Collider ranks memoirs for their ability to turn personal experience into vivid, broadly relatable storytelling, arguing that the strongest examples avoid feeling self-important. The article’s selections combine humour, vulnerability and difficult reflections on relationships, identity, loss and growing up.

– 10. *Everything I Know About Love* (2018) by Dolly Alderton: a fragmented, candid account of adolescence and adulthood, centred more on friendship and self-discovery than romance.
– 9. *I’m Glad My Mom Died* (2022) by Jennette McCurdy: McCurdy examines childhood fame, her mother’s controlling behaviour, eating disorders and the complicated aftermath of bereavement.