16 Best autobiography books like Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love by Jonathan Van Ness

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Similar categories in Amy Poehler's Yes Please book and Jonathan Van Ness's Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

• biography
• memoir
• humor
• autobiography
• nonfiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Amy Schumer's The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo book and Jonathan Van Ness's Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

Similar categories in Jill Duggar's Counting the Cost book and Jonathan Van Ness's Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

• biography
• memoir
• autobiography
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

"He loved spending time with us and told us often that we were his number one hobby."

-Jill Duggar, Counting the Cost

"Sometimes you have to be okay with other people not being okay with you. And you have to be okay with you not being okay too."

-Jill Duggar, Counting the Cost

"The dangers were not just out there on the street or in the mall, and they weren't just limited to the summer. They were closer to home as I soon discovered."

-Jill Duggar, Counting the Cost

"It's like roses and thorns, justice and grace. You can recognize the beauty and happy parts of your story while also recognizing the more difficult parts. The two can coexist. The highs aren't automa…"

-Jill Duggar, Counting the Cost

Similar categories in Paris Hilton's Paris: The Memoir book and Jonathan Van Ness's Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

• biography
• memoir
• autobiography
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

"Some friendships just have their seasons, and that's ok."

-Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir

"Don’t waste energy living a life someone else designed for you. Life is one per customer. Let them do theirs. You do yours."

-Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir

"Know your worth, girls. You're not lucky to be at the party, the party is lucky to have you. Apply as needed to relationships, jobs, and family."

-Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir

"Maybe if one of them had told someone, it wouldn't have happened to me. And maybe if I had told someone, it wouldn't have happened to someone else."

-Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir

Similar categories in Ali Wong's Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life book and Jonathan Van Ness's Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

• biography
• memoir
• humor
• autobiography
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

"That day, my co-workers found out my secret: I'm a fucking idiot."

-Ali Wong, Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life

"I don't care how funny or beloved someone is. Take his ass down if he fucks with you."

-Ali Wong, Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life

"My dad would sometimes say things to my mom like, “Devil, get away, for I am God’s property!"

-Ali Wong, Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life

"It made me realize that the most important part of parenting, relationships, pretty much anything is just actually being there."

-Ali Wong, Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, & Advice for Living Your Best Life

Similar categories in Britney Spears's The Woman in Me book and Jonathan Van Ness's Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

• biography
• memoir
• autobiography
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

"I realized how powerful it can be when women defy expectations. I can make my own way in life. I can make my dreams come true."

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

"But then, when it came time to end the conservatorship, I realized one thing: You can’t fuck with a woman who knows how to pray. Really pray. All I did was pray."

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

"Later, I walked all the way home so I could take in the city, breaking one of my heels along the way. When I got to my apartment, I went to my terrace and just looked up at the stars for hours. At th…"

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

"Giving a person no grace in a hard time is just not nice. Especially when you can't take as good as you give. When I started to speak and throw it back at them a little, God knows they were far from …"

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

Similar categories in Leslie Jones's Leslie F*cking Jones book and Jonathan Van Ness's Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

• biography
• memoir
• humor
• autobiography
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

"Dad"

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"Some of the stories about my childhood is vague, because a bitch is 55 and I've smoked a lot of weed."

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"I was built for strong... I was never a victim. And even though really bad shit happened to me, I know it's my job to help other back girls and women get strong like me."

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"I even attended a Christian singles night lecture kind of thing—I was single, it was free, and it was Church. Honestly, that night should be an episode of American Horror Story. The woman leading it …"

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

Similar categories in Elliot Page's Pageboy book and Jonathan Van Ness's Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

• audiobook
• biography
• memoir
• lgbt
• autobiography
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• queer

"Her visibility meant the world to me. I think about this as I walk through the world now."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"How do people do it? How do they shut off the noise? And I don't mean "happy", they may not be happy, but they seem to be able to exist at least."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"In a world where queerness all too often alienates us from blood, I am grateful to Julia, and the family I have chosen. Without them, I wouldn't be here."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"I could block myself out, I was a person I didn't know, I'd gaze into what felt like the universe, my eye a planet of its own. I must be somewhere in there, I'd think."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

Similar categories in Viola Davis's Finding Me book and Jonathan Van Ness's Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

• biography
• memoir
• autobiography
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

Similar categories in Jennette McCurdy's I'm Glad My Mom Died book and Jonathan Van Ness's Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

• biography
• memoir
• humor
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

"I feel like the world is divided into two types of people: people who know loss and people who don't."

-Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

"My grandma frequently refers to me as "bitch". She always throws a little extra salt on the word too, for effect."

-Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

"Even if that thing makes you very uncomfortable at times. Even if that thing puts a lot of pressure on you. Even if that thing is very stressful. Sometimes it’s just nice to feel good at something."

-Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

"She wanted this. And I wanted her to have it. I wanted her to be happy. But now that I have it, I realize that she’s happy and I’m not. Her happiness came at the cost of mine. I feel robbed and explo…"

-Jennette McCurdy, I'm Glad My Mom Died

Similar categories in RuPaul's The House of Hidden Meanings book and Jonathan Van Ness's Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

• audiobook
• biography
• memoir
• lgbt
• autobiography
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• queer

"We all have that magic within us - But it's the faculty to harness it - to turn something seemingly meaningless into something special, to be loose and spontaneous with it - that makes life most wort…"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"But in that time the RuPaul idea was born, and people outside of my world were inspired to talk about me and androgyny and drag in a way that was unprecedented. Not long after that, the questions cam…"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"Life is full of dualities: night and day, black and white, yin and yang, good and evil, birth and death, love and fear. You can't have one without the other. It takes two to create the magnetic pull …"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"There are ideological precepts that people will fight or even kill for. But those things are never really what they seem to be. As much as people will claim a hard moral line, that line becomes very …"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

Similar categories in Erin Gibson's Feminasty: The Complicated Woman's Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death book and Jonathan Van Ness's Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

• biography
• memoir
• humor
• nonfiction
• audiobook

Similar categories in Chelsea Handler's Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and you too! book and Jonathan Van Ness's Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

• biography
• memoir
• humor
• autobiography
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

"Whereas siblings tend to police you, cousins are your partners in crime."

