16 Best autobiography books like This Much is True by Miriam Margolyes

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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 …

"...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

If you liked the autobiography plot in This Much is True by Miriam Margolyes , here is a list of 16 books like this:

Cover of Bonkers: My Life in Laughs by Jennifer Saunders

1. Bonkers: My Life in Laughs

By: Jennifer Saunders

3.85

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

'As the steady march of time takes its toll on my memory and the vultures circle, I thought I shoul… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Saunders's Bonkers: My Life in Laughs book and Miriam Margolyes's This Much is True

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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2. Dear Fatty

By: Dawn French

4.21

Format: None pages,

Dawn French is one of the greatest comedy actresses of our time, with a career spanning nearly thre… read more

Similar categories in Dawn French's Dear Fatty book and Miriam Margolyes's This Much is True

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

3. The Life and Loves of a He Devil

By: Graham Norton

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

Revealing, moving, and hilarious, Graham Norton tells the story of his life through the things he l… read more

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4. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

By: David Mitchell

4.16

Format: 433 pages, ebook

A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more

Similar categories in David Mitchell's Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens book and Miriam Margolyes's This Much is True

  • biography
  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"

-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

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5. In Memoriam

By: Alice Winn

4.53

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war. It'… read more

Similar categories in Alice Winn's In Memoriam book and Miriam Margolyes's This Much is True

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • queer
"It’s intimate."

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Call me Sidney,"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Where’s the rest of it?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Do you believe in magic?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

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6. And Away...

By: Bob Mortimer

4.33

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a hear… read more

Similar categories in Bob Mortimer's And Away... book and Miriam Margolyes's This Much is True

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."

-Bob Mortimer, And Away...

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7. The Trial

By: Rob Rinder

4.24

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

An unputdownable murder mystery by Britain's best-loved criminal barrister Rob Rinder. ONE MURDE… read more

Similar categories in Rob Rinder's The Trial book and Miriam Margolyes's This Much is True

  • audiobook
"Luckily,Mum,there aren't any nice young ladies in my life so that's not really a problem."

-Rob Rinder, The Trial

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8. 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 Miriam Margolyes's This Much is True

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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9. Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1)

By: Richard Coles

3.32

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Canon Daniel Clement is Rector of Champton. He has been there for eight years, living at the Rector… read more

Similar categories in Richard Coles's Murder Before Evensong (Canon Clement, #1) book and Miriam Margolyes's This Much is True

  • 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

Similar categories in Adam Kay's Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients book and Miriam Margolyes's This Much is True

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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11. Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography

By: Billy Connolly

4.42

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

In his first full-length autobiography, comedy legend and national treasure Billy Connolly reveals … read more

Similar categories in Billy Connolly's Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography book and Miriam Margolyes's This Much is True

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"Blessed are those who yodel - for they shall never be troubled by offers of work."

-Billy Connolly, Windswept & Interesting: My Autobiography

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12. 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 Miriam Margolyes's This Much is True

  • 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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13. The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

By: Richard Osman

4.49

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

Shocking news reaches the Thursday Murder Club. An old friend in the antiques business has been … read more

Similar categories in Richard Osman's The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4) book and Miriam Margolyes's This Much is True

  • humor
  • audiobook
"His authentic indifference seems to delight them."

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

"I think Psychopaths wear lipstick too,' says Joyce."

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

"I love you,' he says. Because what else is there to say?"

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

"Sure,' says Ron. 'She wants to kill me. Bake her some scones."

-Richard Osman, The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

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14. 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 Miriam Margolyes's This Much is True

  • biography
  • memoir
  • 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

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15. 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 Miriam Margolyes's This Much is True

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. The Satsuma Complex

By: Bob Mortimer

3.68

Format: 301 pages, Kindle Edition

'My name is Gary. I’m a thirty-year-old legal assistant with a firm of solicitors in London. To des… read more

Similar categories in Bob Mortimer's The Satsuma Complex book and Miriam Margolyes's This Much is True

  • humor
  • comedy
  • audiobook
"And off she toddled back into the flat, banging Lassoo in the face with the door as he followed behind her. He looked up at me as if to say, 'That's your fucking fault."

