The two volume Elisabeth Elliot biography by Ellen Vaughan.

Ok I went through a phase of only reading memoirs and these are the ones I'd recommend

James Stewart
Lauren Bacall
Michael J. Fox
Rob Lowe
nuala o faolain's Are You Somebody

Alright, if you want to go a little out of left field but read something fascinating that leads to a great discussion:

The Perfect Predator: A Scientist's Race to Save Her Husband from a Deadly Superbug

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Anonymous wrote:Much less highbrow but I enjoyed rob Lowe’s stories I tell my friends.

I loved this one.

Same. It was a surprisingly good collection of essays - not just a fluffy retelling of his career.

I liked his follow up book, as well. (If I remember correctly, the second book included an essay about taking his son to college for his freshman year. Poignant and relatable.)

Jaques Pepin, The Apprentice if your group likes to cook. It is not all about food with recipes. He had a really interesting life and it is really well written.

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Andre Agassi
Love a good memoir. I’ll be reading some of the ones mentioned here, which I haven’t already read.

Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton: Dalton stumbles upon a newborn hare—a leveret—that had been chased by a dog. Fearing for its life, she brings it home, only to discover how difficult it is to rear a wild hare, most of whom perish in captivity from either shock or starvation. Through trial and error, she learns to feed and care for the leveret with every intention of returning it to the wilderness. Instead, it becomes her constant companion, wandering the fields and woods at night and returning to Dalton’s house by day. Though Dalton feared that the hare would be preyed upon by foxes, weasels, feral cats, raptors, or even people, she never tried to restrict it to the house. Each time the hare leaves, Chloe knows she may never see it again. Yet she also understands that to confine it would be its own kind of death.

Home by Julie Andrews. The first one about her early life, not the second volume which isn't nearly as interesting (though it covers the Marry Poppins and Sound of Music years).