We're Going to Need More Wine is actor Gabrielle Union's first memoir published in 2017. It's told in a typical linear way, starting with childhood up through shortly before publication. She's a terrific writer, and her voice shines through very well. There is a major trigger warning as she tells a harrowing story of being raped at 19, and as she's such a good writer it is so vivid and really hard to read. There's plenty of life lessons to be gleaned from her story, and plenty of fun gossip.

I'm not 100% convinced this warranted a memoir, besides the fact that she's an excellent writer. I feel like it almost could've waited a decade or two later and then have been a stronger book. She did publish a follow-up memoir 4 years later, You Got Anything Stronger?, which I have not yet read. But it's filled with stories of her journey of motherhood. Maybe these two books could've been squashed together to be a single stronger book? She is a fascinating person and doesn't hesitate to be vulnerable while sharing.