New Memoir Books For Your Spring Reading List | 2021

15 Apr 2021

New Memoir Books For Your Spring Reading List | 2021

Finished all the memoir books on your reading list? There’s no need to worry because we’ve found some amazing new books we think you’ll love! Check out our latest book recommendations from Laila Tarraf, Jenny Lawson, Hunter Biden, Erin French, Blake Bailey, and John Boehner. Happy reading!

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Strong Like Water

by Laila Tarraf

Release Date: April 13, 2021

Laila Tarraf was the Chief People Officer for Peet’s Coffee and Tea, the iconic Berkeley coffee roaster that launched the craft coffee movement in America, but she had a secret: she was failing in the most important relationships in her life. Yes, she was a strong and effective business leader, the successful daughter of immigrants, and the mother of a toddler; but she was also disconnected from her own feelings and had little patience for the feelings of others.

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Broken

by Jenny Lawson

Release Date: April 6, 2021

As Jenny Lawson’s hundreds of thousands of fans know, she suffers from depression. In Broken, Jenny brings readers along on her mental and physical health journey, offering heartbreaking and hilarious anecdotes along the way. With people experiencing anxiety and depression now more than ever, Jenny humanizes what we all face in an all-too-real way, reassuring us that we’re not alone and making us laugh while doing it.

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Beautiful Things

by Hunter Biden

Release Date: April 6, 2021

When he was two years old, Hunter Biden was badly injured in a car accident that killed his mother and baby sister. In 2015, he suffered the devastating loss of his beloved big brother, Beau, who died of brain cancer at the age of forty-six. These hardships were compounded by the collapse of his marriage and a years-long battle with drug and alcohol addiction.

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Finding Freedom

by Erin French

Release Date: April 6, 2021

Long before The Lost Kitchen became a world dining destination with every seating filled the day the reservation book opens each spring, Erin French was a girl roaming barefoot on a 25-acre farm, a teenager falling in love with food while working the line at her dad’s diner and a young woman finding her calling as a professional chef at her tiny restaurant tucked into a 19th-century mill.

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Philip Roth: The Biography

by Blake Bailey

Release Date: April 6, 2021

Appointed by Philip Roth and granted independence and complete access, Blake Bailey spent years poring over Roth’s personal archive, interviewing his friends, lovers, and colleagues, and engaging Roth himself in breathtakingly candid conversations. The result is an indelible portrait of an American master and of the postwar literary scene.

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On the House

by John Boehner

Release Date: April 13, 2021

John Boehner is the last of a breed. At a time when the arbiters of American culture were obsessing over organic kale, cold-pressed juice, and SoulCycle, the man who stood second in line to the presidency was unapologetically smoking Camels, quaffing a glass of red, and hitting the golf course whenever he could. There could hardly have been a more diametrically opposed figure to represent the opposition party in President Barack Obama’s Washington.

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