Biographies & Memoirs

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Celebrating Black Voices: 12 Essential Reads for Black History Month

Black History Month is a time to honor the rich and complex history, achievements, and contributions of Black individuals throughout the world. One of the most powerful ways to educate yourself and engage with this history is through literature. Stories that educate, inspire, and amplify Black voices. From historical accounts…

Kelsey HallFebruary 25, 2025

Nonfiction Recommended

Far From Home, Child’s Birth is an Unexpected Adventure in Father’s Touching, Humorous Memoir

While reading the dramatic and heartwarming true birth story told in The Destination Birth by Alex Bisset, I was reminded of the John Lennon quote, “Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.” This is so fitting. Alex and Lauren Bisset were married in the middle of…

Barbara WilkovFebruary 19, 2024

Listicles Nonfiction

6 Shocking and Inspiring True Stories of Survival

Have you survived the impossible? A freak accident, a near-death experience, a danger, or a diagnosis you didn’t expect to see the other side of? So many people experience the unimaginable and continue to go on living — but not without being forever changed by what they’ve survived. In these…

Megan BeauregardSeptember 10, 2024

Nonfiction Podcasts

Books & Looks Podcast: The Unlikely Rise of a Female Crime Boss in 1860s New York

Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a literary podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio and video interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he…

Blaine DesantisAugust 14, 2024

Nonfiction

And It Suddenly Struck Him: ‘I Think I Can Write a Novel’

In an autobiographical memoir of sorts entitled Novelist as a Vocation (Knopf), the wonderous author Haruki Murakami, as his fans might anticipate, shares his love for baseball and describes his experience as a young man sitting beyond the outfield fence smelling the grass, admiring the sparkling blue sky and sipping…

Darryl OliverDecember 6, 2022

Book Club Network Miscellany

Oprah’s Book Club Selects Moving Memoir From Formerly Incarcerated Woman

This week on CBS Mornings, Oprah’s Book Club announced The Many Lives of Mama Love by bestselling author Lara Love Hardin as their 104 book selection. This heartbreaking and emotional memoir was recently released from Simon and Schuster. “Once you start reading, be prepared, because you won’t want to stop…

BookTribFebruary 28, 2024

Audiobooks Listicles Nonfiction

Crime, Family Dynamics, the Life of Actors and More in Best Biography & Memoir on Audio

AudioFile’s 2023 Best Biography & Memoir Audiobooks include stories of crime, family connections, the acting life, and more. All are brilliant performances of works that give listeners a window into the lives of others. For the full list of 2023 Best Audiobooks, visit AudioFile’s website.

AudioFileDecember 1, 2023

Listicles Nonfiction

6 Mid-Life Memoirs of Transformative Years

What would it take for you to transform your life? Could you do it in the span of a year or two? Spurred on by loss, career changes, new hobbies — or even a global pandemic — what if your life could become something new? In these six memoirs, we…

Megan BeauregardMay 11, 2023

Miscellany Nonfiction

AuthorBuzz Giveaway: Memoir Inspires Strength for Families in Crisis

Sorry, this promotion has ended. Read more below for another great recommendation from AuthorBuzz! Born Into Crisis by Kenneth Nixon Jr. (Burning Soul Collective) Dear Reader, In my memoir, Born Into Crisis, I showcase a diverse perspective by touching on my mother's mental illness, my family's inherited traumas/generational traumas, and…

AuthorBuzzMay 15, 2023

Nonfiction Pop Culture

Dazzling Exploration of Drag’s History from RuPaul’s Drag Race Winner

The charismatic Sasha Velour, crowned winner of the 2017 RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 9, continues to captivate worldwide audiences with an acclaimed magazine, drag and theater shows, and now book The Big Reveal (Harper). Its descriptive tagline makes the bold but accurate statement, An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag; a unique…

Linda HitchcockApril 6, 2023

Young Adult

Genre-bending author Jessica Hendry Nelson is blowing up the book world

It would be easy to call If Only You People Could Follow Directions (Counterpoint Press, 2014) another memoir about addiction. And in a way, it is – author Jessica Hendry Nelson unflinchingly chronicles what it’s like to grow up and come of age in a home torn apart by alcohol…

Rachel CarterJune 21, 2014

Nonfiction

John Cleese and Martin Short: Memoirs by your humble comedy legends

As I was growing up, two famous comic troupes worked from different sides of the pond. On public television, Britain’s renowned Monty Python’s Flying Circus dazzled us with a singularly bizarre brand of humor that at any time might feature exploding penguins, singing lumberjacks, Spam-loving Vikings, or a pantomime Princess…

Michael RuscoeJanuary 26, 2015

Nonfiction

A rabbi reveals the colorful history of the Jews of Asia

In his latest book, Pepper, Silk and Ivory: Amazing Stories about Jews and the Far East (Gefen Publishing House, 2014), Rabbi Marvin Tokayer regales the reader with stories of Jews who traversed the Far East—from Burma, China and Japan to all points in between—and who made significant contributions in ancient…

BookTrib Guest AuthorNovember 24, 2014

Nonfiction

12 fascinating things about Judy Garland

There’s a lot we don’t know about Judy Garland since she never wrote an autobiography, but Judy Garland on Judy Garland; Interviews and Encounters, edited by Randy L. Schmidt (Chicago Review Press, 2014) is the closest we’ll ever get to a Garland memoir. It’s a collection of terrific articles about…

Cathy PerlmutterNovember 13, 2014

Nonfiction

Tom Maxwell remembers “Hell” with the Squirrel Nut Zippers in his new memoir

Tom Maxwell rose to fame writing and playing for the interestingly named band, Squirrel Nut Zippers. With his help, the band’s hit “Hell” rocketed them to new heights, bringing their retro-swing sound to big stages in venues such as Los Angeles and Europe. Fast forward almost 20 years, and Maxwell…

Stephen J. GrantOctober 2, 2014

Nonfiction

Liz Prince’s Tomboy looks at growing up outside of gender norms

Liz Prince's graphic memoir Tomboy opens with the cartoonish 4-year-old Liz screaming and crying as her parents huddle around her. "I'm just trying to get her to wear this dress," her exasperated mother reports about the garment sent by her grandmother. Two pages later, after unsuccessful coaxing, her mother turns…

Tahneer OksmanSeptember 21, 2014

Biographies & Memoirs

Celebrating Black Voices: 12 Essential Reads for Black History Month

Far From Home, Child’s Birth is an Unexpected Adventure in Father’s Touching, Humorous Memoir

6 Shocking and Inspiring True Stories of Survival

Books & Looks Podcast: The Unlikely Rise of a Female Crime Boss in 1860s New York

Oprah’s Book Club Selects Moving Memoir From Formerly Incarcerated Woman

Crime, Family Dynamics, the Life of Actors and More in Best Biography & Memoir on Audio

6 Mid-Life Memoirs of Transformative Years

AuthorBuzz Giveaway: Memoir Inspires Strength for Families in Crisis

Genre-bending author Jessica Hendry Nelson is blowing up the book world

John Cleese and Martin Short: Memoirs by your humble comedy legends

A rabbi reveals the colorful history of the Jews of Asia

12 fascinating things about Judy Garland

Tom Maxwell remembers “Hell” with the Squirrel Nut Zippers in his new memoir

Liz Prince’s Tomboy looks at growing up outside of gender norms

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