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Buzz Books Fall/Winter Preview: Nonfiction Part 2

May 18, 2021
By Erin Somers

Our season overview from Buzz Books 2021 Fall/Winter concludes with nonfiction, part two, including history and crime; essays, criticism, and more; and biography and memoir. Get the “trade edition” of Buzz Books 2021 Fall/Winter from Netgalley or Edelweiss, or find the consumer editions all linked at our main Buzz Books website. 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.)

History & Crime

Marc Andrus, Brothers in the Beloved Community: The Friendship of Thich Nhat Hanh and Martin Luther King Jr. (Parallax, 9/28)
Amy Argetsinger, There She Was: The Secret History of Miss America (Atria/One Signal, 9/7)
Marc David Baer, The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs (Basic, 10/5)
Bret Baier, To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant and the Grand Bargain of 1876 (Custom House, 10/12)
A. J. Baime, White Lies: The Double Life of Walter White and America’s Darkest Secret (HMH, 2/1)
Roderick Beaton, The Greeks: A Global History (Basic, 10/26)
Chris Begley, The Next Apocalypse: The Art and Science of Survival (Basic, 11/16)
Jeff Benedict, The Dynasty (Avid Reader, 9/7)
Kevin Birmingham, The Sinner and the Saint: Dostoevsky and the Gentleman Murderer Who Inspired a Masterpiece (Penguin Press, 11/9)
Giulio Boccaletti, Water: A Biography (Pantheon, 9/14)

John Boessenecker, Wildcat: The True Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West’s Most Notorious Woman Bandit (Hanover Square, 11/2)
Kevin Boyle, The Shattering: America in the 1960s (Norton, 10/26)
Neil Bradbury, A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them (St. Martin’s, 10/19)
H. W. Brands, Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution (Doubleday, 11/9)
John R. Bruning, Fifty-Three Days on Starvation Island: The World War II Battle That Saved Marine Corps Aviation (Hachette, 10/12)
Fernando Cervantes, Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest (Viking, 9/7)
Tom Clavin, Lightning Down: A World War II Story of Survival (St. Martin’s, 11/2)
Matthew A. Cole, Code Over Country: The Tragedy and Corruption of SEAL Team Six (Bold Type, 11/2)
Thomas McKelvey Cleaver, The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club: Naval Aviation in the Vietnam War (Osprey, 10/12)
Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe, The Vanderbilts: An American Dynasty (Harper, 9/21)

David Copperfield, Richard Wiseman, David Britland, Homer Liwag, David Copperfield’s History of Magic (S&S, 10/26)
Max Cutler with Kevin Conley, Cults: Inside the World’s Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them (Gallery, 9/21)
Michael Daly, New York’s Finest: The Greatest Stories of the NYPD and the Hero Cops Who Save the City (Twelve, 12/7)
Jeremy Dauber, American Comics: A History (Norton, 11/2)
Alison Hawthorne Deming, A Woven World: On Fashion, Fishermen, and the Sardine Dress (Counterpoint, 8/24)
Edward Dolnick, The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone (Scribner, 10/19)
John E. Douglas, Mark Olshaker, When a Killer Calls: A Haunting Story of Murder, Criminal Profiling, and Justice in a Small Town (Dey Street, 11/16)
Martin Dugard, Taking Paris: The Epic Battle for the City of Lights (Dutton Caliber, 9/7)
Gregg Easterbrook, The Blue Age: How the US Navy Created Global Prosperity—And Why We’re in Danger of Losing It (Public Affairs, 9/7)
Caroline Elkins, Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire (Knopf, 1/18)

Joseph J. Ellis, The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783 (Liveright, 9/21)
Noah Feldman, The Broken Constitution: Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America (11/2)
Ada Ferrer, Cuba: An American History (Scribner, 9/7)
Rebecca Frankel, Into the Forest: A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love (St. Martin’s, 9/7)
Howard W. French, Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War (Liveright, 10/12)
Matthew Gabriele, David Perry, The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe (Harper, 12/7)
Janine di Giovanni, The Vanishing: Faith, Loss, and the Twilight of Christianity in the Land of the Prophets (Public Affairs, 10/5)
Robert A. Gross, The Transcendentalists and Their World (FSG, 11/9)
Kevin R. C. Gutzman, The Jeffersonians: The Visionary Presidencies of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe (St. Martin’s, 12/14)
Garrett M. Graff, Watergate: A New History (Avid Reader, 11/2)

