21 Best memoir books like As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy by Alice Sedgewick Wohl

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As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy

By: Alice Sedgewick Wohl

3.56

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The story of the model, actress, and American icon Edie Sedgwick is told by her sister with empathy…

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1. POPism: The Warhol Sixties

By: Andy Warhol , Pat Hackett

3.66

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Anecdotal, funny, frank, POPismis Warhol's personal view of the Pop phenomenon in New York in the 1… read more

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  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
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2. Edie: American Girl

By: George Plimpton , Jean Stein

4.67

Format: 121 pages,

Revised, with a new cover When Ediewas first published, it quickly became an international best-sel… read more

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  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

3. Great Jones Street

By: Don DeLillo

3.87

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

A troubling satire of the romantic myth of stardom and the empty heart of rock and roll, more relev… read more

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4. Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties

By: Steven Watson

4.00

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixtiesis a fascinating look at the avant-garde group that came togeth… read more

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5. Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

By: Cookie Mueller

4.49

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

Cookie trips through her forty-year odyssey on this planet—from LSD to shopping at the A&P, from bi… read more

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  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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6. Perfume & Pain

By: Anna Dorn

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more

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"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."

-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain

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7. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

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8. Grief Is for People

By: Sloane Crosley

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Grief is for people, not things."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

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9. Nothing Special

By: Nicole Flattery

3.06

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

New York City, 1966. Seventeen-year-old Mae lives in a rundown apartment with her alcoholic mother … read more

Similar categories in Nicole Flattery's Nothing Special book and Alice Sedgewick Wohl's As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy

  • art
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10. Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

By: Cynthia Carr

4.27

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed biographer Cynthia Carr, the first full portrait of the queer icon and Warhol su… read more

Similar categories in Cynthia Carr's Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar book and Alice Sedgewick Wohl's As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy

  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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11. I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

By: Lucy Sante

3.70

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

“Reading this book is a joy... much to say about the trans journey and will undoubtedly become a st… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"(Although it is extremely exciting to have tits.)"

-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

"I wanted to so badly to be a woman that I could not really understand anyone wanting anything else"

-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

"It appeared that transitioning did not involve piling on additional stuff; rather it was a process of removal, dismantling the carapace of maleness that had kept me in its grip for so long."

-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

"My secret poisoned my entire experience of life. There was never a moment when I didn't feel the acute shame of being me, even as I denied to myself that my secret had anything to do with it."

-Lucy Sante, I Heard Her Call My Name: A Memoir of Transition

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12. Don't Call Me Home: A Memoir

By: Alexandra Auder

3.88

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“Don’t Call Me Home is about madness and love. Alexandra tells the best stories about her extraordi… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Auder's Don't Call Me Home: A Memoir book and Alice Sedgewick Wohl's As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy

  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris by Glynnis MacNicol

13. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

By: Glynnis MacNicol

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When you’re a woman smack in so-called “middle age” you are not promised anything at all other than… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of The Kingdom of Prep: The Inside Story of the Rise and (Near) Fall of J.Crew by Maggie Bullock

14. The Kingdom of Prep: The Inside Story of the Rise and (Near) Fall of J.Crew

By: Maggie Bullock

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

One of Vogue's most anticipated books of 2023. A quintessentially American fashion narrative abo… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Bullock's The Kingdom of Prep: The Inside Story of the Rise and (Near) Fall of J.Crew book and Alice Sedgewick Wohl's As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries by Rick Emerson

15. Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries

By: Rick Emerson

3.96

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

Two teens. Two diaries. Two social panics. One incredible fraud. In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvente… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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16. Molly

By: Blake Butler

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A gripping, unforgettable memoir from one of the best, most original writers of the 21st century. … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century by Roseanne Montillo

17. Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century

By: Roseanne Montillo

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Exploring the darkly intertwined fates of infamous socialite Ann Woodward and literary icon Truman … read more

Similar categories in Roseanne Montillo's Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century book and Alice Sedgewick Wohl's As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy

  • womens
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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18. Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

