Tag Archives: Personal Memoirs
Help Me!
by Marianne PowerAlready an international phenomenon sold to 23 publishers around the world, Marianne Power’s Help Me! is the hilarious, thought-provoking, and unfailingly honest account of…
The Yellow House
by Sarah BroomA brilliant, haunting and unforgettable memoir from a stunning new talent about the inexorable pull of home and family, set in a shotgun house…
Small Fry
by Lisa Brennan-JobsA frank, smart and captivating memoir by the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs.
Nine Continents
by Xiaolu GuoNational Book Critics Circle’s Award Winner for Autobiography, Xiaolu Guo’s memoir documents her trajectory from a small fishing village in rural China to life…
Afterglow (a dog memoir)
by Eileen MylesEileen Myles—“a kick-ass counter-cultural icon” (New Yorker)—has written an innovative and intimate account of living with a pit bull named Rosie.
The Zanzibar Chest
by Aidan Hartley“An extraordinary and heartbreaking book, the finest account of a war correspondent’s psychic wracking since Michael Herr’s Dispatches, and the best white writing from…
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
by Jeanette Winterson“Magnificent . . . A tour de force of literature and love.” —Megan O’Grady, Vogue
The Voyeur’s Motel
by Gay TaleseFrom Gay Talese, a remarkable new work of reportage more than thirty years in the making.
To the New Owners
by Madeleine BlaisFrom the celebrated, bestselling journalist, and memoirist Madeleine Blais, the story of a family home on Martha’s Vineyard.