Heather Hansman, Powder Days: The Hidden History of Skiing and the Legend of the Ski Bum (Hanover Square, 11/9)
Toby Harnden, First Casualty: The Untold Story of the CIA Mission to Avenge 9/11 (Little, Brown, 9/7)
Michael Harriot, Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America (HMH, 1/25)
Linda Hirshman, The Color of Abolition: How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation (HMH, 2/8)
James Holland, Brothers in Arms: One Legendary Tank Regiment’s Bloody War From D-Day to V-E Day (Grove, 11/21)
Don Hollway, The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada (Osprey, 9/7)
Kinshasha Holman Conwill, Paul Gardullo, Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies (Amistad, 9/14)
James Horn, A Brave and Cunning Prince: The Great Chief Opechancanough and the War for America (Basic, 11/2)
Woody Holton, Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution (S&S, 10/19)
Harald Jähner, translated by Shaun Whiteside, Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945-1955 (Knopf, 1/11)

Mohamad Jebara, Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait (St. Martin’s Essentials, 10/12)
Dan Jones, Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages (Viking, 10/26)
Reece Jones, White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall (Beacon, 9/28)
Chris Joyner, The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson: A Battle for Racial Justice During the Dawn of the Civil Rights Era (Abrams, 9/14)
Brian Kilmeade, The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America’s Soul (Sentinel, 11/2)
James Kirchick, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington, from FDR through Clinton (Holt, 2/15)
Neil Lanctot, The Approaching Storm: Roosevelt, Wilson, Addams, and Their Clash Over America’s Future (Riverhead, 10/26)
Mark Lause, Soldiers of Revolution: The Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune (Verso, 10/26)
Andrew Lawler, Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World’s Most Contested City (Doubleday, 11/2)
Dick Lehr, White Hot Hate: A True Story of Domestic Terrorism in America’s Heartland (HMH, 11/9)
Paul Lockhart, Firepower: How Weapons Shaped Warfare (Basic, 10/19)

Douglas London, The Recruiter: Spying and the Lost Art of American Intelligence (Hachette, 9/28)
David Loyn, The Long War: The Inside Story of America and Afghanistan Since 9/11 (St. Martin’s, 10/5)
Kyle T. Mays, An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States (Beacon, 11/2)
Mark Mazower, The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe (Penguin Press, 11/16)
David McKean, Watching Darkness Fall: FDR, His Ambassadors, and the Rise of Adolf Hitler (St. Martin’s, 11/2)
John C. McManus, Island Infernos: The US Army’s Pacific War Odyssey, 1944 (Dutton Caliber, 11/9)
Walter Russell Mead, The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People (Knopf, 1/25)
Marc Meyrs, Rock Concert: An Oral History of an American Rite of Passage (Grove, 11/9)
Omar Mouallem, Praying to the West: How Muslims Shaped the Americas (S&S, 9/21)
Samuel Moyn, Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War (FSG, 9/7)

Peter Neumann, translated by Shelley Frisch, Jena 1800: The Republic of Free Spirits (FSG, 11/2)
Maureen O’Connell, Undoing the Knots: Five Generations of American Catholic Anti-Blackness (Beacon, 12/14)
John Oller, Rogues’ Gallery: The Birth of Modern Policing and Organized Crime in Gilded Age New York (Dutton, 9/21)
Mallory O’Meara, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol (Hanover Square, 10/19)
James Patterson, Matt Eversmann, E.R. Nurses: True Stories of America’s Greatest Unsung Heroes (Little, Brown, 10/18)
Matthew Pearl, The Taking of Jemima Boone: The True Story of the Kidnap and Rescue That Shaped America (Harper, 10/5)*
Imani Perry, South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation (Ecco, 10/26)
Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library: A Fragile History (Basic, 11/9)
Nathaniel Philbrick, Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy (Viking, 9/14)
Fernanda Pirie, The Rule of Laws: A 4,000-Year Quest to Order the World (Basic, 11/9)

