| | | This Month's Best New Biographies & Memoirs | | Our goal at BookBub is to help you find amazing new books to read every day. We're testing out new monthly emails that will highlight the best recent releases in your favorite genres. If you'd like to continue receiving this email, you don't need to do anything. If you're not interested, you can opt out by clicking here. Finally, if you have any feedback about this new offering, please reply to this email — we'd love to hear from you! |  | | | | | | A Book of the Month selection recommended by Good Morning America, Elle, the Next Big Idea Club, and more: An "earthquaking new talent" (Lauren Groff) reflects on the unexpected loss of her husband in this lyrical new release. Perfect for fans of The Year of Magical Thinking, with starred reviews from Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal. | | | |  | | | | | | One Way Back | | By Christine Blasey Ford | | | | | | This instant New York Times bestseller is "an artful and honest account of sacrifice and survival" (Kirkus Reviews). In 2018, the world watched as Christine Blasey Ford testified before a Senate committee about her alleged assault by Brett Kavanaugh, then a Supreme Court justice nominee. With this "blisteringly personal memoir," the psychologist goes beyond the headlines to deliver "a thoughtful exploration of what it feels like to become a main character in a major American reckoning" (The Washington Post). | | | |  | | | | | | There's Always This Year | | By Hanif Abdurraqib | | | | | | The author of the National Book Award finalist A Little Devil in America is back with "another slam dunk" (Publishers Weekly starred review), named one of Time's most anticipated books of 2024. Hanif Abdurraqib returns to his roots in 1990s Columbus, Ohio, where he bore witness to a golden age of basketball — and learned lessons in life, love, and what it means to succeed. This instant New York Times bestseller is "another remarkable book from one of the country's smartest cultural critics" (NPR). | | | |  | | | | | | Rabbit Heart | | By Kristine S. Ervin | | | | | | "A powerful treatise on love and loss" (The New York Times Book Review), highly anticipated by The Washington Post, Elle, and Kirkus Reviews: Kristine was only eight years old when her mother was kidnapped from a mall parking lot and murdered in an Oklahoma oil field. A "lyrical, genre-defying" exploration (Booklist starred review) of gendered violence, our flawed justice system, and the lifelong impact of losing a parent, this memoir "will haunt readers long after they've turned the last page" (Publishers Weekly). | | | |  | | | | | | Sociopath | | By Patric Gagne | | | | | | Find out why The New York Times Magazine says, "Holy moly, readers will be interested in this!" Patric always knew she was different — but when she was diagnosed with sociopathy, she faced a new challenge: confronting the stigma surrounding her condition. Cosmopolitan calls this new memoir "completely fascinating," and Vulture, Literary Hub, and The Guardian have all named it one of their most anticipated books of 2024. | | | |  | | | | | | Chasing Beauty | | By Natalie Dykstra | | | | | | A "wise, sparkling book" (Stacy Schiff): At the turn of the 20th century, Isabella Stewart Gardner opened a grand palazzo in Boston to showcase the thousands of works of art she had amassed throughout her life. Meet the pathbreaking woman behind the famed museum in this "absorbing, deeply researched biography that is also a travelogue, Edwardian period drama, and art history primer" (Pulitzer Prize finalist Heather Clark). | | | |  | | | | | | 3 Shades of Blue | | By James Kaplan | | | | | | From a New York Times bestselling "master biographer" (Los Angeles Times) comes the story of three iconic jazz artists — Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans — and how their musical partnership produced one of the most acclaimed albums of all time. This "instant classic… sweeps us into the dazzling world of Swing Street after World War II, a scene as mythical and magical as Pablo Picasso's Paris" (Pulitzer Prize–winning author Debby Applegate). | | | |  | | | | | | Not Your China Doll | | By Katie Gee Salisbury | | | | | | One of Entertainment Weekly's most anticipated titles of the year! The first Chinese American film star in Hollywood, Anna May Wong garnered international attention as an actress, activist, and fashion icon in an era of intense discrimination. This "remarkable" biography (Library Journal starred review) is "a rousing testament to Wong's talents" (Publishers Weekly). | | | |  | | | | | | We Loved It All | | By Lydia Millet | | | | | | In her very first work of nonfiction, a beloved National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist explores what it means to be alive in an epoch defined by environmental destruction. Named a most anticipated book of 2024 by Oprah Daily, Literary Hub, and The Washington Post, this unconventional memoir "beautifully captures the current moment, in all its terrors and possibilities" (Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction). | | | |  | | | | | | Where Rivers Part | | By Kao Kalia Yang | | | | | | As a young woman in war-torn Laos, Tswb endured persecution and displacement before immigrating to the US — where she worked tirelessly to provide for her family. In this Esquire Best Memoir of 2024 heralded as "a testament to the miraculous strength of women and the indomitable resolve of the human spirit" (Cristina Henríquez, author of The Great Divide), Tswb's daughter chronicles her mother's harrowing, unforgettable journey. | | | | | |
