Our season preview from our Buzz Books 2019 Fall/Winter sampler continues with nonfiction. This season’s notable memoirs include offerings from Julie Andrews, Augusten Burroughs, Elton John, and Patti Smith –– along with former US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley’s book about her life and leadership, due from St. Martin’s some time in the fall. Meanwhile, our sampler features work from Nefertiti Austin (Motherhood So White); Susan Cahalan (The Great Pretender); Emma Copley Eisenberg (The Third Rainbow Girl); Ben Moon (Denali); Samantha Power (The Education of an Idealist); and others.
For the trade editions — with publicity and marketing info, and click-throughs for full galleys, you can download through your platform of choice from NetGalley or Edelweiss.The consumer version is available on all the major ebookstore platforms (the “download” button here links to them all). Here is our full list of nonfiction titles for the fall and winter season, alphabetically by author. Titles excerpted in Buzz Books are noted with an asterisk. (Please remember: Because we prepared this preview many months in advance, titles, content, and publication dates are all subject to change.)
Politics & Current Events
Binyamin Appelbaum, The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society (Little, Brown, 9/3)
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, Good Economics, Bad Economics (PublicAffairs, 11/12)
Glenn Beck, Addicted to Outrage: How Thinking Like a Recovering Addict Can Heal the Country (Threshold, 11/19)
Kate Andersen Brower, Team of Five: The Presidents Club in the Age of Trump (Harper, 11/19)
Lonnie G. Bunch III, A Fool’s Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture during the Age of Bush, Obama, and Trump (Smithsonian, 9/24)
Ashley ‘Dotty’ Charles, Outrage is the New Black: Why Everyone is Shouting But No One is Talking (Bloomsbury, 9/3)
Julie Hirschfeld Davis and Michael D. Shear, Border Wars: Inside Trump’s Assault on Immigration (Simon & Schuster, 10/8)
Alan M. Dershowitz, Defending Israel: The Story of My Relationship with My Most Challenging Client (All Points, 9/3)
Erik Edstrom, Un-American: A Soldier’s Reckoning of America’s Longest War (Bloomsbury, 10/29)
Stanley Fish, The First: How to Think About Hate Speech, Campus Speech, Religious Speech, Fake News, Post-Truth, and Donald Trump (Signal, 10/29)
Gilbert M. Gaul, The Geography of Risk: Epic Storms, Rising Seas, and the Cost of America’s Coasts (Sarah Crichton, 9/3)
Newt Gingrich, Trump Versus China: Facing and Fighting America’s Greatest Threat (Center Street, 10/8)
Daniel Gordis, We Stand Divided: The Rift Between American Jews and Israel (Ecco, 9/24)
Stanley B. Greenberg, RIP GOP: How the New America Is Dooming the Republic (Thomas Dunne, 9/10)
Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement (Penguin, 10/1)
David Kirby, When They Come for You: How Police and Government Are Trampling Our Liberties—and How to Take Them Back (St. Martin’s, 10/29)
Michael Klare, All Hell Breaking Loose: Climate Change, Global Chaos, and American National Security (Metropolitan, 11/12)
Naomi Klein, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal (Simon & Schuster, 9/17)
Robert Kuttner, The Stakes: 2020 and the Survival of American Democracy (Norton, 9/17)
Chung Min Lee, The Hermit King: The Dangerous Game of Kim Jong Un (All Points, 11/5)
Lawrence Lessig, They Don’t Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy (Dey Street, 11/5)
Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg, We Are Indivisible: A Blueprint for Democracy After Trump (Signal Press, November)
Barry Levine and Monique El-Faizy, All the President’s Women: Donald Trump and the Making of a Predator (Hachette, 10/22)
Andrew S. Lewis, The Drowning of Money Island: A Forgotten Community’s Fight Against the Rising Seas Threatening Coastal America (Beacon, 10/1)
Chris Liddell-Westefeld, They Said This Day Would Never Come: Chasing the Dream on Obama’s Improbable Campaign (PublicAffairs, 11/12)
