13 must-read biography memoir books like The Audacity by Katherine Ryan

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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…

If you liked the biography memoir plot in The Audacity by Katherine Ryan , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body by Sara  Pascoe

1. Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body

By: Sara Pascoe

3.99

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Take a funny and illuminating tour of the female body with award-winning comedian Sara Pascoe. Wome… read more

Similar categories in Sara Pascoe's Animal: The Autobiography of a Female Body book and Katherine Ryan's The Audacity

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of James Acaster's Classic Scrapes by James Acaster

2. James Acaster's Classic Scrapes

By: James Acaster

3.56

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

James Acaster has been nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award five timesand has appeared on prime… read more

Similar categories in James Acaster's James Acaster's Classic Scrapes book and Katherine Ryan's The Audacity

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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3. 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

Similar categories in Sarah Millican's How to be Champion: My Autobiography book and Katherine Ryan's The Audacity

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

4. 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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Similar categories in Joe Lycett's Parsnips: Buttered: How to baffle, bamboozle and boycott your way through modern life. book and Katherine Ryan's The Audacity

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5. The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets

By: Dawn French

3.87

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the truth behind the many, many times Dawn French has been a complete twat over the last s… read more

Similar categories in Dawn French's The Twat Files: a Life of Mistakes - No Regrets book and Katherine Ryan's The Audacity

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients by Adam Kay

6. 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

Similar categories in Adam Kay's Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients book and Katherine Ryan's The Audacity

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of Before & Laughter: A Life Changing Book by Jimmy Carr

7. Before & Laughter: A Life Changing Book

By: Jimmy Carr

4.06

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

*A memoir and self-help manual by one of the country's most treasured comedians* In his mid-twen… read more

Similar categories in Jimmy Carr's Before & Laughter: A Life Changing Book book and Katherine Ryan's The Audacity

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"Here’s my advice for dealing with family trauma: accept the apology you’re never going to get and move on. There, I just saved you £25,000 in therapy. You’re welcome."

-Jimmy Carr, Before & Laughter: A Life Changing Book

"Have you ever been to the Parthenon in Athens? If you’ve seen a photo, it’s nice, right? The photo is nice, but the real thing is fucking amazing. That’s like you. The best photo of you is nothing li…"

-Jimmy Carr, Before & Laughter: A Life Changing Book

"But here’s the thing about being human: if we put off doing anything risky for long enough, fear will attach itself. Then what happens is that fear will attract even more fear until the fear becomes …"

-Jimmy Carr, Before & Laughter: A Life Changing Book

"If you can be with a loved one when they die, you should. Her hands getting cold as the circulation shuts down, her breathing getting heavy, the death rattle. Bearing witness to a death is an incredi…"

-Jimmy Carr, Before & Laughter: A Life Changing Book

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8. How to Kill Your Family

By: Bella Mackie

3.54

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

I have killed several people (some brutally, others calmly) and yet I currently languish in jail fo… read more

Similar categories in Bella Mackie's How to Kill Your Family book and Katherine Ryan's The Audacity

  • humor
  • audiobook
"How little men promise. How much we grasp at it."

-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

"Ah, mental health. The get-out clause for all bad behaviour."

-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

"Men like women being vulnerable. They like to feel we might need help, despite any surface-level confidence."

-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

"Never yearn for the light that some men will shine on you for the briefest of moments. Snuff it out instead."

-Bella Mackie, How to Kill Your Family

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9. Strong Female Character

By: Fern Brady

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more

Similar categories in Fern Brady's Strong Female Character book and Katherine Ryan's The Audacity

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

Cover of MILF: Motherhood, Identity, Love and F*ckery by Paloma Faith

10. MILF: Motherhood, Identity, Love and F*ckery

By: Paloma Faith

4.06

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

'The most raw, funny and liberating look at what it is to be a woman.' – FEARNE COTTON'Gritty, funn… read more

Similar categories in Paloma Faith's MILF: Motherhood, Identity, Love and F*ckery book and Katherine Ryan's The Audacity

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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11. Straight Outta Crawley: Memoirs of a Distinctly Average Human Being

By: Romesh Ranganathan

3.87

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

At the age of 9, Romesh Ranganathan delivered his first ever stand-up set at a Pontin's holiday cam… read more

Similar categories in Romesh Ranganathan's Straight Outta Crawley: Memoirs of a Distinctly Average Human Being book and Katherine Ryan's The Audacity

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How ’90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life by Josh Widdicombe

12. Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How ’90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life

By: Josh Widdicombe

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

'A wonderful blend of nostalgia, hilarity and personal anecdotes that only Josh Widdicombe could de… read more

Similar categories in Josh Widdicombe's Watching Neighbours Twice a Day...: How ’90s TV (Almost) Prepared Me For Life book and Katherine Ryan's The Audacity

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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13. What's That Lady Doing?

