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The Best New Memoir Books | March 2020

The Best New Memoir Books | March 2020

Have you made it to the end of your reading list and are in the mood for some interesting new additions? Look no further than these amazing new memoir books from bestselling authors Lori Morrison, Jason Diakité, Elizabeth Tallent, Lisbeth Zornig Andersen, Glennon Doyle, And Erin Khar. Enjoy your new books!


The Greatest of These

by Lori Morrison

Release Date: December 19, 2019

“Beautifully written and put together. Some incredibly sad parts. Left me deep in thought after I finished it.”… Lori Morrison’s husband couldn’t wait to have a working pancreas again. It would mean no more seizures and no more kidney dialysis. But a month after a successful transplant, he suffered a massive stroke that nearly ended his life and left him completely disabled. The life Lori and her husband knew was obliterated.

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A Drop of Midnight

by Jason Diakité

Release Date: March 1, 2020

World-renowned hip-hop artist Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité’s new memoir takes readers on a journey through his own and family’s history. Born to interracial American parents in Sweden, Jason grew up between worlds. Part Swedish, American, black, white, Cherokee, Slovak, and German, he rides a delicate cultural and racial divide. Because of this, he was always in a constant search for himself. Even after becoming successful, Jason fought the complex system of family roots to find a sense of belonging.

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Scratched

by Elizabeth Tallent

Release Date: February 25, 2020

Scratched tells the story of a child, and the adult she becomes, and the role that perfectionism plays in every part of her life. Elizabeth Tallent invites readers into a memoir that juxtaposes moments in the past with the present and uncovers the emotional truth beneath the conventional surface of existence.

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Anger Is My Middle Name

by Lisbeth Zornig Andersen

Release Date: March 1, 2020

Lisbeth Zornig Andersen was born into a violently dysfunctional home in working class Denmark. Lisbeth and her three older brothers were bounced between foster care and state-run institutions, and then back to their chemically dependent mother and sadistic stepfather. It was a childhood with perimeters. Coming of age with a myriad of fears and disorders, Lisbeth had three things that would become a driving force in her life: she was extraordinarily bright, extremely willful and exceptionally angry.

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Untamed

by Glennon Doyle

Release Date: March 10, 2020

From the bestselling author of Love Warrior and Carry On, Warrior… Untamed is Glennon Doyle’s latest memoir that explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet the expectations of the world and start trusting the voice deep within us. Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat Pray Love says “Untamed will liberate women-emotionally, spiritually, and physically.”

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Strung Out

by Erin Khar

Release Date: February 25, 2020

“This is a story she needed to tell; and the rest of the country needs to listen.”… In Strung Out, Erin Khar tells the story of her deeply personal and illuminating story of her fifteen-year struggle with heroin. She shines a light on the opioid crisis and gives voice to over two million people in America currently battling addiction.

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