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?

im still listening to it i get he was an addict but i am finding it quite "whingy" i know thats awful.of me .

Guys, how did we forget Prince Harry’s? I’ll admit that I liked it. Obviously not on a literary level or anything like that and it doesn’t compare with the other thoughtful books mentioned above.

DH bought me the Matthew Perry. I dunno. Tears of a clown & all that. The Elton one was very entertaining, with all his stories! And funny, as he can really laugh about how awful it was. But, he survived. It’s sad what happened to Matthew…

Evanna Lynch - The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting ( Memoir by the actor who played Luna Lovegood in the HP series), detailing her childhood eating disorder.

Lady In Waiting by Anne Glenconner. She was Lady In Waiting and friend to Princess Margaret, but had a tough life - difficult marriage and some horrible tragedies.

You're not the only one. I read it last year (before he died) and it took forever. I kept having to take a break and read something else. I feel guilty now but I called him Moaning Matthew to DH.

Fwiw his Chandler was always my favourite character in Friends and I feel so sad that his life was destroyed by addiction.

its tragic, i will finish it i bought it last year to listen to on a plane journey and im still ploughing through it !

Once in a house on fire
The color of water
Running with scissors

An unquiet mind

Two very different Hollywood ones:-

Harpo Speaks! by Harpo Marx; particularly his early life.

Haywire by Brooke Hayward who is the daughter of stage and screen actress Margaret Sullavan and agent and producer Leland Hayward. It's a fascinating story of growing up in a show business family and their relationships. Warning: there is lots about mental health and suicide.

Alan Cumming's Not my Father's Son is a facinating book about his relationship with his father and his childhood in Scotland. It is beautiful read.

Brian Keenan - An Evil Cradling. It's only on a short period of his life but one of the best books I've read.

@Megjobethamy he has another volume too. I didn’t read the first but liked the second.

Bit of a wildcard but Sing Backwards and Weep by Mark Lanegan is the most frank and honest insight into both the grunge scene and addiction. I laughed and cried in equal measure.

I also really enjoyed Dave Grohl's and Stephen Fry's.

I'm just over halfway through My Name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand. It's so well written and I have much more appreciation of the work that goes into making films and I love her sense of humour. It's the best AB I've ever read though I have The Moon's a Balloon lined up next

I loved Robert Webb's one (would recommend the audiobook).

Thanks ladywithlapdog.. will have a look for that

Janet Street Porters are my favourite.
I loved John Bishops.
Rod Stewarts.
Memoirs of a Gisha.
Fallen Leaves.

And Niven's Bring On The Empty Horses. Cried with laughter at both books.

I'm the same, but Alan Carr's had the same effect on me. Reading this thread has reminded me that I also liked Miriam Margolyes' and Clive James', so they obviously have to be funny to keep my interest.

Also liked Nigel Slater's Toast

Sarah Silverman the bedwetter, absolute LOL

I have only read a few, but best of the bunch for me is David Attenborough's Diary of a Young Naturalist.

Desert flower by Waris Darie. Unforgettable book.

Martin Amis- Experience, a memoir.