The Best Memoirs of 2026 Are Arriving at Exactly the Right Moment
If you've been searching for the best memoirs of 2026, you've landed in the right place. Something remarkable is happening in memoir right now. At a moment when the world feels simultaneously more connected and more fractured than ever before, readers are turning to true stories — not for escape, but for orientation. They want to read about real people who faced real impossible things and found a way through. They want to feel less alone in their own complexity. They want to understand how someone else survived the worst year of their life, built something from nothing, reinvented themselves after catastrophic failure, or simply learned to live differently. That hunger is exactly why memoir has become one of the most powerful genres in contemporary literature, and why 2026 is shaping up to be one of its best years yet.
The memoirs releasing and resonating this year span an enormous emotional range. There are books about illness and survival, about ambition and its hidden costs, about family wounds that never fully close, about immigrants who rebuilt entire identities from scratch in unfamiliar countries, and about people who walked away from everything they were supposed to want and found something better on the other side. What unites them is a commitment to honesty that feels almost radical — writers refusing to sanitize their stories, refusing to present themselves as heroes or victims, choosing instead to sit in the full complicated truth of what it means to be human. That quality of ruthless authenticity is what separates the best memoirs of 2026 from the simply good ones.
This list was curated with one question in mind: which books will stay with you long after you finish the last page? Not just the ones that are well-reviewed or commercially successful — though many of these are both — but the ones that genuinely shift something inside you. The ones that make you call someone you love, reconsider a decision you've been avoiding, or finally understand an experience you've been carrying without language. Whether you're a lifelong memoir reader or just beginning to explore the genre, these are the true stories worth your time in 2026.
What Makes a Great Memoir? And Why 2026 Readers Are Demanding More
Before diving into the specific titles, it's worth pausing to ask what actually makes a memoir great — because not every true story is automatically a great book. The genre is crowded, and readers have grown more discerning. A great memoir does something that goes beyond documentation. It transforms lived experience into universal truth. It takes the specific — one person's particular life, their specific losses and choices and revelations — and uses that specificity to unlock something the reader recognizes as deeply their own, even if the circumstances are completely different. A memoir about surviving cancer can make a reader without cancer feel seen. A memoir about building a hedge fund on Wall Street can make a schoolteacher in Ohio feel understood. The magic of the genre is its capacity for radical empathy across radically different lives.
What readers in 2026 are demanding from memoir is a step further beyond what the genre has traditionally offered. They want books that don't flinch from ambiguity — that allow protagonists to be wrong, to be complicit in their own suffering, to make choices that are understandable and still devastating. They want writers who don't rush to redemption arcs, who sit in the mess long enough to actually illuminate it. They want honesty about money, about ambition, about the social pressures that shape every major decision we make. They want writers who are willing to admit that success isn't always what it looked like from the outside, and that failure isn't always what it felt like from the inside. The best memoirs of 2026 honor all of those demands.
There's also a structural sophistication emerging in the best new memoirs that readers are responding to powerfully. Writers are borrowing techniques from literary fiction — nonlinear timelines, close psychological interiority, lyrical language, thematic architecture — while maintaining the bedrock promise of the genre: this actually happened. This combination of literary ambition and documentary honesty produces reading experiences that feel simultaneously like being absorbed in a great novel and like sitting across from a friend who is finally telling you the whole truth. That tension is intoxicating, and it's why readers who discover one great memoir often find themselves reading ten more within a year.
The memoirs on this list represent the full range of what the genre can do in 2026. Some are narrative propulsive — the kind you read in two sittings because you physically cannot put them down. Others are slower, more lyrical, demanding that you stay in each page and let the language work on you. All of them are worth the investment of your time and attention.
Terminal Success by Jason Mandel — The Year's Most Searing Look at Ambition and Its Cost
Terminal Success by Jason Mandel is the memoir that keeps coming up in conversations about the most important books of 2026, and for good reason. This is a book that goes to places most business memoirs never dare to visit — past the sanitized success narrative, past the carefully curated lessons, past the triumphant ending — and into the actual psychological interior of a man who built a career on Wall Street, navigated the devastating proximity of catastrophic loss, and eventually had to reckon with the enormous gap between what he had achieved and what any of it actually meant. It is a book about ambition, yes, but more fundamentally it is a book about identity — about what happens when the thing you built your entire sense of self around starts to crack.
