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Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is flying off the shelves for some dire reasons we don’t need to get into here, but there is one silver lining to the bleak state of affairs. We’re finally getting more of the famed Canadian novelist’s sharp and incisive prose via a new memoir, Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts, out in the U.S. November 4.

The acclaimed author and literary oracle discusses how her life has mirrored her art, and the “catastrophes and stupid things” that make up “Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts”—out this fall.

Chatto & Windus will publish Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts by Margaret Atwood on 4th November 2025. Becky Hardie, publishing director, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from Karolina Sutton at CAA. The book will be published simultaneously in Canada by McClelland & Stewart and in the US by Doubleday.

A Memoir of Sorts will be published in Canada by McClelland & Stewart on Nov. 4, with simultaneous publishing in the U.S. by Doubleday and in the U.K. by Chatto & Windus.

Book of Lives will be published on November 4, with an announced first printing of 350,000 copies. Doubleday acquired U.S. rights from Karolina Sutton at CAA, and it will be published simultaneously in Canada by McClelland & Stewart and in the U.

A Memoir Of Sorts" is due for release Nov. 4. Atwood says she “sweated blood over this book” and that "there was too much life to stuff in." McClelland & Stewa