Biography & Memoir Best Sellers, Apr. 2021 | Most In-Demand in Libraries & Bookstores

The biographies and memoirs most in demand by readers are from Barack Obama, Bob Woodward, Michael Cohen, Matthew McConaughey, and Jerry Seinfeld.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR BESTSELLERS APRIL 2021

Rank

 

1

A Promised Land. [HC] Barack Obama. Crown. 2020. ISBN 9781524763169. $45.

2

Rage. [HC] Bob Woodward. Simon & Schuster. 2020. ISBN 9781982131739. $30.

3

Disloyal: A Memoir: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump. [HC] Michael Cohen. Skyhorse. 2020. ISBN 9781510764699. $32.50.

4

Greenlights. [HC] Matthew McConaughey. Crown. 2020. ISBN 9780593139134. $30.

5

Is This Anything? [HC] Jerry Seinfeld. Simon & Schuster. 2020. ISBN 9781982112691. $35.

6

No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality. [HC] Michael J. Fox. Flatiron Books. 2020. ISBN 9781250265616. $27.99.

7

Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady. [HC] Stephanie Winston Wolkoff. Gallery Books. 2020. ISBN 9781982151249. $28.

8

Frontier Follies: Adventures in Marriage and Motherhood in the Middle of Nowhere. [HC] Ree Drummond. HarperCollins. 2020. ISBN 9780062962751. $26.99.

9

Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life. [HC] Christie Tate. Avid Reader Press. 2020. ISBN 9781982154615. $27.

10

Eleanor. [HC] David Michaelis. Simon & Schuster. 2020. ISBN 9781439192016. $35.

11

Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019. [HC] Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. Random House. 2021. ISBN 9780593134047. $32. 

12

Everything Beautiful in Its Time: Seasons of Love and Loss. [HC] Jenna Bush Hager. HaperCollins. 2020. ISBN 9780062960627. $26.99.

13

Walk in My Combat Boots: True Stories from America’s Bravest Warriors. [HC] James Patterson, Matt Eversmann, and Chris Mooney. Little, Brown. 2021. ISBN 9780316429092. $30.

14

The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X. [HC] Les Payne and Tamara Payne. Liveright Publishing. 2020. ISBN 9781631491665. $35.

15

This Time Next Year We’ll Be Laughing. [HC] Jacqueline Winspear. Soho Press. 2020. ISBN 9781641292696. $27.95.

16

Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics. [HC] Dolly Parton and Robert K. Oermann. Chronicle Books. 2020. ISBN 9781797205090. $50.

17

Just As I Am. [HC] Cicely Tyson and Michelle Burford. HaperCollins. 2021. ISBN 9780062931061. $28.99.

18

I’ll Be Seeing You. [HC] Elizabeth Berg. Random House. 2020. ISBN 9780593134672. $27.

19

His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope. [HC] Jon Meacham. Random House. 2020. ISBN 9781984855022. $30.

20

Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family. [HC] Omid Scobie and Carolyn Durand. HarperCollins. 2020. ISBN 9780063046108. $27.99.

 

This list includes titles most in demand by libraries and bookstores nationwide from Baker & Taylor six months prior to the week ending March 1, 2021. (c) Copyright 2021 Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of MSI Information Services.

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