Ed Morales, Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico (Bold Type, 9/10)
Malcolm Nance, The Plot to Commit Treason: How Donald Trump Pulled Off the Greatest Act of Treachery in US History (Hachette, 11/12)
Anne Nelson, Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right (Bloomsbury, 10/29)
Fintan O’Toole, The Politics of Pain: Postwar England and the Rise of Nationalism (Liveright, 11/5)
Star Parker with Richard Manning, Necessary Noise: How Donald Trump Inflames the Culture War and Why This Is Good for America (Center Street, 11/12)
Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly, The Education of Brett Kavanaugh (Portfolio, 10/8)
James Poniewozik, Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America (Liveright, 9/10)
Paul Richter, The Ambassadors: American Diplomats on the Front Lines (Simon & Schuster, 9/17)
Jeremy Rifkin, The Green New Deal: Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028 and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth (St. Martin’s, 9/10)
Nathan J. Robinson, We’re All Socialists Now: How the Left Can Dream Big and Win Again (All Points, 10/10)
Kathleen Sears, Socialism 101: From the Bolsheviks and Karl Marx to Universal Healthcare and the Democratic Socialists, Everything You Need to Know about Socialism (Adams Media, 9/3)
George Soros, In Defense of Open Society (PublicAffairs, 9/24) Richard Stengel, Information Wars (Atlantic Monthly, 10/8)
Jeffrey Sterling, Unwanted Spy: The Persecution of an American Whistleblower (Bold Type, 10/15)
Matt Stoller, Goliath: How Monopolies Secretly Took Over the World (Simon & Schuster, 10/15)
Christopher Varelas, How Money Became Dangerous: The Inside Story of our Turbulent Relationship with Modern Finance (Ecco, 10/16)
Samuel Woolley, The Reality Game: How the Next Wave of Technology Will Break the Truth (PublicAffairs, 1/7)
James D. Zirin, Plaintiff in Chief: A Portrait of Donald Trump in 3,500 Lawsuits (All Points, 9/24)
Social Issues
Cynthia Anderson, Home Now: How 6000 Refugees Transformed an American Town (PublicAffairs, 10/29)
Martin Caparros, Hunger: The Oldest Problem (Melville House, 10/8) Lizabeth Cohen, Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age (FSG, 10/1)
Rachel Vorona Cote, Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today (Grand Central, 1/28)
Ben Crump, Open Season: Legalized Genocide of Colored People (Amistad, 10/15)
Marcel Danesi, The Art of the Lie: How the Manipulation of Language Affects Our Minds (Prometheus, 10/8)
Johnny Dwyer, The Districts: Justice and Power in New York City (Knopf, 10/1)
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, Stop Telling Women to Smile: Stories of Street Harassment and How We’re Taking Back Our Power (Seal, 12/3)
Christopher J. Ferguson, How Madness Shaped History: An Eccentric Array of Maniacal Rulers, Raving Narcissists, and Psychotic Visionaries (Prometheus, 1/07)
America Ferrera, American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures (Gallery, 9/3)
*B.J. Fogg, Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything (HMH, 1/7)
Deborah Frances-White, The Guilty Feminist: You Don’t Have to Be Perfect to Overthrow the Patriarchy (Seal, 10/15)
Malcolm Gladwell, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know (Little, Brown, 9/10)
Ed Gordon, Conversations in Black: On Power, Politics, and Leadership (Hachette, 1/7)
Matthew Gutmann, Are Men Animals?: How Modern Masculinity Sells Men Short (Basic, 11/5)
Austen Ivereigh, Wounded Shepherd: Pope Francis and His Struggle to Convert the Catholic Church (Holt, 10/22)
Shaun King, Make Change: How to Fight Injustice, Dismantle Systemic Oppression, and Own Our Future (HMH, 1/7)
Nicholas Lemann, Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream (FSG, 9/10)
Daniel Markovits, The Meritocracy Trap: How America’s Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite (Penguin, 9/10)
Reuben Jonathan Miller, Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration (Little, Brown, 2/4)
Azadeh Moaveni, The Guest House for Young Widows: The Women of ISIS (Random House, 9/10)
