As of September 30, 2025, the book has sold 350,000 copies in the United States, and is projected to sell at least 500,000 copies. The book will likely be the best-selling memoir published in 2025. CEO of Simon & Schuster Jonathan Karp said the book was one of the best-selling memoirs in the 2020s.[3]
Development and publication
On July 31, 2025, Simon & Schuster announced that Harris would publish a memoir about her 2024 presidential campaign, with a release date of September 23. In a video posted on social media, Harris stated that the memoir was derived from a journal in which she wrote her reflections and recollections of "the shortest presidential campaign in modern history". Harris collaborated with Geraldine Brooks to give the book a "novelistic feel", and Simon & Schuster CEO Jonathan Karp stated that the book reads more like a suspense novel than a political memoir. The memoir was coedited by Jonathan Karp and Dawn Davis, the senior vice president of Simon & Schuster.[1] An audiobook version of the memoir narrated by Harris was announced to be published on Audible.[4]
On August 21, 2025, Harris announced on social media that she would be starting an international book tour in September 2025 to promote 107 Days. She scheduled eighteen appearances in cities across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom; it will last through November 2025.[5]
Contents
In the book, Harris calls leaving the decision to run for re-election solely up to Joe and Jill Biden "reckless". Harris acknowledges Biden's age and health concerns, but says that Biden was still capable of functioning as president.[6] Nonetheless, Harris states that she was "angry and disappointed" with Biden for his poor 2024 debate performance with former president Donald Trump, particularly because he did not understand how bad his performance was.[7]
Harris compared her loss, in which she lost the popular vote by 1.5% (48.3-49.8%) and the Electoral College 226-312, to the 2008 Super Bowl. She lost Wisconsin by 0.9%, Michigan by 1.4%, Pennsylvania by 1.7%, and Georgia by 2.2%.[a][9] She quoted Tom Brady, who similarly described being surprised and devastated by his loss when the New England Patriots lost to the New York Giants 14-17.[8]
107 Days has been a commercial success, but some have been critical of the content. Quoted in Politico, Jaime Harrison, former chair of the Democratic National Committee said, "I saw it throughout the vice president's tenure as vice president — this ultra-scrutinization and hyper-critical caricaturization of her in a way that I don't see for other folks who have been in the same role."[12]
The book was positively reviewed by Jennifer Szalai of The New York Times, though Szalai acknowledged Harris's perspective was biased given she was defending her own record.[13]The Guardian gave the book a largely negative review, largely due to its negative tone and inability to provide the reader with closure. It did not, however, criticize the book's writing quality.[14]Democratic strategist Michael Hardaway criticized the book calling it "unhelpful" and saying it was "essentially a bunch of finger pointing and blaming others".[15] Prior to its release, Stephen A. Smith questioned the point of the book, saying, "Who cares what [Kamala Harris] has to say? ... There's nothing to elaborate about."[16]
More than 15 Democratic operatives across the country who were interviewed about their thoughts on the book criticized it, with one saying "If there's a political strategy here, it's a bad one. There's an awful lot of grievances and finger-pointing that really doesn't serve a political agenda," and another saying "This reads like, good-riddance to politics."[17]
Writing for The Guardian, Nesrine Malik criticized Harris's campaign for a lack of self-reflection and says that she along with other Democrats were delusional.[18]
Billy Binion writing for Reason magazine said that Harris demonstrates her role as, "...ever the prosecutor" in the book for her comments in the book which derided Ross Ulbricht as merely a "fentanyl dealer", when in fact Ulbricht had never been charged with the dealing of or accused of selling fentanyl on the Silk Road site which he had created and operated from 2011 through its closure in 2013.[19]
Writing for Forbes, Richard Fowler praised the memoir, and noted the source of much of the criticism from Democratic operatives. "...Harris' telling, exposed the cracks in a Democratic Party infrastructure ill-prepared to support a candidate representing one of its most loyal voting blocs: Black women and the communities around them."[20]
On August 21, 2025, Harris announced on social media that she would be starting an international book tour in September 2025 to promote 107 Days. She scheduled eighteen appearances in cities across the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom; it will last through November 2025.[5]
↑ Had Harris won Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, she would have won exactly 270 out of 538 electoral votes to win. Had she also won Georgia, she would have won 286 electoral votes.
↑ Smith, David (September 19, 2025). "'Angry and disappointed': Kamala Harris critical of Joe Biden in new book". The Guardian. Retrieved September 19, 2025. Joe then rattled on about his own former debate performances. 'I beat him the other time; I wasn't feeling well in that last one.' He continued to insist that his debate performance hadn't hurt him much with the electorate. I was barely listening.
↑ Mahdawi, Arwa (September 22, 2025). "107 Days by Kamala Harris review – no closure, no hope". The Guardian. Retrieved September 22, 2025. The former presidential candidate sticks to the script in a memoir that will only cause further bad blood.
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