Top 10

Bibliophobia: A Memoir

Sarah Chihaya. Random House, Feb. 4 ($29, ISBN 978-0-593-59472-8)

Literary critic Chihaya reflects on the books that carried her through her adolescence as a Japanese American girl in the white Ohio suburbs, from Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye to Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables.

Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told

Jeremy Atherton Lin. Little, Brown, June 3 ($29, ISBN 978-0-316-54579-2)

Lin follows Gay Bar with a memoir about falling for a British man just as Congress prepared to pass the Defense of Marriage Act, prompting him and his boyfriend to reflect on immigration rights and their place in the fight for marriage equality.

Free: My Search for Meaning

Amanda Knox. Grand Central, Mar. 25 ($30, ISBN 978-1-5387-7071-9)

Knox recalls the period after she was exonerated for the murder of her roommate and fellow exchange student in Italy and released from prison.

John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs

Ian Leslie. Celadon, Apr. 8 ($30, ISBN 978-1-250-86954-8)

Leslie examines John Lennon and Paul McCartney’s artistic partnership and paints a down-to-earth portrait of their 23-year friendship, pulling mostly from their songs and newly released footage of the Beatles’ twilight years.

JFK: Public, Private, Secret

J. Randy Taraborrelli. St. Martin’s, July 15 ($35, ISBN 978-1-250-34638-4)

In the follow-up to his biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, journalist and historian Taraborrelli sets his sights on John F. Kennedy, folding in details about the president’s well-covered affairs and revelations about his private character.

Mark Twain

Ron Chernow. Penguin Press, May 13 ($45, ISBN 978-0-525-56172-9)

Pulitzer-winning biographer Chernow chronicles the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn author’s Southern childhood, early days in newspaper publishing, and ruthless pursuit of celebrity.

The Möbius Book

Catherine Lacey. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 17 ($27, ISBN 978-0-374-61540-6)

In her first work of nonfiction, the Biography of X author examines the fallout from a breakup and her relationship with faith.

Source Code: My Beginnings

Bill Gates. Knopf, Feb. 4 ($32, ISBN 978-0-593-80158-1)

Tech mogul Gates charts his path from Harvard dropout to billionaire in his first autobiography.

Talk to Me: Lessons from a Family Forged by History

Rich Benjamin. Pantheon, Feb. 11 ($29, ISBN 978-0-593-31739-6)

The grandson of former Haitian president Daniel Fignolé discusses the ripple effects of the coup against Fignolé on his family.

This Is Your Mother: A Memoir

Erika J. Simpson. Scribner, May 6 ($27.99, ISBN 978-1-6680-2403-4)

Simpson debuts with an account of her relationship with her larger-than-life mother, a daughter of sharecroppers, who endured poverty and cancer.

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Abrams Image

Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer by Dylan Mulvaney (Mar. 11, $28, ISBN 978-1-4197-7039-5). Trans influencer Mulvaney discusses her childhood, TikTok fame, and the media storm she weathered following her 2023 Bud Light campaign.

Abrams Press

Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the Life of a Legend by Jason Bailey (Apr. 29, $30, ISBN 978-1-4197-6769-2). Film critic Bailey interviews James Gandolfini’s friends and collaborators for a biography that tracks the late actor’s personal life and offers critical commentary on his best-known roles.

Amistad

Mainline Mama: A Memoir by Keeonna Harris (Feb. 11, $26.99, ISBN 978-0-06-320569-7) recounts Harris’s experiences giving birth and raising a child while her partner served a 22-year prison sentence for carjacking.

Bloomsbury

Cry for Me, Argentina: My Life as a Failed Child Star by Tamara Yajia (July 1, $26.99, ISBN 978-1-63973-391-0). Comedian Yajia recalls bouncing between the U.S. and Argentina as a child alongside her eccentric relatives, including her salesman grandfather and sex worker mother.

Bold Type

Nobody Can Give You Freedom: The Political Life of Malcolm X by Kehinde Andrews (June 17, $30, ISBN 978-1-64503-070-6) draws on the civil rights leader’s writings and speeches to complicate the contemporary understanding of his flaws and failures.

Celadon

Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us by Jennifer Finney Boylan (Feb. 4, $29, ISBN 978-1-250-26188-5). Memoirist and novelist Boylan reflects on life as a transgender adult, focusing in particular on the 20 years after she came out and into her own as an artist, activist, and romantic partner.

