Books like Cash
12 books with a reading profile close to Cash by Johnny Cash. Clear-cut; an easy read.
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1
Girl in a Band
by Kim Gordon
Also clear-cut · memoir, narrative
In this memoir, Kim Gordon traces her trajectory from a visual arts upbringing in Los Angeles to the center of the New York City post-punk scene.
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2
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
Also clear-cut · memoir, narrative
Patrisse Khan-Cullors recounts the systemic pressures that shaped her life in Van Nuys, California, focusing on the heavy policing and incarceration of her brother, Monte.
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3
Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island
Also clear-cut · memoir, narrative
Regina Calcaterra grew up on Long Island, New York, one of five children of a mother who abandoned and abused them.
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4
Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
by Jon Krakauer
Also clear-cut · memoir, narrative
In this collection of non-fiction reports, Jon Krakauer chronicles the high-risk pursuits of ice climbers and mountaineers.
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5
The Sound of Gravel
by Ruth Wariner
Also clear-cut · memoir, narrative
Ruth Wariner’s memoir details her upbringing as the forty-second child of her father within a polygamist Mormon colony in Colonia LeBaron, Mexico.
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6
The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
by Nikki Sixx
memoir, narrative
Nikki Sixx documents the peak of his addiction through journal entries written between 1986 and 1987.
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7
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
memoir, narrative
In 1994, six-year-old Clemantine Wamariya and her fifteen-year-old sister, Claire, fled the Rwandan massacre, leaving their parents behind.
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8
What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love
Also clear-cut · memoir, narrative
Carole Radziwill narrates her life from a working-class childhood in Suffern, New York, to her career as an ABC News producer and her marriage into the Kennedy-Radziwill family.
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9
All You Can Ever Know
by Nicole Chung
memoir, narrative
Nicole Chung grew up as a Korean child adopted by a white family in a predominately white Oregon town.
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10
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Also clear-cut · memoir, narrative
David Sedaris organizes this collection around his move from New York to Normandy and the resulting linguistic displacement.
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11
Orange Is the New Black
by Piper Kerman
Also clear-cut · memoir, narrative
Piper Kerman recounts the year she spent in a minimum-security federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, following a decade-old conviction for drug money laundering.
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12
Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
Also clear-cut · memoir, narrative
Deborah Rodriguez, an American hairdresser from Michigan, traveled to Afghanistan in 2002 as part of a humanitarian aid mission following the fall of the Taliban.
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