What makes Terminal Success by Jason Mandel so emotionally resonant is its refusal to take the easy path. Mandel was a trader who survived September 11 — he would have been at his desk on the 104th floor of One World Trade Center if chance had not intervened — and the weight of that survival shapes everything in the book. The proximity to catastrophic loss, the survivors' guilt, the way that kind of close call either clarifies everything or complicates everything beyond recognition — Mandel explores all of it with a psychological honesty that is genuinely rare in the genre. This isn't a book about someone who learned the right lessons and became a better person. It's a book about someone who kept going, kept building, kept pushing into success even as he sensed that something essential was being lost. The courage of that admission is what makes the book unforgettable.
Readers who loved Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis, or who were moved by When Breath Becomes Air, will find in Terminal Success by Jason Mandel a book that combines the best of both impulses — the sharp-eyed cultural critique of finance and ambition, and the deeply personal reckoning with mortality and meaning. It is the kind of memoir that follows you out of the pages and into your own life, making you ask questions about your own relationship to work, to success, to the identities you've constructed and the ones you've quietly abandoned. Anyone who has ever felt the particular exhaustion of succeeding at something that is slowly hollowing you out will feel seen by this book in a way that few others achieve.
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi — Still Essential, Still Devastating
No list of the best memoirs would be complete without acknowledging Paul Kalanithi's When Breath Becomes Air, which continues to find new readers every year and has lost none of its power. Published in 2016, this memoir about a neurosurgeon diagnosed with terminal lung cancer at 36 has become one of the defining books of our era precisely because it refuses to be simply a cancer memoir. Kalanithi was a writer and thinker of extraordinary depth before he became a patient, and the book he wrote in the final year of his life is a philosophical investigation into the questions that illness forces us to confront: What makes a life meaningful? What do we owe each other? How do we keep living when the end is knowable and close? These questions don't age, and neither does this book.
What makes When Breath Becomes Air particularly relevant in 2026 is the way it models something readers are increasingly hungry for — the integration of professional identity and full humanity. Kalanithi was at the pinnacle of his career when he was diagnosed, and the book's most devastating passages involve not just the loss of his health but the loss of the future he had worked toward his entire adult life. He had spent two decades deferring personal meaning in favor of professional achievement, and illness forced a brutal reckoning with what that deferral actually cost. For readers who are themselves navigating the tension between ambition and presence, between achievement and meaning, Kalanithi's testimony arrives like a message from someone who learned the truth the hardest possible way and chose to pass it on.
The prose in When Breath Becomes Air is simply some of the most beautiful writing in contemporary nonfiction. Kalanithi brought to his memoir the same literary sensibility he brought to his medical practice — a refusal to separate technical mastery from humanistic concern, a belief that attention to language is itself a form of moral seriousness. Reading it in 2026, it feels less like reading a memoir and more like sitting with a great teacher who is explaining, with extraordinary calm, everything that matters most. New readers should know that the book ends with a foreword by his wife Lucy, whose words add a final layer of grief and grace that will completely undo you in the best possible way.
Educated by Tara Westover — The Memoir That Changed How We Think About the Genre
Tara Westover's Educated remains one of the most discussed and debated memoirs of the past decade, and in 2026 it continues to be the book readers most frequently recommend to friends who have never read a memoir before. The story of a woman who grew up in a survivalist family in rural Idaho, never attended school, and eventually earned a PhD from Cambridge University sounds, when summarized that baldly, almost too dramatic to be believed — and yet the power of the book is precisely how Westover refuses to let the drama overwhelm the psychological truth. This is not a story about escaping a bad situation. It is a story about the terrible cost of that escape, about what it means to love people who are also hurting you, and about the way our earliest identities shape us even when we've worked desperately hard to become someone new.
What continues to distinguish Educated from the enormous wave of similar memoirs it inspired is Westover's unflinching examination of her own complicity and confusion. She doesn't present herself as a passive victim waiting to be rescued by education. She shows us a young woman who believed her family's version of reality long past the point where the evidence demanded otherwise, who protected her abusers, who betrayed her own perceptions again and again in order to maintain the family bond. That psychological honesty is what makes the book genuinely difficult to read — and genuinely essential. It forces the reader to ask what versions of reality they might be protecting, what they might be refusing to see because the alternative is too costly to confront.