By: Lou Sanders

3.91

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

'A deftness that catches your breath' - Fern Brady 'An incredible piece of writing' - Brett Goldst… read more

Similar categories in Lou Sanders's What's That Lady Doing? book and Katherine Ryan's The Audacity

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Audacity by Katherine Ryan

14. 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

Similar categories in Katherine Ryan's The Audacity book and Katherine Ryan's The Audacity

  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • feminism
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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15. 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 Katherine Ryan's The Audacity

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • 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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16. Cat Lady

By: Dawn O'Porter

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

CAT LADY [n.] Single, independent, crazy, aloof, on-the-shelf, lives alone... It’s safer for … read more

Similar categories in Dawn O'Porter's Cat Lady book and Katherine Ryan's The Audacity

  • humor
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"People who hate cats are like atheists, they cannot get through a conversation without telling you their views. There is such a righteousness that comes with it. You tell someone you have a cat, and …"

-Dawn O'Porter, Cat Lady

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17. A Class Act: Life as a Working-Class Man in a Middle-Class World

By: Rob Beckett

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Rob Beckett never seems to fit in. At work, in the middle-class world of television he’s the laddie… read more

Similar categories in Rob Beckett's A Class Act: Life as a Working-Class Man in a Middle-Class World book and Katherine Ryan's The Audacity

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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18. Quite

By: Claudia Winkleman

4.04

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Funny, moving and truthful… Quite Claudia Winkleman’s warmth, humour, no-holds-barred attitude a… read more

Similar categories in Claudia Winkleman's Quite book and Katherine Ryan's The Audacity

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of James Acaster's Guide to Quitting Social Media by James Acaster

19. James Acaster's Guide to Quitting Social Media

By: James Acaster

3.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

This is a self help book like no other. Because you are not helping yourself, James Acaster is help… read more

Similar categories in James Acaster's James Acaster's Guide to Quitting Social Media book and Katherine Ryan's The Audacity

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"I knew I had a problem when I found myself saying, to my reflection, in my laptop screen, 'What has two gigantic thumbs and needs to quit social media?' 'This guy'... before bursting into laughter, t…"

-James Acaster, James Acaster's Guide to Quitting Social Media

"Even without a profile, searching your name on twitter is extremely common, especially if you're a celebrity, as I am and will be until the day I die. I shamefully admit that after quitting twitter, …"

-James Acaster, James Acaster's Guide to Quitting Social Media

Cover of Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her by Daisy May Cooper

20. Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her

By: Daisy May Cooper

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Life hasn't always been straightforward for Daisy May Cooper: growing up in rural poverty in Glouce… read more

Similar categories in Daisy May Cooper's Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her book and Katherine Ryan's The Audacity

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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21. 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 Katherine Ryan's The Audacity

  • humor
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of Sex Power Money by Sara  Pascoe

22. 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 Katherine Ryan's The Audacity

  • biography
  • feminism
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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23. 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 Katherine Ryan's The Audacity

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of As Good As It Gets: Life Lessons from a Reluctant Adult by Romesh Ranganathan

24. As Good As It Gets: Life Lessons from a Reluctant Adult

By: Romesh Ranganathan

3.91

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Confronted by the realities of adulthood, Romesh Ranganathan must face an uncomfortable this is no… read more

Similar categories in Romesh Ranganathan's As Good As It Gets: Life Lessons from a Reluctant Adult book and Katherine Ryan's The Audacity

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of Shagged, Married Annoyed by Chris  Ramsey

25. Shagged, Married Annoyed

By: Chris Ramsey

4.00

Format: None pages, None

None read more

Similar categories in Chris Ramsey's Shagged, Married Annoyed book and Katherine Ryan's The Audacity

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of My Child and Other Mistakes: How to ruin your life in the best way possible by Ellie Taylor

26. My Child and Other Mistakes: How to ruin your life in the best way possible

By: Ellie Taylor

4.26

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

A Sunday Times bestseller: the unflinching, raw and utterly hilarious book about parenthood that ev… read more

Similar categories in Ellie Taylor's My Child and Other Mistakes: How to ruin your life in the best way possible book and Katherine Ryan's The Audacity

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of How Was It for You?: Stories from a Sex Worker by Eve  Smith

27. How Was It for You?: Stories from a Sex Worker

By: Eve Smith

3.66

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

The author of How Was It for You? is a sex worker. Let’s call her ‘Eve’. Eve is someone’s partner. … read more

Similar categories in Eve Smith's How Was It for You?: Stories from a Sex Worker book and Katherine Ryan's The Audacity

  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Parenting Hell by Rob Beckett

28. Parenting Hell

By: Rob Beckett

4.25

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE MADNESS, ABSURDITY, AND UTTER CHAOS OF BEING A PARENT FROM THE… read more

Similar categories in Rob Beckett's Parenting Hell book and Katherine Ryan's The Audacity

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

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