The single glass of wine with dinner...the cold beer on a hot day…the champagne flute raised in a toast… what I'd drink if Hunter S. Thompson wanted to get wasted with me…these are my fantasies lately. Too bad I've gone sober.W...

Skye's story is one of survival against the odds. Abandoned by her mother at the age of four and placed in a series of horrible institutions, she learned to fend for herself from an early age. After a horrific rape when she was 10, sh...

Hailed by Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times as 'extraordinary,' Apples and Oranges asks a universal question: how can two people from the same family turn out so entirely different? Brenner's brother, Carl, lives in the apple cou...

Much of what we know and feel about the First World War we owe to Vera Brittain's elegiac yet unsparing book, which set a standard for memoirists from Martha Gellhorn to Lillian Hellman. Abandoning her studies at Oxford in 1915 to enl...

A lively, laugh-out-loud journey from Oklahoma beauty queen to show biz sensation."Life's too short. I'm not."You might know her as a Tony Award–winning Broadway star who originated the role of Galinda the Good Witch in th...

New York Times bestselling author of Life as I Blow It Sarah Colonna is back with a hilarious, honest look at life in her late thirties—in all its messy, pants-missing glory.How does a gal with a successful career, great friends, an...

America's favorite storyteller, Pat Conroy, is back with a unique cookbook that only he could conceive. Delighting us with tales of his passion for cooking and good food and the people, places, and great meals he has experienced, Conr...

Kristi Coulter inspired and incensed the internet when she wrote about what happened when she stopped drinking. Nothing Good Can Come from This is her debut--a frank, funny, and feminist essay collection by a keen-eyed observer no lon...

The charming story of a small-town girl who dreams of finding love with a real-life English prince—and who's willing to go to hilarious lengths to make her fairy tale come true Most young girls dream of becoming a princess. But unli...

The young life of Daoud Hari–his friends call him David–has been one of bravery and mesmerizing adventure. The Translator is a suspenseful, harrowing, and deeply moving memoir of how one person has made a difference in the world, ...

New York City, 1945. Marjorie Jacobson and her best friend, Marty Garrett, arrive fresh from the Kappa house at the University of Iowa hoping to find summer positions as shopgirls. Turned away from the top department stores, they mir...

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES • #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER  With a career, a boyfriend, and a loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the reckless young woman who delivered a suitcase of drug money ten years before. But tha...

A New York Times Notable Book A Daily Beast Best Book of the YearA Huffington Post Best Book of the Year From elementary school on, Walter Kirn knew how to stay at the top of his class: He clapped erasers, memorized answer keys, and p...

From O magazine to the New York Times, from authors such as E. L. Doctorow to Ann Beattie, critics and writers across the country have hailed Roger Rosenblatt's Making Toast as an evocative, moving testament to the enduring power of ...

The classic portrayal of court life in tenth-century Japan Written by the court gentlewoman Sei Shonagon, ostensibly for her own amusement, The Pillow Book offers a fascinating exploration of life among the nobility at the height of ...

Daddy is going to camp. That's what I told my children. A child psychologist suggested it. "Words like prison and jail conjure up dangerous images for children," she explained. But it wasn't camp . . . Neil White, a journali...

In a story that travels beyond borders and between families, acclaimed Dominican novelist and poet Julia Alvarez reflects on the joys and burdens of love—for her parents, for her husband, and for a young Haitian boy known as Piti. I...

Soon to be a major motion picture, from Brad Pitt and Tony KushnerA Washington Post Best Book of 2015A mid-century doctor's raw, unvarnished account of his own descent into madness, and his daughter's attempt to piece his life back to...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERA New York Times Best Book of the YearDeadly serious, masterfully playful, and surprisingly funny, Nothing to Be Frightened Of is a riveting, highly personal tour of the human condition and what might follow the fin...

Molly Bloom reveals how she built one of the most exclusive, high-stakes underground poker games in the world—an insider's story of excess and danger, glamour and greed.In the late 2000s, Molly Bloom, a twentysomething petite brunet...

The great-great-great-great granddaughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt takes a look at the decline of her wealthy blue-blooded family in this irreverent and wickedly funny memoir For generations the Burdens were one of the wealthiest fami...

The goal is ninety--just ninety clean and sober days to loosen the hold of the addiction that caused Bill Clegg to lose everything. Six weeks out of his most recent rehab, Clegg returns to New York and starts attending two or three me...

The New York Times bestselling memoir from one of daytime television's most beloved actresses Three or four days a week, Jeanne Cooper drives from her Hollywood Hills home to the job she's held for more than three decades: bringing ...

In this groundbreaking memoir, Stephen Elliott pursues parallel investigations: a gripping account of a notorious San Francisco murder trial, and an electric exploration of the self. Destined to be a classic, The Adderall Diaries was ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLooking to rebuild after a painful divorce, Alexandra Fuller turns to her African past for clues to living a life fully and without fear  A child of the Rhodesian wars and of two deeply complicated parents, A...

The final, poignant chapter in a trilogy of bestselling true stories about a floppy-eared Scottish Fold named NortonPeter Gethers was a confirmed cat hater until the day he received a six-week-old kitten as a gift. Walking the streets...

"Staggering, searing…Ms. Gubar deserves the highest admiration for her bravery and honesty."—New York TimesDiagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2008, Susan Gubar underwent radical debulking surgery, an attempt to excise the ...

Mei-Ling Hopgood was an all-American girl. She grew up in the Midwest, studied journalism at the University of Missouri, and became a reporter for a Michigan newspaper. Adopted when she was a baby, she was never really curious about h...

It all starts when Ben Ryder Howe's wife, whose parents emigrated from Korea, decides to repay her debt to them by buying them a deli to run. Howe, an editor at "The Paris Review," reluctantly agrees to help in the venture. ...

Now a major motion picture starring Melissa McCarthy—Lee Israel's hilarious and shocking memoir of the astonishing caper she carried on for almost two years when she forged and sold more than three hundred letters by such literary n...