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Biography & Memoir books coming in 2027

Memoir in 2027 includes Tria Wen's exploration of her mother's archives and Ben and Alex Sasse's reflections on mortality. Amanda M. Fairbanks connects personal illness with reporting, while Kevin Maurer follows Jerry Sage's wartime life. These join family, food, language and professional experiences across the catalogue's biographical nonfiction.

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Biography & Memoir12 January 2027 · US

How to Let Go

Readers of The In-Between can follow Vlahos into a more personal account of loss and rebuilding. The memoir places a caregiver’s own uncertain future beside the endings she witnesses in her work.

Ideas & Culture12 January 2027 · US

Trans Time Travel

McBee combines memoir, reporting, and archives to ask how gender-variant lives have been remembered or erased across American history.

Biography & Memoir26 January 2027 · US

Redeem the Time

A father and daughter reflect on mortality together, bringing Christian faith and family life into the question of how to use limited time.

Biography & Memoir26 January 2027 · US

The Messenger in White

Iyer’s reflective approach to aging and care may interest readers of personal essays about attention, companionship and change.

Science & Technology16 February 2027 · US

Deep Unlearning

A first-person account from inside modern AI research that links personal history to questions of bias, institutions and technological power.

History2 March 2027 · US

Code Name Dagger

Maurer follows one intelligence operative through clandestine work, capture, and escape, making individual resistance the thread through a wartime biography.

Biography & Memoir2 March 2027 · US

Radioactive!

Curie’s path from Poland to Paris connects scientific discovery with the institutions, personal choices, and public pressures surrounding her work.

Biography & Memoir9 March 2027 · US

All of Us Wildflowers

Family journals and correspondence reveal a mother’s artistic life, prompting Wen to reconsider the relationship between women’s ambitions and the care they provide.

Biography & Memoir9 March 2027 · US

Need Blind

Gonzalez brings her experience of moving from working-class Brooklyn into elite institutions to an examination of class, mobility, and American power.

Biography & Memoir9 March 2027 · US

Tending

May extends the conversation of Wintering toward the obligations of care. The focus is on lived experience and its contradictions rather than a promise of effortless resilience.

Biography & Memoir9 March 2027 · US

The Call of Freedom

Bush pairs portraits with accounts of political imprisonment, bringing individual lives into view through painting and short biography.

Biography & Memoir23 March 2027 · US

Dangerous Independence

The book reframes a figure often remembered for fourteen months in the White House through the much larger intellectual, political and personal life around them.

Biography & Memoir30 March 2027 · US

Something Inside Me Knows

The author of Last Night at the Telegraph Club turns to memoir for young readers. Its use of several literary forms gives a new route into her work while retaining the family and identity questions familiar from her fiction.

History6 April 2027 · US

Guests of the President

Erbelding follows a wartime refugee program through the policy decisions and community life that shaped people’s attempts to begin again.

Biography & Memoir6 April 2027 · US

Pantry

Bloom’s kitchen writing offers a different form of memoir from a continuous life narrative. Food provides an accessible thread through relationships and ordinary acts of generosity.

Biography & Memoir6 April 2027 · US

What Do I Know

Lowe returns to personal nonfiction with an emphasis on how to live, rather than a career chronology alone. The combination of memoir and life reflections gives readers of his earlier books a different angle to follow.

Biography & Memoir13 April 2027 · US

Oranges

The graphic form lets Qatato move between inherited family stories and contemporary diaspora life, making memory itself part of the book’s structure rather than simply its subject.

History20 April 2027 · US

The Life Savers

Millard’s narrative history follows rescue work through three women’s decisions. It gives readers of Destiny of the Republic another tightly focused account of people confronting extraordinary danger.

Biography & Memoir27 April 2027 · US

Thank You for Your Suffering

Zauner continues the family and cultural questions of Crying in H Mart through language learning and everyday life abroad. The year in Seoul provides a distinct narrative frame for readers following both her writing and Japanese Breakfast.

Science & Technology27 April 2027 · US

Tick Boom

Fairbanks connects her experience as a patient with the history of Lyme disease, following the disputes surrounding its recognition, treatment, and persistent symptoms.

Biography & Memoir4 May 2027 · US

308 Hours

Higginbotham’s engineering background and unexpected path to NASA give her spaceflight memoir a perspective rooted in the practical work behind a shuttle mission.

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Biography & Memoir6 July 2027 · US

Make Me a Match

Goldberger brings her own arranged marriage into a wider examination of how couples choose, sustain, and understand commitment.

Biography & Memoir31 August 2027 · US

Bernie

Stein traces the making of a political career from Brooklyn and Vermont to national campaigns, asking how Sanders became an influential figure on the American left.

Biography & Memoir1 September 2027 · US

Confessions of a Late-Night Madman

Beyond celebrity anecdotes, the book offers a practitioner’s view of how a durable television institution actually gets made under pressure.