18 Top memoir books like Gatecrasher: How I Helped the Rich Become Famous and Ruin the World by Ben Widdicombe

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Gatecrasher: How I Helped the Rich Become Famous and Ruin the World

By: Ben Widdicombe

3.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A smart, gossipy, and very funny examination of celebrity culture from New York’s premiere social c…

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1. The Power of the Dog

By: Thomas Savage , Annie Proulx

4.18

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

First published in 1967, Thomas Savage's western novel about two brothers now includes an afterword… read more

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"Fate punishes the proud, and dashes hope"

-Thomas Savage, The Power of the Dog

"He taught me that if you’ve got guts, you can do any damned thing, guts and patience. Impatience is a costly commodity, Pete."

-Thomas Savage, The Power of the Dog

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2. John Lennon: The Life

By: Philip Norman

4.04

Format: 851 pages, Hardcover

For more than a quarter century, biographer Philip Norman's internationally bestselling Shout! has … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • pop culture
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"You know...give peace a chance, not shoot people for peace. All we need is love. I believe it. it's damned hard but I absolutely believe it. We're not the first to say 'Imagine no countries' or 'Give…"

-Philip Norman, John Lennon: The Life

Cover of Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live by James Andrew Miller, Tom Shales

3. Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live

By: James Andrew Miller , Tom Shales

3.77

Format: 52 pages,

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • pop culture
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4. I Am Ozzy

By: Ozzy Osbourne , Chris Ayres

4.11

Format: 176 pages,

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

5. I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America after Twenty Years Away

By: Bill Bryson

3.42

Format: None pages,

After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

6. Stories I Only Tell My Friends

By: Rob Lowe

2.82

Format: 3 pages, Hardcover

A wryly funny and surprisingly moving account of an extraordinary life lived almost entirely in the… read more

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7. Scrappy Little Nobody

By: Anna Kendrick

4.03

Format: None pages,

A collection of humorous autobiographical essays by the Academy Award-nominated actress and star of… read more

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8. The Right Stuff

By: Tom Wolfe

4.08

Format: 432 pages,

Tom Wolfe began The Right Stuffat a time when it was unfashionable to contemplate American heroism.… read more

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9. Grief Is for People

By: Sloane Crosley

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Grief is for people, not things."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

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10. Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

By: Henry Winkler

4.14

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply tho… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • pop culture
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"It’s so funny about time - you get into these nice little grooves with people you love, and you think it’ll go on forever. But time goes so fast, and nothing goes on forever."

-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

"If you don't nail your feet to the ground, you can just believe - and you want to believe. It's so enticing. It felt so good. You could just become a gigantic balloon in the Thanksgiving Day parade a…"

-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

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11. Brat: An '80s Story

By: Andrew McCarthy

3.61

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

Most people know Andrew McCarthy from his movie roles in Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo's Fire, Weekend a… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • pop culture
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere by Maria Bamford

12. Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

By: Maria Bamford

3.77

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

A brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfo… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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13. The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life

By: Alex Trebek

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An alternate cover edition of this book, with ISBN 978198215799, can be found here. Longtime Jeo… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • pop culture
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"Keep your head up. Move forward. Keep going."

-Alex Trebek, The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life

"Courage is a conscious decision. You do it in a dangerous situation, when you have a choice."

-Alex Trebek, The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life

"There is nothing worse than deluding yourself and trying to make yourself out to be somebody you're not--somebody you're not comfortable being."

-Alex Trebek, The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life

"I just enjoy the moment I’m in. For me, life is a whole experience, not just a series of isolated moments. It’s like submerging yourself into a warm bath rather than sticking your toe under the fauce…"

-Alex Trebek, The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life

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14. What Are You Going Through

By: Sigrid Nunez

3.74

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

A story about the meaning of life and death, and the value of companionship A woman describes a … read more

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"Only those who are writers, it seems, get to say what happened"

-Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

"And what the movie makes clear is that, if there really was a Supreme Being who had to listen to people's prayers all the time, he would go out of his mind."

-Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

"Anyway, don't they say that every good story is a suspense story? And every story is a love story. And every love story is a ghost story. And everybody loves somebody sometime."

-Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

"What are you going through? When Simone Weil said that being able to ask this question was what love of one's neighbor truly meant, she was writing in her native French. And in French the great quest…"

-Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through

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15. Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!

By: David Zucker

4.17

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy class… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • pop culture
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16. Tell Me Everything

By: Minka Kelly

4.31

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“A timely, urgent portrait of working-class American women.”—Gabrielle UnionMinka Kelly takes reade… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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17. Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears

By: Michael Schulman

4.09

Format: 589 pages, Hardcover

The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively histor… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • pop culture
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18. Adults

By: Emma Jane Unsworth

3.28

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Jenny McLaine is an adult. Supposedly. At thirty-five she owns her own house, writes for a cool mag… read more

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19. Diva

By: Daisy Goodwin

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Daisy Goodwin returns with a story of the scandalous love affair … read more

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20. Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show

By: Tommy Tomlinson

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Elephant in the Room comes the first inside account … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era by Laurence Leamer

21. Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era

By: Laurence Leamer

3.83

Format: 356 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scan… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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22. Quietly Hostile: Essays

By: Samantha Irby

3.70

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Samantha Irby invites us to share in the gory particulars of her real life, all that festers behind… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"[...] and my face is sore from smiling so hard in an effort to appear friendly and nonthreatening."

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I'm so embarrassed by everything all the time, humiliated even by the need to breathe air where other people can see me"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I want to push back against this idea that it's not real love if you're not passionately chattering at each other all the time, that it's just as valid (and romantic!) to know instinctively when to s…"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

"I lived in blissful solitude for a long time...and you learn a lot about yourself and what you require for life when it's just you that you have to think about...You can buy frozen fish sticks and ea…"

-Samantha Irby, Quietly Hostile: Essays

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23. Rebel Rising

By: Rebel Wilson

3.91

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

From the scene-stealing star of Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids comes a refreshingly candid, hilariou… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"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

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24. I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway]

By: Chelsea Devantez

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A dynamic memoir-in-essays by comedian, screenwriter, and podcaster Chelsea Devantez, detailing her… read more

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  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Daddy Diaries: The Year I Grew Up by Andy Cohen

25. The Daddy Diaries: The Year I Grew Up

By: Andy Cohen

3.87

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The Instant New York Times Bestseller! New York Times bestselling author Andy Cohen goes from bott… read more

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  • memoir
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  • nonfiction
Cover of Someone Else's Honeymoon by Phoebe MacLeod

26. Someone Else's Honeymoon

By: Phoebe MacLeod

3.95

Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition

Perfect for fans of Jo Watson, Mhairi McFarlane and Portia MacIntosh. When Charley finds herself… read more

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27. Cutting Teeth

By: Chandler Baker

3.30

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Chandler Baker's Cutting Teeth is a witty, thrilling story of par… read more

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28. Äitiä etsimässä

By: Kaj Korkea-aho

4.25

Format: 222 pages, Hardcover

Ainutlaatuinen kertomus kahden miehen matkasta isiksi kuvaa vanhemmuuden kipeimpiä ja kauneimpia pi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts by Mary Claire Haver

29. The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts

By: Mary Claire Haver

4.35

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Filling a gaping hole in menopause care, everything a woman needs to know to thrive during her horm… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of A Visible Man: A Memoir by Edward Enninful

30. A Visible Man: A Memoir

By: Edward Enninful

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From one of our culture's most important changemakers, a memoir of breaking barriers. When Edwar… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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31. Gatecrasher: How I Helped the Rich Become Famous and Ruin the World

By: Ben Widdicombe

3.25

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A smart, gossipy, and very funny examination of celebrity culture from New York’s premiere social c… read more

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  • pop culture
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

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