Joshua Prager, The Family Roe: An American Story (Norton, 9/14)
Maureen Quilligan, When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe (Liveright, 10/12)
Andrés Reséndez, Conquering the Pacific: An Unknown Mariner and the Final Great Voyage of the Age of Discovery (HMH, 9/14)
Brad Ricca, True Raiders: The Untold Story of the 1909 Expedition to Find the Legendary Ark of the Covenant (St. Martin’s, 9/21)
Andrew Roberts, The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III (Viking, 11/2)
Andy Robinson, Gold, Oil and Avocados: A Recent History of Latin America in Sixteen Commodities (Melville, 8/17)
David M. Rubenstein, The American Experiment: Dialogues on a Dream (S&S,9/7)
Elizabeth D. Samet, Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness (FSG, 11/30)
Kelefa Sanneh, Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres (Penguin Press, 10/19)
Joe Scarborough, Saving the Union: Lincoln, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the Fight for the Future of America (Harper, 11/16)
Diana Schaub, His Greatest Speeches: How Lincoln Moved the Nation (St. Martin’s, 11/16)

Meriel Schindler, The Lost Café Schindler: One Family, Two Wars, and the Search for Truth (Norton, 10/12)
Mayukh Sen, Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America (Norton, 11/2)
Edward Shawcross, The Last Emperor of Mexico: The Dramatic Story of the Habsburg Archduke Who Created a Kingdom in the New World (Basic, 10/19)
Laura Shin, The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze (Public Affairs, 11/2)
Benjamin T. Smith, The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade (Norton, 8/10)
Charles Spencer, The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream (William Collins, 10/19)
Dana Stevens, Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century (Atria, 10/5)
Mark Stille, The United States Navy in World War II: From Pearl Harbor to Okinawa (Osprey, 11/9)
Patrick Strickland, The Marauders: Conspiracy Theories, Militias, And Violence On The U.S. Border (Melville, 1/25)
Salamishah Tillet, In Search of The Color Purple: The Story of an American Masterpiece (Abrams, 1/18)
Enzo Traverso, Revolution: An Intellectual History (Verso, 10/19)

Dr. Rachel Trethewey, The Churchill Sisters: The Extraordinary Lives of Winston and Clementine’s Daughters (St. Martin’s, 11/23)
Jing Tsu, Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern  (Riverhead, 1/18)
Ricky Tucker, And the Category Is…: Inside New York’s Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community (Beacon, 12/7)
Anthony Tucker-Jones, Churchill, Master and Commander: Winston Churchill at War 1895–1945 (Osprey, 11/9)
Volker Ullrich, translated by Jefferson Chase, Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich (Liveright, 9/7)
Alex von Tunzelmann, Fallen Idols (Harper, 10/19)
Jeffrey Veidlinger, In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918–1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust (Metropolitan, 10/12)
James A. Warren, Year of The Hawk: America’s Descent into Vietnam, 1965 (Scribner, 11/16)
Joseph Weisberg, Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy for the Second Cold War (Public Affairs, 9/28)
Mary Wellesley, The Gilded Page: The Social Lives of Medieval Manuscripts (Basic, 10/12)

Geoffrey Wheatcroft, Churchill’s Shadow: The Life and Afterlife of Winston Churchill (Norton, 10/12)
Chris Whipple, The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future (Scribner, 10/26)
Craig Whitlock, The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War (S&S, 9/28)

Essays, Criticism, & More

Colette Brooks, Trapped In the Present Tense: Meditations on American Memory (Counterpoint, 1/18)
Jill Louise Busby, Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity (Bloomsbury, 9/7)
Gabrielle Civil, the déjà vu (Coffee House, 2/22)
Josh Cohen, How to Live. What to Do: In Search of Ourselves in Life and Literature (Pantheon, 10/26)
David Damrosch, Around the World in 80 Books: A Literary Journey (Penguin Press, 11/9)
Amber A’Lee Frost, Dirtbag: Essays (St. Martin’s, 11/2)
Roxane Gay, How to Be Heard (Harper, 11/16)
Farah Jasmine Griffin, Read Until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature (Norton, 9/14)
Ryan Holiday, Courage is Calling (Portfolio, 9/8)*— First book of a new series on the cardinal virtues of ancient philosophy by this bestselling author
Siri Hustvedt, Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays (S&S, 12/7)
Tina Jordan (edited by), The New York Times Book Review: 125 Years of Literary History (Clarkson Potter, 11/16)

