Best autobiography you have read

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

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

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.

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

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

Michael J Fox 'Lucky Man'.

Read it a few times now.

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

The gift. Mia Dolan.

Lost. Cheryl Strayed.

Dave Grohls was fascinating.

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).

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

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

Also agree re David Nivea’s AB.

Me. Elton John.

He wrote two, The Moon’s a Balloon and Bring on the Empty Horses. Both brilliant.

Lots to get me started, thank you so much. I've just ordered the one about life with Tourette's. Lots of others now in my Amazon basket!

I'd recommend Doris Day's. She lived a fascinating and in some ways tragic life.

There are also biographical vignettes from people who knew her.

War doctor by Dr David Nott was was harrowing but fascinating and inspiring.

Unnatural causes by Dr Sheppard is thoroughly interesting.

Dr Sue Blacks story is also interesting but I can't remember what it's called off the top of my head.

I've just finished James Blunt's "Loosley Based on a Made Up Story".
Absolutely brilliant, my best book of 2023.

@AnnPerkins yes! I couldn’t remember the other one. It’s been 20 years, I think, since I read them.

I'm currently reading Tough Crowd by Graham Linehan and really enjoying it.

It’s ages since I read it but I really enjoyed Egger’s A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Good pop, bad pop by Jarvis Cocker.
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The Paul O'Grady ones are glorious. I also really enjoyed With Nails, Richard E Grant and Red Carpets and other Banana Skins by Rupert Everett. All three are great storytellers.

My Name is Why by Lemn Sissay is a wonderful and heartbreaking book.

Anthony Kiedis - Scar Tissue

Rachel Hearson - Handle with care

Claire Tomalin’s biographies are all terrific, particularly Samuel Pepys.

On a completely different note, there is an audiobook on BBC Sounds of Beth Mead’s autobiography, which is ace and well worth a listen.

Marianne faithful's was excellent