31 Mar 2023
Biography & Memoir Books for Your TBR List
Are you looking for some new non-fiction reads to add to your TBR list? Whether you’re looking for a captivating personal story or a deep dive into history, these books are sure to satisfy your literary cravings. Check out our top picks for the best biography and memoir books to add to your reading list today!
Hole in My Heart: Love and Loss in the Fault Lines of Adoption
by Lorraine Dusky
Release Date: March 21, 2023
How do adoptees form a sense of self? Why are adult adoptees not entitled to their original birth certificates? How are health histories handled when social workers transfer an infant from one family to another? Journalist and mother Lorraine Dusky digs deep. What she learns will leave you asking, What is truly in the best interests of the child?
The People’s Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine
by Ricardo Nuila
Release Date: March 14, 2023
Where does one go without health insurance, when turned away by hospitals, clinics, and doctors? In The People’s Hospital, physician Ricardo Nuila’s stunning debut, we follow the lives of five uninsured Houstonians as their struggle for survival leads them to a hospital where insurance comes second to genuine care.
When Love Overflows: The Story of an Ordinary Man with Extraordinary Love
by Linda Green-Bennett
Release Date: March 24, 2023
Nik “Nikky” Green grew up in Oklahoma and had a passion for God and his family. He became an Oklahoma state trooper and made a positive impact on his community through his work, prison ministry, youth ministry, and mentoring. “When Love Overflows” is a book written by his widow, Linda Green Bennett, that recounts her husband’s life. The book includes interviews, quotes and stories from those who were impacted by Nik, and it also details Linda’s own journey to continue his work and make a positive change through her public speaking engagements and anti-drug organization.
Tweakerworld
by Jason Yamas
Release Date: March 7, 2023
Meet Jason: a college educated documentary film producer, cat parent of two, and one of San Francisco’s top drug dealers. With painful honesty, Jason Yamas has crafted a landmark narrative that is not just a personal account of addiction, but a portrait of a vulnerable, largely undocumented community of people who, for many reasons, have been marginalized to the point of invisibility.
Happily: A Personal History-with Fairy Tales
by Sabrina Orah Mark
Release Date: March 14, 2023
A beautifully written memoir-in-essays on fairy tales and their surprising relevance to modern life, from a Jewish woman raising Black children in the American South—based on her acclaimed Paris Review column “Happily.”
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
by Roxanna Asgarian
Release Date: March 14, 2023
In the manner of Adrian Nicole LeBlanc’s Random Family and other classic works of investigative journalism, Roxanna Asgarian’s We Were Once a Family is a revelation of vulnerable lives; it is also a shattering exposé of the foster care and adoption systems that produced this tragedy.
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