14 must-read memoir books like Rise Up: The #Merky Story So Far by Stormzy

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Rise Up: The #Merky Story So Far

By: Stormzy

3.79

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In four years Stormzy has risen from one of the most promising musicians of his generation to a spo…

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1. The Man Who Smiled (Kurt Wallander, #4)

By: Henning Mankell , Laurie Thompson

3.95

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

The Man Who Smiled begins with Inspector Kurt Wallander deep in a personal and professional crisis … read more

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"[...] Alati on lihtsam jälgida nupukalt konstrueeritud valet kui leida ähmast tõde."

-Henning Mankell, The Man Who Smiled (Kurt Wallander, #4)

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2. True Love

By: Jennifer Lopez

3.78

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

In Jennifer Lopez’s first ever book, True Love , she explores one of her life’s most defining perio… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Lopez's True Love book and Stormzy's Rise Up: The #Merky Story So Far

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Always remember. You will live. You will love. You will dance again."

-Jennifer Lopez, True Love

"...but whenever it feels uncomfortable to tell the truth, that's often the most important time to tell it."

-Jennifer Lopez, True Love

"Your friend mourns your losses with you, because they experience them too. The truth is, no matter how lonely you might feel, you're never going through anything alone."

-Jennifer Lopez, True Love

"Your friends mourn your losses with you, because they experience them too. The truth is, no matter how lonely you might feel, you're never going through anything alone."

-Jennifer Lopez, True Love

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3. Hello Mum

By: Bernardine Evaristo

3.69

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

It's a hot summer afternoon. Tension is in the air. A gang of youths on bikes gathers outside a chi… read more

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  • race
  • audiobook
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4. Vicky Angel

By: Jacqueline Wilson

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

Every time a new Jacqueline Wilson book arrives, there is always a small part of every reviewer tha… read more

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5. Jerusalem

By: Jez Butterworth

3.81

Format: 225 pages, Paperback

"[A] startlingly brilliant new play. . . . A tragic and hilarious vision of life in an English coun… read more

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6. Stay Where You Are and Then Leave

By: John Boyne

3.33

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to f… read more

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7. A Spot of Bother

By: Mark Haddon

3.49

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

George Hall is an unobtrusive man. A little distant, perhaps, a little cautious, not at quite at ea… read more

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"Perhaps the secret was to stop looking for greener grass. Perhaps the secret was to make the best of what you had."

-Mark Haddon, A Spot of Bother

"But you reached a stage where you realized it was a waste of energy trying to change your parents’ minds about anything, ever."

-Mark Haddon, A Spot of Bother

"Maybe the answers weren’t important. Maybe it was the asking which mattered. Not taking anything for granted. Maybe that’s what stopped you growing old."

-Mark Haddon, A Spot of Bother

"That was the problem, wasn't it? You left home. But you never did become an adult. Not really. You just fucked up in different and more complicated ways."

-Mark Haddon, A Spot of Bother

8. Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime

By: Val McDermid

4.25

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Val McDermid is one of the finest crime writers we have, whose novels have captivated millions of r… read more

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9. Love as Always, Mum xxx

By: Mae West

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

The true story of an abused childhood, of shocking brutality and life as the daughter of notorious … read more

Similar categories in Mae West's Love as Always, Mum xxx book and Stormzy's Rise Up: The #Merky Story So Far

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. The Woman Who Lied

By: Claire Douglas

4.00

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Emilia Ward is just an ordinary mum living happily in suburban London with her husband and two chil… read more

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  • audiobook
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11. The Audacity

By: Katherine Ryan

4.16

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

From the star of the hit Netflix series The Duchess comes a brilliantly funny, fiercely honest, and… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. When Life Gives You Mangos

By: Kereen Getten

3.96

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The story about a young girl who can't remember anything from her previous summer after a hurricane… read more

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  • audiobook
"Somehow, they suit each other, Rudy and Eldorath. They have the same imagination, and it’s as if they have been waiting for each other their whole lives."

