Biography & Memoir

Based on the long-running Slate advice column, a collection of the most eye-opening, illuminating, and provocative installments during Daniel M. Lavery’s tenure as the titular Prudence. Every week, millions of readers visit Slate for the...

Steinbeck and Capa’s account of their journey through Cold War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing.A Penguin Classic.Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Steinbeck and...

Minamoto Yoshitsune should not have been a samurai. But his story is legend in this real-life saga. This epic warrior tale reads like a novel, but this is the true story of the greatest samurai in Japanese history. When Yoshitsune was just a baby, his...

The New York Times bestselling author of War Dogs exposes the inside story of disgraced fraudster turned undercover FBI informant Marty Blazer and the greatest scandal in the history of the NCAA. When the federal government catches hotshot financial...

The celebrated author and podcaster takes us back in time to an age of grandeur, guts and glory. This is an astonishing account of a complicated king."Ambitious... With meticulous research and in lively style, Jones presents us with the man beyond...

In this classic of American literature, Thoreau gives an account of his two years' experience of the 'simple life' in the woods, telling how he sought and found material and spiritual sustenance in the solitude of the cabin which he built for himself on...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An Amazon Best Book of 2024 • A glittering portrait of the golden age of American department stores and of three visionary women who led them, from the award-winning author of The Plaza. • "Ms. Satow’s...

With his immediately identifiable voice, Stanley Tucci walks us through a year of eating and the life, loss and memories that orbit each meal. It’s as fun as it is delicious, as mouth-watering as it is eye-watering.From Stanley Tucci, award-winning...

 A stirring account of one momentous week that would unleash fifty years of tyranny for half of Europe and plunge the world into the Cold War, as seen through the eyes of three young women. Catherine Grace Katz’s debut book, The Daughters of...

Sing along with us: where you lead, I will follow. This is a witty and warm look at the life and legacy of a Hollywood star and the show that made her everyone's pesky, loving grandmother.INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.“Come for the Gilmore...

In November 1929, Christopher Isherwood - determined to become a 'permanent foreigner' - packed a rucksack and two suitcases and left England on a one-way ticket for Berlin. With incredible candour and wit, Isherwood recalls the decadence of Berlin's...

Through the prism of four 'unloved' creatures - eels, moths, crickets and mussels - Malay tells the captivating story of belonging and extinction in the English countryside in lyrical, beautifully descriptive prose. Winner of the Wainwright Prize for...

Backstage with the very witty Dame Judi Dench. Check. Raucous stories. Check. Masterclass in Shakespearean theater. Check. A total delight to read.INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Taking a curtain call with a live snake in her wig... Cavorting naked...

A moving and fascinating meditation on freedom, trust, loss, and our relationship with the natural world, explored through the story of one woman’s unlikely friendship with a wild hare.Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine...

Now an Apple TV+ Series. “A terrific narrative of the hunt for Lincoln’s killers that will mesmerize the reader from start to finish.”—Doris Kearns Goodwin. The murder of Abraham Lincoln set off the greatest manhunt in American...

*Now a Hulu limited series starring Lily Gladstone, Riley Keough, and Archie Panjabi!*“A swift, harrowing classic perfect for these unnerving times.” —Jenny Offill, author of Dept. of SpeculationOne moonlit night, fourteen-year-old...

With one of those narrative voices that makes you forget you're even reading, The Many Lives of Mama Love is the story of one woman's perseverance through the many heads of adversity. It's inspirational, hilarious and necessary.“Once you start...

Maid set the bar incredibly high for Stephanie Land, opening up a whole discourse on working conditions and the lives of those with the chips stacked against them. Class sees that bar, and raises it. Weaving together themes of motherhood and ambition, it...

Griffin Dunne's long-awaited memoir is a stunning portrait of the 70s and 80s, and the stubborn persistence of life through tragedy. A hit for anyone who loves the verve of Patti Smith. The instant New York Times bestseller! “Warm and...

Resisting interpretation or classification, Mark Rothko (1903–1970) was a prominent advocate for the artist’s consummate freedom of expression. Although identified as a key protagonist of the Abstract Expressionist movement, first formed...