Autobiography recommendations

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Just that really. I feel like taking a bit of a break from fiction and love a good memoir.

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I hope your mum enjoys the book. Chatsworth is the most beautiful place.

The only celebrity memoirs I have enjoyed are:

• Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
• Becoming by Michelle Obama

Both are brilliant.

Non-celebrity are generally much more interesting IMO:

• Educated by Tara Westover
• When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi (surgeon - utterly heartbreaking but so worth the read)
• This Is Going to Hurt - Adam Kay (diaries of a junior doctor)
• I Am I Am I Am - Maggie O'Farrell (author's 17 experiences of/with death)
• The Year of Living Danishly - Helen Russell
• Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons From the Crematory - Caitlin Doughty

Don't read Frank Skinner's, put me right off him!

Michelle Obama. She is now my girl crush

Martine Wright.

Just remembered another...And David's Desert Island Discs is the best one I have ever listened to...

David Attenborough - Life on Air

I love autobiographies, my stand outs are:

Both of Viv Albertine's books
I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O'Farrell
The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls
Educated by Tara Westover
Wild by Cheryl Strayed

I agree with Maggie O'Farrell
Lady Anne Glenconner
Robert Webb
Michelle Obama

Also

Claire tomalin
rose tremain
Cheryl strayed

Oh and David Nott- amazing

Piers morgan's book based around his time as editor of the Mirror was very interesting.

Also.

Unnatural causes by Richard Shepherd was fascinating. Home Office/police pathologist who has been involved in some quite high profile cases over decades.

Also Sue Black's first book, she's a forensic anthropologist who travels the world to disaster zones examining the bodies as well as helping the police with murder trials, etc.

Some great recommendations here.
Depends on whether you like heavy stuff or gentle reminisces OP.
I’ve enjoyed Why be Happy When You Could be Normal. Jeanette Winterson.
Coming Up Trumps. Baroness Trumpington
Life and Times of The Thunderbolt Kid. Bill Bryson.
If you grew up in the 70s and 80s and like a bit of humour, Andrew Collins wrote When Did It All Go Right, and Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now, about growing up in those times.

I've enjoyed quite a lot of the ones already recommended on here. Loved Anne Glenconner's autobiography Lady In Waiting.

Some others I've enjoyed:-

Jane Austen: A Life - Claire Tomalin
The Diary of a Bookseller - Shaun Bythell
Confessions of a Bookseller - Shaun Bythell
On Chapel Sands: My Mother and Other Missing Persons - Laura Cumming
The Cut Out Girl - Bart van Es
The Salt Path - Raynor Winn
The Fish Ladder - Katherine Norbury
The Outrun - Amy Liptrot
Spectacles - Sue Perkins
In The Days of Rain - Rebecca Stott
A Life Like Other People's - Alan Bennett
Fingers in the Sparkle Jar - Chris Packham
Shop Girl - Mary Portas
All At Sea - Decca Aitkenhead

Oops - the Jane Austen biog - obvs not an autobigraphy but still a very interesting read.

Cupcake Brown's autobiography is good.
There's one called "The Boy who was afraid of rain" (something like that) that I really enjoyed too.

Ohh, and Debbie Barham's father wrote her biography. She was a joke writer for tv, she worked on HIGNFY etc, and died of anorexia. It's sad, but also a really good tribute to her.

Airhead by Emily Maitliss

I really enjoyed the Ed Balls autobiography if you are interested in politics?