The 9 best celebrity memoirs of 2025

Another banner twelvemonth astatine the Celebrity Memoir Factory — a seemingly bottomless font of root stories, trauma dumps and D-list confessions. Thankfully, a cottage manufacture of podcast sages has sprung up to parse the chaos for us. Chelsea Devantez of “Glamorous Trash,” Steven Phillips-Horst and Lily Marotta of “Celebrity Book Club” and Claire Parker and Ashley Hamilton of “Good Noticings” person made it their job-slash-public work to sift done the year’s fame diaries truthful we don’t person to ace a azygous spine unless it’s genuinely worthy it. Of course, “best” is subjective, fixed however porous the borders of some “celebrity” and “memoir” person become.

Celebrities and nationalist figures released 290 caller memoirs successful 2025, down astir 160 from 2023’s Peak Celeb Memoir era, according to Goodreads. Brooke Shields, Anthony Hopkins and Charlie Sheen delivered the year’s marquee memoirs, but the existent scene-stealers came from the sidelines: Kevin Federline, Cameron Crowe, Hilaria Baldwin, Cheryl Hines (plus Olivia Nuzzi’s bridge-burner sliding successful conscionable nether the wire).

Next twelvemonth promises memoirs from Liza Minnelli and Lena Dunham to Gavin Newsom and Draymond Green. Until then, these are the books our adept podcasting encephalon spot insists you adhd to your publication stack.

“I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir”
By Keith McNally
Gallery Books: 320 pages, $30

“Keith McNally is simply a misanthrope successful the vein of Anthony Bourdain, though possibly little funny successful nutrient (ironic arsenic helium is simply a restaurateur). He spends his fantabulous memoir having affairs with the celebrated playwright Alan Bennett and an unnamed, big-in-the-’90s TV actress, hitchhiking to Afghanistan, and mostly longing for the bully aged days. And conjecture what? They were good! A neo-traditionalist and pied piper for the New York downtown set, Keith and his 9 lives astir precocious turned to Instagram aft a changeable impaired his quality to speak. There is an absorbing metaphor present for our satellite today: societal media arsenic the outlet for radical who person suffered encephalon damage. Lucky for us, McNally remains crisp connected the page, and helium volition marque you privation much Brits (Tina Brown and Anna Wintour among them) would travel implicit and amusement america however it’s done.” — Steven Phillips-Horst

Episode: “Keith McNally,” Pt. 1

“I Regret Almost Everything: A Memoir” by Keith McNally.

(Gallery Books)

“Matriarch: A Memoir”
By Tina Knowles
One World: 432 pages, $35
“Have you ever wondered however the heck Beyoncé and Solange Knowles recovered their mode to becoming the astir talented radical connected satellite Earth? It’s due to the fact that they were raised and styled by Tina Knowles, whose unflinching memoir takes america from Texas to the apical of the world. Her communicative is not conscionable a affluent tapestry of some her idiosyncratic successes and failures but a beauteous exploration of her family’s communicative of being Black successful America. She’s some an entrepreneurial and originative force, and this is an wrong look astatine however her enduring pursuit of originative fulfillment helped found the careers of today’s astir beloved artists.” — Claire Parker

Episode: “Tina Knowles Is the Matriarch”

“Matriarch” by Tina Knowles

“Say Everything: A Memoir”
By Ione Skye
Gallery Books: 304 pages, $30

“The champion of the year, packed with jaw-dropping moments that research Ione’s career-turning relation successful ‘Say Anything,’ her narration with Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Anthony Kiedis, her matrimony to Beastie Boys’ Adam Horovitz and wherefore her communicative feels similar a Forrest Gump-style travel done a ’90s Hollywood fever-dream. It’s everything you privation successful a celeb memoir: chaotic dishy reveals, beauteous vulnerability and a riveting communicative of Hollywood and emotion that volition marque you consciousness similar you’re re-living a portion of the ‘90s.” — Chelsea Devantez

Episode: “Ione Skye’s Memoir Say Everything (With Chelsea Davison)”

“Say Everything” by Ione Skye.

(Gallery Books)

“All the Way to the River: Love, Loss, and Liberation”

By Elizabeth Gilbert
Riverhead Books: 400 pages, $35
“Some radical person been waiting for a caller Rihanna album, and immoderate radical person been waiting for famous-white-woman-guru Liz Gilbert’s grief memoir astir her atrocious AF lesbian person Rayya Elias, who passed distant successful 2018. If you’re into speechmaking astir emotion addiction, velocity balls, buying costly motorcycle boots, reenacting a lesbian decease ceremonial and crab — this one’s for you.” — Lily Marotta

Episode: “Elizabeth ‘Banana Republic’ Gilbert”

“All the Way to the River” by Elizabeth Gilbert.

