Biography & Memoir

A classic of food writing that redefined the genre, The Gastronomical Me is a memoir of travel, love and loss, but above all hunger. In 1929 M.F.K. Fisher left America for France, where she tasted real French cooking for the first time. It inspired a...

The Periodic Table is largely a memoir of the years before and after Primo Levi’s transportation from his native Italy to Auschwitz as an anti-Facist partisan and a Jew.It recounts, in clear, precise, unfailingly beautiful prose, the story of the...

Celebrate the incredible career of pop music’s biggest star in this sparkling biography.We’ re all living in the Taylor Swift Era. Since her 2006 debut album she’s sold more than 200 million records, sold out countless arenas and become...

Rushdie asks of his audience, who are we in the face of unfathomable violence and how do we adjust to a world forever changed? No one — including the author himself — knew if he would survive the shocking attempt on his life, and here he...

From the journalist and author of How to Fail comes a disarmingly honest and perceptive investigation into the nature of friendship, prompted by Day's lockdown reassessment of her need for a large group of companions. As a society, there is a tendency...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER (MAY 2022). An unorthodox guide to making things worth making, from 'the father of the iPod and iPhone' and the creator of Nest. Everyone deserves a mentor. For every career crisis, every fork in the road, you need someone...

From the cofounder of Square, an inspiring and entertaining account of what it means to be a true entrepreneur and what it takes to build a resilient, world-changing company. In 2009, a St. Louis glassblowing artist and recovering computer scientist...

A harrowing account of surviving the Holocaust, told by the survivor himself. Sparing no detail, this is a day-to-day account of life in a concentration camp, told with empathy, ferocity and surprisingly effective humor.One of the New York Times Book...

'Extraordinary' TONY BLAIR'Riveting' - PHILIPPE SANDS'Brutal, brilliant and scurrilously funny' - MISHA GLENNY The real scoop isn't on the front page 'As FT editor, I was a privileged interlocutor to people in power around the world, each offering unique...

Monty Roberts is a real-life horse whisperer–an American original whose gentle Join-Up® training method reveals the depth of communication possible between man and animal. He can take a wild, high-strung horse who has never before been handled...

Monty Roberts is a real-life horse whisperer–an American original whose gentle Join-Up® training method reveals the depth of communication possible between man and animal. He can take a wild, high-strung horse who has never before been...

From the iconic rock band comes a deeply personal tell-all that surpasses the bounds of rock history. This is the story of family, fame and brotherhood, told by Alex van Halen.INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. In this intimate and open...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNamed one of Entertainment Tonight’s Best Celebrity Memoirs of 2023As seen in The New York Times, People, The Cut, Vulture, The Daily Beast, Today, Bustle, Us Weekly, Life & Style, and Interview“No stone...

In The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, the enigmatic, legendary Warhol makes the reader his confidant on love, sex, food, beauty, fame, work, money, success, and much more.Andy Warhol claimed that he loved being outside a party—so that he could get in...

Fame is like lightning. Taylor Swift, Bob Dylan, Leonardo da Vinci, Jane Austen, Oprah Winfrey—all of them were struck. Why? What if they hadn't been?   Consider the most famous music group in history. What would the world be like if the...

What would you do if, when you were ten, you were left to fend for yourself, and, in order to survive, you had to undertake a harrowing journey all the way from Afghanistan to Italy? In early 2002, Enaiatollah Akbari’s village fell prey to the...

An unforgettable and artful memoir, history and love story from a Palestinian man imprisoned for over 30 years. Longlisted for the National Book Award.A passionate prison memoir from a Palestinian man incarcerated for over 30 years in an Israeli...

War dives into our present day — one of the most tumultuous and pivotal periods in presidential politics, American history and the future of world diplomacy.Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller.Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward tells the...

Shattering the mold of the traditional political memoir, Unleashed is a candid, unrestrained, and revealing book by Boris Johnson, the Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.  In Unleashed, Johnson takes readers through all the...

Deeply and darkly compelling, this is a comprehensive look at the evils of the Zodiac killer, as told by a Bay Area journalist who’s been covering the case for decades. If you or someone you know is a serial killer aficionado, this is the read for...