New biographies coming out

• Fahrenheit-182

• A Memoir
• By: Mark Hoppus, Dan Ozzi
• Narrated by: Mark Hoppus
• Length: 8 hrs
• Unabridged

• Overall

• Performance

This is a story of what happens when an angst-ridden kid who grew up in the desert experiences his parents’ bitter divorce, moves around the country, switches identities from dork to goth to skate punk, and eventually meets his best friend who just so happens to be his musical soulmate. Bassist, songwriter, and vocalist for renowned pop-punk trailblazers blink-182, Mark Hoppus, tells his story in Fahrenheit-182.

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Bibliophobia: A Memoir

Sarah Chihaya. Random House, Feb. 4 ($29, ISBN )

Literary critic Chihaya reflects on the books that carried her through her adolescence as a Japanese American girl in the white Ohio suburbs, from Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye to Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables.

Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told

Jeremy Atherton Lin. Little, Brown, June 3 ($29, ISBN )

Lin follows Gay Bar with a memoir about falling for a British man just as församling prepared to pass the Defense of Marriage Act, prompting him and his boyfriend to reflect on immigration rights and their place in the kamp for marriage equality.

Free: My Search for Meaning

Amanda Knox. Grand huvud, Mar. 25 ($30, ISBN )

Knox recalls the period after she was exonerated for the murder of her roommate and fellow exchange lärling in Italy and released from

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Fall 2024 Adult Preview: Memoirs & Biographies

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Connie: A Memoir

Connie Chung. Grand Central, Sept. 17 ($32.50, ISBN 978-1-5387-6698-9)

The news anchor pulls back the curtain on the stories she’s reported, the sexism she’s overcome, and her relationship with husband Maury Povich.

Didion and Babitz

Lili Anolik. Scribner, Nov. 12 ($28.99, ISBN 978-1-6680-6548-8)

Anolik digs through letters artist and author Eve Babitz wrote to Joan Didion during their brief friendship in the 1970s to paint a picture of the ever-elusive Didion and illuminate Babitz’s tumultuous life.

John Lewis: A Life

David Greenberg. Simon & Schuster, Oct. 8 ($35, ISBN 978-1-9821-4299-5)

Drawing from archived documents and hundreds of interviews, Greenberg tracks the congressman and civil rights leader from his childhood in rural Alabama, through the marches on Washington and Selma, and his political career in Georgia.

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