-Kereen Getten, When Life Gives You Mangos

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13. The Swimmer

By: Graham Norton

3.86

Format: 82 pages, Kindle Edition

Quick Reads 2022 Helen is a retired teacher living on the Irish coast. She enjoys the peace and qu… read more

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  • audiobook
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14. The List

By: Yomi Adegoke

3.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Ola Olajide, a celebrated journalist at Womxxxn magazine, is set to marry the love of her life in o… read more

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  • audiobook
"...but she refused for love to be something that she endured. Something that took from her and made her smaller."

-Yomi Adegoke, The List

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15. Ordinary People

By: Diana Evans

3.31

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

‘You can take a leap, do something off the wall, something reckless. It’s your last chance, and mos… read more

Similar categories in Diana Evans's Ordinary People book and Stormzy's Rise Up: The #Merky Story So Far

  • audiobook
"C'est incroyable ce que la musique peut charpenter une vie, toute une vie, et te la rendre par pans entiers, alors que tu pensais avoir tout oublié."

-Diana Evans, Ordinary People

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16. Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict

By: Elizabeth Day

3.79

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST SELLING AUTHOR OF HOW TO FAIL‘Bravely revealing.’ Bernardine Evaristo‘Fu… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Day's Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict book and Stormzy's Rise Up: The #Merky Story So Far

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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17. The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth

By: Katy Weitz

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Strongest supporter, best friend, expert, cheerleader and chief photographer . . . Before, during a… read more

Similar categories in Katy Weitz's The Secret Midwife: Life, Death and the Truth about Birth book and Stormzy's Rise Up: The #Merky Story So Far

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Acid for the Children

By: Flea

4.08

Format: 390 pages, Paperback

The strange tale of a boy named Flea starts in Rye, NY. It was all very normal. But soon his parent… read more

Similar categories in Flea's Acid for the Children book and Stormzy's Rise Up: The #Merky Story So Far

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Bein famous don't mean shit"

-Flea, Acid for the Children

"Such a fool was I. It's a fool who's seduced by that which feels good. Nothing but a simple fool."

-Flea, Acid for the Children

"We sat up through the night snorting and talking. It all felt so important, meaningful and good, all be it in that weird coke way. In the years to come, during all night coked out blab-fests, even du…"

-Flea, Acid for the Children

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19. Weirdo

By: Sara Pascoe

3.28

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

Tonight, Sophie is working at a pub, about to wrap cutlery, when she turns to find Chris ordering t… read more

Similar categories in Sara Pascoe's Weirdo book and Stormzy's Rise Up: The #Merky Story So Far

  • audiobook
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20. Sex Power Money

By: Sara Pascoe

4.04

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

Part comedy, part anthropological study, here is everything Sara Pascoe has learned from scientists… read more

Similar categories in Sara Pascoe's Sex Power Money book and Stormzy's Rise Up: The #Merky Story So Far

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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21. My Thoughts Exactly

By: Lily Allen

3.97

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

So, this is me. Lily Allen. I am a mother, and I was a wife. I'm also a singer and a songwriter. I … read more

Similar categories in Lily Allen's My Thoughts Exactly book and Stormzy's Rise Up: The #Merky Story So Far

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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22. The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport

By: Joshua Robinson

4.41

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

🎧Listening Length = 10 hours and 40 minutes NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Wall Street Journal rep… read more

Similar categories in Joshua Robinson's The Formula: How Rogues, Geniuses, and Speed Freaks Reengineered F1 into the World's Fastest-Growing Sport book and Stormzy's Rise Up: The #Merky Story So Far

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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23. Boy Friends

By: Michael Pedersen

3.98

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intimate and original memoir of love, grief and male friendship by one of Scotland’s brightest y… read more

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  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Ever feel like you were fated to be friends with someone? An alchemy in your meeting, instant fondness - part chemical, part kismet. This is how I've felt about every friend I've fallen in love with …"

-Michael Pedersen, Boy Friends

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24. That Peckham Boy

By: Kenny Imafidon

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For fans of  Poverty Safari  and  Skint Estate ,  That Peckham Boy  is a reallife manifesto calling… read more

Similar categories in Kenny Imafidon's That Peckham Boy book and Stormzy's Rise Up: The #Merky Story So Far

