20 Hot Celebrity Memoirs Coming in 2025 — Including Tina Knowles, Lionel Richie and Jordan Chiles

Mar. 15, 2025

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There’s nothing like settling in with a good celebrity memoir and getting a peek into the lives of our favorite stars. The best ones reveal something we never knew before about the people we see on our screens and onstage, or offer a look back at the way they grew up and became the household names they are today.While we’ll be revealing even more exciting celebrity memoirs in the weeks and months to come — watch this space for some big news we’re keeping under out hats — here are a few handfuls of celebrity memoirs wecantell you about that we’re looking forward to hitting shelves in 2025.

There’s nothing like settling in with a good celebrity memoir and getting a peek into the lives of our favorite stars. The best ones reveal something we never knew before about the people we see on our screens and onstage, or offer a look back at the way they grew up and became the household names they are today.

While we’ll be revealing even more exciting celebrity memoirs in the weeks and months to come — watch this space for some big news we’re keeping under out hats — here are a few handfuls of celebrity memoirs wecantell you about that we’re looking forward to hitting shelves in 2025.

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Gallery Books

Don’t miss this week’s print issue of PEOPLE for an exclusive excerpt and an interview with Shari about what happened and how she’s doing now.

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Flatiron Books

Everyone has a mental picture ofBrooke Shields— as a former child actor and model, she’s been scrutinized for much of her life. Now 59, she’s sharing how she feels more empowered and confident in her own skin than ever in this “vibrant and optimistic” memoir that weaves together her own life experience and research on why we look at “women of a certain age” the way we do.

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Flashpoint

Martin Luther King III, the son ofMartin Luther King Jr., has borne the weight of his father’s legacy since he was born. In this inspiring new book, he’s hoping to share some of the lessons he’s learned along the way.

It’s “based on the simple but profound recognition that our small, day-to-day actions create legacies that have the power to transform, uplift and unite us all,” according to the book’s official synopsis. Living Legacy, a “groundbreaking framework,” “invites us to live our best lives and lives larger than ourselves — and in doing so, discover the most sought-after yet elusive state of being: fulfillment.”

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W Publishing Group

Are you a people pleaser? So wasJinger Duggar Vuolo, who wrote this book to help others figure out how to stand in their own power. “I think that from the start, I realized that man, there are so many people who are on this journey of self-discovery with me. And I started to realize more and more I was such a people-pleaser,” the former reality star told PEOPLE when she announced the book.

“I was so consumed with what everyone around me thought about me. And oftentimes, I saw how it just started to get serious when it started affecting my relationships or just really causing me to reject certain relationships because I was afraid of what that person might think of me.”

It’s part memoir, part self-help and all revelatory.

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Macmillan

“I hadn’t been very comfortable with fame, but I didn’t know what to do with myself after I was famous. On the surface, I was just hugely relieved to be shot of the whole thing. I felt like I’d been let off the hook,” writes musicianRick Astleyin his new memoir. “But underneath that, I was pretty miserable.”

This book charts his meteoric rise to fame and the realities of stardom behind the scenes, his often-volatile childhood and so much more. If all you know about Astley is the famous song that became a storied prank, don’t miss this one.

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Crown Publishing Group

ActressNaomi Wattswrote this book about menopause because it’s the one she always wishes she had when she first started going through it. “With so little information, many women feel unprepared, ashamed and deeply alone when the time comes,” the official description explains. So in a blend of stories from her own life and professional advice, Watts breaks it down for women experiencing “the change” in an approachable, conversational way.

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The Gates Notes

If you’re looking for a book about Microsoft, the Gates Foundation or where we’re going in a technological sense, this isn’t the book for you. But if you’re curious about the man behind the computer and how he became who he is today, this first-of-its-kind account will fit the bill. It takes us from his early childhood to his struggles to fit in, to his first forays into the world of computers and how he “sparked a revolution that would change the world.”

