Martha S. Jones’ moving memoir, The Trouble of Color, traces her family’s history back five generations and will change the way readers understand race.
Chloe Dalton’s magical, endearing account of bonding with a wild hare is an enchanting meditation on what we gain when we allow the natural world to teach us.
Mornings Without Mii, Mayumi Inaba’s classic memoir now translated into English for the first time, tenderly describes the author’s life with her fluffy little helpmeet, a cat named Mii.
Bridgett M. Davis’ riveting and heartbreaking memoir Love, Rita is a homage to her sister and a sober reflection on the devastating impact that medical racism has on Black women.
Joshua A. Miele survived an acid attack at age 4, but that’s not what he wants you to know about him.
Laurie Woolever’s Care and Feeding details her decades hustling in NYC’s food world, including her work for Anthony Bourdain and Mario Batali.
Sarah Chihaya always thought books could save her from suicide. Her perceptive debut memoir, Bibliophobia, examines why.
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.
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