Amy Leach, The Everybody Ensemble: Donkeys, Essays, and Other Pandemoniums (FSG, 10/19)
Mark McGurl, Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon (Verso, 10/19)
Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel, Murakami T: The T-Shirts I Love (Knopf, 11/16)
Patrick Nathan, Image Control: Art, Fascism, and the Right to Resist (Counterpoint, 8/17)
Nick Offerman, Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American in Search of the Real Dirt (Dutton, 10/12)
Susan Orlean, On Animals (Avid Reader, 10/5)
Phoebe Robinson, Please Don’t Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays (Tiny Reparations, 9/28)
Zibby Owens, Moms Don’t Have Time To Have Kids (Skyhorse, 11/2)*—Second anthology edited by podcast host
Anna Della Subin, Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine (Metropolitan, 11/30)
Maria Tatar, The Heroine with 1001 Faces (Liveright, 9/14)
Anne Waldman, Bard Kinetic (Coffee House, 3/1)

Yrsa Daley Ward, The How (Penguin Books, 11/2)*
Jeanette Winterson, 12 Bytes: How We Got Here. Where We Might Go Next (Grove, 10/12)

Biography & Memoir

Annabel Abbs, Windswept (Tin House, 9/7)
Christopher Andersen, The Brothers: Inside the Private Worlds of William and Harry (Gallery, 11/30)
Carmelo Anthony, Where Tomorrows Aren’t Promised (Gallery, 9/14)
Donald Antrim, One Friday in April: A Story of Suicide and Survival (Norton, 10/12)
Debby Applegate, Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age (Doubleday, 11/2)
Paul Auster, Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane (Holt, 10/26)
Charles Band, Confessions of a Puppetmaster (William Morrow, 11/16)
Gertrude Beasley, My First Thirty Years: A Memoir (Sourcebooks, 9/28)—Originally published in 1925 and suppressed.
Valerie Bertinelli, Enough Already: Learning to Love the Way I Am Today (HMH, 1/18)
Keisha N. Blain, Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America (Beacon, 10/5)

Jenna Blum, Woodrow on the Bench: Life Lessons from a Wise Old Dog (Harper, 11/2)
Patrick Boucheron, translated by Willard Wood, Trace and Aura: The Recurring Lives of St. Ambrose of Milan (Other, 1/18)
Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear (RH, 9/28)
Rick Bragg, The Speckled Beauty: A Dog and His People, Lost and Found (Knopf, 9/21)
David S. Brown, The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams (Scribner, 11/9)
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality (Pantheon, 1/25)
Ann Burgess with Steven Constantine, A Killer By Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind (Hachette, 12/7)
Paul Cantor, Most Dope: The Extraordinary Life of Mac Miller (Abrams, 1/18)
Mary Childs, The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All (Flatiron, 10/12)
LaDoris Hazzard Cordell, Her Honor: My Life on the Bench…What Works, What’s Broken, and How to Change It (Celadon, 10/5)

Jay Cost, James Madison: America’s First Politician (Basic, 11/2)
Katie Couric, Going There (Little, Brown, 10/26)
Luca Crippa, Maurizio Onnis, The Auschwitz Photographer: The Forgotten Story of the WWII Prisoner Who Documented Thousands of Lost Souls (Sourcebooks, 9/7)
Cathy Curtis, A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick (Norton, 11/16)
Alexander Danchev, Magritte: A Life (Pantheon, 11/30)
Jesse Dayton, Beaumonster: A Memoir (Hachette, 11/9)
Michael Dell with James Kaplan, Play Nice but Win: A CEO’s Journey from Founder to Leader (Portfolio, 10/5)
Daniel de Visé, King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King (Grove, 10/5)
Mondiant Dogon with Jenna Krajeski, Those We Throw Away Are Diamonds: A Refugee’s Search for Home (Penguin Press, 10/12)
Ross Douthat, The Deep Places: A Memoir of Illness and Discovery (Convergent, 10/26)

