Literary Figures in 2025

My Life My Stroke My Way Back: Ein Mutmach-Buch by Krämer, Trixie Josefine

In the Shadow of the Magic Mountain: The Erika and Klaus Mann Story by Weiss, Andrea

The Yeats We Knew by

Difficult Lives Hitching Rides by Sallis, James

Selected Correspondence: Selected Correspondence with an Intimate Study of the Author by Flaubert, Gustave, Commanville, Caroline

Pity the Swagman: The Australian Odyssey of a Victorian Diarist by Phillips, Bethan

My Childhood Years: A Memoir by Peretz Hirshbein by Hirshbein, Peretz

My Dear Sister: Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Sisters by Hansen, Kris A.

Between Grief and Nothing: The Passions, Addictions and Tragic End of William Faulkner by Hickman, Lisa C.

The Many Lives of Ibrahim Nagui: A Journey with My Grandfather by Mehrez, Samia

Intervjuer Med Legendariske Forfattere Fra Det Hinsidige by McGough, Cathy

The Many Lives of Anne Frank by Franklin, Ruth

The Loves of My Life: A Sex Memoir by White, Edmund

Aleksandr Tvardovskii: Memory and Truth in the Soviet Union by Hosking, Geoffrey

F. Scott Fitzgerald Remembered by

On Elizabeth Bishop by Tóibín, Colm

A Matter of Complexion: The Life and Fictions of Charles W. Chesnutt by Chakkalakal, Tess

Memorial Days: A Memoir by Brooks, Geraldine

Alphabetical Diaries by Heti, Sheila

Memorial Days: A Memoir (Large Print Edition) by Brooks, Geraldine

After Lives: On Biography and the Mysteries of the Human Heart by Marshall, Megan

Outrageous Fortunes: The Adventures of Mary Fortune, Crime-writer, and Her Criminal Son by Brown, Megan, Sussex, Lucy

Memories of My Childhood: Volume 6 by Creanga, Ion

The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: Their Stories Are Better Than the Bestsellers by Patterson, James, Eversmann, Matt

With Every Great Breath: New and Selected Essays, 1995-2023 by Bass, Rick

Conversations with Ted Kooser by

Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend by Romney, Rebecca

Love and Need: The Life of Robert Frost's Poetry by Plunkett, Adam

Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend by Romney, Rebecca

Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women by Abbs-Streets, Annabel

Wallace Stegner: Dean of Western Writers by Beam, Alex

My Life at the Wheel: Toward a Memoir by Schwartz, Lynne Sharon

Cuchara Y Memoria (Memorias) / Spoon and Memory (a Memoir) by Taibo, Benito

Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life by Funder, Anna

Malaparte: A Biography by Serra, Maurizio

Airless Spaces, New Edition by Firestone, Shulamith

Under the Shade of the Tree Named Bhaskar by Maji, Prasanta

The Uptown Local: Joy, Death, and Joan Didion: A Memoir by Leadbeater, Cory

Vergil: The Poet's Life by Ruden, Sarah

Legion: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Lawrence of Arabia by Jackson, Kevin

Firstborn Girls: A Memoir by McFadden, Bernice L.

The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality by Egginton, William

The Figure Going Imaginary: Life Drawing, Poetry, the Cadaver Lab; A Year in Pieces by Boruch, Marianne

Following My Nose by Panshin, Alexei

Pushkin: A Writer's Biography by Lotman, Yuri

Pushkin's Letters: Annotated Authoritative Edition by Pushkin, Alexander

How to End a Story: Collected Diaries, 1978-1998 by Garner, Helen

Elie Wiesel: Confronting the Silence by Berger, Joseph

In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Ferrante, Elena

Robert E. Howard: The Life and Times of a Texas Author by Oliver, Willard M.

Another Bullshit Night in Suck City: A Memoir by Flynn, Nick

The Phoenix Land by Banffy, Miklos

Edgar Allan Poe: A Life by Kopley, Richard

The Life of Mark Akenside: The Breakthrough to Modernity by Morden, Barbara C.

Anthony Burgess and America: The Untold Story Behind the American Influences on Burgess's Life, Work, and Legacy by Thurley, Christopher W.

Low Road: The Life and Legacy of Donald Goines by Allen, Eddie B.

James Baldwin: The Life Album by Zaborowska, Magdalena J.

The Wages of Expectation: A Biography of Edward Dahlberg by Defanti, Charles

Roman Year: A Memoir (Large Print Edition) by Aciman, André

Shakespeare's House: A Window Onto His Life and Legacy by Schoch, Richard

The Life of Rachel Speght: A Forward Woman by Stringer, Helen M.

