Looking to read more biographies.. anything you read that was really good, i’d love to hear your suggestions.
Looking to read more biographies.. anything you read that was really good, i’d love to hear your suggestions.
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/No-Room-Secrets-Joanna-Lumley/dp/0718146824
Facing the music and living to talk about it. By Nick Carter.
Born A Crime by Trevor Noah
My all-time favorite! I love this man!
I just finished Relish by Prue Leith. I bought it because I saw that she’d adopted a child from Cambodia who was only 6 months older than her toddler son at the time and I wanted to read more. Very good, so honest. She’s had quite the life!
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
A Scandalous Life by Mary Lovell about a fascinating rule breaking Victorian woman.
Ray Manserak’s book on JIm Morrison…
LIGHT MY FIRE
A House in the Sky, by Amanda Lindhout
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18039963-a-house-in-the-sky
I read this earlier this year! So good!!
I second house in the sky, it was amazing
Ooooh I really enjoyed Whoopi Goldbergs
I just finished Robin about Robins Williams and really enjoyed it.
Robin is supposed to be good. About Robin Williams.
Michael j Fox and Caron Keating.
Open, Agassi’s bio
Read a good memoir
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
Mao’s Last Dancer. Wonderful book, stayed in my mind like no other.
To race the wind by harold krents, wonderful!
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How about an autobiography…My Life On The Road by Gloria Steinem…did not agree with everything she believes but she still had some pearls of wisdom. I really enjoyed it.
Three Roads to the Alamo by William C. Davis
John Tyler, the Accidental President by Edward P. Crapol
You’re on an Airplane: A Self-Mythologizing Memoir by Parker Posey
The Heroin Diaries by Nikki Sixx ????
yaaaas. id like that
thank you.. these sound great! <3
These are more autobiographies, but I enjoyed them: On Leopard Rock by Wilbur Smith; Leslie Nielsen: The Naked Truth (more of a mock-autobiography, but as hilarious as the late actor); Born with Teeth by Kate Mulgrew; Kick Me: Adventures in Adolescence by Paul Feig; Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life by Steve Martin; Twenty Five Mystery Science Theater 3000 Films That Changed My Life In No Way Whatsoever by Frank Conniff (focused autobiography, I guess? Funny if you like MST3K and/or RiffTrax); Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher (again a little more on the memoir/story based autobiography, but a fun read).
wishful drinking is on my wishlist.. i read the princess diarist and loved it.
Let me preface this: I’m not looking to get into a political discussion. At all. But Michelle Obama’s book came out today and I’m really looking forward to starting it!
Also as mentioned above. Born a Crime was fabulous!
oh my gosh yes, i have been wanting michelle obamas book since i first heard about it. asked my boyfriend to buy it for me for christmas.
@Tina my guilty pleasure is audible and that’s where I used my audible credit this month! I can’t wait to start it!
Run Baby Run by Nicky Cruz
The heroin diaries nikki sixx
They’re not really my thing but I did read Dusty Springfield’s a few years ago and couldn’t put it down
LOVED Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson. It’s so funny
Robin ❤️ if you were a fan of Robin Williams.
Just read “The Greatest” by Muhammad Ali. Terrific read.
I liked the biographies of John Dillinger and Alexander Hamilton.
Luv them too! Following
I liked slash’s. I also liked David spade (very funny and if you like audiobook – he narrates it) – lots of good stuff about Chris Farley in it too.
Alexander Hamilton
not autobiography but an excellent read netherless
Never anyone but you
This book was so much fun and interesting to read..
I found this book absolutely fascinating. https://amzn.to/2QEmshb
Circling the Sun. Beryl Markham was an amazing woman and Paula McConklin’s book does her justice.
Also, Cane River by Lalita Tademy about four generations of black women in her family.
I enjoyed Hamilton and Washington by Ron Chernow. Born Standing Up by Steve Martin was a great audiobook as he narrates it himself.
Facing the music and living to talk about it. By Nick Carter.
Just started this
The Choice by Edith Eva Edgar
Thanks
Frederick Douglass
Follow…these are some great recommendations..great question
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder
Wild Cheryl Strayed
Desert Flowers by Waris Dirie. Amazing book
Trevor Noah Born a Crime
Your thoughts on memoirs? Opium fiend by Steven Williams.
Houdini!
Glass Castle.
Educated and Story of a Soul
I just finished Sally Field’s new book In Pieces, It was very good.
Also the Tattooist of Auschwitz is excellent, its a true story and it is hauntingly good.
Fingers in the sparkle jar by chris packham. Mary berry recipe for life. Patrick swayze and liza nimi. Sarah Millican.
Pieces of me Sally Field
West with the Night by Beryl Markham
Educated – excellent!
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand!!! Outstanding book! Just make sure you have a box of tissues close by!
No arms no legs no worries! It was very inspirational. The unquiet mind, extremely interesting.
The super vet auto biography! Im loving it!
Am half way through Unnatural Causes by Richard Shepherd – about his life as forensic pathologist. V interesting.
Eric Clapton’s was very good as is Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
Born a Crime, Educated and The Glass Castle are my favorites.
Hindsight is 30-30 by Sam Welch..you can buy on amazon …it’s a short read…I actually grew up next door to Sam and learned things I never knew
Malala Yousafzai’s biography is amazing.. I recommend you to read it once.
Agree! Malala’s story is amazing!
Agatha Christie, an auto-biography. Ray Mears, my out-door life. Alan Titchmarsh, Trowel and Error. David Jason, My Life. All are very very good and so enjoyable
I recently read “Ambulance Girl” and now am reading a fictional story based on Maria Romanov journal of their live during/after rebellion…quite good.
Sue Perkins. Both hers are amazing. X
Ralph bulger
YA. Home – @Carrie. teen/friendship/loss/violent relationship
Becoming by Michelle Obama – brand new out and awesome
I love diaries. I read the Nikki Six one and that one was pretty good. Heroin Diaries.
Oliver North. It was very interesting
Johnny Carson Rob Lowe earned my respect
Steven Tyler love Aerosmith but this dude is wild!
Andre agassi’s biography
Narrative of Frederick Douglass. Loved it so much I bought a T-shirt depicting it.