Memoirs & Journals

Though fifty years have passed since the breakup of the Beatles, the fab four continue to occupy an utterly unique place in popular culture. Their ...

Business in North Korea: a paradoxical and fascinating situation is interpreted by a true insider. In 2002, the Swiss power company ABB appointed F...

In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man...

illustrated by Joe Lillington Ever wondered what the first weapons were made from, or how the ancient Mongol warriors defeated the great armies of ...

In 2003, a young woman leaves home without telling her family that she is not coming back. She spends the next six years moving from house to house...

illustrated by David Polonsky A timeless story rediscovered by each new generation, The Diary of a Young Girl stands without peer. For both young r...

The weekly column Ask a North Korean, published by NK News, invites readers from around the world to pose questions to North Korean defectors. By w...

One of the most important artists of the late twentieth century, Jean-Michel Basquiat explored the interplay of words and images throughout his car...

Cool, talented and transgressive, Jean-Michel Basquiat's life is just as fascinating as the work he produced.Delve into 1980s New York as this vivi...

Packed with witty career advice for budding entrepreneurs, this Star Wars self-help book is full of brilliant business advice and funny quotes from...

This novelty Star Wars book is full of wise words and sage advice from the galaxy's leading rebel, Princess Leia, and many other brave, confident c...

Dare to dissent. Fight for what you believe in. Change the world for the better-and do it all in a lacy collar. Let the "notorious RBG" teach you t...

Move from apprentice to master with assertiveness advice from the Star Wars galaxy's most powerful leaders, including Darth Vader, Palpatine, and S...

Be the best you can be and make no apologies! Whether you want the confidence to take on a challenge or the voice to speak up and right a wrong in ...

Pursue a more mindful life with words of wisdom from esteemed Star Wars mentors Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Luke Skywalker. A balanced mind. Inner ca...

Formed as a New York City hardcore band in 1981, Beastie Boys struck an unlikely path to global hip hop superstardom. Here is their story, told for...

Photographs by Terry O'Neill, Norman Parkinson, Michael Ward and Derek Bayes The Beatles ascended like no band before, hurtling to the dizzy height...

In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First La...

The astonishing memoir by visionary Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas "is a book above all about being free," said The New York Review of Books--sexuall...

Bill Bryson goes to Kenya at the invitation of CARE International, the charity dedicated to working with local communities to eradicate poverty aro...

Bluets winds its way through depression, divinity, alcohol, and desire, visiting along the way with famous blue figures, including Joni Mitchell, B...

Three years before he died, David Bowie made a list of the one hundred books that had transformed his life - a list that formed something akin to a...

The first biography of America's greatest twentieth-century sculptor, Alexander Calder: an authoritative and revelatory achievement, based on a wea...

In her 2008 bestseller, Girls Like Us, Sheila Weller--with heart and a profound feeling for the times--gave us a surprisingly intimate portrait of ...

Chia Ann Siang was once one of Singapore's wealthiest landowners and merchants. His name lives on today in Ann Siang Hill in Chinatown, but little ...

In Coming to My Senses Alice retraces the events that led her to 1517 Shattuck Avenue and the tumultuous times that emboldened her to find her own ...

What does it mean to be American? In this starkly illuminating and impassioned book, Pulitzer Prize­­–finalist Laila Lalami recounts her unlikely j...

A relentless innovator, scoring chart hits while simultaneously incorporating radical and ground-breaking elements into his work. As with all great...

In space the sun rises and sets 16 times a day. You fly over every sea, every mountain and desert, every city and every port. The most ordinary thi...

Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics is a landmark celebration of the remarkable life and career of a country music and pop culture legend. ...

In 2004, Momofuku Noodle Bar opened in a tiny, stark space in Manhattan's East Village. Its young chef-owner, David Chang, worked the line, serving...

In this personal portrait of Edward Said written by a close friend, Dominique Edde offers a fascinating and fresh presentation of his oeuvre from h...

Elton John and iconic photographer Terry O'Neill worked together for many years, taking in excess of 5,000 photographs. From intimate backstage sho...

The same inimitable voice and dazzling insights that make Emily Dickinson's poems immortal can be found in the whimsical, humorous, and often deepl...

The names of T. S. Eliot, William Golding, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Seamus Heaney are synonymous with the publishing house Faber & Faber, f...

The women who shaped and were erased from our history. Forgotten Women is a series of books that uncover the lost herstories of influential women w...

The women who shaped and were erased from our history. Forgotten Women is a series of books that uncover the lost herstories of influential women w...

Forgotten Women is a new series of books that uncover the lost herstories of influential women who have refused over hundreds of years to accept th...

Forgotten Women is a new series of books that uncover the lost herstories of influential women who have refused over hundreds of years to accept th...

“It isn’t likely that this collection of journal entries, which I’m calling Fragrant Palm Leaves, will pass the censors… I’ll leave Vietnam tomorro...

Aron's story of her intense, toxic affair with drug addict K is gripping, poetic and darkly amusing. But alongside the late nights and broken promi...

Presented in Q&A format, and enriched with strong contextual narrative, each chapter features Lee in full flow – sometimes combative, occasiona...

Keith Haring remains one of the most important and celebrated artists of his generation and beyond. Through his signature bold graphic line drawing...

'My adult life can be divided into two distinct parts,' Eula Biss writes, 'the time before I owned a washing machine and the time after.' Having ju...

High School is the revelatory and unique coming-of-age story of Sara and Tegan Quin, identical twins from Calgary, Alberta, growing up in the heigh...

"As someone who has studied history for much of my life, I have found the past fascinating. But it has always been some grand and even intimidating...

Does home have to be a country or a city? ... Or is home this house or that? We have been fortunate...We seemed always to have been home. Wang Gung...

A wise and witty revival of the Roman poet who taught us how to carpe diem. What is the value of the durable at a time when the new is paramount? H...