Douglas Murray, Madness of Crowds: Some Modern Taboos (Continuum, 9/17)
Pamela Newkirk, Diversity, Inc.: The Failed Promise of a Billion-Dollar Business (Bold Type, 10/22)
Mike Pearl, The Day It Finally Happens: The Good News About the Bad News—and the Bad News About the Good News (Scribner, 9/17)
Imani Perry, Breathe: A Letter to My Sons (Beacon, 9/17)
Christopher Ryan, Civilized to Death: What Was Lost on the Way to Modernity (Avid Reader, 10/1)
A. K. Sandoval-Strausz, Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City (Basic, 11/12)
Mychal Denzel Smith, Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream (Bold Type, 1/21)
Nico Tortorella, Space Between: Explorations of Love, Sex, and Fluidity (Crown, 9/17)
Jeannie Vanasco, Things We Didn’t Talk About When I Was a Girl: A Memoir (Tin House, 10/1)
Bari Weiss, How to Fight Anti-Semitism (Crown, 9/3) Lindy West, The Witches Are Coming (Hachette, 9/17)
Science & Technology
Kathryn Bowers and Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, Wildhood: The Epic Journey from Adolescence to Adulthood in Humans and Other Animals (Scribner, 9/17)
Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Doubleday, 10/15)
*Susannah Cahalan, The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness (Grand Central, 11/5)
Philippe J. Dubois and Elise Rousseau, A Short Philosophy of Birds (Dey Street, 9/17)
Seth Fletcher, Einstein’s Shadow: A Black Hole, a Band of Astronomers, and the Quest to See the Unseeable (Ecco, 10/15)
Florian Freistetter, Stephen Hawking: His Science in a Nutshell (Prometheus, 10/22)
S. James Gates and Cathie Pelletier, Proving Einstein Right: The Daring Expeditions that Changed How We Look at the Universe (PublicAffairs, 9/24)
Michael S. A. Graziano, Rethinking Consciousness: A Scientific Theory of Subjective Experience (Norton, 9/17)
Rowan Hooper, Superhuman: Life at the Extremes of Our Capacity (Simon & Schuster, 9/17)
Daphna Joel and Luba Vikhanski, Gender Mosaic: Beyond the Myth of the Male and Female Brain (Spark, 9/17)
Raymond Kurzweil, The Singularity Is Nearer (Viking, 11/12)
Bob McDonald, An Earthling’s Guide to Outer Space: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Black Holes, Dwarf Planets, Aliens, and More (Simon & Schuster, 10/22)
Adam Minter, Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale (Bloomsbury, 11/12)
Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Angel and the Assassin: The Tiny Brain Cell That Changed the Course of Medicine (Ballantine, 1/21)
Alondra Oubre, Science in Black and White: How Both Nature and Nurture Influence Racial Differences (Prometheus, 11/19)
Lydia Pyne, Genuine Fakes: How Phony Things Teach Us About Real Stuff (Sigma, 10/29)
Gina Rippon, Gender and Our Brains (Pantheon, 8/27)
Frank Ryan, Virusphere: From Common Colds to Ebola Epidemics– Why We Need the Viruses That Plague Us (Prometheus, 12/10)
Janelle Shane, You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place (Little, Brown, 11/5)
David Sinclair, Lifespan: The Revolutionary Science of Why We Age–– and Why We Don’t Have To (Atria, 9/10)
Gaia Vince, Transcendence: How Humans Evolved through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time (Basic, 11/12)
Giles Whittell, Snow: A Scientific and Cultural Exploration (Atria, 11/19)
Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz and Roger Highfield, The Dance of Life: The New Science of How a Single Cell Becomes a Human Being (Basic, 11/12)
History and Crime
Karen Abbott, The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America (Crown, 10/8)
*Jake Anderson, Dark Waters: The Mysterious Death of Elisa Lam (Citadel/Kensington, 2/25)
Tamim Ansary, The Invention of Yesterday: A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection (PublicAffairs, 10/1)
Axton Betz-Hamilton, The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity (Grand Central, 10/15)
Heidi Blake, From Russia With Blood: The Kremlin’s Ruthless Assassination Program and Vladimir Putin’s Secret War on the West (Mulholland, 9/24)
David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (Simon & Schuster, 10/29)
