Title: Uncle of the Year: And Other Debatable TriumphsAuthor: Andrew RannellsGenre: Nonfiction, MemoirPublishes On: May 16, 2023Publisher: CrownSource: digital (Netgalley)Pages: 254 Synopsis: Candid, hilarious essays from the star of The Book of Mormon, Girls, and Big Mouth on anxiety, ambition, and the uncertain path to adulthood, which ask, how will we know when we get there? In Uncle of the …
Title: Growing Up BidenAuthor: Valerie Biden OwensGenre: Memoir Publishes On: April 12, 2022Publisher: Celadon BooksSource: physical (publisher)Pages: 288 Synopsis: A memoir from Valerie Biden Owens, longtime political strategist, one of the first female campaign managers in United States history, and younger sister of Joe Biden. In this revelatory, engrossing memoir, Valerie Biden Owens shares stories …
Title: Beautiful Country: A MemoirAuthor: Qian Julie WangGenre: MemoirPublished On: September 7, 2021Publisher: Doubleday BooksSource: digital (Netgalley)Pages: 320 Synopsis: An incandescent memoir from an astonishing new talent, Beautiful Country puts readers in the shoes of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world. In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates …
Title: Sunshine Girl: An Unexpected LifeAuthor: Julianna Margulies Genre: Memoir, NonfictionPublished On: May 4, 2021Publisher: Ballantine BooksSource: digital (Netgalley)Pages: 256 Synopsis: Known for her outstanding performances on the groundbreaking television series The Good Wife and ER, Julianna Margulies deftly chronicles her life and her work in this deeply powerful memoir. “At once a tender coming-of-age story and a deeply …
Title: Brat: An ’80s StoryAuthor: Andrew McCarthyGenre: MemoirPublished On: May 11, 2021Publisher: Grand Central PublishingSource: digital (Netgalley)Pages: 240 Synopsis: Fans of Patti Smith’s Just Kids and Rob Lowe’s Stories I Only Tell My Friends will love this beautifully written, entertaining, and emotionally honest memoir by an actor, director, and author who found his start as an ’80s Brat …
Title: Odd Woman Out: Exposure in Essays and StoriesAuthor: Melanie Chartoff Genre: Memoir, HumorPublished On: February 2, 2021Publisher: Books FluentSource: digital (Books Forward)Pages: 268 Synopsis: From her 1950s childhood in a suburb she describes as an “abusement park,” to performing Molière on Broadway, to voicing characters on the popular “Rugrats” cartoon series, Melanie Chartoff was anxious …
Title: Love, Zac: Small-Town Football and the Life and Death of an American Boy Author: Reid Forgrave Genre: Nonfiction, MemoirPublished On: September 8, 2020Publisher: Algonquin BooksSource: physicalPages: 288 CW: Suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, animal death Synopsis: “A monumental achievement of deep reporting and expert storytelling.” —Michael Sokolove, author of The Last Temptation of Rick Pitino “I …
Title: A Better Man: A (Mostly Serious) Letter to My Son Author: Michael Ian Black Genre: Nonfiction, MemoirPublished On: September 15, 2020Publisher: Algonquin BooksSource: physical, digitalPages: 304 Synopsis: “Raw, intimate, and true . . . A Better Man cracked me wide open, and it’s a template for the conversation we need to be having with our boys.”—Peggy Orenstein, …
Title: Carry: A Memoir of Survival on Stolen LandAuthor: Toni Jensen Genre: NonfictionPublished On: September 8, 2020Publisher: Ballantine BooksSource: digitalPages: 304 CW: All of them. But mostly physical, emotional, and gun violence. Synopsis: A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author’s encounters …
Hello Readers! In August, I enjoyed spending the month revisiting one of my favorite series, but in September it’s back to catching up on my ARCs! I have five ARCs to read in September and four more coming up in October, so I don’t want to get behind. I’m also finishing up my Popsugar Summer …
