24 must-read nonfiction books like The Girls: From Golden to Gilmore by Stan Zimmerman

Cover of The Girls: From Golden to Gilmore by Stan  Zimmerman

The Girls: From Golden to Gilmore

By: Stan Zimmerman

3.72

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

The From Golden to Gilmore is the story of Stan Zimmerman, a gawky Jewish boy who dreamed of becom…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Girls: From Golden to Gilmore by Stan Zimmerman , here is a list of 24 books like this:

Cover of A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime by Casey Sherman

1. A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime

By: Casey Sherman

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The dark story behind the bright lights of Tinseltown From the outside, Hollywood starlet Lana Turn… read more

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

2. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"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

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3. The House of Hidden Meanings

By: RuPaul

3.84

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and persona… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"We all have that magic within us - But it's the faculty to harness it - to turn something seemingly meaningless into something special, to be loose and spontaneous with it - that makes life most wort…"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"But in that time the RuPaul idea was born, and people outside of my world were inspired to talk about me and androgyny and drag in a way that was unprecedented. Not long after that, the questions cam…"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"Life is full of dualities: night and day, black and white, yin and yang, good and evil, birth and death, love and fear. You can't have one without the other. It takes two to create the magnetic pull …"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

"There are ideological precepts that people will fight or even kill for. But those things are never really what they seem to be. As much as people will claim a hard moral line, that line becomes very …"

-RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings

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4. Golden Boy: A Murder Among the Manhattan Elite

By: John Glatt

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Golden Boy, New York Times bestselling author John Glatt tells the true story of Thomas Gilbert … read more

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  • nonfiction
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5. The Medicine Woman of Galveston

By: Amanda Skenandore

3.88

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Caught in the great Galveston Hurricane of 1900, a female doctor who’s joined a traveling medicine … read more

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Cover of The French Ingredient: A Memoir by Jane Bertch

6. The French Ingredient: A Memoir

By: Jane Bertch

3.98

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The inspiring and delicious memoir of an American woman who had the gall to open a cooking school i… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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7. The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters

By: Susan Page

3.90

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of the most successful female broadcaster of all time—Barbara Walters—a wo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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8. Rebel Rising

By: Rebel Wilson

3.91

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

From the scene-stealing star of Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids comes a refreshingly candid, hilariou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Would this performance feel internally like I was going to die? Yes. But my desire to win, my desire to be somebody, is so strong that it compels me to do the hardest thing possible: to perform in pu…"

-Rebel Wilson, Rebel Rising

"People would come up to me on the street and say, 'I just want to thank you for being so brave!' Why am I so fucking brave? I'm not going off to fight in a war! I'm not running into a burning buildin…"

-Rebel Wilson, Rebel Rising

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9. The Forgotten Chapter

By: Pam Jenoff

3.95

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

Out of the chaos and uncertainty of war, a shy young bookseller comes into her own in a short story… read more

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Cover of No Crying in Baseball: The Inside Story of A League of Their Own: Big Stars, Dugout Drama, and a Home Run for Hollywood by Erin Carlson

10. No Crying in Baseball: The Inside Story of A League of Their Own: Big Stars, Dugout Drama, and a Home Run for Hollywood

By: Erin Carlson

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

National Bestseller The inside story of how A League of Their Own —one of the most beloved basebal… read more

Similar categories in Erin Carlson's No Crying in Baseball: The Inside Story of A League of Their Own: Big Stars, Dugout Drama, and a Home Run for Hollywood book and Stan Zimmerman's The Girls: From Golden to Gilmore

  • nonfiction
Cover of I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway] by Chelsea Devantez

11. I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway]

By: Chelsea Devantez

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A dynamic memoir-in-essays by comedian, screenwriter, and podcaster Chelsea Devantez, detailing her… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy by Elizabeth Beller

12. 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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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne

13. 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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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"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 Tune in Tomorrow (Blaze Collection) by Melanie Benjamin

14. Tune in Tomorrow (Blaze Collection)

By: Melanie Benjamin

3.61

Format: 39 pages, Kindle Edition

An enterprising woman in a man’s world. A vision that changed daytime television. A galvanizing sho… read more

