On September 23, Vice President Kamala Harris released her memoir 107 Days in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook editions with the publishing company Simon & Schuster. The memoir is written to provide a personal insight into her 2024 presidential campaign after Biden’s withdrawal and acts a reclamation of her voice in telling her own story about this moment in American political history. The title refers to the 107 days between former President Joe Biden dropping out of the race in July 2024 and the November election. Prior to running for President, Harris’ roles included California Attorney General (2011-2017), U.S. Senator (2017-2021), then Vice President (2021–2025). The memoir is full of behind-the-scenes details of the campaign’s decision-making in the arena of American politics.

The memoir discusses several key topics framed as significant within the book, such as school shootings, transgender individuals, and abortion. On September 4th, a fourteen year old in Barrow County, Georgia, texted his father, I’m sorry, it’s not ur fault. That day, he shot 11 people at Apalachee High School, where he was a freshman. Harris writes about how “unless you live in Georgia, you’ve probably forgotten about that shooting, or maybe it’s blurred into the details of the other 83 school shootings that happened in 2024. Eighty three. And 2024 is not even our deadliest year… we are the only country in the world where the leading cause of death for children is guns.” 

Later in the memoir, Harris replies to one of Trump’s campaign slogans regarding her support for transgender individuals. She explains, “Transgender people are Americans, with the same rights we all have, to liberty, equality, the pursuit of happiness, and equal protection under the law. There aren’t very many. A tiny minority of less than 1 percent of the population. Of these, in 2024, less than ten played on women college sports teams. [However] three hundred and fifty transgender people were murdered in America in 2025. Fifteen of them were kids. Almost half, 42%, have attempted suicide.” In response to Trump’s tagline ‘Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you’, she expresses her regret that she couldn’t get the message across that there isn’t a distinction between they/them and ‘you’. “The pronoun that matters is we. We the people. And that is who I am for.”

Harris also brings up abortion, a topic she discussed extensively during her campaign. She talked about her time as a prosecutor, when she worked with women and girls who were victims of rape and incest. During the book, she illustrates her defense of abortion by stating that telling a victim of a violent crime, a girl who has “a violation of her body”, that she has no say in what happens to her body next is immoral. She says that you do not have to abandon your faith or deeply held beliefs to say that the government shouldn’t be telling her what to do. Harris brings up the example of Texas, where the state’s elected leaders have enacted the most restrictive laws in the country. She writes that there are no exceptions for rape, incest, or fatal fetal anomalies. In fact, she says “the medical emergency language is so vague that doctors fearing prosecution have turned away women who needed lifesaving care.”

107 Days sold roughly 350,000 copies in its first week, making it one of the fastest-selling memoirs of 2025. “Real Time” host Bill Maher from Fox News opens by critiquing that “Kamala Harris’s new memoir of the ’24 election is called 107 Days, but should have been called ‘Everyone Sucks but Me,’” claiming that Harris does not admit her own mistakes in the novel. However, Harris does directly take accountability for her actions and admits what she would change if she could redo the campaign.

Harris includes a message for Gen Z in her memoir, the generation where “the youngest member is thirteen now, the oldest is twenty-eight. In five years, the youngest members will be about to vote.” She concludes her novel by expressing the sentiment that Gen Z is a core pillar in the future of America. She empathizes that Gen Z has lived through the pandemic, the resulting economic upheaval, the accelerating climate crisis, the increasingly toxic dominance of social media. “And now, they are living through Donald Trump’s global tariff chaos, isolationism, and slashed safety net, including health coverage and food assistance.”

With 107 Days, Harris is reclaiming her voice and defining her own narrative rather than leaving it to others. The memoir provides a historical record of her brief, high-stakes 2024 presidential campaign, offering a unique inside look at a short-lived presidential bid and reiterating her opinions on several key voter issues. The book’s success has solidified Kamala Harris’s position as a major public figure, even outside of elected office.