BookPath

Celebrity Memoirs

If celebrity memoirs is on your reading list, you're in the right place. We've pulled together a focused selection of biography books — from enduring classics to the titles everyone is talking about right now.

Me Cheeta: The Autobiography cover

Me Cheeta: The Autobiography

by Cheeta

2009

The incredible, moving and hilarious story of Cheeta the Chimp, simian star of the big screen, on a behind-the-scenes romp through the golden years of Hollywood. As heard on Radio 4, starring Jon Malcovich and Julian Sands.…

€8.99 list price

Check price on Amazon →
The Confessions of Rick James cover

The Confessions of Rick James

by Rick James

2007

Rick James is a pop-culture icon, unforgettable for his outrageous style, drug and legal problems who passed away in 2004 after being blessed with new cool in an infamous sketch by comedian Dave Chapelle.…

Check price on Amazon →
Another Life cover

Another Life

by Michael Korda

1999

Take a boy like Tommy Carver, with a hard head and a hair-trigger temper. Let him lovee a girl with too much money and the wrong kind of blood in her veins. Then don't ask when Tommy Carver will explode; ask who he'll take with him …

Check price on Amazon →
The Girl with Kaleidoscope Eyes cover

The Girl with Kaleidoscope Eyes

by David Handler

2017

A wisecracking ghostwriter and his trusty basset hound investigate the mysterious behavior of a reclusive author in this humorous murder mystery. Perfect for fans of Janet Evanovich and Carl Hiaasen. "Handler is so good at writing one …

€19.25 list price

Check price on Amazon →
Secret Historian cover

Secret Historian

by Justin Spring

2010

Drawn from the secret diaries and journals of novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. Steward, this is a reconstruction of one of the more extraordinary hidden lives of the twentieth century. An intimate friend of Gertrude Stein,…

Check price on Amazon →
Boom! cover

Boom!

by Julie Rak

2013

From James Frey's A Million Little Pieces to memoirs about bartending, Iran, the liberation of Dachau, hacking, and the impact of 9/11, this book argues that the memoir boom is more than a publishing trend. It is becoming the way reader…

Check price on Amazon →
Better English in 30 Minutes a Day cover

Better English in 30 Minutes a Day

2003

English is a complicated language, loaded with rules that are hard to learn and easy to forget -- and then there are the exceptions! If verb tenses make you tense, if vocabulary leaves you speechless, if writing a sentence feels like a pris…

Check price on Amazon →
The Rockies in First Person cover

The Rockies in First Person

by Ron McFarland

2008

This study focuses on 10 memoirs from the northern U.S. Rockies. By comparing memoirs representing states that share similar demographic and socio-economic characteristics, this historic and literary analysis reveals both commonalities and …

Check price on Amazon →

These biography titles are a strong starting point, not the finish line. Keep exploring celebrity memoirs to find the books that click with you.