Brunton, Pam. Between Two Waters: Heritage, Landscape and the Modern Cook. Canongate. Jan. 2025. ISBN 9781805301776. 304p. $27. MEMOIR

Brunton, the chef behind Inver restaurant and a recipient of a Green Michelin Star, offers a critique of the food industry while also writing about her restaurant, culinary heritage, sustenance, and sustainability in this mix of memoir and manifesto.

Case, Neko. The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir. Grand Central. Jan. 2025. ISBN 9781538710500. 288p. $30. MEMOIR

Two-time Grammy nominee Case, a founding member of the New Pornographers, writes a memoir about her childhood, poverty, and her career in the music industry. Reflecting her focus on hard-hitting lyrics, the book is being blurbed by Rachel Yoder, Susan Orlean, and Maggie Smith.

Corren, Andy. Dirtbag Queen. Grand Central. Jan. 2025. ISBN 9781538742228. 288p. $30. MEMOIR

Playwright and performer Corren, who became famous for the obituary he wrote about his mother, Renay Mandel Corren, expands his family biography with this memoir. It encompasses his entire family this time, along with their history, stories, and relationships.

Eden, Caroline. Cold Kitchen: A Year of Culinary Journeys. Bloomsbury. Jan. 2025. ISBN 9781526658982. 256p. $27.99. MEMOIR

Award-winning Eden, author of the travel-focused culinary works Red Sands, Black Sea, and Samarkand, settles into her home kitchen to share recipes from her many journeys, stories about her adventures, and reflections about her home kitchen and what she has learned through her explorations.

Hawkins, Lee. I Am Nobody’s Slave: How Uncovering My Family’s History Set Me Free. Amistad. Jan. 2025. ISBN 9780062823168. 320p. $28.99. MEMOIR

Hawkins, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and former Wall Street Journal writer, considers his family history and how systemic racism, enslavement, and racial violence have affected each generation, using his legacy to remark upon the history of the nation. With a 75K-copy first printing.

Lanier, Tamara. From These Roots: My Fight with Harvard To Reclaim My Legacy. Crown. Jan. 2025. ISBN 9780593727720. 288p. $30. MEMOIR

Lanier, the plaintiff in a lawsuit against Harvard, details her family history and fight to win reparations from the university over their possession of daguerreotypes of her direct ancestors, Renty Taylor and his daughter Delia, two enslaved people who were forced to sit for the photographs by a Harvard professor who used those images to further the cause of white supremacy.

Lewkowicz, Josef. The Survivor: How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter. Harper Horizon. Jan. 2025. ISBN 9781400249527. 288p. $29.99. MEMOIR

Lewkowicz, a survivor of six concentration camps during the Holocaust, later became a Nazi hunter who captured SS commander Amon Goeth (a key figure in Schindler’s List). Here Lewkowicz details how he survived the Nazi takeover of Europe Europe and relentlessly sought justice after World War II.

Moseley Braun, Carol. Trailblazer: Perseverance in Life and Politics. Hanover Square. Jan. 2025. ISBN 9781335523839. 320p. $32.99. MEMOIR

Ambassador Moseley Braun offers a memoir about her childhood, family, and coming of age, but also of her groundbreaking political career, which began in the 1970s. She marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., ran for president, and was the first Black woman senator in the United States Congress.

Moses, Omo. The White Peril: A Family Memoir. Beacon. Jan. 2025. ISBN 9780807004821. 280p. $29.95. MEMOIR

Moses, founder and CEO of MathTalk and son of civil rights organizer Robert P. Moses, writes about three generations of his family—his own, his great-grandfather’s, and his father’s—using his father’s writings and his great-grandfather’s sermons to explicate the Black experience and call for racial justice.

Reichert, Bonny. How To Share an Egg: A True Story of Hunger, Love, and Plenty. Ballantine. Jan. 2025. ISBN 9780593599167. 304p. $30. MEMOIR

Winner of the Dave Greber Book Award for social justice writing, Reichert pens a culinary memoir about her childhood, early adulthood, and midlife as she reflects on her father’s survival of the Holocaust, her family’s foodways, and all that she has come to know about food, history, and inheritance.

Tanenhaus, Sam. Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America. Random. Mar. 2025. ISBN 9780375502347. 912p. $40. BIOGRAPHY

Before his death in 2008, William F. Buckley Jr. selected Tanenhaus to write his biography. (Tanenhaus was the editor of the New York Times Book Review and the bestselling author of a 1997 biography of Soviet spy Whittaker Chambers.) With access to Buckley’s papers and inner circle, Tanenhaus details both the life of the man and the conservative movement he led.

Zusak, Markus. Three Wild Dogs (and the Truth): A Memoir. Harper. Jan. 2025. ISBN 9780063426078. 288p. $30. MEMOIR

Margaret A. Edwards Award winner Zusak, the bestselling author of The Book Thief, The Messenger, and Bridge of Clay, turns to memoir; the publisher is keeping a tight lid on any additional details.