Biography

Five memoirs worth your time right now, from a family-vlogging scandal to a knife attack survivor to an old-fashioned rural upbringing that reads like fiction.

Malala's adult memoir is less about activism and more about what it costs to be turned into a symbol at seventeen. It's the more candid of her two books.

Shari Franke's memoir on growing up as the eldest child of the '8 Passengers' YouTube family is more restrained than the headlines around it — and hits harder for it.