Sidney Blumenthal, All the Powers of Earth: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. III, 1856-1863 (Simon & Schuster, 9/3)
H. W. Brands, Dreams of El Dorado: A History of the American West (Basic, 10/22)
Richard Brookhiser, Give Me Liberty: A History of America’s Exceptional Idea (Basic, 11/5)
Ethan Brown, Murder in the Bayou: Who Killed the Women Known as the Jeff Davis 8? (Scribner, 9/3)
Louise Callaghan, Father of Lions: The Remarkable True Story of the Mosul Zoo Rescue (Forge, 9/17)
Dan Carlin, Hardcore History: History at the Extremes (Harper, 10/8)
Tom Chaffin, Revolutionary Brothers: Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the Friendship that Helped Forge Two Nations (St. Martin’s, 11/26)
Jung Chang, Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China (Knopf, 10/29)
Gail Collins, No Stopping Us Now: A History of American Women, Age, and Expectations Defied (Little, Brown, 10/15)
Becky Cooper, We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence (Grand Central, 11/25)
William Dalrymple, The Anarchy: The Rise and Fall of the East India Company (Bloomsbury, 10/22)
Ed Darack, The Warriors of Anbar: The Marines Who Crushed Al- Qaeda––the Greatest Untold Story of the Iraq War (Da Capo, 11/5)
Adam Davidson, The Passion Economy: The New Rules for Thriving in the Twenty-First Century (Knopf, 1/7)
Dan Davies, Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Working of Our World (Scribner, 10/22)
Frank Dikötter, How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century (Bloomsbury, 12/3)
Byron L. Dorgan, The Girl in the Photograph: The True Story of a Native American Child, Lost and Found in America (Thomas Dunne, 11/26)
*Emma Copley Eisenberg, The Third Rainbow Girl: The Long Life of a Double Murder in Appalachia (Hachette, 1/21)
Anthony Everitt, Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death (Random House, 8/27)
J. M. Fenster, Cheaters Always Win: The Story of America (Twelve, 12/3)
Orlando Figes, The Europeans: Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture (Metropolitan, 10/8)
Peter Finn, A Guest of the Reich: The Story of American Heiress Gertrude Legendre and her Dramatic Captivity and Daring Escape from Nazi Germany (Pantheon, 9/24)
Matthew Flinders, Gillian Dooley, and Philippa Sandall, Trim, The Cartographer’s Cat: The Ship’s Cat Who Helped Flinders Map Australia (Adlard Coles, 12/17)
Eric Foner, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution (Norton, 9/17)
Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: The Saudi-Iran Wars on Religion and Culture that Destroyed the Middle East (Holt, 10/8)
Kristen R. Ghodsee, Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism (Bold Type, 11/20)
James Glaisher, The Aeronauts: Travels in the Air (Melville House, 8/20)
Stephen Harding, Escape from Paris: Aviators, Spies and Star-Crossed Lovers in Wartime France (Da Capo, 10/8)
Robert Harms, Land of Tears: The Exploration and Exploitation of Equatorial Africa (Basic, 12/3)
Tom Holland, Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World (Basic, 10/29)
Nathalia Holt, The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History (Little, Brown, 9/17)
Holly Jackson, American Radicals: How Nineteenth-Century Counterculture Shaped the Nation (Crown, 10/8)
Dan Jones, Crusaders: The Epic History of the Wars for the Holy Lands (Viking, 10/1)
Phil Keith with Tom Clavin, All Blood Runs Red: The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard—Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy (Hanover Square, 11/5)
Rashid Khalidi, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017 (Metropolitan, 9/24)
Stephen Kinzer, Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control (Holt, 9/17)
Mary M. Lane, Hitler’s Last Hostages: Looted Art and the Soul of the Third Reich (PublicAffairs, 9/10)
Erika Lee, America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States (Basic, 11/26)
Steven Levingston, Barack and Joe: The Making of an Extraordinary Partnership (Hachette, 10/29)
