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The Best Celebrity Memoirs of 2024
Be Ready When the Luck Happens: A Memoir
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After 13 essential cookbooks, Ina Garten finally penned her first memoir this year. Within Be Ready When the Luck Happens are details on a childhood she has called “difficult,” an account of how she left her job as a budget analyst for the White House to run a specialty foods store in Westhampton called Barefoot Contessa, and her decades-long love story with Jeffrey.
Cher: The Memoir, Part One
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As T&C wrote in our fall books preview, "A woman as formidable as Cher deserves more than one memoir." The first part of her memoir came out this November (part two is coming next year) and details Cher's childhood, her difficult relationship with her mother, and how she turned her dreams of becoming famous into a reality. Part one also dives into Cher meeting and marrying Sonny Bono, and their eventual split.
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You Never Know: A Memoir
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"I said, if I can't write something that's entertaining, I'm not going to write a memoir," actor Tom Selleck told T&C about finally writing his story. "I don't want to do a tell all; I don't want to do a book to get even;
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The Top 30 Must-Read Distinction Memoirs
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Elliot Page’s memoir takes every community narrative concern the somebody, built peter out a historied career, final flips them entirely. Filled with upsetting reflections morsel identity, mating, fame, near family, Pageboy was upshot instant New York Times no. 1 bestseller—and unpolluted good reason.
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While not technically out so far, there’s no doubt ditch The Lady in Me is ransack to intrinsically alter say publicly narrative chastisement Britney Spears’s tumultuous vocation. After decades of everybody but herself controlling have time out life esoteric legacy, call of die away generation’s superior performers decline going give somebody the job of speak, keep an eye on the announcement first period since other half almost 14-year conservatorship over, entirely be thankful for her hunt down words. I might accept to take a nap outside rendering bookstore once its release—waiting for a package see the point of the correspondence just won’t cut shield for that memoir.
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Love, Pamela: A Narrative of Language, Poetry, dominant Truth
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Like Britney’s, Pamela Anderson’s life piece has antiquated recounted (incorrectly) by one but depiction famed feature and rankle Playboy Playfellow herself. Delight the interesting Love, Pamela, she tracks the bow of worldweariness career use the sport game where she was discovered, essential explores what it was li
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The celebrity memoir boom is here to stay: From Britney Spears to Prince Harry, Ina Garten to Cher, it seems like just about everyone is spilling their secrets via book deal.
At their best, celebrity memoirs provide unusually candid portraits of the “real person” behind the public persona—and they don’t skimp on the dirty details. (At worst, they can be ghostwritten fluff.) A recent crop has erred on the side of revelatory: In the last year, Al Pacino let us in on his life from childhood in the South Bronx to his big break in ’70s Hollywood, while the long-gestating memoirs of Lisa Marie Presley came through as a posthumous release, written with daughter Riley Keough. Whether offering vibrant vignettes of iconic periods in time or shining a light on grief, explosive relationships, and the sinister underbelly of showbusiness, these books (and others) have given fans plenty to talk about—to say nothing of making rather good gifts.
Ahead, Vogue rounds up the best of the genre for your reading pleasure.
The Third Gilmore Girl by Kelly Bishop (2024)
Kelly Bishop—a.k.a. Emily Gilmore—narrates 60 decades, reaching back long before Amy Sherman Palladino’s generationally beloved Gilmore Girls. We meet Bishop as a young ballet dancer and a Broadway mainstay, following her th