By: Elizabeth Beller

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The life and legacy of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., are reexamined in thi… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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19. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

By: Griffin Dunne

4.19

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

At nine, Sean Connery saved him from drowning. At thirteen, desperate to hook up with Janis Joplin,… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. Sh…"

-Griffin Dunne, The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

Cover of Everybody Thought We Were Crazy: Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward, and 1960s Los Angeles by Mark Rozzo

20. Everybody Thought We Were Crazy: Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward, and 1960s Los Angeles

By: Mark Rozzo

3.89

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

National Bestseller "A landmark and long-overdue cultural history." — Vogue The stylish, wild story… read more

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  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy by Alice Sedgewick Wohl

21. As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy

By: Alice Sedgewick Wohl

3.56

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The story of the model, actress, and American icon Edie Sedgwick is told by her sister with empathy… read more

Similar categories in Alice Sedgewick Wohl's As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy book and Alice Sedgewick Wohl's As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy

  • art
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • photography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
Cover of Parachute Women: Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and the Women Behind the Rolling Stones by Elizabeth Winder

22. Parachute Women: Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, and the Women Behind the Rolling Stones

By: Elizabeth Winder

3.63

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Discover the true story of the four women who worked tirelessly behind the scenes to help shape and… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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23. All the Leaves Are Brown: How the Mamas & the Papas Came Together and Broke Apart

By: Scott G. Shea

3.81

Format: 422 pages, Hardcover

Few songs have captured the contradictions and ambiguities of the 1960s as memorably as “California… read more

Similar categories in Scott G. Shea's All the Leaves Are Brown: How the Mamas & the Papas Came Together and Broke Apart book and Alice Sedgewick Wohl's As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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24. Consent: A Memoir

By: Jill Ciment

3.96

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

In this unflinching account of the ardent love affair between the author and her painting teacher, … read more

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  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
Cover of The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens: A Memoir of the Beales, the Maysles Brothers, and Jacqueline Kennedy by Jerry Torre

25. The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens: A Memoir of the Beales, the Maysles Brothers, and Jacqueline Kennedy

By: Jerry Torre

4.33

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

The Marble Faun of Grey Gardens is Jerry Torre’s touching and at times haunting memoir about his te… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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26. The Light Room

By: Kate Zambreno

3.60

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“Kate Zambreno has invented a new form. It is a kind of absolute present, real life captured in clo… read more

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  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
Cover of Under a Rock: A Memoir by Chris Stein

27. Under a Rock: A Memoir

By: Chris Stein

3.74

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

At its heart, Under A Rock is a love story. The codependent bond between Chris Stein and Debbie Har… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida by Mikita Brottman

28. Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida

By: Mikita Brottman

3.54

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of the “enthralling” ( San Francisco Book Review ) An Unexplai… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable by Sarah Gerard

29. Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable

By: Sarah Gerard

3.44

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed author Sarah Gerard turns her keen observational eye and cutting yet compassionate prose … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work by Charlotte Shane

30. An Honest Woman: A Memoir of Love and Sex Work

By: Charlotte Shane

3.28

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Through the lens of her years spent as a sex worker, Charlotte Shane offers a provocative and tende… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Earth to Moon: A Memoir by Moon Unit Zappa

31. Earth to Moon: A Memoir

By: Moon Unit Zappa

4.42

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

The saying goes that "God only gives you what you can handle." Well God didn't grow up in my atheis… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

16 Top history books like As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy by Alice Sedgewick Wohl

Transform Your Habits

POPism: The Warhol Sixties

Andy Warhol , Pat Hackett

3.66

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Edie: American Girl

George Plimpton , Jean Stein

4.67

Transform Your Habits

Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar

Cynthia Carr

4.27

Transform Your Habits

The Kingdom of Prep: The Inside Story of the Rise and (Near) Fall of J.Crew

Maggie Bullock

4.02

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Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

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The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

Griffin Dunne

4.19

Transform Your Habits

We Burn Daylight

Bret Anthony Johnston

3.95

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There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish

Anna Akbari

3.66

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