Biography & Memoir

Tick your way through the Top 100 — free checklist with every order!

We’re so excited to share the Bookety Top 100 for 2025/26! Voted entirely by our community, this list isn’t about critics or algorithms — it’s about the books you’ve loved, shared, cried over, and raved about. A true reflection of what readers are reading and loving.

Every order comes with a beautiful tick-as-you-go reading checklist to track your way through them all!

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To Be Young, Gifted and Black cover image
To Be Young, Gifted and Black
by Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason
$45.00
Ask Me How It Works: Love in an Open Marriage cover image
Ask Me How It Works
by Deepa Paul
$40.00
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins cover image
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove
by Barbara Demick
$45.00
Death of an Ordinary Man: the new memoir about life, love and death from the bestselling author of The Essex Serpent cover image
Death of an Ordinary Man
by Sarah Perry
$40.00
The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People's History of Afghanistan cover image
The Finest Hotel in Kabul
by Lyse Doucet
$40.00
A Truce That Is Not Peace cover image
A Truce That Is Not Peace
by Miriam Toews
$33.00
Two Women Living Together
Two Women Living Together
by Kim Hana and Hwang Sunwoo
$40.00
Bread of Angels
Bread of Angels
by Patti Smith
$39.00
Every Day I Read: 53 Ways to Get Closer to Books cover image
Every Day I Read
by Hwang Bo-reum
$27.00
Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice cover image
Nobody's Girl
by Virginia Roberts Giuffre
$40.00
Inside the Cartel: How an Undercover FBI Agent Smuggled Cocaine, Laundered Cash and Dismantled a Colombian Narco-Empire cover image
Inside the Cartel
by Martin Suarez & Ian Frisch
$40.00
Destination Moon: A memoir of fast cars, French pastries and finding purpose cover image
Destination Moon
by Kate Reid
$60.00
Softly, As I Leave You: Life After Elvis: The long-awaited memoir about life behind the walls of Graceland from Priscilla, wife of a legend cover image
Softly, As I Leave You
by Priscilla Presley
$40.00
America Day by Day cover image
America Day by Day
by Simone de Beauvoir
$35.00
The New Age of Sexism: How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny cover image
The New Age of Sexism
by Laura Bates
$40.00
A Better Tomorrow: A Memoir of Sorts cover image
Book of Lives
By Margaret Atwood
$65.00 $75.00
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Mother Mary Comes to Me cover image
Mother Mary Comes to Me
by Arundhati Roy
$40.00
Dead and alive cover image
Dead and Alive
by Zadie Smith
$40.00
Breaking Through
Breaking Through
by Katalin Karikó
$33.00
Notes to John cover image
Notes to John
by Joan Didion
$38.00
Three Wee Bookshops at the End of the World
Three Wee Bookshops at the End of the World
by Ruth Shaw
$30.00 $40.00
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Careless People
Careless People
by Sarah Wynn-Williams
$40.00
A Different Kind of Power
A Different Kind of Power
by Jacinda Ardern
$60.00
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Make It Make Sense
by Bel Hawkins & Lucy Blakiston
$37.00
From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir
From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir
by Lisa Marie Presley & Riley Keough
$40.00
Sociopath: A Memoir
Sociopath: A Memoir
by Patric Gagne
$28.00
The Stirrings
The Stirrings
by Catherine Taylor
$20.00 $38.00
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Wild Swans
Wild Swans
by Jung Chang
$23.00
Just Kids
Just Kids
Bookety Book Books
$29.00
Speak, Okinawa
Speak, Okinawa
by Elizabeth Miki Brina
$37.00
This Much is True
This Much is True
by Miriam Margolyes
$18.00 $28.00
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I'm Glad My Mom Died
I'm Glad My Mom Died
By Jennette McCurdy
$38.00
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Carnival of Snackery
Carnival of Snackery
by David Sedaris
$28.00
Quilt on Fire: The Messy Magic of Midlife
Quilt on Fire: The Messy Magic of Midlife
by Christie Watson
$15.00 $35.00
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Dancing with the Octopus
Dancing with the Octopus
by Debora Harding
$15.00 $25.00
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Manifesto
Manifesto
By Bernardine Evaristo
$26.00
Crying in H Mart
Crying in H Mart
by Michelle Zauner
$25.00
The Hard Crowd
The Hard Crowd
by Rachel Kushner
$18.00 $30.00
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Know My Name
Know My Name
by Chanel Miller
$30.00
Everything I Know About Love
Everything I Know About Love
by Dolly Alderton
$30.00
Educated
Educated
by Tara Westover
$30.00