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12 books with a reading profile close to The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy. Inward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.

1

NOBODY'S GIRL

by Virginia Roberts Giuffre

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, narrative

Virginia Roberts Giuffre details her experiences inside the sex-trafficking ring operated by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
2

Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

by Adeline Yen Mah

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, narrative

Adeline Yen Mah provides a detailed account of her childhood in 1940s China, where she was labeled as bad luck following her mother’s death during childbirth.
3

High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life

by Tiffany Jenkins

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, narrative

Tiffany Jenkins details her rapid descent from a deputy’s girlfriend to an opioid addict living a fractured existence.
4

The Princess Diarist

by Carrie Fisher

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, narrative

Carrie Fisher discovered the original journals she kept as a nineteen-year-old actress while filming the first Star Wars movie in London.
5

Magical Thinking: True Stories

by Augusten Burroughs

Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative

Augusten Burroughs presents a series of autobiographical essays documenting the friction between his private neuroses and the banality of adult life.
6

Broken Horses

by Brandi Carlile

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, narrative

Brandi Carlile traces her development from a child living in a series of rental houses in rural Washington to a recognized singer-songwriter.
7

A Girl Named Zippy

by Haven Kimmel

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, narrative

Haven Kimmel recounts her childhood in Mooreland, Indiana, a town of three hundred people during the 1960s and 70s.
8

Eat a Peach

by David Chang

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, narrative

David Chang charts his path from a struggling noodle shop owner to the founder of the Momofuku restaurant empire.
9

Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive

by Stephanie Land

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, narrative

Stephanie Land documents her years spent cleaning private homes across the Pacific Northwest while raising her young daughter as a single parent.
10

A Stolen Life

by Jaycee Dugard

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, narrative

In 1991, eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was abducted from a school bus stop in California by Phillip and Nancy Garrido.
11

Will

by Will Smith

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, narrative

Will Smith recounts his evolution from a fearful child in West Philadelphia to a global box-office leader.
12

Running with Scissors

by Augusten Burroughs

Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative

Augusten Burroughs recounts his adolescence living with his mother’s psychiatrist, Dr.

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