Lou Drawoh, Untitled (William Morrow, 10/19)
Tiffanie Drayton, Black American Refugee (Viking, 11/9)
Peter Duchin, Patricia Beard, Face the Music: A Memoir (Doubleday, 12/7)
Gavin Edwards, Bad Motherfucker: The Life and Movies of Samuel L. Jackson, the Coolest Man in Hollywood (Hachette, 10/19)
Joe Exotic, Tiger King: The Official Tell-All Memoir (Gallery, 11/9)
Boyah J. Farah, America Made Me a Black Man: A Memoir (Harper, 9/14)
Evie Meg Field, My Nonidentical Twin: What I’d like you to know about living with Tourette’s (Mobius, 10/26)
Charles Finch, What Just Happened (Knopf, 11/2)
Michael Stewart Foley, Citizen Cash: The Political Life and Times of Johnny Cash (Basic, 12/7)
Sara G. Forden, The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed (Custom House, 10/26)

Sutton Foster, Hooked: How Crafting Saved My Life (Grand Central, 9/21)
Jamie Foxx, Act Like You Got Some Sense (Grand Central, 10/19)
Liz Fraser, Coming Clean: A true story of love, addiction and recovery (Green Tree, 11/30)
Harry Freedman, Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius (Bloomsbury Continuum, 11/2)
Ruben Gallego with Jim DeFelice, They Called Us “Lucky”: The Life and Afterlife of the Iraq War’s Hardest Hit Unit (Custom House, 11/2)
Benjamin Gilmer, The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, a Murder, and Their Unlikely Fight for Justice (Ballantine, 1/18)
Sharon Gless, Apparently There Were Complaints: A Memoir (S&S, 12/7)
Nancy Goldstone, In the Shadow of the Empress: The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters (Little, Brown, 9/21)
Avani Gregg, Backstory: My Life So Far (Gallery, 9/28)
Allen C. Guelzo, Robert E. Lee: A Life (Knopf, 9/28)

Joy Harjo, Poet Warrior: A Memoir (Norton, 9/7)
Taylor Harris, This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown (Catapult, 1/4)
Magda Hellinger, Maya Lee, David Brewster, The Nazis Knew My Name: A Remarkable Story of Survival and Courage in Auschwitz (Atria, 11/2)
Patricia Highsmith, Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks: 1941-1995 (Liveright, 11/16)
Tristram Hunt, The Radical Potter: The Life and Times of Josiah Wedgwood (Metropolitan, 11/9)
Martin Indyk, Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger and the Art of Middle East Diplomacy (Knopf, 10/5)
James Ivory, Solid Ivory: Memoirs (FSG, 11/2)
Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter (Amistad, 9/21)
Chai Jing, translated by Yan Yan, Seeing: A Memoir of Truth and Courage from China’s Most Influential Television Journalist (Astra House, 12/7)
Faith Jones, Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult (William Morrow, 11/30)
Alfons Kaiser, Karl Lagerfeld: A German in Paris (Cernunnos, 2/8)

Andrew D. Kaufman, The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky (Riverhead, 8/31)
Daniel Dae Kim, Untitled (Harper, 10/12)—Memoir by the Korean-American actor and activist
Billie Jean King, All In: An Autobiography (Knopf, 8/17)
Robby Krieger, Set the Night on Fire: My Many Lives and Deaths as the Guitarist of The Doors (Little, Brown, 10/12)
C. M. Kushins, Beast: John Bonham and the Rise of Led Zeppelin (Hachette, 9/7)
Pat LaFrieda with Cecilia Molinari, Glorious Beef: The LaFrieda Family and the Evolution of the American Meat Industry (Ecco, 10/26)
Tabitha Lasley, Sea State: A Memoir (Ecco, 12/7)
Laurence Leamer, Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era (Putnam, 10/12)
Nice Leng’ete, The Girls in the Wild Fig Tree: How I Fought to Save Myself, My Sister, and Thousands of Girls Worldwide (Little, Brown, 9/14)
Daniel Barban Levin, Slonim Woods 9: A Memoir (Crown, 9/7)