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15. Entrances and Exits

By: Michael Richards

4.12

Format: 425 pages, Hardcover

The man who brought the kavorka to the Seinfeld show through one of the most remarkable and beloved… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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16. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"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 Hot and Bothered: What No One Tells You About Menopause and How to Feel Like Yourself Again by Jancee Dunn

17. Hot and Bothered: What No One Tells You About Menopause and How to Feel Like Yourself Again

By: Jancee Dunn

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“Hot and Bothered removes the shame, disdain, and mystery that’s surrounded menopause….An informati… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Weight of Beautiful by Jackie Goldschneider

18. The Weight of Beautiful

By: Jackie Goldschneider

4.30

Format: 239 pages, Hardcover

Jackie Goldschneider, star of The Real Housewives of New Jersey , bravely chronicles her decades-lo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass by Ramin Setoodeh

19. Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass

By: Ramin Setoodeh

3.66

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the editor in chief of Variety and author of the New York Times bestseller Ladies Who Punch, t… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The June Paintings (Blaze Collection) by Maggie Shipstead

20. The June Paintings (Blaze Collection)

By: Maggie Shipstead

3.71

Format: 38 pages, Kindle Edition

On a remote island, an unfulfilled young female painter finds a singular kind of inspiration in thi… read more

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Cover of 50 Oscar Nights: Iconic Stars & Filmmakers on Their Career-Defining Wins (Turner Classic Movies) by Dave Karger

21. 50 Oscar Nights: Iconic Stars & Filmmakers on Their Career-Defining Wins (Turner Classic Movies)

By: Dave Karger

4.14

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An exclusive look behind the scenes of the Academy Awards as top stars and filmmakers discuss their… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of My Fair Brady by Brian D. Kennedy

22. My Fair Brady

By: Brian D. Kennedy

4.00

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

My Fair Lady meets the classic teen film She's All That in this charming and swoony new rom-com fro… read more

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

23. 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

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Your Future Self: How to Make Tomorrow Better Today by Hal Hershfield

24. Your Future Self: How to Make Tomorrow Better Today

By: Hal Hershfield

3.72

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Set your future self up for success with the “fascinating, profound, and immediately practical guid… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Girls: From Golden to Gilmore by Stan  Zimmerman

25. The Girls: From Golden to Gilmore

By: Stan Zimmerman

3.72

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

The From Golden to Gilmore is the story of Stan Zimmerman, a gawky Jewish boy who dreamed of becom… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Fires to Come (Blaze Collection) by Asha Lemmie

26. Fires to Come (Blaze Collection)

By: Asha Lemmie

3.81

Format: 45 pages, Kindle Edition

In early twentieth-century New York City, a young woman torn between two cultures must choose where… read more

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Cover of Dancing on the Edge: A Journey of Living, Loving, and Tumbling through Hollywood by Russ Tamblyn

27. Dancing on the Edge: A Journey of Living, Loving, and Tumbling through Hollywood

By: Russ Tamblyn

4.00

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

Actor. Artist. Cultural Icon. Dancing on the Edge A bold memoir of an extraordinary, singular life … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Future Was Color by Patrick Nathan

28. The Future Was Color

By: Patrick Nathan

3.74

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling novel about making art, desire, and the inextricable link between the personal and the p… read more

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Cover of Pets and the City: True Tales of a Manhattan House Call Veterinarian by Amy Attas

29. Pets and the City: True Tales of a Manhattan House Call Veterinarian

By: Amy Attas

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Hilarious, jaw-dropping, and heartfelt stories from New York City’s premier “house-call veterinaria… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir by Kelly  Bishop

30. The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

By: Kelly Bishop

4.52

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“Come for the Gilmore Girls anecdotes, stay for the revealing truths about what it takes to build a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Wonderland: A Tale of Hustling Hard and Breaking Even by Nicole Treska

31. Wonderland: A Tale of Hustling Hard and Breaking Even

By: Nicole Treska

3.72

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

A debut literary memoir reckoning with the costs of starting a new life in a different city amidst … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir

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

Ed Zwick

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The House of Hidden Meanings

RuPaul

3.84

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The French Ingredient: A Memoir

Jane Bertch

3.98

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Susan Page

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Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

Charles Duhigg

4.05

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Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier

Arthur C. Brooks

3.79

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Adam M. Grant

4.12

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Cal Newport

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