Biography & Memoir

The Noonday Demon is Andrew Solomon’s National Book Award-winning, bestselling, and transformative masterpiece on depression—“the book for a generation, elegantly written, meticulously researched, empathetic, and enlightening” (Time)—now with a major new...

An unauthorized biography of the great rapper, Mac Miller, who died at the age of 26. From the streets of Pittsburgh to the palm trees of L.A., Miller could never outrun his addictions and depression. This raw look at the rapper's life is not endorsed...

The “addictively readable” (The Washington Post) inside story of the British royal family’s battle to overcome the dramas of the Diana years—only to confront new, twenty-first-century crises “Brown is a deft and wily royal chronicler, marshaling a heavy...

One of The New York Times's 10 Best Books of the Year, a Christian Science Monitor Best Nonfiction Book, a Newsday Top 10 Books pick, a People magazine Top 10 pick, a Good Reads Best Book of the Year, and a Kirkus Best Nonfiction BookA National Book...

A fictional and complex portrait of bestselling author Patricia Highsmith caught up in the longing that would inspire her queer classic, The Price of SaltFlung Out of Space is both a love letter to the essential lesbian novel, The Price of Salt, and an...

(Available after May 30th, 2022) “A significant and highly readable contribution to our understanding of the gender spectrum.”—Alison Bechdel   "Rhea Ewing has done a masterful job.”—Dylan Edwards, author of Transposes “An incredibly valuable resource to...

With a commanding hand and deep, arresting self-awareness, Ashley Ford's reverberating, gorgeous memoir unfolds with an extraordinary pacing, layer and layer, nuance after nuance, to lay bare the fraught makings of a complicated life. One of the most...

(Available after May 30th, 2022)  Reggie Fils-Aimé, retired President and Chief Operating Officer of Nintendo of America Inc., shares leadership lessons and inspiring stories from his unlikely rise to the top.   Although he’s best known as Nintendo's...

(Available after June 30th, 2022)Star and executive producer of the hit TV show Bar Rescue and New York Times bestselling author of Don't Bullsh*t Yourself, Jon Taffer reveals the transformational power of conflict, sharing his toolkit for arguing...

From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower, the definitive biography of Henry Kissinger, based on unprecedented access to his private papers.Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book AwardNo American...

(Available after 3-20 days)Otto von Bismarck was more than a politician and a leader: he was the single driving force that turned the disparate states of Germany into one cohesive empire. He then went on to lead Germany and the rest of Europe into an age...

An accessible biography of Otto von Bismarck, Germany’s first chancellor.Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) has gone down in history as the Iron Chancellor, a reactionary and militarist whose 1871 unification of Germany put Europe on a path of disaster...

An inspiring and laugh-out-loud guide to building the kind of confidence it really takes to live the life of your dreams, from Impact Theory cofounder and growth mindset guru Lisa Bilyeu.Author Lisa Bilyeu grew up in London, where she was always told her...

(Available after 3-20 days)In 1999, after a series of wildly adventurous jobs around the world, Sam Sheridan found himself in Australia, loaded with cash and intent on not working until he’d spent it all. It occurred to him that, without distractions, he...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “This is one of those books that will go down as the seminal work—the determinative work—in this field. . . . Terrifying.”—Rachel MaddowThe first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy...

(Available after 3-20 days)A Best Book of 2021 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Time, and The Washington PostThe bestselling author of Leonardo da Vinci and Steve Jobs returns with a “compelling” (The Washington Post) account of how Nobel Prize winner Jennifer...

(Available after November 30th, 2022)New York Times bestselling author and journalist Anderson Cooper teams with New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Katherine Howe to chronicle the rise and fall of a legendary American dynasty—his mother’s...

Melissa Gould’s hopeful memoir of grieving outside the box and the surprising nature of love.   When Melissa Gould’s husband, Joel, was unexpectedly hospitalized, she could not imagine how her life was about to change. Overwhelmed with uncertainty as...

It has been a long time coming for a new biography of Eleanor Roosevelt—even as there have been some great ones, and Roosevelt herself was prolific—but one that can speak to new research and new perspectives is cause for delight. Roosevelt was dynamic,...

In 2006, hedge fund manager John Paulson realized something few others suspected—that the housing market and the value of subprime mortgages were grossly inflated and headed for a major fall.  Paulson's background was in mergers and acquisitions,...