-Bob Mortimer, The Satsuma Complex

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17. You’ve Got To Laugh

By: Alison Hammond

4.27

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Alison Hammond loves to laugh. And the nation laughs with her. Her sunny personality and zest for l… read more

Similar categories in Alison Hammond's You’ve Got To Laugh book and Miriam Margolyes's This Much is True

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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18. Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television

By: Louis Theroux

3.86

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In 1994 fledgling journalist Louis Theroux was given a one-off gig on Michael Moore's TV Nation, pr… read more

Similar categories in Louis Theroux's Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television book and Miriam Margolyes's This Much is True

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of This Much is True by Miriam Margolyes

19. 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 Miriam Margolyes's This Much is True

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • queer
"...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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20. 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 Miriam Margolyes's This Much is True

  • 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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21. 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 Miriam Margolyes's This Much is True

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of Help I S*xted My Boss: The Sunday Times Bestselling Guide to Avoiding Life’s Awkward Moments by William Hanson

22. Help I S*xted My Boss: The Sunday Times Bestselling Guide to Avoiding Life’s Awkward Moments

By: William Hanson

3.85

Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition

'Funny, filthy and fantastic. Cackled from start to finish' - Rylan ClarkHow do you ask your mate f… read more

Similar categories in William Hanson's Help I S*xted My Boss: The Sunday Times Bestselling Guide to Avoiding Life’s Awkward Moments book and Miriam Margolyes's This Much is True

  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3) by Richard Osman

23. The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)

By: Richard Osman

4.38

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

One Thursday afternoon in the seniors' center, a decade-old cold case --their favorite kind-- leads… read more

Similar categories in Richard Osman's The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3) book and Miriam Margolyes's This Much is True

  • humor
  • audiobook
"But you can’t be ruled by hindsight, can you?"

-Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)

"Love? Try Googling it. There aren't any answers."

-Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)

"When you look backwards, everything is inevitable."

-Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)

"Ron's mouth opens, but, unusually for him, no words come out."

-Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed (Thursday Murder Club, #3)

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24. Berserker!

By: Adrian Edmondson

4.32

Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition

From brutal schooldays to '80s anarchy, through The Young Ones and beyond, Berserker! is the one-of… read more

Similar categories in Adrian Edmondson's Berserker! book and Miriam Margolyes's This Much is True

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
Cover of Don't Laugh, It'll Only Encourage Her by Daisy May Cooper

25. 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 Miriam Margolyes's This Much is True

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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26. T.V.: Big Adventures on the Small Screen

By: Peter Kay

4.23

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

*The long-awaited return of the comedy national treasure*Blockbusters, Baywatch … Mastermind, Moonl… read more

Similar categories in Peter Kay's T.V.: Big Adventures on the Small Screen book and Miriam Margolyes's This Much is True

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • audiobook
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27. 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 Miriam Margolyes's This Much is True

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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28. Will I Ever Have Sex Again?

By: Sofie Hagen

4.05

Format: 9 pages, Audible Audio

Comedian Sofie Hagen has not had sex in 3,000 days (and counting). And it turns out, she's not the … read more

Similar categories in Sofie Hagen's Will I Ever Have Sex Again? book and Miriam Margolyes's This Much is True

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • queer

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Bonkers: My Life in Laughs

Jennifer Saunders

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

David Mitchell

4.16

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In Memoriam

Alice Winn

4.53

Transform Your Habits

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Bob Mortimer

4.33

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Bonkers: My Life in Laughs

Jennifer Saunders

3.85

Transform Your Habits

How They Broke Britain

James O'Brien

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens

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4.16

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