Dishing on celebrity memoirs

Podcast hosts detail their favorite books by famous figures and the famously off-kilter.

- BY MARIELLA RUDI

Another banner year at the Celebrity Memoir Factory — a seemingly bottomless font of origin stories, trauma dumps and D-list confessions.

Thankfully, a cottage industry 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” have made it their job-slash-public service to sift through the year's fame diaries so we don’t have to crack a single spine unless it’s truly worth it.

Of course, “best” is subjective, given how porous the borders of both “celebrity” and “memoir” have become.

Celebrities and public figures released 290 new memoirs in 2025, down nearly 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 real scene-stealers came from the sidelines: Kevin Federline, Cameron Crowe, Hilaria Baldwin, Cheryl Hines (plus Olivia Nuzzi’s bridge-burner sliding in just under the wire).

Next year promises memoirs from Liza Minnelli and Lena Dunham to Gavin Newsom and Draymond Green. Until then, these are the books our expert podcasting brain trust insists you add to your book stack.

I Regret Almost Everything

A Memoir

By Keith McNally

Gallery Books: 320 pages, $30