Rachel Lindsay, Miss Me with That: Hot Takes, Helpful Tidbits, and a Few Hard Truths (Ballantine, 1/11)
Bobby Love, Cheryl Love, The Redemption of Bobby Love: A Story of Faith, Family, and Justice (HMH, 10/5)
John Lurie, The History of Bones: A Memoir (RH, 8/17)
Judith Mackrell, The Correspondents: Six Women Writers on the Front Lines of World War II (Doubleday, 11/2)
Drew Magary, The Night the Lights Went Out: A Memoir of Life After Brain Damage (Harmony, 10/5)
David Magee, Dear William (Matt Holt, 11/2)
Ivan Maisel, I Keep Trying to Catch His Eye: A Memoir of Loss, Grief, and Love (Hachette, 10/26)
Ann Marks, Vivian Maier Developed: The Untold Story of the Photographer Nanny (Atria, 11/2)
Kati Marton, The Chancellor: The Remarkable Odyssey of Angela Merkel (S&S, 10/26)
Amy McGrath with Chris Peterson, Honor Bound: An American Story of Dreams and Service (Knopf, 8/3)

Tyler Merritt, I Take My Coffee Black: Reflections on Tupac, Musical Theater, Faith, and Being Black in America (Worthy, 9/14)
Mark Messier with Jimmy Roberts, Untitled (Gallery, 10/26)—Memoir by Hall of Fame hockey player and six-time Stanley Cup champion
Alyssa Milano, Sorry Not Sorry: Stories I Have Lived (Dutton, 10/26)
Hayley Mills, Forever Young (Grand Central, 9/7)
Anne Elizabeth Moore, Gentrifier: A Memoir (Catapult, 10/19)
Allison Moorer, I Dream He Talks to Me: A Memoir of Learning How to Listen (Hachette, 10/12)
Joe Moshenska, Making Darkness Light: A Life of John Milton (Basic, 10/26)
Elizabeth Cummins Muñoz, Mothercoin: The Stories of Immigrant Nannies (Beacon, 1/18)
John Musgrave, The Education of Corporal John Musgrave: A Memoir (Knopf, 11/2)
Ian O’Connor, Coach K: The Rise and Reign of Mike Krzyzewski (HMH, 2/15)

Indra Nooyi, My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future (Portfolio, 9/28)
Catherine Ostler, The Duchess Countess: The Woman Who Scandalized Eighteenth Century London (Atria, 11/9)
Kal Penn, You Can’t Be Serious (Gallery, 11/2)—From Hollywood to the White House
Cassandra Peterson, Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark (Hachette, 9/21)
Joseph Pfeifer, Ordinary Heroes: A Memoir of 9/11 (Portfolio, 9/7)
David Philipps, Alpha: Eddie Gallagher and the War for the Soul of the Navy SEALs (Crown, 8/24)
Keith Phipps, Age of Cage: Four Decades of Hollywood Through One Singular Career (Holt, 11/9)
Justine Picardie, Miss Dior: A Story of Courage and Couture (FSG, 10/19)
Bill Plaschke, Paradise Found: A Football Team’s Rise from the Ashes (William Morrow, 9/14)
Billy Porter, Unprotected: A Memoir (Abrams 10/5)

Catherine Prendergast, The Gilded Edge: Two Audacious Women and the Cyanide Love Triangle That Shook America (Dutton, 10/5)
Anna Qu, Made in China: A Memoir of Love and Labor, (Catapult, 8/3)
Zoë Playdon, The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes (Scribner, 11/2)
Raekwon, From Staircase to Stage: The Story of Raekwon and the Wu-Tang Clan (Gallery, 11/9)
Dr. Tony Redmond, FRONTLINE: How to Save Lives in War, Disaster and Disease (HarperNorth, 11/16)
Kim Reed, Workhorse: My Sublime and Absurd Years in New York City’s Restaurant Scene (Hachette, 11/9)
Paul Rees, Mellencamp (Atria, 9/14)
Richard Rhodes, Scientist: E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature (Doubleday, 10/19)
John Richardson, A Life of Picasso: The Minotaur Years: 1933-1943 (Knopf, 11/16)
Steven V. Roberts, Cokie: A Life Well Lived (Harper, 11/2)