Buddy Levy, Labyrinth of Ice: The Triumphant and Tragic Greely Polar Expedition (St. Martin’s, 12/3)
Julia Lovell, Maoism: A Global History (Knopf, 9/3)
*Heather Dune Macadam, 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz (Kensington, 12/31)
Jessica McDiarmid, Highway of Tears (Atria, 11/12)
Mo Moulton, The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women (Basic, 11/5)
Steve Murphy and Javier F. Peña, Manhunters: How We Took Down Pablo Escobar, the World’s Most Wanted Criminal (St. Martin’s, 11/12)
Simon Parkin, A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Young Women Who Played to Win World War II (Little, Brown, 1/28)
Jeremy Popkin, A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution (Basic, 12/10)
Mira Ptacin, The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends of Camp Etna (Liveright, 10/29)
Michael Pullara, The Spy Who Was Left Behind: Russia, the United States, and the True Story of the Betrayal and Assassination of a CIA Agent (Scribner, 11/19)
Kassia St. Clair, The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History (Liveright, 11/12)
Craig Shirley, Mary Ball Washington: The Untold Story of George Washington’s Mother (Harper, 11/5)
Amity Shlaes, Great Society: A New History of the 1960s in America (Harper, 9/10)
David J. Silverman, This Land is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving (Bloomsbury, 11/5)
Brendan Simms, Hitler: A Global Biography (Basic, 10/1)
Douglas Smith, The Russian Job: The Forgotten Story of How America
Saved the Soviet Union from Ruin (FSG,11/5)
Renia Spiegel, Renia’s Diary: A Holocaust Journal (St. Martin’s, 9/17)
Steve Vogel, Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War’s Most Audacious Espionage Operation (Custom House, 9/24)
Gene Weingarten, One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America (Blue Rider Press, 10/22)
Daniel H. Weiss, In That Time: Michael O’Donnell and the Tragic Era of Vietnam (PublicAffairs, 11/5)
Patricia Wiltshire, The Nature of Life and Death: Every Body Leaves a Trace (Putnam, 9/3)
Essays, Criticism, & More
John Berger, What Time Is It? (NYRB, 9/24)
Harold Bloom and David Mikics (Edited by), The American Canon: Literary Genius from Emerson to Le Guin (Library of America, 10/15)
Anne Boyer, The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer, And Care (FSG, 9/17)
Lydia Davis, Essays One: Reading and Writing (FSG, 10/22)
Barbara Ehrenreich, Had I Known: Collected Essays (Twelve, 2/4)
Ralph Ellison, The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison: A Life in Letters (Random House, 12/3)
Cameron Esposito, Save Yourself: Essays (Grand Central, 2/25)
Nicola Gardini, Long Live Latin: The Pleasures of a Useless Language (FSG, 10/15)
Leslie Jamieson, Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays (Little, Brown, 9/24)
Radhika Jones and David Friend (Edited by), Vanity Fair’s Women on Women (Penguin, 10/29)
C. S. Lewis, The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others’ Eyes (HarperOne, 9/24)
Chris McCabe, Poems from the Edge of Extinction (Chambers, 12/10)
Vladimir Nabokov, Think, Write, Speak: Uncollected Essays, Reviews, Interviews, and Letters to the Editor (Knopf, 11/12)
Flannery O’Connor, Good Things Out of Nazareth: The Uncollected Letters of Flannery O’Connor and Friends (Convergent, 10/15)
Darryl Pinckney, Busted in New York and Other Essays (FSG, 11/12)
Jenny Slate, Little Weirds (Little, Brown, 11/5)
Paul Theroux, On the Plain of Snakes: A Mexican Journey (Eamon Dolan, 10/8)
J. R. R. Tolkien, A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages (HarperCollins, 10/15)
Kurt Vonnegut, Pity the Reader: On Writing With Style (Seven Stories, 11/5)
Mary-Kay Wilmers, Human Relations and Other Difficulties: Essays (FSG, 10/8)
Biography & Memoir
Mitch Albom, Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family (Harper, 11/5)
Julie Andrews with Emma Walton Hamilton, Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years (Hachette, 10/15)
Zulema Arroyo Farley, So Much More: A Poignant Memoir About Finding Love, Fighting Adversity, and Defining Life on My Own Terms in Spirit’s Presence (Atria, 9/17)
