How to navigate this years glut of memoirs.

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Here, a brief guide to 2023s overflowing library ofcelebrity memoirs(and memoirishes).

So she and Will Smitharent married but are also not divorced.

So she did ayahuasca.

Spare, Prince Harry

ToquoteRick Ross inRolling Stone: Whats next?!

And to be honest, were not interested!

The actors memoir reckoned with his self-identity and freedom since coming out as trans in 2020.

Worthy, by Jada Pinkett Smith

(You also cant unhear Williams, as Timberlake,saying fo shizin another chapter.

)People areallegedlyalready lining up to adapt the book; the Britney Spears trauma-industrial complex marches on.

As he told me years later when we were reminiscing, Now thats intimacy.

Love, Pamela, by Pamela Anderson

Ive never slept better in my life.

RelevancyPloys

A bookstore endcap isnt the comeback they hoped for.

Moores ex-wife Kim Gordons memoir,Girl in a Band,is a beloved text among alt-rock fans.

Pageboy: A Memoir

Here, her crack at the self-seriouscomedian memoirsuffers from tonal whiplash.

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Your aunt is having a blast with these in her book club.

The actor examines a self-made life with a working-class upbringing.

The Woman in Me, by Britney Spears

We are not here to have fun, he reprimanded them, though his memoir proves otherwise.

Winklers easygoing humor and sentimentality have made him a star for decades.

The 90-year-old theater legends memoir is full of sharp, insightful humor.

My Name Is Barbra, by Barbra ­Streisand

While Rivera has everything from celebrity gossip (John Lennon was rude!)

AdviceColumns

That didnt need to be a book.

A measured series of conversations that covers everything from Derns burgeoningcareer as a child actorto Ladds industry resentments.

Paris, by Paris Hilton

She seems to know that too, relying heavily onOlitz fan serviceduring the press tour.

The fact that it took about 10,000 photos (ten THOUSAND?)

to get the cover right is weirder and more interesting than whats on the page.

If You Would Have Told Me, by John Stamos

One of his tools for life is working incrementally toward your goals.

If you have that one down already, were pretty sure you might skip this one.

Is this the celeb memoir title of the year?

Sonic Life, by Thurston Moore

It just might be …

One of those where the title says it all.

HeavyStuff

The pop page-turner is dead; long live the trauma dump.

His memoir finally allows him to speak for himself, his successes reclaimed as his own.

Bad Mormon, by Heather Gay

Though she comes out of it smiling in the end, readers may struggle to do the same.

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Add these to your holiday wish list stat.

Wattss sharp voice and loving portrait of his upbringing in Montana make for engaging, wonderful anecdotes.

Foolish: Tales of Assimilation, Determination, and Humiliation

On his best friend: Wed played and quit the football team together.

We still hung out constantly.

Still listened to the Smiths, still playedDungeons & Dragons.

Making It So, by Patrick Stewart

Get you a man who can do all three.

Foxs offbeat sense of humor and dogged persistence set her apart from other It girls.

I do not exist just to move plot, Ziwe writes.

Being Henry: The Fonz … and Beyond, by Henry Winkler

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Chita, by Chita Rivera

“Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones” by Dolly Parton

Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton & Me, by Bernie Taupin

Honey, Baby, Mine: A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding), by Laura Dern and Diane Ladd

I Am Debra Lee, by Debra Lee

Thicker Than Water, by Kerry Washington

Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life, by Arnold Schwarzenegger

Every Man for Himself and God Against All, by Werner Herzog

I’m No Philosopher, But I Got Thoughts: Mini-Meditations for Saints, Sinners, and the Rest of Us

Tell Me Everything, by Minka Kelly

Pretty Boys Are Poisonous: Poems, by Megan Fox

When Your Back’s Against the Wall, by Michael Oher with Don Yaeger

Leslie F*cking Jones, by Leslie Jones

Sure, I’ll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

Great Falls, MT: Fast Times, Post-Punk Weirdos, and a Tale of Coming Home Again, by Reggie Watts

‘Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin),’ by Sly Stone

‘Down the Drain,’ by Julia Fox

My Effin’ Life, by Geddy Lee

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