Books like Just Kids
12 books with a reading profile close to Just Kids by Patti Smith. Inward-looking; an easy read.
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When All Is Said
by Anne Griffin
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Maurice Hannigan, an elderly Irish farmer, sits in a pub in a small town one evening and orders five drinks, one for each person who has been important in his life.
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
Also inward-looking · 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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Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
Also inward-looking · 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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The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
James McBride alternates between his own upbringing in a Brooklyn housing project and the oral history of his mother, Ruth Jordan.
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Stitches: A Memoir
by David Small
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
David Small’s graphic memoir recounts his childhood in 1950s Detroit, living in a household defined by emotional withdrawal and medical negligence.
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Priestdaddy
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Patricia Lockwood, a poet, moves back with her husband into her parents' house in a Kansas City rectory.
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Wat ik nooit eerder heb gezegd
by Celeste Ng
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Set in 1970s Ohio, the narrative begins with the death of Lydia Lee, the favorite daughter of a mixed-race couple.
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Truth & Beauty
by Ann Patchett
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Ann Patchett narrates the decades-long friendship between herself and the writer Lucy Grealy, beginning at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
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The End of Eddy
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Eddy Bellegueule grows up in a poor village in northern France, in a family where men are expected to be tough and unemployment and alcohol are common.
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This Boy's Life
by Tobias Wolff
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Tobias Wolff’s memoir recounts his nomadic upbringing in the 1950s as he travels across the United States with his divorced mother to escape an abusive boyfriend.
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Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
Also inward-looking · 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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