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Harper Select

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The world was glued to the case ofAmanda Knox, who spent almost four years in an Italian prison and eight years on trial for a murder she didn’t commit. It’s taken her almost a decade to reclaim her sense of self, and now she’s sharing the story of how she got her life back from the notoriety it became in gripping — and yes, sometimes very funny — detail.

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Mobius

When theEnglish actor and authorfirst announced his forthcoming book, he said he’s often asked a lot of questions that he wants to answer all in one place. Those include “what makes me tick, what makes me get up in the morning in my 90s and whether I’ll ever retire. (The answer to that one is ‘No!’),” he said, when first announcing the book.  “I hope they’ll findDon’t Look Back, You’ll Trip Over: My Guide to Lifehelps them to be optimistic — and shows that anyone can blow the bloody doors off.”

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Harper Influence

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Abrams

Dylan Mulvaneyis pulling back the curtain on her life, her transition and her rise to fame in a whole new way in her forthcoming book, a collection of illustrations and essays that are intended to feel like a peek into her life.

“I think a large part of the book is this idea that adults can still be innocent and earnest,” the actress explained to PEOPLE when announcing the book. “And I think a large theme of the book was all the moments of people trying to rip my innocence away from me and trying to reclaim it over and over again, as well as trans joy. Because I think there’ve been so many moments these last few years where I could have become sort of a jaded person or a pessimist, and I’ve always chose to not, which I’m really proud of.”

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Flat Iron Books

“Over the last few years, I’ve experienced a lot of change — some of it exciting, some of it painful — so I’ve done a lotof thinking and learning about transitions,” Pivotal Ventures founderMelinda French Gatestold PEOPLE when announcing her new book. “I decided to start writing this while I was still in the middle of this season of change, rather than safely on the other side.”

“We’ve all had days that change our lives forever,” the philanthropist continues. “This book is about what we do the next day, when one phase of our life has come to an end, but the next phase hasn’t quite yet begun. I’ve learned that if you can find the courage to linger in that liminal space, it has a lot to teach you.”

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Little, Brown and Company

If you watched theTop Chefcontestant rise from winner of Season 10 to host, don’t miss this book that goes all the way back to her roots. It covers her childhood as a Korean adoptee in the Midwest, finding meaning in food, competing in and getting tapped to helmTop Chef, coming out as an adult and much more.

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One World

Rise up, Beyhive: there’s a book on the way that will shed light on whereBeyoncéand her sisters came from, as well as Black motherhood as a whole.Tina Knowles, the mother of iconic singer-songwriters Beyoncé Knowles-Carter,Solange Knowlesand bonus daughterKelly Rowland, is releasing a “page-turning chronicle of family love and heartbreak, of loss and perseverance and of the kind of creativity, audacity and will it takes for a girl from Galveston to change the world,” the official description teases. You won’t want to miss it.

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Ecco

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FAHRENHEIT-182

“Make sure you don’t miss out on all the small things,” teased Blink-182 bassist and songwriterMark Hoppuswhen he announced his forthcoming memoir. And fans of the band will devour the account of what the publisher calls “what happens when an angst-ridden kid who grew up in the desert experiences his parents’ bitter divorce, moves around the country, switches identities from dork to goth to skate punk and eventually meets his best friend who just so happens to be his musical soulmate.”

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Harper Select, an imprint of HarperCollins Focus

WhenKelsey Grammerwas just 20 years old, his younger sister, Karen, then 18, was kidnapped, raped and stabbed to death. The loss had a profound effect on the actor, who is now sharing her story and the way he’s found hope and healing in the decades since.

“I wanted to tell Karen’s story and at the same time include a bit about my life, our life together and the love we shared,” he told PEOPLE when announcing the book. “It is an unflinching account, raw and punctuated with horror. The words spilled from my mind to my fingers and into the pages of this book. It poured from days long past, fresh and alive. Fifty years hence, I learned that love, that our love, is forever.”

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St. Martin’s Press

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Lionel Richie performing in 2023.Mireya Acierto/Getty

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source: people.com