*Nefertiti Austin, Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America (Sourcebooks, 9/24)
Deirdre Bair, Parisian Lives: Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir, and Me: A Memoir (Nan A. Talese, 11/12)
Charles Barber, Citizen Outlaw: One Man’s Journey from Gangleader to Peacekeeper (Ecco, 10/15)
Ady Barkan, Eyes to the Wind: A Memoir of Love and Death, Hope and Resistance (Atria, 9/10)
Frank Bennack, Leave Something on the Table (Simon & Schuster, 10/8)
Anthony Bozza, Not Afraid: The Evolution of Eminem (Da Capo, 9/10)
Rachel Brathen, To Love and Let Go (Gallery, 9/17)
*Adrienne Brodeur, Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me (HMH, 10/15)
Augusten Burroughs, Toil & Trouble: A Memoir (St. Martin’s, 10/1)
Colin Butcher and Joanne Lake, Molly: The True Story of the Amazing Dog Who Rescues Cats (Celadon, 10/8)
Erin Carlson, Queen Meryl: The Iconic Roles, Heroic Deeds, and Legendary Life of Meryl Streep (Hachette, 9/24)
Francesca Cartier Brickell, The Cartiers: The Untold Story of the Family Behind the Jewelry Empire (Ballantine, 10/29)
Molly Case, How to Treat People: A Nurse’s Notes (Norton, 9/10)
Cassandra King Conroy, Tell Me a Story: My Life with Pat Conroy (William Morrow, 10/29)
Robyn Crawford, A Song for You: My Life with Whitney Houston (Dutton, 11/5)
Jon Dorenbos with Larry Platt, Life Is Magic: An Extraordinary True Story of Trauma and Transformation (Avid Reader, 11/5)
Cameron Douglas, Long Way Home (Knopf, 11/5)
Cyrus Grace Dunham, A Year Without a Name: A Memoir (Little, Brown, 10/15)
Elvis Duran, Where Do I Begin?: Stories from a Life Lived Out Loud (Atria, 10/1)
Sunil Dutta, Stealing Green Mangoes: Two Brothers, Two Fates, One Indian Childhood (Anthony Bourdain, 10/1)
Christopher Edmonds with Douglas Century, No Surrender: The Story of an Ordinary Soldier’s Extraordinary Courage in the Face of Evil (Harper One, 10/15)
Gavin Edwards, Kindness and Wonder: Why Mr. Rogers Matters Now More Than Ever (Dey Street, 10/15)
Danny Fingeroth, A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee (St. Martin’s, 10/1)
William Feaver, The Lives of Lucian Freud: The Restless Years, 1922- 1968 (Knopf, 10/29)
Flea, Acid for the Children: A Memoir (Grand Central, 11/5)
Clyde W. Ford, Think Black: A Memoir of Sacrifice, Success, and Self-Loathing in Corporate America (Amistad, 9/17)
Amaryllis Fox, Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA (Knopf, 10/15)
Adam Frankel, The Survivors: A Story of War, Inheritance, and Healing (Harper, 10/29)
Jeannie Gaffigan, When Life Gives You Pears (Grand Central, 9/3)
Amanda Yates Garcia, Initiated: Memoir of a Witch (Grand Central, 10/22)
Holly George-Warren, Janis: Her Life and Music (Simon & Schuster, 10/15)
Steve Gorman with Steven Hyden, Hard to Handle: The Life and Death of the Black Crowes––A Memoir (Da Capo, 9/24)
Neil Gorsuch, A Republic, If You Can Keep It (Crown Forum, 9/10)
Jen Gotch, The Upside of Being Down: A Memoir (Gallery, 10/15)
Cate Haste, Passionate Spirit: The Life of Alma Mahler (Basic, 9/10)
John Hodgman, Medallion Status: True Stories and Complimentary Upgrades (Viking, 10/15)
Christopher Ingraham, If You Lived Here You’d Be Home By Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie (Harper, 9/10)
Alexandra Jacobs, Still Here: The Madcap, Nervy, Singular Life of Elaine Stritch (FSG, 10/22)
Karine Jean-Pierre, Moving Forward: A Story of Hope, Hard Work, and the Promise of America (Hanover Square, 11/5)
Shaker Jeffrey and Katharine Holstein, Shadow on the Mountain: A Yazidi Memoir of Terror, Resistance and Hope (Da Capo, 2/18)
Elton John, The Autobiography (Holt, 10/15)
Booker T. Jones, Time Is Tight: An Autobiography (Little, Brown, 10/29)
Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives (Simon & Schuster, 10/8)
Sam Kashner, Life Isn’t Everything: Mike Nichols As Remembered By 103 Of His Closest Friends (Holt, 10/22)
Adam Kay, This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Medical Resident (Spark, 12/3)