-Chelsea Handler, Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and you too!

"Now that I had a better understanding of why I was so pissed off, I could finally do something about it."

-Chelsea Handler, Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and you too!

"Judging other people had become my way of avoiding judgment of myself, and I had to do better than that."

-Chelsea Handler, Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and you too!

"Never in the history of humankind has a woman been told to calm down and then calmed down. We don't like that."

-Chelsea Handler, Life Will Be the Death of Me: . . . and you too!

Similar categories in Busy Philipps's This Will Only Hurt a Little (A Bestselling Celebrity Memoir) book and Jonathan Van Ness's Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

• biography
• memoir
• humor
• autobiography
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• audiobook

"No one is going to tell you all the things you want to hear all the time. You have to know them yourself."

-Busy Philipps, This Will Only Hurt a Little (A Bestselling Celebrity Memoir)

"Here's the thing: It's not easy to be a woman in this business. There will always be jokes about your body. There will always be guys who steal your best ideas and pass them off as their own. There w…"

-Busy Philipps, This Will Only Hurt a Little (A Bestselling Celebrity Memoir)

Similar categories in Rebel Wilson's Rebel Rising book and Jonathan Van Ness's Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

• biography
• memoir
• lgbt
• humor
• autobiography
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• audiobook

"Would this performance feel internally like I was going to die? Yes. But my desire to win, my desire to be somebody, is so strong that it compels me to do the hardest thing possible: to perform in pu…"

-Rebel Wilson, Rebel Rising

"People would come up to me on the street and say, 'I just want to thank you for being so brave!' Why am I so fucking brave? I'm not going off to fight in a war! I'm not running into a burning buildin…"

-Rebel Wilson, Rebel Rising

Similar categories in Leslie Jordan's How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived book and Jonathan Van Ness's Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

• audiobook
• biography
• memoir
• lgbt
• humor
• autobiography
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• queer

"True happiness can only come from being of loving service to others, especially those in the last throes of life's journey."

-Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

"I suppose someone had tossed the puppy out of the car, since we were in the middle of nowhere, too far out for a puppy to get to on her own. Who on Earth would do such a thing?! People like that need…"

-Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

"When our country was erupting in protests and marches, asking for the end of injustice against African American men and women, I was somewhat chastised by many of my followers for not speaking out ag…"

-Leslie Jordan, How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived

Similar categories in Tan France's Naturally Tan book and Jonathan Van Ness's Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

• audiobook
• biography
• memoir
• lgbt
• humor
• autobiography
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• queer

"My biggest fantasy was to be able to take my revenge, which is a seriously screwed-up mentality for a child to have."

-Tan France, Naturally Tan

"But I was good at running really fucking fast - my hundred-meter spring was bananas. Racism sucked, but it encouraged me to run faster than the bullies. That's the only silver lining you'll find in t…"

-Tan France, Naturally Tan

"There are two things a brown person cannot do, and those are to scream or run through an airport with a backpack on. We struggle to catch flights, too. But we're not allowed to run, because that woul…"

-Tan France, Naturally Tan

"All I can say is speak up; ask questions. Explain your concerns. It's the first step in feeling empowered to push forward with your own agenda. There is no reason to stifle yourself! Because as a wis…"

-Tan France, Naturally Tan

Similar categories in Antoni Porowski's Antoni In The Kitchen book and Jonathan Van Ness's Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

• nonfiction
• adult
• biography
• lgbt

Similar categories in Jonathan Van Ness's Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love book and Jonathan Van Ness's Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

• audiobook
• biography
• memoir
• lgbt
• humor
• autobiography
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• queer

"At the end of the day, the people we let in our space affect our ability to get to where we want to go, so if they're in the way of realizing your potential, it's okay to disconnect because you must …"

-Jonathan Van Ness, Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

"I hope culturally we can continue to normalize the idea that being a survivor is so much more common than anyone realizes and we all deserve to be heard, but more importantly are deserving of a recov…"

-Jonathan Van Ness, Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

"My joy and my accomplishments existed, and so did the pain from my abuse. How can we feel one without the other? Joyful accomplishments exist next to painful memories. I found a lot of my healing whe…"

-Jonathan Van Ness, Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

"You know those plants that are always trying to find the light? Maybe they were planted in a location that didn’t necessarily facilitate growth, but inexplicably they make a circuitous route to not o…"

-Jonathan Van Ness, Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

Similar categories in Karamo Brown's Karamo: My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing, and Hope book and Jonathan Van Ness's Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

• audiobook
• biography
• memoir
• lgbt
• autobiography
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• queer

"Culture is about what people feel, and how they experience the world around them."

-Karamo Brown, Karamo: My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing, and Hope

"The beautiful shades of the world are the colors of love that pour out from the light within us all."

-Karamo Brown, Karamo: My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing, and Hope

"If you allow people to dictate your self-esteem based on their opinions of you, you will always fail."

-Karamo Brown, Karamo: My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing, and Hope

"You are not your past. You are prepared for your future. A yes can propel you, but a no will never hurt you."

-Karamo Brown, Karamo: My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing, and Hope

Similar categories in Antoni Porowski's Queer Eye: Love Yourself. Love Your Life. book and Jonathan Van Ness's Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love

• audiobook
• biography
• memoir
• lgbt
• humor
• biography memoir
• nonfiction
• adult
• queer