The Best Memoirs by Women Still to Come in 2023

When she was a child, Susannah Breslin's parents enrolled her in what came to be known as the Block Study, a psychological experiment that asked a simple yet profound question. If you studied children from a young age and then followed them throughout their life, could you predict who they would grow up to be? For Breslin, being a part of the project was a curious, omnipresent fact about her life, until a series of hardships led her to reexamine it.

In Data Baby, Breslin examines her life, both as she lived it and by combing through the scientific record of the experiment conducted on her. In unpacking her life, she explores existential questions like nature versus nurture and, ultimately, how the weight of our lived experiences make us who we are.

Out November 7.