more rights for survivors of sexual assault and rape. This historic, bipartisan effort was the result of one woman’s quest for justice after she was raped as a student at Harvard. In Saving Five: A Memoir of Hope, Amanda Nguyen tells the story of her path to healing from the perspectives of different versions of herself at different ages.
As a mother, businesswoman, global advocate for women and girls, and bestselling author of The Moment of Lift, Melinda French Gates shares intimate stories of the most pivotal moments of her life while presenting a new approach for readers when in times of change in The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward. Here, she describes her time stepping down from the Gates Foundation and founding Pivotal Ventures, where she focuses on creating lasting change for women through philanthropy, impactful investments and partnerships.
Pulitzer-winning novelist (for March) Geraldine Brooks pens a memoir about grieving the sudden death of her husband, fellow Pulitzer winner Tony Horwitz, in 2019. Besieged by the demands of a partner’s death, Brooks put off grieving for three years. Memorial Days is about the time after, when she retreated to a remote island off the coast of Australia, her home country, to finally attend to the demands of grief.
Novelist, biographer, playwright, essayist and queer icon Edmund White (The Humble Lover, A Saint From Texas) has spent his long career writing about love and sex in a way that shatters taboos and elevates the value of pleasure. His dishy new memoir, The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir, explores these themes during different seasons of his life.
The Hawaiian word kuleana means responsibility and stewardship carried through the generations, and it’s the theme of Sara Kehaulani Goo’s Kuleana: A Story of Family, Land, and Legacy in Old Hawai’i. A veteran journalist (Axios, NPR, the Washington Post), Goo was drawn to investigate her family’s ancestral land in Maui when their property tax rose by 500%, a sum that seemed intended to displace them. Kuleana’s understanding of her own cultural identity deepens as she unfurls her family’s story alongside that of Hawai’i’s.
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