Top 5 Memoir Books To Be Released On June 2025

Memoirs may educate you about places, situations, and ways of life that are very different from your own.  They provide you access to another person's reality, which improves your comprehension and empathy for others around you.

 These are a few memoir-themed books that will be published in June 2025:

1. The Dry Season by Melissa Febos

This book, written by Melissa Febos, the national best-selling author of Girlhood, explores the freedoms, feminist heroines, and loneliness she experienced during a year of celibacy.  An insightful and enlightening examination of relationships and self-awareness.  The narrative of The Dry Season is as much about the joy, desire, and satisfaction of celibacy as it is about it.  It is the memoir of a woman who learns to live in the center of her own tale, full of frankness and intelligence, and it serves as a much-needed spark for a fresh discussion about sex and love.  It is anticipated that this book will be released on  Knopf, June 3, 2025.

2. I'll Tell You When I'm Home: A Memoir by Hala Alyan

The award-winning Palestinian American author's first book is rich and intensely personal. Her surrogate parenting experience compels her to face her own history and the legacy of her family's exile and relocation, influencing the narratives that will shape her future.  I'll Tell You When I'm Home is an unforgettable tale of unraveling and becoming, of devastation and redemption, and of homelands lost and remade. It is a breathtakingly lyrical, unvarnished, and potent journey for motherhood, selfhood, and peoplehood.  The anticipated release date of this book by Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster is June 3, 2025.

3. How to Lose Your Mother: A Daughter's Memoir by Molly Jong-Fast

Molly's book, How to Lose Your Mother, is a wonderful and depressing account of a mother-daughter connection that is passionate, a sometimes tumultuous upbringing with a mom who is obsessed with fame, and how it can truly mess you up.  However, it is also a narrative of love, loss, bewilderment, and profound pain, given her mother's tragic decline into dementia and Molly's understanding that she would lose this extraordinary lady.

Sincere, poignant, witty, and humorous, it will give us an intimate look into an intriguing and occasionally turbulent family dynamic, relish in the rumors of Erica's well-known friends and foes, and help us better appreciate our own most valuable bonds. Viking is anticipated to release this book on June 3, 2025.

4. The River's Daughter by Bridget Crocker

An globally recognized whitewater rafting guide, recalling memoirs such as Wild and Educated, provides a compelling and motivational account of overcoming adversity and discovering her own identity via her affinity with the rivers she has experienced.  In addition to taking us on thrilling and occasionally terrifying water adventures, Bridget Crocker offers us a fresh perspective on the world—through its rivers, which can lead us just as we can navigate them—and presents a daring and lively new voice in adventure writing with this stirring tale of finding hope and belonging in an outdoor lifestyle.  Spiegel & Grau is anticipated to publish this book on June 3, 2025.

5. We Might Just Make It After All by Elyce Arons

As they came of age in 1990s New York, Elyce Arons paints a poignant image of friendship as she considers her lengthy connection with Kate Spade, whom she met in college and who later cofounded the multibillion-dollar design firm.

 We Might Just Make It After All, which is set against the glamorous and gritty backdrop of downtown New York at the turn of the century, compassionately and openly examines the strength of a sisterhood-like friendship, the difficulties faced by female entrepreneurs in the 1990s, and the classic elegance of a brand that defines a generation.  Gallery Books is anticipated to publish this book on June 17, 2025.