For readers discovering Educated in 2026, it arrives in a slightly different cultural context than when it was first published. Conversations about family estrangement, about the limits of loyalty, about the way institutions of learning can both liberate and alienate have grown considerably more nuanced in recent years. Westover's memoir reads differently in this context — not less powerfully, but with additional dimensions. It is a book that rewards rereading precisely because your own life keeps adding new layers to what it reveals. If you haven't read it, stop everything and start it tonight. If you have read it, consider returning — you'll find things in it you missed the first time.
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls — Chaos, Love, and the Family We Can't Escape
Jeannette Walls' The Glass Castle is one of those memoirs that seems almost impossible — a story so bizarre, so extreme, so full of parental chaos and childhood suffering that a reader arriving without context might assume it was fiction. But this is every word of it true: the story of a childhood spent in near-constant poverty and instability, following nomadic parents who were brilliant, charismatic, and genuinely unable to provide their children with safety or stability. Walls' father was a visionary who spent decades promising to build his family a glass castle — a magnificent, solar-powered house he had designed on paper — while they lived in shacks without plumbing, went hungry for days, and watched their parents choose alcohol and ideology over their children's basic needs.
What makes The Glass Castle extraordinary — and what has kept it on bestseller lists and book club reading lists for nearly two decades — is the complexity with which Walls holds her parents. She doesn't hate them. She loves them. She is in some ways the direct product of their imagination and their wild belief in self-sufficiency. The book refuses to reduce Rex and Rose Mary Walls to monsters, even as it holds them fully accountable for the damage they caused. That emotional complexity is almost unbearably difficult to sustain on the page, and the fact that Walls sustains it across 300 pages without once losing her grip is a testament to her skill as a writer and her extraordinary capacity for empathy.
In 2026, readers are finding The Glass Castle again through the lens of conversations about intergenerational trauma, about the limits of parental love, about the way poverty shapes identity in ways that last a lifetime. It is a book that generates enormous discussion precisely because it doesn't give you easy answers — it doesn't tell you how to feel about these parents, doesn't tell you whether forgiveness is right or possible or even necessary. It simply shows you the truth and trusts you to sit with it. For anyone who has ever loved a complicated, brilliant, impossible person, this book will break your heart in the most clarifying way imaginable.
Becoming by Michelle Obama — A Masterclass in Using Personal Story to Illuminate the Universal
Michelle Obama's Becoming arrived in 2018 and immediately became one of the bestselling memoirs ever published, and its staying power in 2026 is a testament to how much more it offers than the political memoir it might have been. This is not primarily a book about the Obama presidency, though the White House years are covered with candor and intelligence. At its core, Becoming is a book about identity formation — about a Black woman from the South Side of Chicago who spent decades navigating spaces that were not built for her, not designed with her in mind, and who found in that navigation not bitterness but a deepening sense of herself. It is a book about becoming who you are despite the systems that tell you who you cannot be.
What makes Becoming enduringly relevant is the specificity of Obama's observations about ambition, performance, and the particular exhaustion of constantly having to prove yourself in rooms where your presence is considered surprising. She writes with remarkable candor about moments of self-doubt, about the loneliness of high achievement, about the way her marriage was tested by the enormous pressures of public life, and about the experience of raising children inside one of the most surveilled addresses in the world. None of this is what you expect from a former First Lady, and yet all of it feels completely true — not despite her position but illuminated by it. The book is a reminder that no level of achievement removes the fundamental human experiences of doubt, longing, and the work of becoming.
Readers who connect deeply with Becoming often report that what surprised them most was how practical and grounded it is — how much concrete wisdom Obama offers about navigating institutions, managing expectations, and sustaining a sense of self through external chaos. This isn't an abstract philosophical memoir; it's a how-I-did-it book from someone who did it in extraordinary circumstances. In 2026, as readers look for models of resilience that are both inspiring and credible, Obama's voice remains one of the most valuable in memoir. If you haven't read it, the audiobook narrated by Obama herself is one of the great listening experiences in contemporary nonfiction.
