Back Biographies & Memoirs | October Newsletter

SelectReads News
Simple News Pro
  New Titles - Biographies & Memoirs
New title highlights is brought to you by New Book Alerts. If you would like to see all new titles for this category, click here
 
Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever

Matt Singer - G.P. Putnam's Sons
Format: Hardcover

Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn't check out Rotten Tomatoes or IMDB.. You asked whether Siskel & Ebert had given it "two thumbs up.". On a cold Saturday afternoon in 1975, two men (who had known each other for eight years before...
Read More check catalog
 
 
The Young Man

Annie Ernaux - Seven Stories Press
Format: Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE. Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breathtaking, published in France in 2022, is about her affair with a man 30 years her junior.. "A sublime book." - Olivia de Lamberterie, Elle. "Once again the work of the writer...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life

Arnold Schwarzenegger - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

The seven rules to follow to realize your true purpose in life - distilled by Arnold Schwarzenegger from his own journey of ceaseless reinvention and extraordinary achievement, and available for absolutely anyone. The world's greatest bodybuilder. The world's highest-paid movie...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Larry McMurtry: A Life

Tracy Daugherty - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and screenwriter Larry McMurtry from New York Times bestselling author Tracy Daugherty.. In over forty books, in a career that spanned over sixty years, Larry McMurtry staked his claim as a superior chronicler of the American...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones

Dolly Parton - Ten Speed Press
Format: Hardcover

A beautiful celebration of Dolly Parton's iconic sense of style through entertaining personal stories and 450 full-color photographs, including exclusive images from her private costume archive. In Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones, global superstar Dolly Parton shares, for the first...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Romney: A Reckoning

McKay Coppins - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

A remarkably illuminating biography of the political maverick, filled with revelations and written with his full cooperation by an award-winning writer at The Atlantic.. Authoritative, personal, and vividly written, Romney: A Reckoning is a revealing account of Mitt Romney's life. Based...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Tupac Shakur: The Authorized Biography

Staci Robinson - Crown
Format: Hardcover

The first and only estate-authorized biography of the legendary artist, Tupac Shakur, a moving exploration of his life and powerful legacy, fully illustrated with photos, mementos, handwritten poetry, musings, and more. Artist, poet, actor, revolutionary, legendTupac Shakur is one of the greatest...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Madonna: A Rebel Life

Mary Gabriel - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

In this riveting biography, award-winning author Mary Gabriel chronicles the meteoric rise and enduring influence of the greatest female pop icon of the modern era: Madonna.. With her arrival on the music scene in the early 1980s, Madonna generated nothing short of an explosion - as great...
Read More check catalog
 
 
Worthy

Jada Pinkett Smith - Dey Street Books
Format: Hardcover

A gripping, painfully honest, and ultimately inspirational memoir from global superstar and creator of the Red Table Talk series Jada Pinkett Smith. In a media driven landscape that crafts narratives for our celebrities, Smith recounts her story in an intimate conversation with readers....
Read More check catalog
 
 
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir

Sly Stone - AUWA
Format: Hardcover

One of the few indisputable geniuses of pop music, Sly Stone is a trailblazer and a legend. He created a new kind of music, mixing Black and white, male and female, funk and rock. As a songwriter, he penned some of the most iconic anthems of the 1960s and '70s, from "Everyday People"...
Read More check catalog