10 best-selling biography memoir books like Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco by Alia Volz

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Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

By: Alia Volz

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A blazingly funny, heartfelt memoir from the daughter of the larger-than-life woman who ran Sticky …

If you liked the biography memoir plot in Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco by Alia Volz , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS

By: David France

3.50

Format: 31 pages, Hardcover

The definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic from the creator of, and … read more

Similar categories in David France's How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS book and Alia Volz's Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • lgbt

2. The Buddha and the Borderline: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder through Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Buddhism, and Online Dating

By: Kiera Van Gelder

4.16

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Kiera Van Gelder's first suicide attempt at the age of twelve marked the onset of her struggles wit… read more

Similar categories in Kiera Van Gelder's The Buddha and the Borderline: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder through Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Buddhism, and Online Dating book and Alia Volz's Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

3. Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx

By: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

3.72

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In her extraordinary bestseller, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses readers in the intricacies of the g… read more

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4. American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst

By: Jeffrey Toobin

4.33

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin, the definitive account of the k… read more

Similar categories in Jeffrey Toobin's American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst book and Alia Volz's Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

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5. A High Tide Murder (Cannabis Café Mystery #2)

By: Emily George

3.89

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

While flying high on the success of her cannabis café, Chloe Barnes once again finds herself on the… read more

Similar categories in Emily George's A High Tide Murder (Cannabis Café Mystery #2) book and Alia Volz's Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

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6. 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

Similar categories in Kathleen Hanna's Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk book and Alia Volz's Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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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7. Exhibit

By: R.O. Kwon

3.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author R. O. Kwon, an exhilarating, blazing-hot novel about a woman caught between… read more

Similar categories in R.O. Kwon's Exhibit book and Alia Volz's Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • lgbt
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8. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

By: Antonia Hylton

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more

Similar categories in Antonia Hylton's Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum book and Alia Volz's Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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9. Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

By: Kai Cheng Thom

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe … read more

Similar categories in Kai Cheng Thom's Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls book and Alia Volz's Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"i have questions about heaven. i have questions about the Revolution. those questions are the same: upon whose bones do you intend to build your paradise?"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"you don't need to heal others to heal yourself, you can just heal yourself. you do not need to give love to others to love yourself, you can just love yourself."

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

"find the lie in your heart. the one you tell to yourself and all the world, sometimes without even knowing it. pare that lie down to its barest core, strip back the skin, and behold the truth: i am w…"

-Kai Cheng Thom, Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

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10. Blood & Ink: An Heiress, a Tabloid War, and the Unsolved Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime

By: Joe Pompeo

3.58

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Vanity Fair's Joe Pompeo investigates the notorious 1922 double murder of a high-society minister a… read more

Similar categories in Joe Pompeo's Blood & Ink: An Heiress, a Tabloid War, and the Unsolved Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime book and Alia Volz's Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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11. An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder

By: Susan Wels

3.33

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

This true crime odyssey explores a forgotten, astonishing chapter of American history, leading the … read more

Similar categories in Susan Wels's An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder book and Alia Volz's Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey

By: Edel Rodriguez

4.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From “America’s illustrator in chief” ( Fast Company ), a graphic memoir of a childhood in Cuba, co… read more

Similar categories in Edel Rodriguez's Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey book and Alia Volz's Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility by Michelle Tea

13. Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility

By: Michelle Tea

4.02

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From PEN/America Award winner, 2021 Guggenheim fellow, and beloved literary and tarot icon Michelle… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Tea's Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility book and Alia Volz's Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island

By: Earl Swift

4.10

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, soulful, and timely portrait of a two-hundred-year-old crabbing community in the middl… read more

Similar categories in Earl Swift's Chesapeake Requiem: A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island book and Alia Volz's Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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15. The Enemy at Home

By: Kevin O'Brien

4.10

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

As World War II rages overseas, a serial killer preys on women working in Seattle’s factories in th… read more

Similar categories in Kevin O'Brien's The Enemy at Home book and Alia Volz's Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Kittentits

By: Holly Wilson

3.19

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A feral, heart-busting, absurdist debut about Molly, a rambunctious and bawdy ten-year-old searchin… read more

Similar categories in Holly Wilson's Kittentits book and Alia Volz's Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

  • adult
  • audiobook
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17. This Is Not A Pity Memoir

By: Abi Morgan

4.07

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

What happens when your partner of twenty years suddenly believes you’re nothing but a stranger?  Wh… read more

Similar categories in Abi Morgan's This Is Not A Pity Memoir book and Alia Volz's Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag

By: Sasha Velour

4.41

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

“Drag embodies the queer possibility that exists within each of us—the infinite ways in which gende… read more

Similar categories in Sasha Velour's The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag book and Alia Volz's Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Organ Meats

By: K-Ming Chang

3.35

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Two girls are bound by red string and canine heritage in this vivid tale about female companionship… read more

