Without Explanation, Your Favorite Memoir/Autobiography Ever

Dirk Bogarde

"Take It Like a Man" George O'Dowd.

Dear Theo (Vincent van Gogh)

[if letters count]

Confessions of a Super Freak Rick James

The Warhol Diaries

The Lonely Life and This N' That .

Miles Davis

I, Tina

Call Her Miss Ross

When Breath Becomes Air and My Own Country. The former a slim memoir by a 30-something doctor diagnosed with aggressive lung cancer; the latter an Indian emigrant doctor’s memoir of being an AIDS doctor in rural Tennessee. Why is it so many doctors are such good writers?

Haywire by Brooke Hayward

Genie Out of the Bottle - Barbara Eden

Miller’s High Life - by ANN MILLER and so and so.

You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again - Julia Phillips

My Way Of Life by Joan Crawford.

Seriously.

I, Chachi

r6, when Joan read The Lonely Life, she reportedly said "Poor Bette. She's never had a happy day-or NIGHT-in her life."

"It Was Supposed to Only Be a Fart" by Shitty Little Ann, esq.

Better Be Good to Me: My Neighbor, My Hemorrhoids, My Domicile, and My Tina Turner Wall Clock.

By Anonymous

OP, the few pages I read of Keith's book (1972 era) were so full of inaccuracies, I was a bit disgusted. It all is there if you look on google. What is the point of having editors if they don't fact check anything? I see this woeful trend more and more in recently published books.

The Diary of a Young Girl (Het Achterhuis)

'On The Move' - Oliver Sacks

The Meaning of Mariah Carey

'My Life So Far' by Jane Fonda

Little Me by Belle Poitrine.

Dirk Bogarde, Cleared for Take-Off.

Mommie Dearest, by Christina!!!!

Frank Langella's

Dirty Poole: the Autobiography of a Gay Porn Pioneer, Wakefield Poole

Doris Day's memoir. Fascinating. The big star had all sorts of ups and downs like the rest of us.

Call Me Anna by Patty Duke

Kirk Douglas - "The Ragman's Son". Probably the best memoir by a male celebrity that I've ever read.

Michael Caine - "What's It All About?" Another great memoir by a male celebrity.

[quote] Haywire by Brooke Hayward

I didn't like it. I know it's an old book (they were polite back then), but I wish it would have really skewered pamela more. She deserved it

Mary Wilson’s “Dream On, Gurl: My Life As A Former Background Singer In Diana Ross & The Supremes.”

Changing, Liv Ullmann

The Diary of Anne Frank

[quote]Why is it so many doctors are such good writers?

R10 I agree. See R22 about Dr Oliver Sacks

All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot

Hello Darlin', The Life and Times of Larry Hagman

If This Is a Man/Survival in Auschwitz by Primo Levi

[italic]I Was a White Slave in Harlem[/italic] by Margo Howard-Howard

Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov

Well, Maybe by Helen Reddy

The Road from Coorain - Jill Kerr Conway

Class With The Countess

'We Will Always Live In Beverly Hills' by Ned Wynn.

My Snatch by Margot Kidder

Time Steps by Donna McKechnie

Did Lillie Langtry ever write her memoirs? How delicious they would have been.

Not my favorite but Marianne Faithful's first autobiography was fascinating and quite a good book.

The Diary of Samuel Pepys

The Princess Diarist

Lost Splendor by Prince Felix Yusupov.

When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanthi.

What Falls Away

Just cos you gurls have dumped her...

"Judy" the Judy Garland bio by Gerold Frank, published about five years after her death.

It's very well researched and beautifully written.

A Life by Elia Kazan

Prozac Nation

R57, I like Frank's book too, but it is a standard third party biography, not a memoir nor an autobiography.

Meanwhile, I'm a Southern boy and have a fondness for Mrs. Chesnut's Civil War diary. The later 1981 edition, unexpurgated and annotated, won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1982.

I just realized that OP asked for "Without Explanation" and I explained.

Sorry.