My feed
Premium

Please
or
to access all these features

Find your new favourite book or recommend one on our Book forum.

What we're reading

BEST EVER Autobiographies/Memoirs, What are your favourites????

82 replies

Uki · 27/04/2008 11:57

Hi

I admit I'm obsessed with Autobiograhies and memiors.

I've just finished

A Man called Dave- David Pelzer, excellent

Eat, Pray, Love- Elizabeth Gilbert- pretty funny

all time favs.
Desert Dawn - Waris Dirie
Fence around the Cuckoo- Ruth Park.

What are your favourites please?
Also Is Richard Bransons, losing my virginity , any good?

OP posts:
Report
SuperSillyus · 25/10/2008 21:03

An Evil Cradling by Brian Keenan

Report
lou33 · 25/10/2008 21:14

i enjoyed scar tissue and mr nice

i havent read any clive james for years but yes, i agree unreliable memoirs was good iirc

Report
ilovemydog · 25/10/2008 21:21

yes, an evil cradling.

Report
LyraSeveredtongue · 25/10/2008 21:22

Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt)
Scar Tissue (Anthony Kiedis)

Report
beansmum · 25/10/2008 21:25

Not autobiographies but

I Am Alive and You are Dead: A Journey Inside the Mind of Philip K. Dick by Emmanuel Carrere

The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton by Kathryn Hughes

Report
LyraSeveredtongue · 25/10/2008 21:26

Also like Piers Morgan's memoirs, The Insider.
Most recent reads were Gail Porter - Laid Bare (I think) and Max Clifford - Read All About It.

Report
LyraSeveredtongue · 25/10/2008 21:27

Oh, and Toast - Nigel Slater, which was good.

Report
Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.