Kamala Harris’s ‘107 Days’ is on track to become the bestselling memoir of 2025 www.celebitchy.com/943097/
— Kaiser @ Celebitchy (@kaiseratcb.bsky.social) October 1, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Per Celebitchy:
Kamala Harris’s memoir, 107 Days, has been out for a week. Her book tour has involved national and local interviews and private, ticketed events (which have all sold out). While the Beltway media has gleefully mocked and rolled their eyes at the book, it turns out that Americans actually wanted to hear Kamala’s story. It turns out that half the country – the same half who voted for Kamala – still thinks she was a great candidate who would have been an amazing president, and her loss said more about America than it said about Kamala. 107 Days is on track to become the bestselling memoir of the year:
Simon & Schuster announced today that 107 DAYS by former Vice President Kamala Harris has sold 350,000 copies across all formats through the first week on sale in the U.S. The combined sales figure includes pre-orders, sales of print books, ebooks, and e-audiobooks. The publisher has ordered a 5th printing of the book that when complete will bring the number of hardcover copies in print to 500,000. These sales put 107 DAYS on a trajectory to be the best-selling memoir published in 2025.
Jonathan Karp, President and Chief Executive Officer of Simon & Schuster, said, “In addition to being one of the most interesting books ever written about the experience of running for President of the United States, the success of 107 DAYS proves what a galvanizing and inspiring cultural figure Kamala Harris is. The only memoirs that have had a better first week of sales since 2023 were by Britney Spears, Taylor Swift, and Prince Harry.”
… While her book is critical of President Biden – and even more critical of Biden’s staffers and party elders – I believe that she still has a good relationship with the Bidens, and both camps recognize that they could have handled things differently and better, but they all felt under siege. Hunter Biden basically said that the Bidens all love Kamala and there are no grudges there. The truth is, I genuinely don’t believe that any Democrat is going to win nationally by throwing Biden or Harris under the bus. And that’s the larger message of Kamala’s book sales.
More at the link. (Let’s see if this attracts a Cole bigfooting… )
Baud
Because they’re adults.
Unlike the current president or most of the Internet.
J.
Good for Kamala. I hope her book outsells all of Trump’s.
Baud
Amen, sister.
Jackie
@Baud:
FFOTUS only knows how to hold grudges – real and perceived. His entire life is full of grudges. Sad.
cain
Good for her, would love to hear extracts on what her criticisms were.
HopefullyNotCassandra
We would be so much better off if Kamala Harris or Joe Biden were our president! Yet, for me anyway, living in the past hurts too much when this is our absurdly stupid and cruel present.
It is a great sign her mémoire hit number one, though. Glad for her that it did too.
RaflW
This might be an audiobook I’d want. I have a fair bit of car time coming up in a while, maybe I can figure out the whole library – audiobook thing?
David Collier-Brown
“Party elders”. Bah, humbug! We get them in Canada too, and even an octogenarian considers them too old and hidebound. I suspect they were born in 1900.
hitchhiker
I’m almost able to look at her picture without experiencing overwhelming loss.
Almost.
I think I’ll ask for this book for xmas.
lowtechcyclist
None of us will ever know whether she’d have been an amazing President, but I have no doubt that she’d have been a very good one. I never worried about the possibility that Biden might have to step down due to age-related health issues, because he had a top-notch VP who was ready to take over, should anything have happened. Alas, we never got to find out just how good she’d be.
Ishiyama
@lowtechcyclist: If Biden had resigned, and made her President, far enough in advance for her to settle into the position, it would have improved her chances a lot. To tell the truth, that’s what I expected when Biden picked her. He knew he wouldn’t be in shape to run again, but he lacked the moral courage to break out of conventional politics.
Old School
@Ishiyama:
Doubt that’s true, but it’s been argued enough.
Ishiyama
@Old School: Well, let’s say that he knew there was a good chance that age might catch up with him before the end of his term.
Omnes Omnibus
Oh cool, we’re going to use this thread to fight the Biden war again.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: I had a similar thought.
MagdaInBlack
@Omnes Omnibus: Nope nope nope. If so I’ll go to the baseball post. And I don’t even like sportsball.
Jackie
@Ishiyama: Let’s don’t turn a positive thread about how well Kamala’s book is doing into another woulda, coulda, shoulda grunge thread, please?
RaflW
@Omnes Omnibus: We can talk about the complete immolation of CBS news in stead.
New Republic: “Free-speech grifter Bari Weiss will soon be named editor-in-chief of CBS News, multiple outlets reported Thursday…”
TBF, I haven’t watched CBS this year, quite possibly. Not just not the news, but not any show at all. I think CBS Sunday Morning might have been on a teevee in a Hampton Inn breakfast room I was in once in the past 12 months.
That said, the idea of that person running the former home of Walter Cronkite just makes me boil.
cain
@Omnes Omnibus:
Actually I want to fight the George Cloony war!
cain
@RaflW:
Looks like we are heading for full on propaganda across all markets. Even Tiktok will turn into a propaganda outfit.
