Biography and Memoir
May 2025
Recent Releases
When the Going Was Good: An Editor's Adventures During the Last Golden Age of...
by Graydon Carter

Journalist and former Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter dishes on his 25 years working for the iconic periodical in this gossipy and self-deprecating "paean to the big, glossy, influential magazines of yore" (Booklist). For fans of: Dilettante: True Tales of Excess, Triumph, and Disaster by former Vanity Fair deputy editor Dana Brown.
The Next Day: Transitions, Change, and Moving Forward
by Melinda French Gates

In her bestselling blend of memoir and self-help, Melinda French Gates candidly reflects on some of the major transitions in her life (including becoming a parent and leaving the Gates Foundation) and offers guidance on how readers can navigate change and thrive. For fans of: What I Know For Sure by Oprah Winfrey.
Matriarch
by Tina Knowles

In her intimate and empowering debut, Tina Knowles, the mother of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter and Solange Knowles, recounts her coming of age in 1950s and '60s Texas, raising and influencing two Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriters, navigating love and heartbreak, and more. Try this next: Mom & Me & Mom by Maya Angelou.
Yoko
by David Sheff

David Sheff (Beautiful Boy) draws on decades' worth of his interviews with Yoko Ono, including a 1980 interview for Playboy conducted shortly before John Lennon's murder, to deliver a nuanced portrait of the often misunderstood artist and activist. Further reading: We All Shine On: John, Yoko, and Me by Elliot Mintz.
Focus on: Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month
Strangers in the land : exclusion, belonging, and the epic story of the Chinese in America
by Michael Luo

A New Yorker executive editor and writer follows the Chinese in America from the middle of the 19th century as they persisted amidst suspicion and as a native-born population took shape until finally, in 1965, America's gates swung open to people like his parents, immigrants from Taiwan. Illustrations.
At the edge of empire : a family's reckoning with China
by Edward Wong

A veteran diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times tells the story of Modern China through the lens of his father's life as a soldier in Mao's Peoples Liberation Army as well as his own experiences in the country. Illustrations.
Bridge to the sun : the secret role of the Japanese Americans who fought in the Pacific in World War II
by Bruce. Henderson

The best-selling author of Sons and Soldiers tells the story of the Japanese American U.S. Army soldiers who fought in the Pacific theater while their families were back home in America held in government internment camps. Illustrations.
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
by Cathy Park Hong

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Korean American poet Cathy Park Hong's candid and thought-provoking essay collection blends memoir with cultural criticism and explores her complicated relationship with her identity. Try this next: Docile: Memoirs of a Not-So-Perfect Asian Girl by Hyeseung Song; I'm Laughing Because I'm Crying by Youngmi Mayer.
Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit in
by Phuc Tran

After the fall of Saigon in 1975, author Phuc Tran and his family immigrated to America, winding up in a predominantly white small town in Pennsylvania. An outsider among his classmates, Tran found solace in punk music, classic literature, and skateboarding. Equal parts funny and affecting, Tran's coming-of-age memoir will resonate with fans of The High Desert: Black. Punk. Nowhere by James Spooner, and anyone who has ever struggled to fit in.
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