Getty PicturesHowever 2025 was additionally a yr when memoirs attracted consideration for the fallacious causes. Journalist Olivia Nuzzi’s much-hyped American Canto which, amongst different issues, detailed her “digital affair” with Robert F Kennedy, was referred to as “aggressively terrible” a “hate-read” and “unbearable filler” by critics. Regardless of producing a whole bunch of column inches of protection, the e-book offered fewer than 1,200 copies in its first week.
In September, the New York Occasions revealed a narrative that raised questions over Amy Griffin’s hit memoir The Inform, a e-book championed by figures together with Oprah Winfrey, Gwyneth Paltrow and Reese Witherspoon. The e-book chronicles Inform’s childhood sexual abuse, counting on reminiscences recovered in MDMA remedy periods.
The Salt Path scandal
Maybe the most important literary scandal of 2025, although, involved Raynor Winn’s memoir The Salt Path. First revealed in 2018, the e-book tells the story of Winn and her husband Moth’s 630-mile (1,015km) trek alongside the UK’s South West Coast Path. Within the e-book, readers be taught that the couple lose their dwelling after a failed funding and subsequent authorized dispute with a good friend. To make issues worse, Moth is recognized with the terminal neurological dysfunction corticobasal degeneration (CBD) days later. With seemingly nothing to lose, the couple resolve to start out strolling. By the point they’ve accomplished their trek, they’ve been provided a spot to dwell by a stranger and Moth’s signs have amazingly began to reverse.Â
Readers fell in love with the triumph-over-tragedy narrative, which its publishers described as “unflinchingly sincere”. The e-book has offered greater than two million copies and was translated into greater than 25 languages. Winn revealed two profitable comply with ups, The Wild Silence and Landlines. Spring 2025 noticed the discharge of a movie adaptation of The Salt Path, starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs because the couple.Â