Not many places to get actual new.
I wonder if part of this is to make sure that they can still have access to the briefing room in the white house.
RaflW
@cain: I think ridiculous people are in charge of many key institutions. They don’t game things out, they just vibe their way into shit decisions.
zhena gogolia
@Omnes Omnibus: God, I can’t believe it.
Randal Sexton
@Omnes Omnibus: Yeah, if this thread turns into that waste of time I will try out that pie thingy!
p.a.
@Omnes Omnibus:
@zhena gogolia:
The classics never go out of style.
Ishiyama
I was just trying to say something nice about Kamala Harris.
eclare
@RaflW:
I wonder if Colbert will have something to say about this.
Eyeroller
@Ishiyama: I won’t fight the Biden war again but I’ll fight the misogyny war. I’m very skeptical her being an incumbent would have helped. It may actually have hurt, for no fault of her own, due to being associated with inflation and covid restrictions more directly. And we’ve gotten a clue that misogyny, probably even more than racism (though they tend to go together), was a factor.
eclare
Huh. Bluesky has once again decided that I live in Mississippi and therefore cannot access Bluesky. When the court said the age verification law could go into effect, I signed up for a VPN. Then after a couple of weeks, voila! I could get on Bluesky so I canceled the VPN.
So I signed up again, and I’m using a VPN based in Canada, and now whenever I google anything, like a store, I get Canadian locations. And when I google the weather, the temps are in Celsius. I don’t remember that from the first go-round.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Eyeroller:
Do you think Harris would have still ran in the primary unopposed as Biden did?
RaflW
@eclare: My first thought was recalling David Letterman mockingly calling his TV home “The Tiffany Network” — I can’t even remember what bonehead thing CBS did back then to annoy him.
But now I realize that Tiffany probably brings up more thoughts of a Trump spawn than a once-hallowed brand name synonymous with quality.
sab
I read the book and liked it a lot. It has an interesting structure- sort of a day by day journal of rhe campaign, but with long thoughtful discussions of the issues that made it to the front of the line each day. The long thoughtful discussions are themselves interesting because the overall feel of the book was what a rush they were all in trying to pull together a campaign and make the right choices with hardly any time to do it. Normal presidential campaigns take a couple of years to organize, and she and her people had only about three months.
I came away from the book even more impressed with her and even more regretful that she didn’t win.
The book really needs to be read and not just summarized. Just hitting the bullet points loses the context. That is a real disservice to her and to the Bidens.
Mathguy
If you want a dose of schadenfreude, the fascist Covid Barrett’s book has been out since September 9 but no sales figures have been released. I’ll bet it’s sold dozens of copies!
Melancholy Jaques
@RaflW:
I always think of Tiffany the mall singer who had a hit with a cover of Tommy James’s “I Think We’re Alone Now.”
MinuteMan
Harris’s 2024 campaign was better than her 2020 campaign but that’s a pretty low bar. It felt like things were going pretty well but then it got muddled. The short time-frame didn’t help matters. Putting Biden on the sidelines like Gore did with Clinton was a mistake, too.
I figure she would probably have been a mediocre president but that would be infinitely better than what we ended up with. If the Dems can’t pull to the left and make the middle lie truly in the center we’re eventually going to lose everything, if we haven’t already.
Matt McIrvin
The moment COVID mutated into the Omicron variant, making the pandemic more complicated than a simple story of the vaccine ending it, Donald Trump’s election to a second term was inevitable. There is nothing we could have done.
Interesting Name Goes Here
@Ishiyama: Sure you were. Just like you were “just asking questions” a week ago.
Geminid
@MinuteMan: I think Harris would have been a fine President.
I thought Harris ran a good campaign last year, considering the circumstances of her nomination and the shortened campaign window. The Electoral College ended up giving her opponent a lopsided win, but his margins in the individual states that swung from 2020 to 2024 were relatively narrow. I tend to ascribe those margins to factors other than candidate quality, in this case factors that candidate quality did not overcome.
Also, while a President’s candidate and campaign quality are obviously important factors in becoming a President in the first place, they are only parts of being a good President. There are others including experience. Harris had a lot of experience; as a big city prosecutor; as Califoria Attorney General for two terms, administering an office with a large work force including 5,000 attorneys; and most of a term as a very capable U.S. Senator.
That experience would have stood Harris in good stead as President. She didn’t get many chances to demonstrate her abilities as Vice President, but she got a good one at the Munich Conference held in February of 2022, on the eve of Russia Ukraine invasion. I thought Harris passed that test with flying colors, and I got the impression that the Western leaders she met with thought so too.
Geminid
@sab: That a problem with just hitting the bullet points. It doesn’t just do the Bidens and Harris disservice, it does the reader a disservice if they don’t keep in mind that these are just the bullet points.
Paul in KY
@Ishiyama: He wanted (too much) to beat TACO again. It warped his perspective (IMO).
Paul in KY
@Geminid: I think she would have been an excellent President!