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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25. How to Fail

By: Elizabeth Day

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by her hugely popular podcast, How To Fail is Elizabeth Day’s brilliantly funny, painfully… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Day's How to Fail book and Stormzy's Rise Up: The #Merky Story So Far

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Like many young women, I mistakenly thought that the best way of feeling better about myself was to get other people to like me and to attempt to survive on the fumes of their approbation"

-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail

"It's almost as if - in being childfree yourself - you become everybody else's child: someone who needs taking care of, who needs guiding in the right direction, who doesn't quite understand, but bles…"

-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail

"Life crises have a way of doing that: they strip you of your old certainties and throw you into chaos. The only way to survive is to surrender to the process. When you emerge, blinking, into the ligh…"

-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail

"For so long, we woman have turned our anger inwards, redirecting it towards ourselves and allowing it to manifest as shame. We have told ourselves, instead, that we are sad or hormonal or stressed, b…"

-Elizabeth Day, How to Fail

Cover of Rise Up: The #Merky Story So Far by Stormzy

26. Rise Up: The #Merky Story So Far

By: Stormzy

3.79

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In four years Stormzy has risen from one of the most promising musicians of his generation to a spo… read more

Similar categories in Stormzy's Rise Up: The #Merky Story So Far book and Stormzy's Rise Up: The #Merky Story So Far

  • music
  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • book club
  • audiobook
Cover of I am The Rage: A Black Poetry Collection (Celebrate Black Voices During National Poetry Month) by Martina McGowan

27. I am The Rage: A Black Poetry Collection (Celebrate Black Voices During National Poetry Month)

By: Martina McGowan

4.33

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

I am The Rage is a poetry collection that explores racial injustice from the raw, unfiltered viewpo… read more

Similar categories in Martina McGowan's I am The Rage: A Black Poetry Collection (Celebrate Black Voices During National Poetry Month) book and Stormzy's Rise Up: The #Merky Story So Far

  • race
  • nonfiction
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28. Amazing Disgrace

By: Grace Campbell

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For as long as she can remember, Grace Campbell has been told that she doesn't suit her name. But b… read more

Similar categories in Grace Campbell's Amazing Disgrace book and Stormzy's Rise Up: The #Merky Story So Far

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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29. I Died on a Tuesday

By: Jane Corry

4.00

Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition

THERE’S THE STORY EVERYONE BELIEVES . . . The victim: Eighteen-year-old Janie leaving home for … read more

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Cover of The Prison Teacher: Stories from Britain's Most Notorious Women's Prison by Mim Skinner

30. The Prison Teacher: Stories from Britain's Most Notorious Women's Prison

By: Mim Skinner

4.03

Format: 188 pages, Kindle Edition

"Headlines and news reports of prison leave us with a boiled-down narrative of goodies and baddies … read more

Similar categories in Mim Skinner's The Prison Teacher: Stories from Britain's Most Notorious Women's Prison book and Stormzy's Rise Up: The #Merky Story So Far

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Fattily Ever After: A Black Fat Girl's Guide to Living Life Unapologetically by Stephanie Yeboah

31. Fattily Ever After: A Black Fat Girl's Guide to Living Life Unapologetically

By: Stephanie Yeboah

4.24

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

"The truth is, body positivity is for white women. White female bodies being safe is paramount to m… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook

22 Best audiobook books like Rise Up: The #Merky Story So Far by Stormzy

Transform Your Habits

True Love

Jennifer Lopez

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Hello Mum

Bernardine Evaristo

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Love as Always, Mum xxx

Mae West

4.17

Transform Your Habits

The Woman Who Lied

Claire Douglas

4.00

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25 best-selling audiobook books like Sex Power Money by Sara Pascoe

Transform Your Habits

James Acaster's Classic Scrapes

James Acaster

3.56

Transform Your Habits

Misogynation

Laura Bates

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Guilty Feminist: From Our Noble Goals to Our Worst Hypocrisies

Deborah Frances-White

4.16

Transform Your Habits

The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets

Dawn French

3.87

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