Book · 2021 · Biography & Autobiography
Becoming
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Michelle Obama's book becoming excellent just read that.
Tommy Vietor · Pod Save America · Dec 2018 Listen at 33:09 What they say about it
- Discusses title and cover“called her own memoir Becoming”3
- Overcoming life challenges“trials, challenges, and setbacks”2
- Author mentions in her book“wrote about it twice in her book”2
The best things said about it
What's beautiful about this book, The Light We Carry and Becoming, is it shows us just how many trials, challenges, and setbacks that you've had to overcome in your life.
Jay Shetty On Purpose with Jay Shetty · Jan 2024 Michelle Obama's memoir Becoming also published with Crown sold more than 16 million copies worldwide that's since its release in 2018.
First lady Michelle Obama wrote about it twice in her book Becoming.
Jason Redman The Megyn Kelly Show · Jul 2026 Where and when it comes up
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How it comes up
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Why people recommend it
Becoming is a widely discussed memoir by Michelle Obama that details her life, public journey, and transition through various stages, including her time as First Lady of the United States. The book attracted diverse commentary across several podcast episodes. Tommy Vietor briefly praised it on Pod Save America as an excellent read, while Shonda Rhimes shared on The Mel Robbins Podcast that she used memoirs like this one as mentoring guides for extraordinary achievements. Conversely, the book became a frequent target of criticism and analysis on The Megyn Kelly Show. Megyn Kelly repeatedly brought up the memoir and its title to mock the author's public persona, question her self-confidence, and analyze her public complaints. Additionally, Jason Redman mentioned the memoir on The Megyn Kelly Show while discussing a handwritten note he received from Michelle Obama that detailed how deeply his hospital door sign had moved her. Candace Owens also briefly touched upon the publication on her show while discussing credentialism and a related media story. Across these various discussions, guests and hosts utilized the memoir either as a source of personal inspiration, a touchstone for political discourse, or a focal point for media-driven critique regarding celebrity, ego, and the modern public sphere.
Every mention
Tommy Vietor Michelle Obama's book becoming excellent just read that 1
Recommended
“Michelle Obama's book becoming excellent just read that”
Megyn Kelly Because you wrote a book called Becoming about yourself, how becoming you are. 7
Discussed
“Because you wrote a book called Becoming about yourself, how becoming you are.”
Discussed
“You know, you call your book becoming. You're on the cover. I was like, 'Oh, look at me. I'm so becoming.'”
Discussed
“Universal beloved and celebrated and put on magazine covers. You name your own book, Becoming. Who does that?”
Critiqued
“That's why she called her book Becoming. Nobody with actual self-confidence would have to tell us how becoming she is.”
Discussed
“How does it feel to share your story with the world? Because let me tell you, when I wrote Becoming, um I shared this Now, it was NOT ABOUT ME, BUT what I'm saying is that, you know, I I was all confident writing the book. Yeah. And then, the day it was coming out, I could not sleep because”
Discussed
“her Memoir was named becoming look how look at me becoming with her big face on the front like okay”
Discussed
“still not over it there's no amount of money or political power or success or number of Memoirs called becoming”
Jason Redman Secretary Robert Gates wrote about it. Uh, first lady Michelle Obama wrote about it twice in her book, uh,… 2
Discussed
“Secretary Robert Gates wrote about it. Uh, first lady Michelle Obama wrote about it twice in her book, uh, Becoming Michelle, sent me a handwritten note on how much it moved her.”
Discussed
“First Lady Michelle Obama wrote about it twice in her book becoming”
Jay Shetty I think what's beautiful about this book, The Light We Carry, and Becoming, is it shows us just how many tr… 2
Discussed
“I think what's beautiful about this book, The Light We Carry, and Becoming, is it shows us just how many trials, challenges, setbacks that you've had to overcome, and that you've gone through in your life so elegantly, gracefully, tactfully, you know, with with so much determination and drive.”
