Former Vice President Kamala Harris’s memoir, 107 Days, has stormed the publishing world with blockbuster sales — and stirred no shortage of political controversy.
Simon & Schuster has announced that the book sold 350,000 copies in its first week on sale in the U.S., a figure that includes pre-orders, print, e-books, and audiobooks. The runaway demand has prompted a fifth printing that will bring the total number of hardcover copies in circulation to 500,000. According to the publisher, 107 Days is already on track to become the best-selling memoir of 2025, rivaled only by titles from Britney Spears, Taylor Swift, and Prince Harry in recent years.
“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,” said Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp.
The book recounts the frenetic 15 weeks following Harris’s elevation to the top of the Democratic ticket and ending with Donald Trump’s victory last November. Its mix of personal reflection and unflinching critique has made it a bestseller with bite—and a political powder keg.
Even as 107 Days positions Harris as a literary force—and likely offsets her hefty $20 million advance—the book has deepened rifts inside her party. Top Democrats including Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, California Gov. Gavin Newsom, and former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg have pushed back against Harris’s sharp depictions of their early reactions to her campaign launch and the jockeying around her vice-presidential pick.
The memoir also targets her former boss. Harris claims the Biden White House communications team saddled her with unpopular assignments and amplified negative press about her office. Most damningly, she argues that failing to push Biden to bow out of the 2024 race earlier was “reckless,” writing: “Of all the people in the White House, I was in the worst position to make the case that he should drop out. He would see it as naked ambition, perhaps as poisonous disloyalty, even if my only message was: Don’t let the other guy win.”
Critics within the party say the book reads more like score-settling than sober reflection. One strategist accused Harris of “blaming everyone but herself” for the Democrats’ 2024 defeat. Another political insider called it crazy that she chose to write “a gossip book that prioritizes the pettiness of her politics.”
The Atlantic Magazine’s Jeffrey Goldberg, who previewed the book before its release, warned that Harris was “no longer interested in holding back.” That assessment now seems prescient: the memoir has unleashed a wave of damaging headlines just as Democrats look ahead to the 2026 midterms.
Harris is currently on a nationwide book tour, where she has reportedly attempted to soften some of her sharper criticisms while leaving the door open to another White House run. But instead of uniting Democrats, her media blitz has deepened rifts and reignited debate over her political future.