8 best-selling memoir books like This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir by Cid V. Brunet

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This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir

By: Cid V. Brunet

3.99

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

The electric and intimate memoir of a person who spent ten years as a stripper. This Is My Real …

If you liked the memoir plot in This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir by Cid V. Brunet , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Beaver Show

By: Jacqueline Frances

3.61

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

"I dance. Naked. For large (and occasionally insultingly modest) sums of money." It all started fiv… read more

Similar categories in Jacqueline Frances's The Beaver Show book and Cid V. Brunet's This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir

  • sex work
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money, and Sex by Annie Sprinkle, Audacia Ray, None, Jeannette Angell, David Henry Sterry, Jennifer Blowdryer, Jodi Sh. Doff, Kirk Read, Veronica Monet, None, None, None, None

2. Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money, and Sex

By: Annie Sprinkle , Audacia Ray , None , Jeannette Angell , David Henry Sterry , Jennifer Blowdryer , Jodi Sh. Doff , Kirk Read , Veronica Monet , None , None , None , None

4.37

Format: None pages, Paperback

The only thing the writers in this book have in common is that they've exchanged sex for money. The… read more

Similar categories in Annie Sprinkle's Hos, Hookers, Call Girls, and Rent Boys: Professionals Writing on Life, Love, Money, and Sex book and Cid V. Brunet's This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir

  • lgbt
  • sex work
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • queer

3. Kids of Appetite

By: David Arnold

3.77

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The bestselling author of Mosquitoland brings us another batch of unforgettable characters in this … read more

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4. Speedboat

By: Renata Adler

5.00

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Won the Ernest Hemingway Prize for Best First Novel in 1976 It has been over 35 years since Renata … read more

Similar categories in Renata Adler's Speedboat book and Cid V. Brunet's This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir

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5. