Top 10
Baldwin: A Love Story
Nicholas Boggs. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Aug. 19 ($36, ISBN 978-0-374-17871-0)
The first major biography of James Baldwin since 1994 weaves new interviews, research, and archival material into an account of the legendary writer’s personal and professional relationships.
Blessings and Disasters: A Story of Alabama
Alexis Okeowo. Holt, Aug. 5 ($28.99, ISBN 978-1-250-20622-0)
The New Yorker staff writer considers her childhood in Montgomery, Ala.; her Nigerian ancestry; and the thorny history of her home state, with an eye toward humanizing it for outsiders.
Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts
Margaret Atwood. Doubleday, Nov. 4
($35, ISBN 978-0-385-54751-2)
In her first memoir, the Hand- maid’s Tale author discusses her upbringing in rural Quebec and the dawning of her political consciousness, highlighting the events in her life that shaped some of her most popular novels.
Luigi: The Making and the Meaning
John H. Richardson. Simon & Schuster, Nov. 4 ($28.99, ISBN 978-1-6682-0934-9)
Melding biography and cultural reporting, Richardson profiles Luigi Mangione—the accused killer of healthcare CEO Brian Thompson—and discusses the widespread social alienation that led many people to view him as a folk hero.
Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America
Beth Macy. Penguin Press, Oct. 7 ($32, ISBN 978-0-593-65673-0)
Dopesick author Macy traces the decline of her Ohio hometown in the decades since she grew up there in the 1970s and ’80s.
The Quiet Ear: An Investigation of Missing Sound
Raymond Antrobus. Hogarth, Aug. 19 ($29, ISBN 978-0-593-73210-6)
Poet Antrobus weighs the difficulties of growing up deaf and biracial in East London, how poetry helped him learn to love language, and his experiences of fatherhood.
Softly, as I Leave You: Life After Elvis
Priscilla Presley. Grand Central, Sept. 23 ($32, ISBN 978-0-306-83648-0 )
The actor and businesswoman recounts the years after she separated from her husband Elvis Presley, then mourned his untimely death and raised their two children on her own.
Strong Roots: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Ukraine
Olia Hercules. Knopf, Aug. 12
($30, ISBN 978-0-593-53748-0)
Writing in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, chef Hercules catalogs her family’s century-long history in the region and recalls waiting for her family to arrive in northern Italy after fleeing the conflict.
A Truce That Is Not Peace
Miriam Toews. Bloomsbury, Aug. 26
($26.99, ISBN 978-1-63973-474-0)
In response to a writing prompt at a literary event, novelist Toews reexamines the suicides of her sister and father, both of whom went through long periods of absolute silence before they died.
Trying: A Memoir
Chloé Caldwell. Graywolf, Aug. 5 ($18 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-64445-347-6)
Caldwell, author of the bestselling novella Women, documents in these diaristic fragments her attempts to get pregnant, the
dissolution of her marriage, and the subsequent stirring of her latent queerness.
Longlist
Abrams Press
Sorry I Keep Crying During Sex: A Memoir by Jesse James Rose (Oct. 7, $28, ISBN 978-1-4197-7791-2) uses Grindr chats and theater scripts to discuss Rose’s discovery of her gender identity, recovery from sexual assault, and caregiving for her Alzheimer’s-stricken grandfather.
Akashic
The Royal We by Roddy Bottum (Nov. 4, $27.95, ISBN 978-1-63614-269-2) depicts the artist’s adolescence in 1980s San Francisco, where he came out of the closet and began to write and perform music after fleeing Los Angeles.
Amistad
Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler by Susana M. Morris (Aug. 19, $29.99, ISBN 978-0-06-321207-7) charts the effects of real-world politics on Butler’s groundbreaking sci-fi works, including Kindred and The Parable of the Sower.
Astra House
Another Bone-Swapping Event by Brad Fox (Nov. 4, $29, ISBN 978-1-6626-0316-7) recounts Fox’s year in the Peruvian jungle
during the peak of the Covid pandemic.
Atlantic Monthly Press
Backstage: Stories of a Writing Life by Donna Leon (Aug. 26, $27, ISBN 978-0-8021-6537-4). The crime novelist compiles short essays about her writing process, artistic inspirations, and world travels.
Atria
It Girl: The Life and Legacy of Jane Birkin by Marisa Meltzer (Nov. 4, $28, ISBN 978-1-6680-6028-5) chronicles the private struggles and personal relationships of the actor and fashion muse.
Basic
Taylor’s Version: The Poetic and Musical Genius of Taylor Swift by Stephanie Burt (Oct. 14, $30, ISBN 978-1-5416-0623-4). Poet and Harvard English professor Burt analyzes Swift’s work and attempts to explain its mass appeal.
