Books like Eve's Hollywood
12 books with a reading profile close to Eve's Hollywood by Eve Babitz. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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1
Blood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef
memoir, narrative
Gabrielle Hamilton chronicles her unconventional path from a chaotic childhood in rural Pennsylvania to owning Prune, a tiny, celebrated restaurant in New York City.
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2
Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, and L.A.
by Eve Babitz
memoir, narrative
Eve Babitz presents ten interconnected narratives that document the sensory landscape of Southern California in the 1960s and 1970s.
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3
Yossarian slept here
by Erica Heller
memoir, narrative
Erica Heller’s memoir documents her upbringing as the daughter of Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22, within the Apthorp apartment building in Manhattan.
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4
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
memoir, narrative
William Finnegan chronicles his lifelong obsession with surfing, moving from his childhood in California and Hawaii to his global travels as an adult.
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5
Animal
by Lisa Taddeo
memoir, narrative
Joan, a woman living in Los Angeles, witnesses a man commit suicide in front of her during a tense restaurant confrontation.
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6
Little Weirds
by Jenny Slate
memoir, narrative
Jenny Slate’s collection of lyrical essays centers on the internal reclamation of her house and spirit following a painful divorce.
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7
The Basketball Diaries
by Jim Carroll
memoir, narrative
Jim Carroll's memoir draws on diaries he kept as a teenager in 1960s New York, between ages twelve and sixteen.
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8
Priestdaddy
memoir, narrative
Patricia Lockwood, a poet, moves back with her husband into her parents' house in a Kansas City rectory.
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9
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
memoir, narrative
Alexandra Fuller outlines her upbringing in 1970s and 80s Rhodesia, Malawi, and Zambia during a period of violent decolonization.
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10
Just Kids
by Patti Smith
memoir, narrative
Just Kids chronicles the relationship between Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe, beginning with their chance meeting in Brooklyn in 1967.
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11
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
by Kate Beaton
memoir, narrative
Kate Beaton chronicles her time working manual labor jobs at remote mining camps in northern Alberta to pay off her student loans.
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12
Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
memoir, narrative
Carrie Brownstein chronicles her development from a fan in the Pacific Northwest underground music scene to the guitarist of Sleater-Kinney.
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