Memoir

Really Good, Actually: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Monica Heisey

$27.99

ISBN: 9780063235410

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Published: William Morrow - January 17th, 2023

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Actually, this book is really F’ing great. It is funny as hell, smart, poignant, painful and relatable. There is nothing romantic about divorce, and Monica Heisey captures the messy search for meaning (and joy?) with hilarity and tenderness. Too bad this book wasn’t around years ago because some of us would have clutched it to their chest as they cried in a heap in their closet over their failed marriage (or any failure for that matter) and thanked God Monica came into their life and was now their BFF. But don’t you worry - even if you are one of those happy, well-adjusted, non-single people (goodie for you) you will still ADORE this book and not be able to put it down!

Babbie

Feelings: A Story in Seasons (Hardcover)

By Manjit Thapp

$21.99

ISBN: 9780593129753

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Published: Random House - March 2nd, 2021

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With her stunningly beautiful artwork, Manjit Thapp conveys her emotional journey through a year in seasons. What better way to start a new year than to take inspiration from nature’s cyclicality and ground yourself with awareness of what’s to come?

Manasa

The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Paul Newman, David Rosenthal (Editor), Melissa Newman (Foreword by), Clea Newman Soderlund (Afterword by)

$32.00

ISBN: 9780593534502

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Published: Knopf - October 18th, 2022

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Actor, philanthropist, husband, father, race car driver, film director, superstar Paul Newman (1925 –2008), was a conflicted man, who with self-deprecating humor, extraordinary good looks and abundant talent became one of the most iconic movie stars of the past 75 years. This revealing, candid and honest memoir tells his life story in his own words – and those of his family and friends - revealing a somber and introspective man, and yet one who counted his many blessings with true appreciation.

Nathan

One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World (Hardcover)

By Michael Frank, Maira Kalman (Illustrator)

$28.00

ISBN: 9781982167226

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Published: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster - September 6th, 2022

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Over the course of six years Frank, with much kindness and patience, elicits from Stella Levi her profoundly moving story of the Juderia of Rhodes, a community of Jews who lived on the island for hundreds of years and were brutally deported by the Nazis to Auschwitz in 1943. Frank’s loving portrait of Levi is luminescent.

Dale

None of This Rocks: A Memoir (Hardcover)

By Joe Trohman

$29.00

ISBN: 9780306847356

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Published: Hachette Books - September 13th, 2022

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Trohman provides a deep look into the alternative music scene of the early 2000s as well as into his own life navigating within and beyond it. A comedic and important memoir, super enjoyable even if you're not a Fall Out Boy fan!

Hannah

Girlhood (Paperback)

By Melissa Febos

$18.00

ISBN: 9781635579314

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Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - May 24th, 2022

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For devotees of Machado's In the Dream House and Nelson's The Argonauts, Febos's coming-of-age memoir is also an interpolation of myth, psychoanalysis, and other women's stories. Focusing on the aggressions (against herself and others) that all too often lead to internalized patriarchal values, shame, and learned passivity, she also tells a story of empowerment as she finds herself as a queer woman, dominatrix, and fierce defender of her own sense of agency.

Rachael

Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American (Paperback)

By Laura Gao, Laura Gao (Illustrator)

$14.99

ISBN: 9780063067769

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Published: Balzer + Bray - March 8th, 2022

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This graphic memoir about Laura Gao's experience as a queer immigrant from Wuhan to Texas is great — funny, infuriating, and heart wrenching in turns, with a really smart and compelling approach to rendering bilingual conversation. Throw in Laura Gao and Weiwei Xu's expressive lines, gorgeous palettes, and energetic composition, and you've got a really lovely comic!

Piera

The Liars' Club: A Memoir (Paperback)

By Mary Karr

$18.00

ISBN: 9780143035749

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Published: Penguin Books - May 31st, 2005

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As someone who’s been a skeptic of memoirs, The Liar’s Club helped remind me of the power that they can carry. Mary Karr wrote it beautifully and with an often dark sense of humor.  Reading her work was a simultaneously heavy and uplifting experience, that I highly recommend.

Seamus

Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk (Hardcover)

By Sasha LaPointe

$25.00

ISBN: 9781640094147

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Published: Counterpoint - March 8th, 2022

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There are as many ways to heal as there are to be broken, as many ways to be strong as there are challenges to face. Lapointe's memoir of trauma, relationships, punk rock, and heritage is the powerful story of a woman defining and redefining herself into the person whose life would honor her ancestors, thrive in her present, and stride strongly into her future.

Josh

In the Dream House: A Memoir (Paperback)

By Carmen Maria Machado

$16.00

ISBN: 9781644450383

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Published: Graywolf Press - December 1st, 2020

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In terms of form this is one of the most unique memoirs that I've read. In terms of content, Machado addresses queer domestic abuse in all of its totality and nuance while holding the reader in the palm of her hand.

Jane