Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo and Me by Ellen Forney – review
A frank and funny graphic memoir from a cartoonist living with bipolar disorder charms Matt Haig
Dan Brown, diets and Swedish fiction: what we’ve read so far in 2013
Liz Bury: Official sales figures of digital and print books for the first half of the year show a preoccupation with diets and thrillers
Be Awesome: Modern Life for Modern Ladies, by Hadley Freeman – review
Hadley Freeman's memoir masquerading as a survival guide is fresh, witty and packs a serious punch, writes Viv Groskop
Bipolar memoirs: What have I done?
We live in bipolar times. Yet memoirs of manic depression by Stephen Fry and others suggest the new diagnosis, treated with drugs, risks ignoring the crucial details of each patient's condition. By Darian Leader
She Left Me the Gun: My Mother’s Life Before Me by Emma Brockes – review
The shocks come thick and fast in this courageous and clear-sighted memoir about a family secret, says Elizabeth Lowry
The Yellow World by Albert Espinosa – review
Albert Espinosa's initially beguiling account of his 10-year battle with cancer is spoilt by self-help hokum, says Michael Hogan
Vagina: A New Biography by Naomi Wolf – review
Does this book reveal an existential crisis among women or merely tell us more than we wanted to know about its author, asks Jenny Turner
Circulation: William Harvey’s Revolutionary Idea by Thomas Wright – review
William Harvey's scientific contribution was just as momentous as Darwin's, argues Charles Nicholl
Elton John to write book about Aids
Love Is the Cure, due in July, will include reminiscences about Freddie Mercury and teenage activist Ryan White
Christmas gifts 2011: which books will be under your tree?
Our critics choose the books they intend to give this Christmas, and the ones they hope to receive