Born a Crime by Trevor Noah — Comedy, Apartheid, and the Memoir That Defies Easy Category
Trevor Noah's Born a Crime is one of the most formally ingenious memoirs of the past decade — a book that tells an almost incomprehensible story with lightness, wit, and devastating emotional precision. Noah grew up in South Africa under apartheid, the child of a Black Xhosa mother and a white Swiss father. Under apartheid law, his very existence was a crime. That the book is frequently very funny while being set against the backdrop of a system designed to dehumanize people based on the color of their skin is not a contradiction but a testament to Noah's extraordinary craft. He uses comedy the way the best comedians have always used it — not to dismiss pain but to make it bearable long enough to actually look at it.
The emotional center of Born a Crime is Noah's relationship with his mother, Patricia — a woman of such fierce, independent faith and sheer force of will that she becomes one of the most memorable characters in contemporary memoir. Noah worships her, fears for her, and spends much of the book trying to understand her. The final chapters, which deal with an act of violence against Patricia that nearly ended her life, shift the book's register completely — the comedy falls away and what's left is pure grief and love and the writer's desperate attempt to reckon with nearly losing the person who made him possible. Those final pages are some of the most powerful writing in recent memory.
For readers discovering Born a Crime in 2026, the book offers something rare: a way into the history of apartheid and its legacy that doesn't require any prior knowledge, because Noah's personal story carries all the weight of that history without ever turning into a lecture or a polemic. It is a memoir that teaches while it entertains, that grieves while it jokes, that illuminates enormous systemic evil through the extraordinarily specific experience of one child trying to figure out where he belongs. Anyone who has ever felt simultaneously invisible and hypervisible — too different to fit in, too unusual to be categorized — will find in this book a mirror unlike anything else in the genre.
Spare by Prince Harry — The Royal Memoir That Rewrote the Rules
Whatever your opinion of its subject, it is impossible to discuss the most significant memoirs of recent years without acknowledging what Prince Harry accomplished with Spare. Published in 2023, the book set records and generated controversy in equal measure, and in 2026 it continues to circulate widely because it did something genuinely unprecedented: a sitting member of the British royal family published a memoir that did not protect the institution, that named names, that acknowledged dysfunction and media manipulation at the highest levels of one of the world's most storied and scrutinized families. Whatever its limitations as literature, as an act of memoir it was seismic.
The most valuable parts of Spare, and the reason it belongs on a list of 2026's essential reads, are the passages where Harry writes about grief, identity, and the particular madness of growing up inside a system entirely designed to subordinate your individuality to a role. His account of processing his mother's death at the age of twelve — and the way the institution around him responded to that death — is genuinely moving and sheds real psychological light on how grief denied becomes grief compounded over decades. Readers who are interested in memoirs about trauma, family systems, and the cost of suppressing authentic emotion will find in Spare more substance than the surrounding noise suggested.
It is also worth noting that Spare raises questions that are highly relevant to many readers who will never come within a thousand miles of royalty: what happens when the family system you were born into requires you to sacrifice your psychological health to maintain its functioning? How do you honor loyalty to people you love while also insisting on your own right to exist fully? These are questions that apply far beyond palaces, and readers who approach Spare with those questions in mind will find it a richer and more resonant read than the tabloid coverage suggested.
Open by Andre Agassi — A Sports Memoir That Transcends Sports Entirely
Andre Agassi's Open remains one of the most astonishing memoir achievements in recent history, and it belongs on this list because it exemplifies a quality that the best memoirs of 2026 share: the capacity to use one very specific life as a lens onto universal human experience. Agassi was one of the most famous athletes on earth for the better part of two decades. He won eight Grand Slam titles. He was married to Brooke Shields, then to Steffi Graf. He was, by any external measure, a success story of extraordinary proportions. Open is the story of how he hated every minute of it.
Written with Pulitzer Prize winner J.R. Moehringer, Open is the account of a man who never chose the thing that defined him — Agassi's father essentially forced him into tennis as a child and shaped his entire identity around a sport he despised. What unfolds over the course of the book is a psychological portrait of extraordinary complexity: a man who was brilliant at something he hated, who chased success partly because he didn't know what else to do with himself, who struggled with addiction and depression and identity at the peak of his fame, and who eventually found in his late career a genuine relationship with the sport and with himself. That arc — from coerced excellence to chosen excellence — is one of the most moving transformations in sports writing.