Crown

Alligator Tears: A Memoir in Essays by Edgar Gomez (Feb. 11, $28, ISBN 978-0-593-72854-3) recounts Gomez’s poverty-stricken Florida childhood and entry into a queer, Latinx social circle when he reached adulthood.

Dey Street

Devout: A Memoir by David Archuletta (May 6, $29.99, ISBN 978-0-06-341780-9). The American Idol finalist reflects on his coming out, his break from the Mormon church, and his fraught relationship with his domineering father.

Doubleday

Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age by Amanda Hess (May 6, $29, ISBN 978-0-385-54973-8) folds insights from Hess’s reporting on the tech industry into a memoir about the absurdities of giving birth in 2020 and the risks of excessive googling.

Ecco

Care and Feeding: A Memoir by Laurie Woolever (Mar. 11, $28.99, ISBN 978-0-06-332760-3). Woolever—a cook, food writer, and former assistant to Anthony Bourdain—discusses breaking into the culinary world and the dicey gender politics she’s had to navigate throughout her career.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Homework: A Memoir by Geoff Dyer (June 10, $29, ISBN 978-0-374-61622-9) delves into the British author’s grammar school education in the 1960s and ’70s, which jump-started his literary career but alienated him from his working-class roots.

Flatiron

Kuleana: A Story of Family, Land, and Legacy in Old Hawai’i by Sara Goo (June 10, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-250-33344-5) recounts how Goo’s family struggled to decide whether to pay steeply increased taxes on their Maui land or sell it to the highest bidder.

Gallery

Food for Thought: Essays and Ruminations by Alton Brown (Feb. 4, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-6680-6421-4). Iron Chef America host Brown reminisces about his work on the Food Network, recalls his favorite meals, and muses on food in film and pop culture.

Hachette

The World of Nancy Kwan: A Memoir by Hollywood’s First Asian Leading Lady and Global Star by Nancy Kwan (Apr. 22, $31, ISBN 978-0-306-83427-1). Chinese American actor Kwan discusses her screen breakthrough in the 1960s and how her roles challenged stereotypes.

Harmony

An Exercise in Uncertainty: A Memoir of Illness and Hope by Jonathan Gluck (June 10, $28.99, ISBN 978-0-593-73578-7). Journalist Gluck covers his two decades living with a rare blood cancer, which doctors initially predicted would kill him within 18 months.

Harper

Better: A Memoir About Wanting to Die by Arianna Rebolini (Apr. 29, $30, ISBN 978-0-06-329532-2) weaves a history of Rebolini’s family’s mental health struggles with an account of her own suicidal depression.

HarperOne

The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland by Michelle Young (May 13, $29.99, ISBN 978-0-06-329589-6) digs up the story of a Paris museum employee who was key to the liberation of France.

Haus

In the Future of Yesterday: A Life of Stefan Zweig by Rüdiger Görner (Apr. 1, $34.95, ISBN 978-1-914979-10-1) chronicles the Austrian writer’s travels across Europe, his contradictory political leanings, and the final years of his life.

Head of Zeus

Amnesiac: A Memoir by Neil Jordan (June 17, $35, ISBN 978-1-80454-995-7) revisits the filmmaker’s gothic childhood in Dublin—his father was a ghost-loving school inspector, his mother a painter—and his early theatrical experiments.

Holt

Spellbound: My Life as a Dyslexic Wordsmith by Phil Hanley (Mar. 18, $28.99, ISBN 978-1-250-86015-6). The stand-up comedian recalls his struggles with dyslexia, which first prompted him to become a European runway model, then moved him to try transcendental meditation.

Knopf

One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad (Feb. 25, $28, ISBN 978-0-593-80414-8). In his nonfiction debut, the journalist and novelist charts his gradual disillusionment with U.S. foreign policy, beginning with his war reporting 20 years ago and culminating with the current conflict in Gaza.

Lyons

Judy Garland: The Voice of MGM by Scott Brogan (June 18, $65, ISBN 978-1-4930-8654-2) zooms in on the star’s years with MGM Studios from 1935 to 1950, which produced some of her most enduring work.

Mariner

The Place of Tides by James Rebanks (June 24, $28.99, ISBN 978-0-06-343417-2). In his third memoir, the British farmer recounts a summer he spent learning about birds from an elderly woman on a small Norwegian island.

Melville House

How Good It Is I Have No Fear of Dying: Lieutenant Yulia Mykytenko’s Fight for Ukraine by Lara Marlowe (Feb. 4, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-68589-187-9). War correspondent Marlowe transcribes a 23-year-old army servicewoman’s observations from the front lines of the war in Ukraine.

