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12 books with a reading profile close to The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson. Clear-cut; an easy read.

1

The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America

by Bill Bryson

Also clear-cut · entertainment, memoir

After his father’s death, Bill Bryson returned to his native Iowa, rented a Chevrolet, and drove nearly 14,000 miles through thirty-eight states.
2

I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After Twenty Years Away

by Bill Bryson

Also clear-cut · entertainment, memoir

After two decades living in the United Kingdom, Bill Bryson moved his family to New Hampshire, only to find he no longer recognized his native country.
3

Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk

by David Sedaris

Also clear-cut · entertainment, memoir

David Sedaris shifts his focus from personal memoirs to a collection of modern animal fables featuring anthropomorphized creatures.
4

Yearbook

by Seth Rogen

Also clear-cut · entertainment, memoir

Yearbook is a collection of autobiographical essays detailing Seth Rogen’s life from his childhood in Vancouver to his career in Hollywood.
5

And Away...

by Bob Mortimer

Also clear-cut · entertainment, memoir

Bob Mortimer, the comedian best known as half of Reeves and Mortimer and for the fishing show Gone Fishing, wrote this memoir of his life.
6

The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific

by J. Maarten Troost

Also clear-cut · entertainment, memoir

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7

How to Be a Woman

by Caitlin Moran

Also clear-cut · entertainment, memoir

Caitlin Moran combines personal history with political commentary to address the everyday realities of modern femininity.
8

Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

by Henry Winkler

Also clear-cut · entertainment, memoir

In this memoir, Henry Winkler recounts his transition from a childhood shaped by undiagnosed dyslexia to his unexpected stardom as Arthur Fonzarelli on Happy Days.
9

The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made

by Greg Sestero

Also clear-cut · entertainment, memoir

Greg Sestero chronicles his unlikely friendship with the enigmatic Tommy Wiseau and the chaotic production of the 2003 cult film The Room.
10

Stories I Only Tell My Friends

by Rob Lowe

Also clear-cut · entertainment, memoir

Rob Lowe recounts his transition from a standard Midwestern upbringing to the epicenter of 1980s Hollywood stardom.
11

Holidays on Ice

by David Sedaris

Also clear-cut · entertainment, memoir

This collection centers on the commercialized absurdity of the Christmas season, anchored by the lead essay about Sedaris’s employment as Crumpet the Elf at the Macy’s Santaland.
12

Slash

by Slash

Also clear-cut · entertainment, memoir

Saul Hudson details his evolution from a BMX-riding British immigrant in Los Angeles into the lead guitarist of Guns N’ Roses.

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