Discussed
“Absolutely I think what's beautiful about this book, 'The Light We Carry' and 'Becoming', is it shows us just how many trials, challenges, and setbacks that you've had to overcome in your life So elegantly, gracefully, tactfully You know, with so much determination and drive And I'm intrigued that after having overcome so much, like you said, climbing Mount Everest”
Alexandra Alter so his book comes out before Michelle Obama's book becoming which is released on November 13th 1
Discussed
“so his book comes out before Michelle Obama's book becoming which is released on November 13th”
Angela Duckworth so I don't know if you've read her book becoming are you going to talk about like when she wanted to go to… 1
Discussed
“so I don't know if you've read her book becoming are you going to talk about like when she wanted to go to Princeton”
Anya Parampil She's like a hardcore Democratic Party operative, sound producer, a producer for 'Becoming.' It's called 'B… 1
Discussed
“She's like a hardcore Democratic Party operative, sound producer, a producer for 'Becoming.' It's called 'Becoming.' For some reason, that was what Michelle decided to call her memoir.”
Bill Burr Michelle Obama has the [ __ ] balls to put out an inspirational book on to be a better [ __ ] person and ma… 1
Critiqued
“Michelle Obama has the [ __ ] balls to put out an inspirational book on to be a better [ __ ] person and make your dreams come true she has all that corporate money [ __ ] falling out from between her [ __ ] titties get the [ __ ] out of here”
Candace Owens And it's funny because this morning I was speaking to Xavier Bousard of the Becoming Breit book and the per… 1
Discussed
“And it's funny because this morning I was speaking to Xavier Bousard of the Becoming Breit book and the person that inspired me to do the series and we were sort of just touching upon how obvious it is.”
Gilbert Cruz and this week she reviews Michelle Obama's Memoir becoming 1
Discussed
“and this week she reviews Michelle Obama's Memoir becoming”
Shonda Rhimes And so what I did was is I started reading books about people, memoirs, autobiographies about people who ha… 1
Discussed
“And so what I did was is I started reading books about people, memoirs, autobiographies about people who had done extraordinary things and really decided that those were going to be my mentors. I was going to take my lessons from those books. And it was everything from Shoe Dog by Phil Knight to Bird by Bird by Ann Lamont”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker1
Discussed
“Michelle Obama's Memoir becoming also published with crown sold more than 16 million copies worldwide that's since its release in 2018”
Also mentioned in the same episodes
Other mentions (12: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing
“I mean, to be honest, if you read both of their books, I have no idea how either of them is still in that marriage. It's totally insane... But if you read behind between the lines of, you really should read the chapters of his rise in his book and in her book. And if you read that, you're like,”
Passing
“and it all came about because when she was figuring out her press run for becoming she wanted T do Queens to be the one bit of non-traditional interview”
Passing
“she was publisher at Crown which is a penguin Random House imprint probably best known for publishing one of the most successful Memoirs in recent memory which is Michelle Obama's becoming she was handpicked to be Michelle Obama's editor and that was the bestselling book of 2018”
Passing
“and Wilkerson of course was a guest on the podcast talking about this book as she was last year was it now that it was the year before talking about Michelle Obama's book but also about her own first book the warmth of other Sons”
Passing
“so this is the the Obamas are really in A League of Their Own including Michelle Obama who's book becoming has sold 8.1 million copies in the US and Canada so far”
Passing
“she is a Pitzer Prize winner and the author of the warmth of other Sons which she came on the podcast to talk about a little bit when she reviewed Michelle Obama's becoming”
Passing
“and about 15 minutes later found out that my book had debuted on the Washington Post bestseller list right behind Michelle Obama”
Passing
“I mean even Obama's wife is out there with the glitter hooker boots is out there doing an arena tour yeah teller [ __ ] book”
Passing
“it's kind ofama well above Michelle Obama”
Passing
“if you look at the print bestsellers that NPD pulled together the only political book on the list is becoming by Michelle Obama”
Passing
“you have Michelle Obama's becoming still hanging in there”
Passing
“you've had some huge hits like Michelle Obama's becoming Bob Woodward's fear which has sold I think almost 2 million copies now”