Morrow

Together We Roared: Alongside Tiger for His Epic Twelve-Year, Thirteen-Majors Run by Steve Williams and Evin Priest (Apr. 1, $30, ISBN 978-0-06-341870-7). Tiger Woods’s caddy pulls back the curtain on working for the golf legend.

New York Review Books

Henry James Comes Home: Rediscovering America in the Gilded Age by Peter Brooks (Feb. 11, $18.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-68137-921-0). Book critic Brooks recreates Henry James’s 1904 trip across America in hopes that the journey might offer fresh insights about 21st-century life.

Norton

The Spinach King: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty by John Seabrook (June 3, $31.99, ISBN 978-1-324-00352-6). The New Yorker writer examines his family’s crime-ridden legacy as agricultural giants in New Jersey.

One World

Too Precious to Lose by Jason Green (June 17, $28, ISBN 978-0-593-73171-0). Former Obama White House staffer Green covers his religious childhood in rural Maryland, his work on John Kerry’s presidential campaign, and his grandmother’s illness.

Other Press

A Remarkable Man: Dr. Shuntaro Hida from Hiroshima to Fukushima by Marc Petitjean, trans. by Adriana Hunter (June 24, $25, ISBN 978-1-63542-543-7), spotlights a doctor who witnessed the bombing of Hiroshima and spent the ensuing decades studying the effects of radiation on the human body.

Penguin Press

Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery by Gavin Newsom (May 6, $30, ISBN 978-1-9848-8193-9). The California governor details the years he spent shuffling between his working-class mother and well-connected father after their divorce and his political achievements as mayor of San Francisco and governor of California.

Putnam

Warhol’s Muses: The Artists, Misfits, and Superstars Destroyed by the Factory Fame Machine by Laurence Leamer (May 6, $35, ISBN 978-0-593-71666-3) examines Andy Warhol’s relationships with 10 of his so-called superstars, including Nico and Candy Darling.

Riverhead

Reading the Waves: A Memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch (Feb. 4, $29, ISBN 978-0-593-71305-1). Yuknavitch draws from her training as a writer and a teacher to examine her past, employing the lens of literary analysis to examine the traumas and triumphs that shaped her.

Scribner

Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life by Dan Nadel (Apr. 15, $35, ISBN 978-1-9821-4400-5). Museum curator Nadel’s biography of influential comics artist Robert Crumb also examines the 1960s counterculture that shaped him.

Simon & Schuster

Boat Baby: A Memoir by Vicky Nguyen (Apr. 1, $29.99, ISBN 978-1-6680-2556-7). The NBC News anchor discusses her family’s escape from 1970s Vietnam and their struggles to assimilate to American culture.

S&s/Rucci

Lessons from My Teacher by Sarah Ruhl (May 6, $26.99, ISBN 978-1-6680-3496-5) adapts a course Ruhl teaches at Yale to reflect on the professional educators and informal teachers who’ve shaped her novels and plays.

Sourcebooks

If You Were My Daughter: A Memoir of Healing an Unmothered Heart by Marianne Richmond (Mar. 18, $27.99, ISBN 978-1-4642-3190-2). Children’s author Richmond discusses caring for her ill mother in adulthood, despite being neglected when she struggled with her own illnesses as a child.

Spiegel & Grau

My Weight in Water: Notes of a Fat Black Swimmer by Michael Kleber-Diggs (July 29, $28, ISBN 978-1-954118-71-3) illuminates how the author and his brother became the first members of their Missouri family to learn to swim, and how their father’s murder shook up their household.

Tiny Reparations

Marsha: The Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson by Tourmaline (May 20, $30, ISBN 978-0-593-18566-7) examines the life and times of the Black trans artist and activist who played a
pivotal role in the 1969 Stonewall riots.

Union Square

Fruit of the Poisoned Tree: Black Slave Masters, Abhorrent Ancestors, and My Journey to Black Self-Love by A. Coghlan (Apr. 22, $27.99, ISBN 978-1-4549-5409-5) recounts how the author learned that her West African ancestors owned slaves, leading her to grapple with complicated questions of identity and racism.

Viking

The Acid Queen: The Psychedelic Life and Counterculture Rebellion of Rosemary Woodruff Leary by Susannah Cahalan (Apr. 22, $32, ISBN 978-0-593-49005-1) delves into the overlooked role Timothy Leary’s wife played in the 1960s psychedelic movement.

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