Catapult
Twice Born: Finding My Father in the Margins of Biography by Hester Kaplan (Oct. 14, $27, ISBN 978-1-64622-309-1). The author recalls the intense privacy of her father, acclaimed biographer Justin Kaplan, and analyzes the influence of his work on her own.
Dey Street
Cher, Part 2: The Memoir by Cher (Nov. 18, $36, ISBN 978-0-06-342273-5). The final volume of the Oscar and Grammy winner’s two-part autobiography chronicles her life after she broke into the film industry.
You Better Believe I’m Gonna Talk About It by Lisa Rinna (Oct. 21, $29.99, ISBN 978-0-06-342533-0). The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star shares salacious off-camera details about the show and her fellow housewives.
Diversion
Heartbeats: A Memoir by Björn Borg (Sept. 23, $29.99, ISBN 979-8-89515-071-9). The decorated tennis player discusses his meteoric rise, early retirement, and discomfort with fame.
Ecco
Articulate: A Deaf Memoir of Voice by Rachel Renee Kolb (Sept. 16, $29.99, ISBN 978-0-06-337518-5). Born deaf the same year the Americans with Disabilities Act was passed, Kolb explores the legislation’s limits and successes while highlighting her experiences with language and disability.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee (Sept. 9, $30, ISBN 978-0-374-61246-7). The inventor of HTML and the World Wide Web shares how he revolutionized technology as a young engineer, and cautions against future misuse of the internet.
Grand Central
Conversations on Faith by Martin Scorsese and Antonio Spadaro (Nov. 4, $29, ISBN 978-1-5387-7538-7) compiles dialogues between filmmaker Scorsese and Italian journalist Spadaro on their upbringings, their understandings of the soul, and Scorsese’s film Silence.
Grove
Broken King by Michael Thomas (Aug. 5, $28, ISBN 978-0-8021-2014-4). The novelist reflects on his relationship with his father and brothers, and considers the roles of race, addiction, and inherited trauma in their lives.
Hanover Square
Winston and the Windsors: How Churchill Shaped a Royal Dynasty by Andrew Morton (Oct. 21, $32, ISBN 978-1-335-25099-5). This biography of Winston Churchill focuses on his up-and-down relationship with the royal family across the 20th century.
HarperOne
Truly by Lionel Richie (Sept. 30, $36, ISBN 978-0-06-325364-3) covers the soul singer’s childhood in Alabama during the civil rights movement, the launch of his music career in New York City, and subsequent success.
Haus
My Palestine: An Impossible Exile by Mohammad Tarbush (Sept. 2, $19.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-914979-20-0). Born in British Mandate Palestine, Tarbush recalls being banished to the West Bank after the establishment of the State of Israel, and his subsequent journey across Europe.
House of Anansi
John Candy: A Life in Comedy by Paul Myers (Oct. 7, $32.99, ISBN 978-1-4870-0952-6). Interviews with Steve Martin, Dan Aykroyd, and Chevy Chase illuminate the artistic triumphs and personal struggles of the Canadian comedian.
Legacy Lit
Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: A Veteran’s Memoir by Khadijah Queen (Aug. 5, $30, ISBN 978-1-5387-7115-0) recounts Queen’s tumultuous experiences as a woman in the Navy.
Little, Brown
The First Eight: A Personal History of the Pioneering Black Congressmen Who Shaped a Nation by Jim Clyburn (Nov. 11, $30, ISBN 978-0-316-57274-3). The South Carolina congressman profiles the first Black members elected to congress and illuminates his own journey to the House of Representatives.
Liveright
Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run by Paul McCartney, edited by Ted Widmer (Nov. 4, $45, ISBN 978-1-324-09630-6),
pulls from extensive interviews with McCartney to document the establishment and dissolution of the band Wings in the aftermath of the Beatles.
Mariner
Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America by Jeff Chang (Sept. 23, $35, ISBN 978-0-358-72647-0) combines a traditional biography of Lee and a consideration of his impact on Asian American culture, with the help of interviews, archival materials, and photos.
Melville House
Bob Dylan: Things Have Changed by Ron Rosenbaum (Oct. 21, $32, ISBN 978- 1-68589-225-8). The journalist, who lived around the corner from Dylan while writing for the Village Voice, analyzes the Nobel Prize–winning musician’s legendarily dense catalog.
Milkweed
Governing Bodies: A Memoir, a Confluence, a Watershed by Sangamithra Iyer (Nov. 4, $28, ISBN 978-1-57131-393-5). In three letters—one addressed to her grandfather, one to her father, and one to readers—civil engineer Iyer tries to make peace with living on a dying planet.
