| 100% | ILED | 4 | “— 3 Lives” (1952 memoir) |
| 58% | ILED | 4 | “— 3 Lives” |
| 54% | HONEYBABYMINE | 13 | 2023 joint memoir subtitled "A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love (and Banana Pudding)": 3 wds. |
| 47% | GRIMBLE | 7 | Arthur —, author of 1952 memoir A Pattern of Islands |
| 46% | WALDEN | 6 | Thoreau's cabin life memoir |
| 46% | SOFAR | 5 | “My Life ___” (Jane Fonda memoir) |
| 46% | CESTLAVIE | 9 | "That's life": 3 wds. |
| 45% | FAR | 3 | Jane Fonda memoir "My Life So ___" |
| 45% | ABNER | 5 | Groom on a 1952 Life cover |
| 44% | ROAD | 4 | "My Life on the ___" (Gloria Steinem memoir) |
| 43% | EDUCATED | 8 | Bestselling Tara Westover memoir about life after homeschooling |
| 43% | RATHER | 6 | "__ Outspoken: My Life in the News": 2012 memoir |
| 41% | ROB | 3 | Actor Lowe who wrote the 2014 memoir "Love Life" |
| 41% | BETSYROSS | 9 | A 1952 3-cent stamp honored her 200th birthday |
| 41% | YEWS | 4 | Evergreens that can live up to 3,000 years |
| 40% | TRIBE | 5 | "Long Live the ___ of Fatherless Girls" (T Kira Madden memoir) |
| 40% | WOLFF | 5 | Tobias —, US author of 1989 memoir This Boy's Life |
| 40% | BETTYFORD | 9 | Author of the memoir "The Times of My Life" (1978) |
| 40% | TATUM | 5 | Actress O'Neal who wrote the memoir "A Paper Life" |
| 40% | DONOHARM | 8 | 2014 memoir subtitled "Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery" |
| 40% | HONEYBABYMINE | 13 | 2023 memoir by 15-Across and 45-Across subtitled "A Mother and Daughter Talk Life, Death, Love" (3 wds.) |
| 40% | LEAP | 4 | "___ of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life" (Queen Noor book) |
| 40% | LEAP | 4 | Queen Noor's "___ of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life" |
| 40% | MARYJBLIGE | 10 | Singer who played Evillene in "The Wiz Live!": 3 wds. |
| 39% | PLAYWITHFIRE | 12 | Live dangerously (3 words) |
| 39% | IFEELGOOD | 9 | James Brown book subtitled “A Memoir of a Life of Soul” |
| 39% | LONI | 4 | Actress Anderson who wrote the memoir "My Life in High Heels" |
| 39% | PELE | 4 | Athlete who wrote the memoir "My Life and the Beautiful Game" |
| 39% | ERNESTHEMINGWAY | 15 | Author of a 1952 novel published in full in Life magazine |
| 38% | GETOVERIT | 9 | "Stop worrying about that and live in the present!": 3 wds. |