ON MY WAY to the bookstore to stock up on new memoir, it occurred to me that it’s the season of sharing, and that perhaps you’d like to read the media hits that got me to place three new memoirs on my shopping list. Here you go.

If you have not yet seen the video of Joan Didion reading from her new book, Blue Nights (Knopf, 2011), you can view it here, embedded in Susan Cheever’s fascinating tale of how Didion almost gave back the advance money and tossed out this piece of personal history. Two great writers, one interview (with video), and a new book. Have at it.

Out promoting his new memoir, Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir (Little, Brown & Co, 2011), 91-year-old retired Justice John Paul Stevens is letting it rip on the book circuit in this interview, where he has at Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and flirts with Steven Colbert.

And here’s a book that I’ll buy for several people, and one that you will not read about unless we get on it and promote it. Entitled Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir by One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII (Berkley Hardcover, 2011), it is written by Chester Nez, and takes up a topic I knew literally nothing about, but found immediately intriguing as soon as I read about it online.

Those should get you going.

And you? Let me know what’s on your holiday list, nightstand, and, of course, your mind.