Morrow
Heart Life Music by Kenny Chesney (Nov. 4, $32.5, ISBN 978-0-06-342310-7) charts the country musician’s journey from small-town Tennessee to the bright lights of Nashville and beyond.
Norton
Girl Warrior: A Coming of Age Handbook by Joy Harjo (Oct. 7, $21.99, ISBN 978-1-324-09417-3). The former U.S. poet laureate follows Poet Warrior with a reflection on her adolescence and an inventory of lessons she’s learned from her Native American ancestors.
One Signal
A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature by Adam Morgan (Dec. 9, $29, ISBN 978-1-6680-5364-5) explores the editor’s founding of The Little Review, which published writers including T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and James Joyce, and courted controversy for its boundary-pushing material.
Other Press
Everything Is Photograph: A Life of André Kertész by Patricia Albers (Sept. 16, $39.99, ISBN 978-1-59051-509-9). Drawing on interviews with the groundbreaking Hungarian street photographer’s collaborators, this biography explores his rise to prominence across the 20th century.
Pantheon
The Season: A Fan’s Story by Helen Garner (Sept. 2, $26, ISBN 978-0-593-70214-7). The Australian novelist and journalist uses her grandsons’ Australian football games as a springboard to discuss masculinity, family, and communal bonds.
PublicAffairs
Chaim Soutine: Genius, Obsession, and a Dramatic Life in Art by Celeste Marcus (Oct. 28, $30, ISBN 978-1-5417-0322-3) puts the provocative Jewish painter’s work in conversation with his contemporaries, including Marc Chagall and Amedeo Modigliani.
Random House
Comedy Nerd: A Lifelong Obsession in Stories and Pictures by Judd Apatow (Oct. 28, $35, ISBN 978-0-593-59593-0). The writer, director, and producer of Knocked Up and The 40-Year-Old Virgin reflects on his career, influences, and famous friends in a conversational, scrapbooklike format.
S&S/Rucci
Tart: Misadventures of an Anonymous Chef by Slutty Cheff (Aug. 5, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-6680-7022-2). In a memoir PW called “a refreshing forkful of food and sex,” a nameless food blogger discusses her shift from the corporate world to London’s kitchens.
Seven Stories
The Other Girl by Annie Ernaux, trans. by Alison L. Strayer (Oct. 7, $17.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-64421-487-9). Nobel Prize winner Ernaux investigates the life of her sister, who died at six years old—two years before Ernaux was born.
Steerforth
Holding: A Memoir About Mothers, Drugs, and Other Comforts by Karleigh Frisbie Brogan (Aug. 26, $19.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-58642-412-1). The author recalls moving in with her boyfriend’s parents while hiding a heroin addiction, and examines how his mother came to stand in for her own.
St. Martin’s
Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything: A Memoir by Alyson Stoner (Aug. 12, $30, ISBN 978-1-250-35349-8). The former Disney Channel actor discusses the grueling schedules and impossible body standards of child stardom.
Tin House
A Silent Treatment: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco (Sept. 9, $26.99, ISBN 978-1-963108-45-3). After Vanasco’s mother moved in with her, a series of conflicts caused them to stop speaking to each other. In response, Vanasco dug into her mother’s childhood and considered the particular cruelties of silence.
Univ. of Nebraska
Selected Misdemeanors: Essays at the Mercy of the Reader by Sue William Silverman (Sept. 1, $21.95 trade paper,
ISBN 978-1-4962-4422-2) strings together insignificant moments from Silverman’s life to reveal their profound interconnectedness.
Univ. of Wisconsin
Man Made: Searching for Dads, Daddies, Father Figures, and Fatherhood by Steve Majors (Oct. 28, $19.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-299-35414-5). The author, who is gay, investigates his shifting conceptions of masculinity from childhood to adulthood.
Verso
The Storyteller: John Berger’s Lives by Tom Overton (Jan. 6, $34.95, ISBN 978-1-80429-844-2) is a biography of the influential British novelist and art critic who wrote Ways of Seeing.
Viking
Does This Make Me Funny? Essays by Zosia Mamet (Sept. 9, $28, ISBN 978-0-593-49056-3). The Girls star discusses breaking into the industry as the daughter of playwright David Mamet and actor Lindsay Crouse.
Washington Square
Fire in Every Direction: A Memoir by Tareq Baconi (Nov. 4, $29, ISBN 978-1-6680-6856-4) charts Baconi’s journey from Amman, Jordan, to London, then Palestine, and highlights how his queerness and his heritage conspired to make him feel like an outsider wherever he went.
