14 Best pop culture books like Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood by Maureen Ryan

Cover of Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood by Maureen  Ryan

Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

By: Maureen Ryan

3.88

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

An exposé of patterns of harassment and bias in Hollywood, the grassroots reforms under way, and th…

If you liked the pop culture plot in Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood by Maureen Ryan , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood by Ed Zwick

1. Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

By: Ed Zwick

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

This heartfelt and wry career memoir from the director of Blood Diamond, The Last Samurai, Legends … read more

Similar categories in Ed Zwick's Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood book and Maureen Ryan's Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

  • nonfiction
  • pop culture
  • film
  • audiobook
"One of Patsy Broderick's choicer comments was to describe my writing as ' limp as a penis ."

-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

"I called Matthew Broderick. The radiophone was working again. 'Hi, Matthew, I hear you want to talk about the script. Over .' 'Yeah, well, I have a lot of notes…' He neglected to say “ over ."

-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

"From the moment we met Patsy Broderick was contemptuous, demeaning, and volatile. As Matthew sat in opaque silence, I was forced to defend, in excruciating detail, my rationale for every line in ever…"

-Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

Cover of Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs by Jamie Loftus

2. Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

By: Jamie Loftus

3.92

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique―comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw … read more

Similar categories in Jamie Loftus's Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs book and Maureen Ryan's Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"WE NEED MORE WOMEN PRIESTS! a billboard declares a few miles outside of Buffalo, a new cursed addition to a folder in my Google Drive called 'feminism except not really."

-Jamie Loftus, Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

Cover of Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer

3. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

By: Claire Dederer

3.79

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more

Similar categories in Claire Dederer's Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma book and Maureen Ryan's Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

  • history
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."

-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

Cover of Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere by Maria Bamford

4. Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

By: Maria Bamford

3.77

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

A brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfo… read more

Similar categories in Maria Bamford's Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere book and Maureen Ryan's Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage by Nick de Semlyen

5. The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage

By: Nick de Semlyen

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The behind-the-scenes story of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and ’90s Hollywood and the beloved… read more

Similar categories in Nick de Semlyen's The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage book and Maureen Ryan's Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

  • history
  • pop culture
  • film
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios by Joanna  Robinson

6. MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios

By: Joanna Robinson

4.22

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A superb chronicle of how Marvel Studios conquered Hollywood…. T… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Robinson's MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios book and Maureen Ryan's Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

  • history
  • pop culture
  • film
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture by Matt Baume

7. Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture

By: Matt Baume

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

There's a secret storyline hidden across some of the most popular sitcoms of the 20th century. F… read more

Similar categories in Matt Baume's Hi Honey, I'm Homo!: Sitcoms, Specials, and the Queering of American Culture book and Maureen Ryan's Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

  • history
  • pop culture
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • tv
  • audiobook
Cover of Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever by Matt Singer

8. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever

By: Matt Singer

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten To… read more

Similar categories in Matt Singer's Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever book and Maureen Ryan's Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

  • history
  • pop culture
  • film
  • nonfiction
  • tv
  • audiobook
Cover of End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood by Patty Lin

9. End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood

By: Patty Lin

3.79

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

What happens when you land your dream job and everything you've been working toward becomes a compl… read more

Similar categories in Patty Lin's End Credits: How I Broke Up with Hollywood book and Maureen Ryan's Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

  • nonfiction
  • tv
  • film
  • audiobook
Cover of Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears by Michael        Schulman

10. Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears

By: Michael Schulman

4.09

Format: 589 pages, Hardcover

The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively histor… read more

Similar categories in Michael Schulman's Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears book and Maureen Ryan's Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

  • history
  • pop culture
  • film
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO by Felix Gillette

11. It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO

By: Felix Gillette

4.03

Format: 402 pages, Hardcover

The inside story of HBO, the start-up company that reinvented television--by two veteran media repo… read more

Similar categories in Felix Gillette's It's Not TV: The Spectacular Rise, Revolution, and Future of HBO book and Maureen Ryan's Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

  • history
  • pop culture
  • film
  • nonfiction
  • tv
  • audiobook
Cover of Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet by Taylor Lorenz

12. Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet

By: Taylor Lorenz

3.62

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz presents a groundbreaking social history of the in… read more

Similar categories in Taylor Lorenz's Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet book and Maureen Ryan's Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • pop culture
  • audiobook
Cover of Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood by Maureen  Ryan

13. Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

By: Maureen Ryan

3.88

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

An exposé of patterns of harassment and bias in Hollywood, the grassroots reforms under way, and th… read more

Similar categories in Maureen Ryan's Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood book and Maureen Ryan's Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

  • history
  • true crime
  • pop culture
  • film
  • feminism
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • tv
  • audiobook
Cover of Welcome to the O.C.: The Oral History by Alan Sepinwall

14. Welcome to the O.C.: The Oral History

By: Alan Sepinwall

4.18

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Welcome to the O.C., b* it's the definitive oral history of beloved TV show The O.C., from the show… read more

Similar categories in Alan Sepinwall's Welcome to the O.C.: The Oral History book and Maureen Ryan's Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

  • history
  • pop culture
  • nonfiction
  • tv
  • audiobook
Cover of Pandora’s Box: The Greed, Lust, and Lies that Broke Television by Peter Biskind

15. Pandora’s Box: The Greed, Lust, and Lies that Broke Television

By: Peter Biskind

3.54

Format: None pages, Hardcover

We are now lucky enough to be living through the era of so-called Peak TV, in which television, in … read more

Similar categories in Peter Biskind's Pandora’s Box: The Greed, Lust, and Lies that Broke Television book and Maureen Ryan's Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

  • history
  • pop culture
  • film
  • nonfiction
  • tv
  • audiobook
Cover of American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress by Wesley Lowery

16. American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress

By: Wesley Lowery

4.18

Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition

“American Whitelash is indispensable. Really. It is.” — Ibram X. Kendi, author of  How to Be an Ant… read more

Similar categories in Wesley Lowery's American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress book and Maureen Ryan's Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of Joyful Recollections of Trauma by Paul Scheer

17. Joyful Recollections of Trauma

By: Paul Scheer

4.23

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning actor and comedian Paul Scheer, a candid and humorous memoir-in-essays on coming… read more

Similar categories in Paul Scheer's Joyful Recollections of Trauma book and Maureen Ryan's Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I didn’t need a girlfriend when I had Blockbuster."

-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma

"But not acknowledging my trauma took away my triumph. I survived, and I wanted to make surviving the abuse part of my story. I want to wear my former shame with pride."

-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma

Cover of Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me by Aisha   Harris

18. Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me

By: Aisha Harris

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"Aisha Harris is one of our smartest, most entertaining modern cultural critics. The nine pieces of… read more

Similar categories in Aisha Harris's Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me book and Maureen Ryan's Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

  • nonfiction
  • pop culture
  • audiobook
Cover of Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek: How Seven Teen Shows Transformed Television by Thea Glassman

19. Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek: How Seven Teen Shows Transformed Television

By: Thea Glassman

3.84

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The untold stories of seven revolutionary teen shows (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, My So-Called Lif… read more

Similar categories in Thea Glassman's Freaks, Gleeks, and Dawson's Creek: How Seven Teen Shows Transformed Television book and Maureen Ryan's Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

  • history
  • pop culture
  • nonfiction
  • tv
  • audiobook
Cover of Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum

20. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

By: Emily Nussbaum

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more

Similar categories in Emily Nussbaum's Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV book and Maureen Ryan's Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

  • history
  • pop culture
  • film
  • nonfiction
  • tv
  • audiobook
Cover of Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls by Susan Seidelman

21. Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls

By: Susan Seidelman

4.05

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The funny and insightful first-person story of the trailblazing movie director of the 80s and 90s … read more

Similar categories in Susan Seidelman's Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls book and Maureen Ryan's Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood

  • history
  • film
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The biggest takeaway from my long-distance relationship with Floyd Byars was that I optioned an original screenplay he had co-written with his writing partner, Laurie. Another takeaway was a case of …"

-Susan Seidelman, Desperately Seeking Something: A Memoir About Movies, Mothers, and Material Girls

21 Best audiobook books like Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change in Hollywood by Maureen Ryan

Transform Your Habits

Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

Ed Zwick

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

Jamie Loftus

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma

Claire Dederer

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

Maria Bamford

3.77

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19 Best adult books like Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me by Aisha Harris

Transform Your Habits

Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles

Kate Flannery

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Butts: A Backstory

Heather Radke

3.75

Transform Your Habits

Leslie F*cking Jones

Leslie Jones

4.11

Transform Your Habits

Come and Get It

Kiley Reid

3.38

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