Thesaurus results for MEMOIR(S)

memoirs

noun

plural of memoir

as in biographies

a history of a person's life the former senator has a lucrative contract to write his memoirs, in which he will supposedly set the record straight

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Recent Examples of memoirs That’s no shade to the Big Five – Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan Publishers and HarperCollins – but novelists in a massive house compete with celebrity memoirs and household-name writers for resources. —

Josh Rivera, USA Today, 22 Mar. 2026 The book market of a new country—Russia—was flooded with memoirs of repression and camp testimony, along with émigré and avant-garde writing, much of it never published before. —

Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026 The 2010s saw a rise in trans visibility, thanks in part to popular celebrity memoirs by Janet Mock, Chaz Bono, and Caitlyn Jenner, who shared their own stories in the hope of inspiring wider compassion. —

Isle McElroy, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2026 But unlike many memoirs where hardship is the emotional center, yours feels much more celebratory in general. —

Jason Newman, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2026 There are, needless to say, daddy issues aplenty here — with Daddy himself out of the fray, retired to a grandly crumbling rural estate, grieving the deaths of his young daughter and devoted brother, and very gradually writing his memoirs. —

Guy Lodge, Variety, 5 Mar. 2026 Among the most exciting new releases this month are candid celebrity memoirs from a sitcom star and a 1980s East Village impresario; novels that explore outsider perspectives; and a father-son true story that speaks to a powerful if often cryptic bond. —

Hamilton Cain, Time, 3 Mar. 2026 Dirt-spilling superstar memoirs? —

Chris Hewitt, Boston Herald, 1 Mar. 2026 Here are 10 books—everything from memoirs to thrillers—to tuck in your bag, no matter where you're headed. —

Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 26 Feb. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for memoirs

Noun

Longtime defenders of Chavez — who stood by their hero even as revelations in this paper and in biographies over the past generation showed there was a dark side to the man — suddenly became hard to reach.

— Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
Read the biographies, not the headlines.

— Brendan Keegan, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2026