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Biography and Memoir November 2025 |
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Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts by Margaret AtwoodThe long-awaited memoir from Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale and one of our most lauded and influential cultural figures, unfolds her story. As we travel with her along the course of her life, more is revealed about her writing, the connections between real life and art, and the workings of one of our greatest imaginations.
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Bread of Angels: A Memoir by Patti SmithThe most intimate of Smith's memoirs, Bread of Angels takes us through her teenage years where the first glimmers of art and romance take hold. Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan emerge as creative role models as she begins to write poetry then lyrics, ultimately merging both into the songs of iconic recordings such as Horses, Wave, and Easter.
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Leo XIV: The New Pope and Catholic Reform by Christopher R. AltieriThis in-depth biography expertly examines who the new American Pope few expected really is - and what his legacy within the Catholic Church might become.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Making of an Icon by Doug WoodhamThe first biography in more than a quarter century--based on more than 100 interviews--adds significant new information to the story both of Jean-Michel Basquiat's life and to the extraordinary journey of his art.
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Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice by Virginia Roberts GiuffreThe world knows Virginia Roberts Giuffre as Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s most outspoken victim: the woman whose decision to speak out helped send both serial abusers to prison, whose photograph with Prince Andrew catalyzed his fall from grace. But her story has never been told in full, in her own words—until now.
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Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur by Jeff PearlmanIn Only God Can Judge Me, biographer Jeff Pearlman tackles his most nuanced subject, telling the definitive story of Tupac Shakur in unprecedented depth. But more than just a biography of a complicated figure, it also captures a singular moment in music history when West Coast hip hop became a phenomenon and transformed popular music.
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Vagabond: A Memoir by Tim CurryIn his memoir, Curry takes readers behind-the-scenes of his rise to fame from his early beginnings to when he hit the stage for the first time, and goes in-depth about working on some of the most emblematic works of the 20th century. He also explores the voicework that defined his later career and provided him with a chance to pivot after surviving a catastrophic stroke in 2012 that nearly took his life.
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Focus on: Native American Heritage Month
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Carry : a memoir of survival on stolen land by Toni JensenAs a Metis woman, Toni Jensen is no stranger to the violence enacted on the bodies of indigenous women, on indigenous land, and the ways it is hidden, ignored, forgotten. In Carry, Jensen maps her personal experience onto the historical, exploring how history is lived in the body and redefining the language we use to speak about violence in America.
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Poet Warrior by Joy HarjoFormer United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo explores her Muscogee upbringing with a poetry-loving mother, who encouraged the author's interest in words. Also how she survived abuse from her father and stepfather to find communion with fellow Indigenous writers as a University of New Mexico student in the 1970s.
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Birding while Indian : a mixed-blood memoir by Thomas C. GannonCatalogs a lifetime of bird sightings to explore the part-Lakota author's search for identity and his reckoning with colonialism's violence against Indigenous humans, animals, and land.
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Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising by Brandi MorinOur Voice of Fire chronicles Brandi Morin's journey to overcome enormous adversity and find her purpose, and her power, through journalism. This compelling, honest book is full of self-compassion and the purifying fire of a pursuit for justice.
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