Books like The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
12 books with a reading profile close to The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star by Nikki Sixx. Inward-looking; an easy read.
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The Sound of Gravel
by Ruth Wariner
Also inward-looking · 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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Girl in a Band
by Kim Gordon
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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Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island
Also inward-looking · 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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What Remains: A Memoir of Fate, Friendship, and Love
Also inward-looking · 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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5
All You Can Ever Know
by Nicole Chung
Also inward-looking · 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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The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
Also inward-looking · 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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Cash
by Johnny Cash
memoir, narrative
Johnny Cash details his life from his childhood in the Arkansas cotton fields to his decades as a country music icon.
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In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss
by Amy Bloom
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
After Amy Bloom’s husband, Brian Ameche, receives a diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease, he decides to end his life on his own terms before the illness erases his identity.
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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
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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Memorial Days
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Geraldine Brooks examines the formation of historical memory through the lens of her own family lineage and her decades spent as a foreign correspondent.
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The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
This memoir records an email exchange between journalist Anderson Cooper and his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, initiated during her ninety-first year.
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Prozac Nation
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Elizabeth Wurtzel chronicles her decades-long struggle with atypical depression, beginning with her childhood in a fractured household and continuing through her chaotic years at Harvard.
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