Book club list biography books

It’s funny. I always mean to read more memoirs, and nonfiction in general, but I’ve also noticed how it’s memoirs that tend to entice most of the people who don’t read much in my life.

Though I view much of fiction as a legitimate mirror of reality, I also know how interesting it can be to read a book based on an actual, real person’s life.

Book club list biography books

And, sometimes, real life is more unbelievable than fiction. I would, for instance, not believe it if someone said a Black American woman would walk her pet cheetah around the streets of Paris in the mid-century, but Josephine Baker really did that.

I think your book club will love diving into her life story, as well as Naomi Watts’s, and Andrée Blouin’s (aka the most dangerous woman in Africa)—all below.