Best Reads 2023 at BCIT Library: Memoirs & Biographies

"Elliot Page's memoir, Pageboy, is an intimate look at his journey coming out first as queer and later as trans. The Canadian actor recounts the challenges he faced growing up in Nova Scotia, and then in Hollywood where he was pressured into hiding his identity." From CBC

"How did one of the most beloved, visible and successful women in the world end up in a 13-year conservatorship that revoked her access to her wealth, her privacy and even her food preferences? The Woman In Me, the bombshell memoir from pop star Britney Spears, attempts to answer just that." From NPR

"The big question in the public mind about Elon Musk, as a London cabbie once put it to me, is whether he’s “a pillock or a genius”. The quick answer is that he’s both; a better answer is that there’s a lot of detail between those two extremes – so much so, in fact, that it takes Walter Isaacson 688 pages to cram it all in. But cram it in he does." From The Guardian

"As a Gitxsan teenager navigating life on the streets, Angela Sterritt wrote in her journal to help her survive and find her place in the world. Now an acclaimed journalist, she writes for major news outlets to push for justice and to light a path for Indigenous women, girls, and survivors. In her brilliant debut, Sterritt shares her memoir alongside investigative reporting into cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada, showing how colonialism and racism led to a society where Sterritt struggled to survive as a young person, and where the lives of Indigenous women and girls are ignored and devalued." From Greystone Books

"come for a well-told (kudos to ghostwriter J.R. Moehringer) coming-of-age story about a boy born in a fishbowl who has to overcome one of the world’s most famous dysfunctional family dynamics in order to become his own man." From NPR

"The remarkable untold story of how a group of sixteen determined women used the power of the collective and the tools of science to inspire ongoing radical change. This is a triumphant account of progress, whilst reminding us that further action is needed." From Royal Society