Readers of Open in 2026 will find it resonating with particular force in the context of ongoing conversations about parental pressure, child development, and the psychological cost of grooming children for single-minded excellence. Agassi is not a simple victim — he also perpetuated some of the patterns he'd inherited, and the book is honest about that — but his account of the specific psychological damage done by being seen primarily as an instrument of achievement rather than a person is both personal testimony and cultural critique. This is a book that will make you think about what you're optimizing for and why, whether you've ever picked up a racket or not.
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion — Grief Examined With Merciless Clarity
Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, published in 2005, continues to be discovered by new readers every year and continues to be one of the most recommended books for anyone navigating grief of any kind. Written in the year following the sudden death of Didion's husband John Gregory Dunne, the book is an investigation into the phenomenology of grief — not what grief is supposed to feel like, not what we tell ourselves grief means, but what it actually does to the mind and the body and the organizing structures of a life. Didion approaches her own devastation with the same clinical intelligence she brought to cultural criticism for decades, and the result is a book that is simultaneously completely specific — this woman, this marriage, this death — and utterly universal.
The "magical thinking" of the title refers to the irrational beliefs that grief produces — the conviction, held simultaneously with full knowledge of its impossibility, that the dead person might return if you don't give away their shoes, if you keep their routines intact, if you don't close any doors. Didion describes these magical beliefs not to dismiss them but to take them seriously, to argue that they represent a kind of love that refuses to accept the finality of loss. What makes this observation so powerful is that most people who have lost someone recognize it immediately. The book names something that feels too private and too strange to discuss, and in naming it, makes it bearable.
In 2026, as readers navigate a cultural moment in which the collective processing of loss — pandemic deaths, political divisions, personal griefs of every kind — is still very much underway, The Year of Magical Thinking feels more necessary than ever. It doesn't offer comfort in the conventional sense. It offers something better: the assurance that your grief, however strange and irrational and consuming, is a form of love that makes complete sense. Didion's precision with language and her refusal to sentimentalize make this a book that holds up across repeated readings, because grief itself keeps changing, and the book keeps meeting it wherever it is.
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner — Food, Loss, and the Memoir That Defined a Generation
Michelle Zauner's Crying in H Mart arrived in 2021 and immediately became a generational touchstone for readers in their twenties and thirties navigating grief, cultural identity, and the complicated terrain of parent-child love. Zauner is the frontwoman of the indie band Japanese Breakfast, and her memoir about losing her Korean mother to cancer — and about using food, music, and the particular sensory world of Korean-American life to process that loss — became one of the most widely read and deeply felt books of recent years. It continues to be passed between friends in 2026, recommended to anyone who has ever lost a parent, struggled with cultural belonging, or simply loved someone with a love too large for ordinary language.
What makes Crying in H Mart especially powerful is the way Zauner uses food not as metaphor but as actual emotional medium — as the language through which her relationship with her mother was conducted, maintained, and ultimately preserved. The book is full of the specific, sensuously described foods of Korean culture: the particular soups and banchan and sweets that her mother made and that she is learning to recreate after her mother's death. This specificity is not indulgent; it is essential. Zauner is arguing, through every dish she describes, that culture is transmitted body-to-body, that love is expressed through physical nourishment, that grief and hunger are not metaphorically related but literally intertwined.
Readers who connect with Crying in H Mart frequently report that it made them call their parents. It made them want to learn to cook the foods they grew up with. It made them think about the specific sensory details of their own families — the smells and sounds and tastes that would one day be all that remained. That capacity to activate love in the reader, to make you want to go home or to mourn the home you can no longer return to, is the mark of memoir at its very finest. Zauner has written a book that functions as both elegy and survival guide, and in 2026 it remains one of the most essential entries in the genre.