(Riverhead)

“Finding My Way: A Memoir”
By Malala Yousafzai
Atria Books: 320 pages, $30

“Somehow, different pistillate successful the governmental sphere whose sanction starts with ‘M’ has written a publication this twelvemonth with ‘Finding’ and ‘Way’ successful the title. 2025 was seemingly the twelvemonth compasses were distributed en masse to celebrated Democratic females. Malala’s brisk work is astir notable for revealing however the archetypal and lone clip Malala ripped a bong, it gave her delayed PTSD (from getting changeable successful the caput by the Taliban years earlier). The remainder of the publication is filled with chaotic tales of her youthful indiscretions, similar staying up until 1 a.m. chatting astatine a tenable measurement with her roommates oregon missing exams astatine Oxford to be the G7 Summit.” —S.P.H.

Episode: “Malala ‘B-List Nation’ Yousafzai”

“Finding My Way: A Memoir” by Malala Yousafzai

(Atria)

“Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success”
By Jeff Hiller
Simon & Schuster: 272 pages, $29

“If you loved Jeff Hiller successful his Emmy-winning relation successful ‘Somebody Somewhere,’ this memoir is precisely what you hoped it would be. Hilarious, insightful, grounded but ever afloat of heart. These stories are the cleanable companion for a beauteous agelong play spent reflecting and enjoying.” —C.P.

“A chap celeb memoir devotee, Hiller knew precisely what makes a bully memoir and delivered each the hits successful his ain book, including the nonstop ages astatine which different celebrities recovered their success. His memoir is adjacent amended knowing helium went connected to triumph an Emmy post-publication.” — C.D.

Episode: “10 Must-Know Moments successful Celebrity Memoirs (With Jeff Hiller)”

“Actress of a Certain Age: My Twenty-Year Trail to Overnight Success” by Jeff Hiller.

(Simon & Schuster)

“I Am Maria: My Reflections and Poems connected Heartbreak, Healing, and Finding Your Way Home”
By Maria Shriver
The Open Field: 352 pages, $30

“Maria Shriver and poesy — 2 concepts kept isolated acold excessively long, present yet agreed for the debased terms of $29.95. Shriver processes the trauma of increasing up arsenic 1 of the much random Kennedys, marrying Arnold Schwarzenegger, becoming the archetypal woman of California, past getting betrayed by the Governator aft helium not lone porks their housekeeper but fathered a kid with her — each done immoderate terse, alternatively facile poems. An all-American gangly tale. Listen to the audiobook, past recite your favourite passages aloud to enactment connected your mid-Atlantic accent.” —S.P.H.

Episode: “Maria ‘Which Kennedy Are You’ Shriver”

“I Am Maria: My Reflections and Poems connected Heartbreak, Healing, and Finding Your Way Home” by Maria Shriver.

(The Open Field)

“Uptown Girl: A Memoir”
By Christie Brinkley
Harper Influence: 416 pages, $34

“This has everything you privation successful a memoir and adjacent much worldly you don’t — which is what made it truthful astonishing and surprisingly enjoyable! Supermodel Christie Brinkley unpacks her supermodel career, 4 marriages and many, galore chaotic romances that would enactment Elizabeth Taylor to shame. We leap connected a vessel with Billy Joel, tally into Whitney Houston, Elle MacPherson and Muhammad Ali, positive acquisition magical soil that saves her from a traumatic chopper crash. Bonus: What it’s similar to get negged by Sylvester Stallone’s brother.” — C.D.

Episode: “Christie Brinkley’s Memoir Uptown Girl (With Nicole Boyd)”

“Uptown Girl: A Memoir” by Christie Brinkley.

(Harper Influence)

“Semi-Well Adjusted: Despite Literally Everything”
By Alyson Stoner
St. Martin’s Press: 320 pages, $30

“Alyson Stoner takes a compassionate look astatine her upbringing and the ways that Hollywood fails its young stars successful this brutally honorable memoir astir kid stardom. From occurrence arsenic a dancer and a Disney kid and the deficiency of wealth and enactment that comes with that benignant of fame to the information astir what happens to the household of a kid star, Alyson legit tells each successful this heartbreakingly frank exploration of increasing up successful the spotlight and the never-ending pursuit of the infinitesimal wherever it volition person each been worthy it.” — C.P.

Episode: “Alyson Stoner Is Semi-Well-Adjusted”

“Semi-Well-Adjusted: Despite Literally Everything: A Memoir” by Alyson Stoner.

(St. Martin’s Press)

Honorable mention: “West End Girl” by Lily Allen

“I simply indispensable accidental that Lily Allen’s latest medium is really a breakup memoir acceptable to music, and if you perceive from commencement to finish, it’s the champion tell-all of the year! ‘West End Girl’ is an progressive listening acquisition wherever 1 indispensable sift done the galore contradictions, confessions and piping hot, unfiltered tea. Come for the haunting bangers astir her unfastened matrimony to ‘Stranger Things’ prima David Harbour and their Architectural Digest video; enactment for Dallas Major and Madeline.” — C.D.

Episode: “Lily Allen’s Memoir and West End Girl Breakdown”

Rudi, an L.A. native, is simply a freelance creation and civilization writer. She’s presently astatine enactment connected her debut caller astir a stuttering pupil journalist.