Books like Just Kids
If you liked Just Kids by Patti Smith, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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This Is Going to Hurt
Because shares tags: memoir, biography.
Adam Kay retells his junior doctor diaries with humour and strain, from labour ward nights to leaving medicine.
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Because shares tags: memoir, biography.
Malcolm X traces his life from Michigan childhood through Harlem, prison, and the Nation of Islam to Mecca in this 1965 memoir told to Alex…
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Shoe Dog
Because shares tags: memoir, biography.
Phil Knight tells how Blue Ribbon Sports grew from a trunk of Japanese running shoes into Nike.
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On Writing
Because shares tags: memoir, biography.
Stephen King blends memoir and blunt writing advice on reading daily, drafting fast, and cutting hard.
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Heaven Is for Real
Because shares tags: memoir, biography.
A Nebraska pastor's four-year-old survives a burst appendix, then describes angels, Jesus, and relatives he never met.
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Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
Because shares tags: memoir, biography.
Matthew Perry revisits Friends fame and a long struggle with addiction, from junior tennis to Chandler Bing to a 2018 health crisis, with…
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Spare
Because shares tags: memoir, biography.
Prince Harry recalls Diana's death in 1997, two tours in Afghanistan, and stepping back from royal life with Meghan in this frank 2023…
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The Woman in Me
Because shares tags: memoir, music.
Britney Spears tells her own story from teen stardom to a thirteen year conservatorship, and how she fought to reclaim her voice and…
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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Because shares tags: memoir, biography.
Malala grows up in Swat, blogged for school under ban, and survives a bus shooting.
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The Goldfinch
Because shares tags: art, new york.
Theo Decker steals a Dutch painting after a museum blast kills his mother, then drifts through guilt and crime.
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Becoming
Because shares tags: memoir, biography.
Michelle Obama traces her path from South Side Chicago through Princeton, Harvard law and the White House years in this warm, candid memoir…
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Where She Went
Because shares tag: music.
Three years after the crash, rock star Adam Wilde spends one night in New York facing Mia and their breakup.