Arthur Kleinman, The Soul of Care: The Moral Education of a Husband and a Doctor (Viking, 9/17)
Peggy Wallace Kennedy, The Broken Road: George Wallace and a Daughter’s Journey to Reconciliation (Bloomsbury, 12/3)
Alicia Keys, More Myself: A Journey (Flatiron, 11/5)
Kristin Kimball, Good Husbandry: A Memoir (Scribner, 9/24)
Michael Korda, Passing: A Memoir of Love and Death (Liveright, 10/8)
Hoda Kotb, I Really Needed This Today: Words to Live (Putnam, 10/15)
Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson, Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction (Quirk, 9/17)
Mimi Lemay, What We Will Become: A Mother, a Son, and a Journey of Transformation (HMH, 11/12)
Marsha M. Linehan, Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir (Random House, 1/7)
Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House: A Memoir (Graywolf, 10/1)
William J. Mann, The Contender: The Story of Marlon Brando (Harper, 10/15)
Peter McGough, I’ve Seen the Future and I’m Not Going: AIDS, the Art Scene, and Downtown New York in the 1980s (Pantheon, 9/18)
*Ben Moon, Denali (Penguin, 1/14)
Allison Moorer, Blood: A Memoir (Da Capo, 10/29)
Edmund Morris, Edison (Random House, 10/22)
Mark Morris with Wesley Stace, Out Loud: A Memoir (Penguin, 10/22)
Benjamin Moser, Sontag: Her Life and Work (Ecco, 9/17)
Alexander Norman, The Dalai Lama: An Extraordinary Life (HMH, 1/21)
John O’Connell, Bowie’s Bookshelf: The Hundred Books that Changed David Bowie’s Life (Gallery, 9/10)
Garry O’Connor, Ian McKellen: A Biography (St. Martin’s, 11/26)
Doris Payne, Diamond Doris: The Sensational True Story of the World’s Most Notorious International Jewel Thief (Amistad, 9/10)
Liz Phair, Horror Stories: A Memoir (Random House, 11/5)
*Megan Phelps-Roper, Unfollow: A Memoir (FSG, 10/8)
Adam Platt, The Book of Eating: A Memoir (Ecco, 11/12)
Joe Posnanski, The Life and Afterlife of Harry Houdini (Avid Reader, 10/22)
*Samantha Power, The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir (Dey Street, 9/10)
Tenzin Priyadarshi, Moon on Fire (Spiegel & Grau, 11/19)
Eleanor Randolph, The Many Lives of Michael Bloomberg: Innovation, Money, and Politics (Simon & Schuster, 10/22)
Andrew Ridgeley, WHAM!, George Michael, and Me: A Memoir (Dutton, 10/8)
Adam Rippon, Beautiful on the Outside: A Memoir (Grand Central, 10/15)
Jerome Robbins, Jerome Robbins, by Himself: Selections from His Letters, Journals, Drawings, Photographs, and an Unfinished Memoir (Knopf, 10/1)
Keena Roberts, Wild Life (Grand Central, 11/12)
Corey Robin, The Enigma of Clarence Thomas (Metropolitan, 9/24)
Mo Rocca, Mobituaries (Simon & Schuster, 11/5)
Susan Ronald, Condé Nast: The Man and His Empire (St. Martin’s, 9/3)
Rick Ross with Neil Martinez-Belkin, Hurricanes: A Memoir (Hanover Square, 9/3)
Sasha Sagan, For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World (Putnam, 10/22)
Charles Schwab, Invested: Changing Forever the Way Americans Invest (Currency, 10/15)
Meryle Secrest, The Mysterious Affair at Olivetti: IBM, the CIA, and the Cold War Conspiracy to Shut Down Production of the World’s First Desktop Computer (Knopf, 11/5)
*Aarti Namdev Shahani, Here We Are: American Dreams, American Nightmares (Celadon, 10/1)
Marty Sklar, Travels with Figment On the Road in Search of Disney Dreams (Disney Editions, 11/5)
Carol Sklenicka, Alice Adams: Portrait of a Writer (Scribner, 12/3)
Patti Smith, Year of the Monkey (Knopf, 9/24)
Maura Spiegel, Sidney Lumet: His Life and His Films (St. Martin’s, 12/10)
Abby Chava Stein, Becoming Eve: My Journey from Ultra-Orthodox Rabbi to Transgender Woman (Seal, 11/12)
Amy Shira Teitel, Moonshot: Two Women Pilots and Their Historic Fight for Female Spaceflight (Grand Central, 1/21)
Jonathan Van Ness, Over the Top (Harper One, 9/24)
Leah Vernon, Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim (Beacon, 10/15)
Sheila Weller, Carrie Fisher: A Life on the Edge (Sarah Crichton, 11/12)
Dave Williams, Defying Limits: Lessons from the Edge of the Universe (Simon & Schuster, 10/1)
Edie Windsor and Joshua Lyon, A Wild and Precious Life: A Memoir (St. Martin’s, 10/8)