Memoirs

Last Updated: March 12, 2026

Yet Here I Am: Lessons From a Black Man’s Search For Home by Jonathan Capeheart

MSNBC anchor Jonathan Capehart is one of the most recognizable faces in cable news. But long before that success, Capehart spent his boyhood growing up without his father, shuttling back and forth between New Jersey and rural Severn, North Carolina, contemplating the complexities of race and identity as they shifted around him.

All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation by Elizabeth Gilbert

An essential, universally resonant new memoir from the #1 bestselling author of Eat Pray Love and Big Magic.

Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy

Mother Mary Comes to Me
by Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy’s first work of memoir is a soaring account, both intimate and inspirational, of how the author became the person and the writer she is, shaped by circumstance, but above all by her complex relationship to the extraordinary, singular mother she describes as “my shelter and my storm.”

The Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon’s Enduring Impact on America by Mark Whitaker

Explores the iconic freedom fighter’s posthumous influence on Black Power, hip-hop, literature, sports, and politics while also detailing the wrongful convictions in his assassination, offering a broad view of his lasting impact on American culture and history.

Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything by Alyson Stoner

Actor-dancer Alyson Stoner’s revelatory and incisive memoir-from family violence and betrayal, to eating disorders and religious trauma-may begin in Hollywood, but its chilling relatability will resonate with anyone navigating identity, privacy, purpose, and mental health in a digital age.

Backstage: Stories of a Writing Life by Donna Leon

An engaging collection of stories and essays by the celebrated author of the internationally bestselling Guido Brunetti series, infused with her ever-present and delightful senses of humor and irony.

The Uncool by Cameron Crowe

The Uncool
by Cameron Crowe

Crowe reveals his formative years in rock and roll and brings to life stories that shaped a generation,in the bestselling tradition of Patti Smith’s Just Kids with a dash of Moss Hart’s Act One.