Book Reviews & Recommendations
A heartfelt, sharp, and necessary memoir of migration, identity, and love in modern Germany Tahsim Durgun’s “Mama, bitte lern Deutsch: Unser Eingliederungsversuch in eine geschlossene Gesellschaft” is one of those rare books that manages to be both funny and devastating at once. […]
An intimate reflection on empathy, leadership, and the courage to be kind in a divided world Jacinda Ardern’s A Different Kind of Power is not your typical political memoir. It reads less like a victory lap and more like a meditation on […]
A provocative memoir that invites empathy, raises red flags, and keeps you arguing with yourself long after the final page Patric Gagne’s Sociopath arrives with a bold premise: an inside account of life as a self-identified sociopath who is determined to live […]
An Honest but Imperfect Reckoning with Faith, Family, and Freedom “Counting the Cost” is a memoir that dares to pull back the curtain on one of America’s most famous fundamentalist families. Written by Jill Duggar, her husband Derick Dillard, and Craig Borlase, […]
Michael Finkel’s The Art Thief reads like a heist thriller that happens to be true. It follows Stéphane Breitwieser, a soft spoken Frenchman who relieved European museums, churches, and small galleries of hundreds of Renaissance and medieval treasures between 1995 and 2001. […]
Jennette McCurdy’s I’m Glad My Mom Died is one of those rare memoirs that grabs you by the throat and refuses to let go. Honest, disturbing, and surprisingly funny, it is the story of a young woman who grew up in the […]
Glennon Doyle’s Untamed is part memoir, part manifesto, and very much a cultural lightning rod. It invites readers to question the habits and stories that keep them small, to set boundaries, and to live with a fiercer honesty. It also polarizes, sometimes […]
From Here to the Great Unknown is one of those rare memoirs that feels both intimate and monumental a story that doesn’t just chronicle a life but seeks to understand a legacy. Written through the intertwined voices of Lisa Marie Presley and […]
Kelly Bishop’s The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir is an irresistible journey through five decades of show business told by one of television’s most beloved matriarchs. With warmth, humor, and sharp insight, Bishop invites readers behind the scenes of a career that […]
Gregg Olsen’s Out of the Woods: A Girl, a Killer, and a Lifelong Struggle to Find the Way Home is one of the most unsettling and emotionally raw true crime books of recent years. It revisits the notorious 2005 Groene family murders […]