What to Read After These Memoirs: Building Your Reading List for the Rest of 2026
If you've read several of the memoirs on this list and find yourself hungry for more, there are a few natural directions to follow depending on what resonated most. Readers who loved Terminal Success by Jason Mandel for its unflinching look at Wall Street ambition and the psychological cost of high achievement will want to continue with Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis, whose insider view of Salomon Brothers in the 1980s remains the funniest and sharpest critique of financial culture ever written. Beyond that, Den of Thieves by James B. Stewart and Barbarians at the Gate by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar offer different but equally illuminating windows into the world of high-stakes finance and the men who inhabit it.
Readers drawn to the grief memoirs on this list — The Year of Magical Thinking, When Breath Becomes Air, Crying in H Mart — will want to seek out H Is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald, which uses the unexpected subject of training a goshawk to explore grief with almost unbearable beauty, and The Bright Hour by Nina Riggs, which approaches terminal illness with a philosophical courage and gentle humor that is completely its own. Both books operate at the intersection of nature writing and memoir in ways that feel genuinely new, and both will reward readers who want the genre to be as literary as it is emotionally honest.
For readers who were moved by the identity and coming-of-age themes in Educated, Born a Crime, and The Glass Castle, the natural next steps are Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, which is technically an extended letter to his son but reads as one of the most powerful memoirs of recent decades, and The Liars' Club by Mary Karr, widely considered one of the foundational texts of the modern memoir form. Both books will deepen your understanding of what the genre can do when a writer commits completely to telling the truth about the world they came from and the cost of leaving it.
Frequently Asked Questions About the Best Memoirs of 2026
What is the best memoir to read in 2026?
The best memoir to read in 2026 depends on what you're looking for, but if you want a book that combines literary ambition with genuine emotional risk and feels completely current, Terminal Success by Jason Mandel is the most discussed and recommended choice among serious readers of the genre this year. For readers who want something with a longer track record and an almost guaranteed emotional impact, When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi and Educated by Tara Westover remain the two memoirs most likely to fundamentally change the way you think about time, identity, and the choices you make with the life you have. All three are essential reads for 2026.
What are the best memoirs for readers who don't usually read memoir?
If you've been curious about memoir but have never quite found your entry point, Born a Crime by Trevor Noah is almost certainly the right place to start. It reads with the pace and pleasure of a great novel, it's frequently very funny, and it introduces you to a world — apartheid-era and post-apartheid South Africa — that is both completely foreign and immediately human. Beyond that, Becoming by Michelle Obama is an excellent choice for readers who want a memoir that feels grounded and practical rather than experimental or difficult. Both books demonstrate that memoir at its best is simply great storytelling rooted in lived experience, and neither requires any special knowledge of the genre to fully enjoy.
Are there any business memoirs worth reading in 2026?
Absolutely — the business memoir has had a genuine renaissance in recent years, and 2026 is a particularly strong moment for the form. Terminal Success by Jason Mandel is the most compelling current entry in the genre — it's a Wall Street memoir that operates on a psychological depth most business books never attempt. For classic business memoirs, Shoe Dog by Phil Knight (the story of building Nike from a handshake deal to a global brand) and Bad Blood by John Carreyrou (the definitive account of the Theranos fraud) remain two of the best. Together, these three books give you the full range of what business memoir can do: inspire, warn, and illuminate the strange psychology of people who build things at any cost.
What are the best short memoirs for busy readers?
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi is relatively brief — just over 200 pages — and is so beautifully written that it feels complete rather than truncated. Crying in H Mart is similarly compact and enormously satisfying for the investment of time. For readers who want the full emotional experience of memoir in a form they can finish in a single day or two, both books deliver everything the genre promises without demanding weeks of commitment. The brevity of these books is not a limitation but a function of their precision — every sentence is doing real work, and nothing is wasted.
What memoirs are best for book clubs in 2026?
The best book club memoirs are those that generate genuine disagreement — not because they're controversial for controversy's sake, but because they sit in moral and emotional complexity that different readers will resolve differently. Educated by Tara Westover is perhaps the most reliably discussion-generating memoir of the past decade, because it forces book club members to confront their feelings about family loyalty, forgiveness, and the nature of truth itself. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls produces similarly fierce discussion about parental love and its limits. For something more recent and more likely to connect with contemporary experiences, Crying in H Mart is an excellent choice — it touches on themes of cultural identity, grief, and the mother-daughter relationship that virtually every reader will have a personal stake in.
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