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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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 • 2024 • 2 editions

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

Over the Influence

Joanna "JoJo" Levesque

344 pages • 2024 • 11 editions

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 • 2024 • 7 editions

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

West with the Night

Beryl Markham

9h 12m • 1942 • 33 editions

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nonfiction biography memoir reflective slow-paced
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race

Walter Isaacson

536 pages • 2021 • 21 editions

nonfiction biography history science reflective medium-paced
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson

Elon Musk

Walter Isaacson

688 pages • 2023 • 29 editions

nonfiction biography business emotional reflective medium-paced
An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 by Robert Dallek

An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963

Robert Dallek

838 pages • 2004 • 11 editions

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope by Megan Phelps-Roper

Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope

Megan Phelps-Roper

306 pages • 2019 • 15 editions

nonfiction memoir religion challenging informative reflective medium-paced
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai

I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

Malala Yousafzai

374 pages • 2013 • 194 editions

nonfiction memoir emotional inspiring medium-paced
Breaking Free: How I Escaped My Father-Warren Jeffs-Polygamy, and the FLDS Cult by Rachel Jeffs

Breaking Free: How I Escaped My Father-Warren Jeffs-Polygamy, and the FLDS Cult

Rachel Jeffs

448 pages • 2017 • 27 editions

nonfiction memoir religion true crime dark emotional sad medium-paced