Each month, Biographile sorts through all the upcoming releases in biography and memoir, across publishers, to provide a curated reading list of the month's most exciting new titles. Below are our picks for February 2014.

I Forgot to Remember: A Memoir of Amnesia by Su Meck and Daniel de Vise
What if you woke up one morning and everything you once knew had disappeared? What if you didn't even realize what you had lost? When Su Meck was twenty-two years old, the ceiling fan in her Fort Worth, Texas home fell on her head and in that instant, all memory of her life, children, and husband disappeared. After three weeks in the hospital, Meck was sent home to a life she didn't remember or understand. I Forgot to Remember is Meck's chronicling of her life inside a mind devastated by injury. (2.4.14)

E. E. Cummings: A Life by Susan Cheever
In E.E. Cummings, Susan Cheever traces the evolution of one of the most distinguished voices of the twentieth century, from his childhood years through to his most formative, illuminating just what established him as the wildly ambitious man, writer, and modernist poet we remember today. (2.11.14)

The News: A User's Manual by Alain de Botton
The News: A User's Manual is Alain de Botton's philosophical meditation on the nature of Western media and its influence on an insatiable culture of readers. De Botton reviews twenty-five paradigmatic headlines and assesses each's intended reaction to expose the grave shortcomings of the medium. (2.11.14)

HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton by Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes
Hillary Clinton will grace another cover this month, this time not as an anthropomorphized, disembodied planet (I know!). Planet or no, Clinton is responsible for probably the greatest political comeback in recent history. With HRC, Politico’s Jonathan Allen and The Hill’s Amie Parnes offer an intimate look at the politican's unparalleled career trajectory, where she is today, and where she may very well be come 2016. The gravitational pull toward this book should be just as strong. (2.11.14)

The Tastemaker: Carl Van Vechten and the Birth of Modern America by Edward White
Carl Van Vechten has worked with Edward Albee, Josephine Baker, Marlon Brando, Truman Capote, Marc Chagall, Salvador Dali, Ella Fitzgerald, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Georgia O'Keeffee, Frida Kahlo, Jerome Robbins, Gore Vidal, Orson Wells, Thorton Wilder, Gertrude Stein -- basically every member of any iteration of the imaginary dinner party game. He was the center of early twentieth century culture. This month marks the publication of the first comprehensive biography of the indelible tastemaker. (2.18.14)

Tell us, what are you most looking forward to reading this month?