Tom Roston, The Writer’s Crusade: Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five (Abrams, 10/12)
Sheila Rowbotham, Daring to Hope: A Memoir of the 1970s (Verso, 10/5)
Sarah Ruhl, Smile: The Story of a Face, (S&S,10/5)*
Albert Samaha, Concepcion: An Immigrant Family’s Fortunes (Riverhead, 10/12)
Michael Sayman, App Kid: How a Child of Immigrants Grabbed a Piece of the American Dream (Knopf, 9/21)
Rosie Schaap, The Slow Road North: How I Found Peace in an Improbable Country (HMH, 2/22)
Kathryn Schulz, Lost & Found: A Memoir (RH, 1/11)
Samira Shackle, Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Contested City (Melville, 8/10)
Omar Sharif, A Tale of Two Omars: A Memoir of Family, Revolution, and Coming Out During the Arab Spring (Counterpoint, 10/5)
Ryan Shazier with Larry Platt, Walking Miracle: How Faith, Positive Thinking, and Passion for Football Brought Me Back from Paralysis…and Helped Me Find Purpose (Grand Central, 12/7)

Rachel Signer, You Had Me at Pet-Nat: A Natural Wine-Soaked Memoir (Hachette, 10/19)
Obed Silva, The Death of My Father the Pope: A Memoir (MCD, 12/7)
Brendan Simms, Charlie Laderman, Hitler’s American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and Germany’s March to Global War (Basic, 11/2)
Elsa Sjunneson, Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism (Tiller, 10/5)
Christopher Sorrentino, Now Beacon, Now Sea: A Son’s Memoir (Catapult, 9/7)
Rebecca Solnit, Orwell’s Roses (Viking, 10/19)
Bob Spitz, Led Zeppelin: The Biography (Penguin Press, 11/9)
Danté Stewart, Shoutin’ in the Fire: An American Epistle (Convergent, 10/12)
Matthew Sturgis, Oscar Wilde: A Life (Knopf, 10/12)
Scarlett Thomas, 41-Love: A Memoir (Counterpoint, 12/7)

Neal Thompson, The First Kennedys: The Humble Roots of an American Dynasty (HMH, 2/22)
J. M. Thompson, Running Is a Kind of Dreaming: A Memoir (HarperOne, 11/5)
Brad Tolinski, Chris Gill, Eruption: Conversations with Eddie Van Halen (Hachette, 10/5)
Claire Tomalin, H.G. Wells: Changing the World (Penguin Press, 10/26)
Michael Tubbs, The Deeper the Roots: A Memoir of Hope and Home (Flatiron/Oprah, 11/16)
Stanley Tucci, Taste: My Life Through Food (Gallery, 10/5)
Dawn Turner, Three Girls from Bronzeville: A Uniquely American Story of Race, Fate, and Sisterhood (S&S, 9/7)
Stevie Van Zandt, Unrequited Infatuations: A Memoir (Hachette, 9/28)
A. J. Verdelle, Miss Chloe: A Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison (Amistad, 9/14)
Tom Vitale, In the Weeds: Around the World and Behind the Scenes with Anthony Bourdain (Hachette, 10/12)

Sarah Vogel, The Farmer’s Lawyer: The North Dakota Nine and the Fight to Save the Family Farm (Bloomsbury, 10/19)
Dwyane Wade, Dwyane (William Morrow, 11/16)
Imani J. Walker, A Calm Chaos (Amistad, 12/28)
Qian Julie Wang, Beautiful Country: A Memoir (Doubleday, 9/7)
Nadia Wassef, Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller (FSG, 10/5)
Ai Weiwei, 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir (Crown, 11/2)
Lonnie Wheeler, The Bona Fide Legend of Cool Papa Bell: Speed, Grace, and the Negro Leagues (Abrams, 2/1)
Gayle Jessup White, Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Daughter’s Search for Her Family’s Last Legacy (Amistad, 11/16)*
Richard Antoine White, I’m Possible: A Story of Survival, a Tuba, and the Small Miracle of a Big Dream (Flatiron, 10/5)
Marco Wilkinson, Madder: A Memoir in Weeds (Coffee House, 10/12)

Porsha Williams, The Pursuit of Porsha: How My Journey to Happiness Can Help You Find Yours (Worthy, 11/16)
Elizabeth Winder, Parachute Women: Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and the Women Behind the Rolling Stones (Hachette, 12/7)
Laurie Woolever, Bourdain: The Oral Biography (Ecco, 10/12)
Marie Yovanovitch, Lessons from the Edge: A Memoir (HMH, 1/11)
Laurie Zaleski, Funny Farm: My Unexpected Life with 600 Rescue Animals (St. Martin’s, 9/7)

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