Similar categories in K-Ming Chang's Organ Meats book and Alia Volz's Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

  • adult
  • lgbt
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20. Inverse Cowgirl

By: Alicia Roth Weigel

3.80

Format: 227 pages, Paperback

From a celebrated activist on the forefront of fighting for intersex representation and rights—and … read more

Similar categories in Alicia Roth Weigel's Inverse Cowgirl book and Alia Volz's Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. A Woman's Guide to Cannabis: Using Marijuana to Feel Better, Look Better, Sleep Better–and Get High Like a Lady

By: Nikki Furrer

4.07

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A woman’s handbook to demystifying the world of weed, whether it’s being used for pain relief, a mo… read more

Similar categories in Nikki Furrer's A Woman's Guide to Cannabis: Using Marijuana to Feel Better, Look Better, Sleep Better–and Get High Like a Lady book and Alia Volz's Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Death in Fine Condition (The Paperback Sleuth, #1) by Andrew Cartmel

22. Death in Fine Condition (The Paperback Sleuth, #1)

By: Andrew Cartmel

3.31

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

Launching a new series, a cast of lovable rogues face fiendish puzzles and murderous villains in th… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Cartmel's Death in Fine Condition (The Paperback Sleuth, #1) book and Alia Volz's Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

  • adult
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23. This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life

By: Nigel Poor

4.31

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the co-creators and co-hosts of the Peabody- and Pulitzer-nominated podcast comes this unflinc… read more

Similar categories in Nigel Poor's This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life book and Alia Volz's Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
"If I could be any animal, I would be a wish dragon that would only appear when a kid needed it. Based on my experience with imaginary friends, they're needed. But dragons eat meat, and I couldn't do …"

-Nigel Poor, This Is Ear Hustle: Unflinching Stories of Everyday Prison Life

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24. Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science

By: Benjamin Breen

3.90

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A bold and brilliant revisionist  take on the history of psychedelics in the twentieth century, ill… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Breen's Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science book and Alia Volz's Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of You Are Beautiful And You Are Alone: The Biography Of Nico by Jennifer Otter Bickerdike

25. You Are Beautiful And You Are Alone: The Biography Of Nico

By: Jennifer Otter Bickerdike

3.93

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL AND YOU ARE ALONE is a new biography of Nico, the mysterious singer best known fo… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Otter Bickerdike's You Are Beautiful And You Are Alone: The Biography Of Nico book and Alia Volz's Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
"Always have an onion. - Nico"

-Jennifer Otter Bickerdike, You Are Beautiful And You Are Alone: The Biography Of Nico

"You don't have to be you to be you. - Nico"

-Jennifer Otter Bickerdike, You Are Beautiful And You Are Alone: The Biography Of Nico

"A twenty-two room castle can be awfully lonely place for just one person. - Nico"

-Jennifer Otter Bickerdike, You Are Beautiful And You Are Alone: The Biography Of Nico

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26. Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism

By: Peter Staley

4.45

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

In 1987, somebody shoved a flyer into the hand of Peter massive AIDS demonstration, it announced. … read more

Similar categories in Peter Staley's Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism book and Alia Volz's Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"Show me an activist who is so overwhelmed by darkness that they can't feel joy, and I'll show you a useless activist. Grief and anger are powerful motivators. In our case, the sparked a movement and …"

-Peter Staley, Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism

"Being a spokesperson for a movement is a tricky thing. Being one for a movement that bills itself as leaderless in even trickier. Do it badly, and you'll squander a major opportunity for the movement…"

-Peter Staley, Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism

Cover of Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco by Alia Volz

27. Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

By: Alia Volz

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A blazingly funny, heartfelt memoir from the daughter of the larger-than-life woman who ran Sticky … read more

Similar categories in Alia Volz's Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco book and Alia Volz's Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining by Rachel Elizabeth Cargle

28. A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining

By: Rachel Elizabeth Cargle

4.26

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A deeply personal and illuminating approach to antiracism and allyship, revealing the power of imag… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Elizabeth Cargle's A Renaissance of Our Own: A Memoir & Manifesto on Reimagining book and Alia Volz's Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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29. In Perpetuity

By: Peter Hoey

3.35

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

It’s a surreal smuggling operation across the boundaries of life and death in the latest moody myst… read more

Similar categories in Peter Hoey's In Perpetuity book and Alia Volz's Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

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30. Kaya, Vol. 2

By: Wes Craig

3.85

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Kaya’s worst fear has come true: her little brother, Jin, has been kidnapped. Now, despite everythi… read more

Similar categories in Wes Craig's Kaya, Vol. 2 book and Alia Volz's Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

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31. 1974: A Personal History

By: Francine Prose

3.82

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The first memoir from critically acclaimed, bestselling author Francine Prose, about the close rela… read more

Similar categories in Francine Prose's 1974: A Personal History book and Alia Volz's Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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4.65

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