If you haven't been able to successfully finish a book during the pandemic, good news: There's an exciting batch of memoirs that have been released this year that will give you another chance to feel something. From the late Cicely Tyson's Just as I Am to Michelle Zauner's Crying in H Mart to Tyler Cameron's part memoir/part self-help book You Deserve Better, there's a memoir for everyone, ahead.
The one and only Bevy Smith is here to teach us, through her signature wit and charm, how we can all live our best lives. Available January 12, 2021
Nadia Owusu's gripping memoir takes readers through the unstable childhood, family secrets, and depression that eventually lead to her self-discovery. Available January 12, 2021
Two days before Cicely Tyson passed away, the award-winning actress and activist published her memoir, Just as I Am, which reminisces on the impactful life she lived. Available January 26, 2021
Here, former Nylon Editor-in-Chief Gabrielle Korn shares her career journey in media as a young white lesbian woman and how she navigated the industry's arbitrary definition of success. Available January 26, 2021
In Surviving the White Gaze, cultural critic Rebecca Carroll reflects on her childhood growing up in a white rural New Hampshire town with adopted parents and how she forged her own path as a Black woman in America. Available February 2, 2021
As Priyanka Chopra Jonas told Marie Claire in her spring 2021 cover story, Unfinished is the real her on display. “I call it the in-between-interviews book. I’ve been in so many interviews in my life, but nobody knows what happened in between them,” she says. “I’m not someone who shares my vulnerabilities, my fears. And somehow in the process of writing this book—because it was so cathartic—I happened to go to those places.” Available February 9, 2021
Beauty lovers, rejoice: Jamie Kern Lima, the founder of IT Cosmetics, is here to show you how she built a billion-dollar brand and fought through society's impossible beauty standards along the way. Available February 23, 2021
Beloved novelist Isabel Allende's The Soul of a Woman details her moving coming-of-age story as a lifelong feminist and the work that still needs to be done for future generations. Available March 2, 2021
Jessica Zucker, founder of the #IHadaMiscarriage campaign and the respective @ihadamiscarriage Instagram account, continues to destigmatize the emotional, complex experience for so many women in her memoir, I Had a Miscarriage. Available March 9, 2021
In her candid memoir, Sharon Stone discusses how she rebuilt her life after a stroke that forever altered life as she knew it. Available March 30, 2021
In Perdita Felicien's memoir, My Mother's Daughter, the two-time Olympian recounts what came before all eyes were on her at the 2003 and 2004 Olympics: racism, domestic abuse, homelessness, and a transformative path guided by the love of her mother. Available March 30, 2021
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and In the Heights writer Quiara Alegría Hudes shares her coming-of-age story growing up in North Philly with a powerful circle around her, determined to amplify their stories through her art. Available April 6, 2021
Through a blend of journalism and personal narrative, former CNN anchor Brooke Baldwin explores what happens when women come together and harness their collective power. Available April 6, 2021
Michelle Zauner's New York Times bestselling memoir Crying in H Mart, Marie Claire's May book club pick, will tug at your heartstrings as Zauner details the loss of her mother and how she grapples with her grief and Korean American identity in the aftermath. Available April 20, 2021
Elizabeth Nyamayaro's I Am a Girl from Africa tells the story of the former United Nations senior advisor's inspiring full-circle journey after a UN aid worker saved her life when she was eight years old. Later in her life, she would go on to launch the HeForShe campaign and help bring change across the globe. Available April 20, 2021
Senator Mazie K. Hirono's Heart of Fire documents her life journey from being raised on a farm in rural Japan to becoming the first Asian American woman and only immigrant serving in the U.S. Senate. Available April 20, 2021
In Stronger, Cindy McCain opens up about her 38-year marriage to the late U.S. Senator John McCain and how they built a successful life together. Available April 27, 2021
Attention The Good Wife fans: If you think you know Julianna Margulies, think again. Sunshine Girl illustrates how Margulies's challenging childhood shaped her into the person she is today. Available May 4, 2021
