Tag Archives: Personal Memoirs
The Making of a Permabear
by Jeremy GranthamFrom the renowned iconoclast investor comes a brilliant account of sixty years spent hunting for value and sidestepping bubbles in a changing financial world
Winter
by Val McDermidIn this radiant work of creative nonfiction, internationally beloved novelist Val McDermid delivers a dazzling ode to a lost world, ruminating on a single…
Unabridged
by Stefan FatsisNamed a Best Book of 2025 by Smithsonian and Washington Independent Review of Books “[A] spirited examination of the state of language.”—New York Times From…
One Aladdin Two Lamps
by Jeanette Winterson“Enchanting, unexpected and razor-sharp. Jeanette Winterson and Shahrazad are the perfect co-pilots to take us into new worlds on the wings of old stories.”—Kamila…
Hotshot
by River SelbyA Kirkus Best Book of the Year “A beautiful reflection on justice, the environment, the self, and much more.”—George Saunders The fierce debut memoir of a…
Backstage
by Donna LeonA memorable collection of stories and essays on writing, reading, teaching, and Venice by the celebrated author of the bestselling Guido Brunetti series
In France Profound
by T.D. AllmanFrom the National Book Award-longlisted author of Finding Florida, a sparkling, sweeping chronicle of the author’s life and discoveries in a town in “Deep France,”…
Wandering through Life
by Donna LeonThe internationally bestselling author of the Guido Brunetti mysteries tells her own adventurous life story as she enters her eighties
Radical
by Xiaolu GuoFrom NBCC-winning author of Nine Continents Xiaolu Guo, Radical is a provocative memoir and an intercultural feminist lexicon of a sojourn in New York that upended her sense of self as a woman, partner, mother, and artist…
Chinese Prodigal
by David ShihFrom an exciting and sharp-voiced new observer of American culture, a forthright and probing debut exploring Asian American identity in a racially codified country
