These powerful, insightful, and moving memoirs never shy away from the hard truth. 

Deeply Personal Memoirs

Mother Mary Comes to Me

Finalist for the Kirkus Prize

A raw and deeply moving memoir from the legendary author of The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness that traces the complex relationship with her mother, Mary Roy, a fierce and formidable force who shaped Arundhati’s life both as a woman and a writer.

Transcendent

A Memoir

Four-time Emmy-nominated actress Laverne Cox shares her journey as a transgender woman in Hollywood, confronting childhood trauma, shame, gender identity, her transition, body image issues, her search for romantic love, deep-seated feelings of unworthiness, and ultimately, healing.

You Will Not Kill Our Imagination

A Memoir of Palestine and Writing in Dark Times

A vital, fearless memoir explores what it means to be a Palestinian in this moment, the effects of the genocide on Palestinian art and imagination, and that to even claim a belonging to the land from a country thousands of miles away is an act of subversion—a book that Omar El Akkad says “so perfectly contextualizes and humanizes so much of what has led us to this awful moment, and one that will be remembered long after.”

On the Ground

My Life as a Foreign Correspondent

A powerful memoir revealing the pressures, joys, and traumas of witnessing history up close and personal, from one of Canada’s most prominent and decorated foreign correspondents.

107 Days

For the first time, and with surprising and revealing insights, Kamala Harris tells the story of one of the wildest and most consequential presidential campaigns in American history.

From the Ashes

My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER


In this extraordinary and inspiring debut memoir, Jesse Thistle, once a high school dropout and now a rising Indigenous scholar, chronicles his life on the streets and how he overcame trauma and addiction to discover the truth about who he is.

More Like This

Compelling Biographies

Till We Meet Again

A Canadian in the First World War

An incredibly evocative and action-filled story of one man’s fight in the First World War, rich and raw with remarkable detail.
 

Auston Matthews

A Life in Hockey

He shoots, he scores! From Arizona to Toronto, the definitive unauthorized biography of hockey’s hottest sniper, Auston Matthews.

Still Bobbi

A Master Class in Resilience and Reinvention

“She didn’t just change how people wear makeup—she changed how they see themselves” (Charlamagne tha God, for the Time 100 Most Influential People list). Bobbi Brown, beauty mogul and visionary, opens up in her first memoir about the true story: reinvention, resilience, and the power of staying real.

A Fine Line Between Stupid and Clever

The Story of Spinal Tap

For the first time, director Rob Reiner and cocreators Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer provide the full behind-the-scenes story of the making of the groundbreaking mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap and its upcoming sequel.

More Like This

Worth the Wait

BACK TO TOP