The Real Charles Dickens by Browning, Stephen, Thomas, Simon

The Real Jrr Tolkien: The Man Who Created Middle-Earth by Xander, Jesse

The Creators of Winnie the Pooh: A A Milne and E H Shephard by Norman, Andrew

The Routledge Companion to Biofiction by

Elfriede Jelinek Goes Australia: Indigenising an Austrian Nobel Prize Winner by Bastian, André

Canceled Lives: My Father, My Scandal, and Me by Bailey, Blake

Gatsby: Death of an Irishman by O'Sullivan Greene, Patrick

Dear Orson Welles and Other Essays by Cousins, Mark

Body High: Death, Drugs, and Eva Hesse by Donnelly, Ryann

The Places of Marguerite Duras by

Christopher Hill: The Life of a Radical Historian by Braddick, Michael

The Catastrophe Hour: Selected Essays by Daum, Meghan

Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life by Nadel, Dan

Barbara Comyns: A Savage Innocence by Horner, Avril

In the Rhododendrons: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf by Christle, Heather

Henry James Comes Home: Rediscovering America in the Gilded Age by Brooks, Peter

Hemingway's Brain: With a New Preface by Farah, Andrew

The Mystery of Perception: A Conversation with Lynne Tillman by Lewandowski, Taylor

Identidad Nómada / Nomadic Identity by Le Clézio, Jean-Marie Gustave

Quotations of Louisa May Alcott by Alcott, Louisa May

Te VI Marchar by Richardson, Robert

Podrias Hacer de Esto Algo Bonito by Smith, Maggie

Ni Me Gusta Mi Cuello Ni Me Acuerdo de NADA by Ephron, Nora

Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in American History by Li, Stephanie

Mirrored Minds: Soren Kierkegaard and Hans Christian Andersen by Ashton, Kate

Understanding Octavia E. Butler by Parker, Kendra R.

Writers Revealed by

The Dazzling Paget Sisters: Identical Twins at the Heart of the 20th Century by Banks, Ariane

The Novel Life of Jane Austen: A Graphic Biography by Barchas, Janine

Lost and Found: An A-Z of Neglected Writers of the Anglophone Caribbean by Donnell, Alison

The Pioneering Life of Mary Wortley Montagu: Scientist and Feminist by Willett, Jo

Ernest Hemingway: Flawed Genius by Malone, Aubrey

D. H. Lawrence by Ellis, David

Frida Kahlo's Love Letters by Barbezat, Suzanne

E.D.E.N. Southworth's Hidden Hand: The Untold Story of America's Famous Forgotten Nineteenth-Century Author by Neal, Rose

Literature for the People: How the Pioneering MacMillan Brothers Built a Publishing Powerhouse by Harkness, Sarah

The Genius of Judy: How Judy Blume Rewrote Childhood for All of Us by Bergstein, Rachelle

String Too Short to Be Saved: Recollections of Summers on a New England Farm by Hall, Donald

Boccaccio: A Biography by Santagata, Marco

Understanding Hunter S. Thompson by Hayes, Kevin J.

Christopher Isherwood by Poller, Jake

Understanding Hunter S. Thompson by Hayes, Kevin J.

Blythe Spirit: The Remarkable Life of Ronald Blythe by Collins, Ian

Mark Twain by Chernow, Ron

Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel by Hussey, Mark

Life and Art: Essays by Russo, Richard

An Apprehension of Splendor: A Biography in Photographs of F. Scott Fitzgerald and His Family by Sudia-Skehan, Shawn

Émile Zola: A Determined Life by Lethbridge, Robert

Oscar Wilde's Crucifix: A Biographical Experiment by Asscher, Maarten

Word Monkey by Fowler, Christopher

The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage by Elie, Paul

Peace Is a Shy Thing: The Life and Art of Tim O'Brien by Vernon, Alex

Clam Down: A Metamorphosis by Chen, Anelise

The War for Middle-Earth: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Confront the Gathering Storm, 1933-1945 by Loconte, Joseph

Cooler Than Cool: The Life and Work of Elmore Leonard by Kushins, C. M.

Homework: A Memoir by Dyer, Geoff

The Quotable Thoreau by Thoreau, Henry David

Jules Verne and the Invention of the Future by Bergreen, Laurence

Voyage En Cotentin: Avec Gilles de Goubervilles by Collectif

The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford by McWilliams, James

The Golden Age of Murder by Edwards, Martin

Viacheslav Ivanov: A Symbolist Life by Wachtel, Michael

Jules Verne and the Invention of the Future (Large Print Edition) by Bergreen, Laurence

Jules Verne and the Invention of the Future by Bergreen, Laurence

The Shakespeare and Company Book of Interviews by Biles, Adam

Borges by Bioy Casares, Adolfo

Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler by Morris, Susana M.

Baldwin: A Love Story by Boggs, Nicholas

Backstage: Stories of a Writing Life by Leon, Donna

Through the Eyes of Franz Kafka by

Idiocy by Guyotat, Pierre

A Man Without a Country: 20th Anniversary Edition by Vonnegut, Kurt

Conversations with Jesmyn Ward by

On the Road with on the Road by Kerouac, Jack

Jane Austen: The Original Romance Novelist by

The World She Edited: Katharine S. White at the New Yorker by Reading, Amy

A Pen to Change the World: The Life of J. K. Rowling by Schmidt, Solomon

Maya Angelou: A Life in American History by Gilliam, Erin W., Brooks, F. Erik

The Power of Place: August Wilson and Pittsburgh by Glasco, Laurence