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Best autobiography you have read

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newnameagain1976 · 01/01/2024 21:16

Im going to try and read more this year. I enjoy autobiographies. Can anyone recommend a good one please?

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FoxtrotOscarFoxtrotOscar · 01/01/2024 21:29

Me. Elton John.

LadyWithLapdog · 01/01/2024 21:27

Also agree re David Nivea’s AB.

CarterBeatsTheDevil · 01/01/2024 21:26

I really enjoyed The Disaster Artist, which is sort of an autobiography, kind of.

LadyWithLapdog · 01/01/2024 21:26

Agree with PP about Dave Grohl’s, even though I don’t follow his music.

LadyWithLapdog · 01/01/2024 21:25

I like an AB by Viv Albertine. I read it a few good years ago and, although not familiar with the music, it was interesting and enjoyable.

Last year I read Will Sargent’s AB (he was in Echo and the Bunnymen). Really engaging. Also Sinead O’Connor’s (mostly good).

ApolloandDaphne · 01/01/2024 21:25

Dave Grohls was fascinating.

toomanyjellyfish · 01/01/2024 21:23

Educated. Tara westover. I loved it and so did my mum.

The gift. Mia Dolan.

Lost. Cheryl Strayed.

MrsDrDear · 01/01/2024 21:23

Michael J Fox 'Lucky Man'.

Read it a few times now.

readingmakesmehappy · 01/01/2024 21:22

Lady Anne Glenconner. Mad and fascinating life.
David Niven's The Moon's A Balloon. Wild tales of old Hollywood.

ArchetypalBusyMum · 01/01/2024 21:21

I've just put this in my Amazon basket as recommended on another thread (though for a different reason)... but it sounds very good from the reviews and I do love anything that explains my understanding of other people.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0755315049/ref=ox_sc_act_image_1?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&psc=1

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0755315049/ref=ox_sc_act_image_1?psc=1&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&tag=mumsnet&ascsubtag=mnforum-what-were-reading-4975257-best-autobiography-you-have-read

ArchetypalBusyMum · 01/01/2024 21:19

I quite liked Mad Bad and Dangerous to know by ranulph fienness (sp?), it was a good adventure and funny.

I like beautiful mind though it's a biography but an auto biography, but wow, a window into a totally different world for me.

foreverbasil · 01/01/2024 21:18

Bruce Springsteen. Not really something I would have picked up myself but friend recommended it. He is very frank about his successes and struggles

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