11 must-read autobiography books like Born Lippy by Jo Brand

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Born Lippy

By: Jo Brand

3.62

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a (very very) long time ago Jo Brand was what you might describe as 'a nice little girl'.…

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1. Spectacles

By: Sue Perkins

4.02

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

8h 44m When I began writing this book, I went home to see if my mum had kept some of my stuff. W… read more

Similar categories in Sue Perkins's Spectacles book and Jo Brand's Born Lippy

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"Sometimes we don't want to be tethered to yesterday. It's nicer to forget. Maybe the gaps in our memory are there for a reason, evolutionary perhaps, to give us the space to grow, to get away from ch…"

-Sue Perkins, Spectacles

Cover of How to be Champion: My Autobiography by Sarah Millican

2. How to be Champion: My Autobiography

By: Sarah Millican

4.18

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

Part autobiography, part self help, part confession, part celebration of being a common-or-garden w… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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3. Happy: Finding joy in every day and letting go of perfect

By: Fearne Cotton

2.62

Format: 224 pages,

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Similar categories in Fearne Cotton's Happy: Finding joy in every day and letting go of perfect book and Jo Brand's Born Lippy

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. A Guilty Thing Surprised (Inspector Wexford, #5)

By: Ruth Rendell

4.27

Format: 260 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Elizabeth Nightingale found peace and tranquility on her nightly walks through the rich, dense fore… read more

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  • audiobook
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5. Not Working

By: Lisa Owens

3.48

Format: 93 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Jennifer Close's Girls in White Dressescomes a "a pin-sharp, utterly addictive … read more

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  • humor
  • audiobook

6. Parsnips: Buttered: How to baffle, bamboozle and boycott your way through modern life.

By: Joe Lycett

3.50

Format: None pages,

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7. The Life of Rylan

By: Rylan Clark-Neal

3.75

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Well hark at you, stumbling upon my autobiography. Bet you wouldn't have put money on that three ye… read more

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8. Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life

By: Nina Stibbe

3.92

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the 1980s Nina Stibbe wrote letters home to her sister in Leicester describing her trials and tr… read more

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9. Rambling Man: My Life on the Road

By: Billy Connolly

4.16

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Being a Rambling Man was what I always wanted to be, to live the way I damn well pleased. I've met … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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10. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

By: Adam Kay

3.91

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing p… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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11. Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life

By: Miriam Margolyes

4.08

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

'Oh Miriam! risks the curse of the sequel, and pulls it off . . . A force of nature, a tour de farc… read more

Similar categories in Miriam Margolyes's Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life book and Jo Brand's Born Lippy

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. A Pocketful of Happiness

By: Richard E. Grant

4.36

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Born in Swaziland in 1957, Richard E. Grant moved to the UK to pursue his acting career, and has be… read more

Similar categories in Richard E. Grant's A Pocketful of Happiness book and Jo Brand's Born Lippy

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. This Much is True

By: Miriam Margolyes

4.09

Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition

BAFTA-winning actor, voice of everything from Monkey to the Cadbury's Caramel Rabbit, creator of a … read more

Similar categories in Miriam Margolyes's This Much is True book and Jo Brand's Born Lippy

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"...it is the vulnerabilities in people, rather more than their strengths, which allow us to love them."

-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True

"And I was in love with him because, when he ended it, I can remember the feeling of being annihilated - a pure, wrenching grief and loss."

-Miriam Margolyes, This Much is True

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14. What We Fear Most: Reflections on a Life in Forensic Psychiatry

By: Ben Cave

4.26

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA'S ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION AWARD --- 'Poignant, funny, engross… read more

Similar categories in Ben Cave's What We Fear Most: Reflections on a Life in Forensic Psychiatry book and Jo Brand's Born Lippy

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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15. Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus

By: Sandi Toksvig

4.39

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

This long-awaited memoir from one of Britain's best-loved celebrities - a writer, broadcaster, acti… read more

Similar categories in Sandi Toksvig's Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus book and Jo Brand's Born Lippy

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"For years the physicist Donna Strickland was not deemed notable enough for an entry. She finally got her place in Wikipedia on the day she won the Nobel Prize. Surely that cannot be what it takes to …"

-Sandi Toksvig, Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus

"I had failed to follow the fundamental school rule that you ought to turn up every day. The truth is I found it boring and I don’t do well with that. I have learned to deal with hurt, embarrassment, …"

-Sandi Toksvig, Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus

"Margrie himself was made the first ‘Mr London’, a title which has the pleasing sense of them having had a swimsuit round in the competition. Margrie believed that he was a perfect example of a new ev…"

-Sandi Toksvig, Between the Stops: The View of My Life from the Top of the Number 12 Bus

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16. Just Ignore Him

By: Alan Davies

4.36

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

The story of a life built on sand. In the rain. In this compelling memoir, comedian and actor Al… read more

Similar categories in Alan Davies's Just Ignore Him book and Jo Brand's Born Lippy

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"This is the true inheritance tax of life. Behaviours and habits, ingrained, your own but not your own, a duty on your existence, a tariff to be levied on those who try to love you."

-Alan Davies, Just Ignore Him

"Later, I imagined that the past is not behind us at all, but unseen beneath our feet. We are supported by it as we walk, sometimes balanced, sometimes not, and if we tried we could reach below to gra…"

-Alan Davies, Just Ignore Him

"I don't see the point of leukaemia. Some diseases are using you as the host for a time and then they transfer to someone else, they survive that way, those pathogens, airborne or waterborne, jumping …"

-Alan Davies, Just Ignore Him

Cover of Born Lippy by Jo Brand

17. Born Lippy

By: Jo Brand

3.62

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a (very very) long time ago Jo Brand was what you might describe as 'a nice little girl'.… read more

Similar categories in Jo Brand's Born Lippy book and Jo Brand's Born Lippy

  • self help
  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • gender
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of We Can All Make It by Sara Davies

18. We Can All Make It

By: Sara Davies

4.22

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER!'Determined, focused and full of heart - this book encapsulates all that … read more

Similar categories in Sara Davies's We Can All Make It book and Jo Brand's Born Lippy

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
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19. You Belong with Me

By: Mhairi McFarlane

3.87

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

International bestseller Mhairi McFarlane delivers a charming, hilarious, and heartfelt new novel a… read more

Similar categories in Mhairi McFarlane's You Belong with Me book and Jo Brand's Born Lippy

  • audiobook
"She felt like Elizabeth Bennet promising her dad that Mr. Darcy wasn't a proud dick after all and that the great estate at Pemberley wasn't a factor, promise."

-Mhairi McFarlane, You Belong with Me

"We've come a long way since I was hired to write your life story, haven't we?' 'Fair to say, you understood the assignment. You haven't stopped writing it since."

-Mhairi McFarlane, You Belong with Me

"Do you know how much I wish I was there?' 'Is it as much as I wish you were here?' 'Is it like a whole-body longing that slides into a supercut of favourite memories? If so, yes."

-Mhairi McFarlane, You Belong with Me

"I've got a pint of black coffee with two sugars in the BA lounge, and I look like I've been exhumed by detectives who want to run toxicology tests to prove foul play. In a hailstorm. I wouldn't chang…"

-Mhairi McFarlane, You Belong with Me

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