Read 10 Autobiographies or Memoirs

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9 participants (35 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

In an attempt to branch out of my fiction reading, I am challenging myself to read 10 autobiography or memoir books this year. 

Challenge Books

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Bossypants by Tina Fey

Bossypants

Tina Fey

275 pages • digital • 2011

nonfiction memoir funny lighthearted fast-paced
Down the Drain by Julia Fox

Down the Drain

Julia Fox

10 hours, 2 minutes • audio • 2023

nonfiction memoir dark emotional reflective fast-paced
True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between by Gretchen Whitmer

True Gretch: What I've Learned About Life, Leadership, and Everything in Between

Gretchen Whitmer

166 pages • digital • 2024

nonfiction autobiography medium-paced
Love, Pamela by Pamela Anderson

Love, Pamela

Pamela Anderson

240 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction memoir poetry emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
How to Be Champion: The No.1 Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography by Sarah Millican

How to Be Champion: The No.1 Sunday Times Bestselling Autobiography

Sarah Millican

304 pages • paperback • 2017

nonfiction autobiography emotional funny fast-paced
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

14 hours, 47 minutes • audio • 2023

nonfiction memoir politics technology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Walking with Ghosts by Gabriel Byrne

Walking with Ghosts

Gabriel Byrne

6 hours, 57 minutes • audio • 2020

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Advocate: A voice from the margins by Lennina Ofori

Advocate: A voice from the margins

Lennina Ofori

320 pages • digital

challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Source Code: My Beginnings by Bill Gates

Source Code: My Beginnings

Bill Gates

318 pages • hardcover • 2025

nonfiction biography emotional reflective medium-paced
Scarred: The True Story of How I Escaped NXIVM, the Cult that Bound My Life by Sarah Edmondson

Scarred: The True Story of How I Escaped NXIVM, the Cult that Bound My Life

Sarah Edmondson

248 pages • digital • 2019

nonfiction memoir true crime dark informative medium-paced