Fashion Climbing (2018)

Most readers know Bill Cunningham as the New York street photographer. This memoir, published after his death in 2016, is about the young man who came first: a Catholic boy from the Boston suburbs who moved to New York in his late teens, made hats for the city's elite and opened his own store. It is warm, funny and free of self-importance, and the photographs of his designs and friends show a side of his life his famous pictures never did.