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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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Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood by Lucy Jones

Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood

Lucy Jones

310 pages • hardcover • 2023

nonfiction feminism health memoir sociology challenging emotional informative medium-paced
Rapture Practice by Aaron Hartzler

Rapture Practice

Aaron Hartzler

398 pages • digital • 2014

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir religion emotional reflective medium-paced
Know My Name: The Survivor of the Stanford Sexual Assault Case Tells Her Story by Chanel Miller

Know My Name: The Survivor of the Stanford Sexual Assault Case Tells Her Story

Chanel Miller

365 pages • paperback • 2019

nonfiction memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology by Rebecca Paley, Leah Remini

Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

Rebecca Paley, Leah Remini

256 pages • digital • 2015

nonfiction memoir religion emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape by Jenna Miscavige Hill

Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape

Jenna Miscavige Hill

416 pages • digital • 2013

nonfiction memoir religion dark emotional informative medium-paced
12 Years A Slave by Solomon Northup

12 Years A Slave

Solomon Northup

7 hours, 19 minutes • audio • 1853 user-added

nonfiction classics history memoir dark emotional sad medium-paced
Give Me Space but Don't Go Far: My Unlikely Friendship with Anxiety by Haley Weaver

Give Me Space but Don't Go Far: My Unlikely Friendship with Anxiety

Haley Weaver

336 pages • paperback • 2024

nonfiction memoir self help emotional funny reflective medium-paced
Over the Influence by Joanna "JoJo" Levesque

Over the Influence

Joanna "JoJo" Levesque

344 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction memoir emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced
Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real about the End by Alua Arthur

Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real about the End

Alua Arthur

288 pages • hardcover • 2024

nonfiction health memoir emotional hopeful informative medium-paced
West with the Night by Beryl Markham

West with the Night

Beryl Markham

9 hours, 12 minutes • audio • 1942 user-added

nonfiction biography memoir reflective slow-paced