In The New York Times reviewer Elisabeth Egan described the book as "equal parts family saga, grief narrative and addict's howl".

[1] In Beautiful Things, Hunter Biden writes about his family and recounts his history of substance abuse and path to sobriety.

He discusses the grief and trauma he experienced following the death of his brother, Beau Biden, and the 1972 car accident in which he was injured and his mother, Neilia, and his sister, Naomi, were killed.

[2] Beautiful Things was published in hardcover and e-book formats on April 6, 2021, by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.

[10] Marianne Szegedy-Maszak of The Washington Post called it "at once harrowing, relentless and a determined exercise in trying to seize his own narrative from the clutches of the Republicans and the press.