By Carol Burnett
288 pages; Random House

From her childhood to her launch as an actress in New York City to her 11 years hosting the Carol Burnett Show, comedy legend Carol Burnett knows how to bring us close and keep us laughing. She shares snippets such as how she once used her Tarzan yell to scare a mugger, the origin of the famous sketch of Scarlett O'Hara in a curtain-rod dress and dish about her famous costars and friends. If you aren't a fan of Carol Burnett before you start reading, you will be once you finish.

— Melissa Hellstern