I love a good autobiography and have read lots in the past. Has you got any good suggestions please?
I love a good autobiography and have read lots in the past, but haven’t had a really interesting one in quite some time. Has anybody got any good suggestions please?
I enjoyed ‘Bring Me A Unicorn’, by Anne Marrow Lindbergh.
A piece of cake by cupcake brown
I love them, especially 50’s starlets. Lauren Bacall most honest one I have ever read.
I just purchased two books: One about Ava Gardner and the other a biography of Montgomery Clift. I also recently finished “This ‘N That” by Bette Davis.
Biography of Rosemary Stalin
My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard. It’s an autobiographical novel in six volumes. You’ll either love it or hate it.
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I just read this for my online book club. We read books from other countries. This was from Brazil. It was so good! https://www.aworldadventurebybook.com/reading-list/the-eternal-son
Just Kids by Patti Smith – her early years in New York and her relationship with Robert Mapplethorpe. Amazing book, beautifully written
One of my favorites. I just commented on another thread that the audio book of Patti reading this is wonderful.
Indeed! Her voice makes it magical.
and loved M Train, too.
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen (although I believe it may actually be a memoir, rather than an autobiography).
What is the difference between a memoir and autobiography?
An autobiography is the whole life, a memoir is a particular part of a life
Then Bruce is an autobiography!
American on Purpose by Craig Ferguson
Not an AUTObiography, but a biography, a wonderful one…Destiny and Power by John Meacham. I never expected to read it, let alone absolutely love it, liberal that I am, but this bio of George H.W. Bush (41, not 43) is marvelous! Highly recommended!
West with the Night
I loved this.
Steel True about actress Barbara Stanwyck, Shelley Winters books I think she wrote two or three, Open by Andre Agassi , Lauren Bacall’s books…
Agassi’s book, Open, was co-authored by the wonderful J.R. Moehringer, who wrote his own autobiography, Tender at the Bar. I’ve read both and they’re excellent.
My Life on the Road by Gloria Steinem was very interesting, plus Shrill by Lindy West was funny and bittersweet.
Gloria’s book is fantastic! I was hesitant, but enjoyed it thoroughly
The Autobiography of Malcolm X is the best.
I need to read that one
Yes, very good book.
@Carole, it’s “The Tender Bar” and I absolutely loved it.
You’re right. I had it mixed up with a book by Ruth Reichl.
I am reading Front Row at the White House, by Helen Thomas.
Born a Crime Trevor Noah
I second this! Or seventh it because I was the sixth person to like it. ?
Audio is best for this one! So good.
@Posh Does Trevor Noah read it himself?
Yes! He does everyone’s accents and speaks all the languages. If someone is telling him off in Zulu, you hear it in Zulu.
@Posh That’s great!
Agree that this one is quite good and different from many others. His stories of South Africa are so different from growing up in the US.
Bill Graham Presents is brilliant.
Bear Grylls. Mud Sweat and Tears. Or any of his books I found very absorbing.
I enjoyed Hillbilly Elegy
A great book to LISTEN to, he narrates it
@Judy Oh, I bet that is great! I looked at the library and the kindle version was available and there was a long wait for the audio. Maybe I’ll listen to it at some point. Thanks for the recommendation!
Liked this a lot.
Finn Murphy, The Long Haul. Long distance moving is more interesting than you think!
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan
I loved this book. I am an RN and was fascinated by the book but also think it is a mainstream book. Great lessons on trusting your inner self.
Also Home Before Morning by Lynda Vandever(sp) She was an Army nurse in Vietnam Nam.
In the Sanctuary of Outcasts
Loved this biography x
I lent in out and never got it back 🙁 but, found another at a garage sale yesterday so will read again as soon as finished with current read
One of my favs too! I mainly stick to musicians when I feel like reading an autobiography.
C S Lewis’ “A Grief Observed” about the time he spent watching his wife succumb to the incurable cancer.
It’s very large, but Richard Nixon’s “Memoir.”
Collin Power.
Barbara Mandrall, Charlie Chaplin, The Judds and also interesting to see her daughters view pt, Ashley Judd, ‘All that is Bitter & Sweet”
The Glass Castle – Jeannette Walls
Amazing autobiography
Earlier I forgot to add a marvelous autobiography, My Beloved World by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. What she had to overcome is nothing short of mind-boggling. And yet she did to rise to the bench on the highest court in the land.
I loved this one too!
Malcolm X, every American should read it
Can totally recommend “Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Burton, Harris, O’Toole and Reed” by Robert Sellers.
Just requested it from library.
I really liked “Stories I Only Tell My Friends” by Rob Lowe.
any of Carol Bunett’s books…but the first one is the best
Heroin Diaries by Nikki Sixx, Kiss and Makeup by Gene Simmons, Prairie Tales by Melissa Gilbert, Confessions of a Prairie Bitch by Allison Ingram, and Face the Music by Paul Stanley are all good.
Don’t lets go out to the dogs tonight Alexandra fuller brilliant book. Also at my mothers knee and other low joints by Paul o Grady. Dear fatty by dawn French. Long hard road out of hell by Marilyn Manson, also slash autobiography is brilliant x
A novel, but semi autobiographical that I can’t recommend highly enough, is Dorothy Allison’s Bastard out of Carolina.
Stalin’s Daughter
I have another to add – “The Autumn Balloon” by Kenny Porpora.
All sound good! I like biography’s as much as most fiction.
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela.
So so so inspirational.
I really loved “Surely You’re Joking Feynman!” By Richard Feynman. Definitely out of my comfort zone and I got a little lost when he delved “too” deeply into scientific principles and especially mathematics, but he was a super quirky dude and what he wrote about his work in The Manhattan Project and the varied things he did and experienced in his life were so so interesting.
Jobs
Although it is a bit dated already, what about Bossypants by Tina Fey? I got the audio book, which I reviews on my blog (The Chocolate Lady’s Book Reviews). I also enjoyed (and reviewed) one of the Steven Fry autobiographies – The Fry Chronicles, as well as my favorite autobiography by far, “Me! Stories of My Life” by Katharine Hepburn!
Shoe Dog. It’s about the founder of Nike. I found it very interesting
The Measure of a Man – Sidney Poitier
I almost forgot! Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. It’s wonderful!
Doc—by Doc Watson.
“Will” By G Gordon @Natalie
No relation ? ….. as far as I’m aware
Not a problem James:)
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