Read 10 Autobiographies or Memoirs

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9 participants (49 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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Advocate: A voice from the margins by Lennina Ofori

Advocate: A voice from the margins

Lennina Ofori

320 pages • 1 edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein

Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

399 pages • 2023 • 47 editions

nonfiction memoir politics sociology technology challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Source Code: My Beginnings by Bill Gates

Source Code: My Beginnings

Bill Gates

318 pages • 2025 • 12 editions

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 • 2019 • 7 editions

nonfiction memoir true crime dark informative medium-paced
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 • 2023 • 9 editions

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

Rapture Practice

Aaron Hartzler

398 pages • 2014 • 5 editions

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 • 2019 • 65 editions

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

Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

Leah Remini, Rebecca Paley

256 pages • 2015 • 16 editions

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 • 2013 • 19 editions

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

12 Years A Slave

Solomon Northup

7h 19m • 1853 • 381 editions

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nonfiction classics history memoir dark emotional sad medium-paced