Celebs Spilling Tea on Themselves: The Must-Read Celebrity Memoirs of 2020

Pop Literacy

Bingewatching every TV show ever produced isn’t the only way we’ve survived 2020. We’ve also read a whole mess of books, and among our favorites have been a stack of truly delicious celebrity autobiographies. Yep, famous folk did not disappoint with their literary endeavors this year, dishing up deep, headline-making revelations from their personal lives and sharing behind-the-headlines truths about their most noted career moments.

From Jessica Simpson’s bestselling Open Book and Mariah Carey’s bestseller The Meaning of Mariah Carey to engrossing tomes from Michael J. Fox and daytime TV royalty Melody Thomas Scott (and lots more in between!), we’re talking about great celeb memoir reads for you and great holiday gifts for everyone on your shopping list! And looking ahead to 2021, we preview a few celeb autobios that already have us planning a day of curling up with a great book.

Celebrity Memoirs for Holiday Gift Giving

• Open Book – Jessica Simpson
• The Meaning of Mariah Carey – Mariah Carey
• Always Young and Restless: My Life On and Off America’s #1 Daytime Drama – Melody Thomas Scott
• Survival of the Thickest – Michelle Buteau
• Greenlights – Matthew McConaughey
• The Rural Diaries – Hilarie Burton Morgan
• The Chiffon Trenches – Andre Leon Talley
• Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother: Memoirs of a Neurotic Filmmaker – Barry Sonnenfeld
• Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics – Dolly Parton
• You Look So Much Better in Person: True Stories of Absurdity and Success– Al Roker
• The Answer Is – Alex Trebek
• A Promised Land – Barack Obama
• No Time Like the Future – Michael J. Fox
• I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are – Rachel Bloom

The Richard Marx tweet that has us excited about his July 2021 book, Stories to Tell: A Memoir:

“Luther Vandross had me over to his new house he’d just designed in Ct. The living room walls were cashmere. Cash-fucking-mere. So, naturally, I lift my hand to touch it and he screams, ‘RICHARD MARX DON’T YOU DARE PUT YOUR NASTY HANDS ON MY CASHMERE WALLS!!!’ #truestory.”