Fall Reading Guide Part IV

Special Edition: New Biographies and Memoirs

This special installment of our Fall Reading Guide features some of the many great biographies and memoirs that have hit shelves in the recent months, or are about to. Here you'll find books that will move you, books that will teach you something, books that read like fiction, and even a biography of a famous dog! Happy Reading!
   

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FOR A GOOD LAUGH:
 FOR A GOOD CRY: TO BE INSPIRED:
  
    

 Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)
by Mindy Kaling

Blue Nights
by Joan Didion

Life Itself
by Roger Ebert

 

TO BE ENTERTAINED: READ WHAT EVERYONE'S TALKING ABOUT: TO LEARN SOMETHING:

 


 

Then Again
by Diane Keaton

Steve Jobs
by Walter Isaacson

Catherine the Great
by Robert K. Massie

 

NOT YOUR TYPICAL FAMILY DRAMA: READS LIKE A NOVEL: FOR ANIMAL-LOVERS:


   
 

Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
by Alexandra Fuller

The Orchard: A Memoir
by Theresa Weir

Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend
by Susan Orlean

 

TAKE A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY: BE TAKEN BACK IN TIME: ENTER THE LIFE OF AN AUTHOR:

 
 
 

An Unquenchable Thirst
by Mary Robinson

Charles Dickens: A Life
by Claire Tomalin

Yossarian Slept Here
by Erica Heller

 

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