History buffs are no doubt familiar with the story of Shadrack Byfield, a rank-and-file British redcoat who fought during the ...

Leslie Gray Streeter wrote “Black Widow: A Sad-Funny Journey Through Grief for People Who Normally Avoid Books with Words Like ‘Journey’ in the Title” because it’s the book she needed when she became ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Celebrities and public figures released 290 new memoirs in 2025, down nearly 160 from 2023’s Peak Celeb Memoir era ...

Bill Gates recommends spending your summer reading five of the best memoirs he's ever encountered. The billionaire Microsoft co-founder's Summer 2025 list of book recommendations is an eclectic ...

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 ...

Another banner year at the Celebrity Memoir Factory — a seemingly bottomless font of origin stories, trauma dumps and D-list confessions. Thankfully, a cottage industry of podcast sages has sprung up ...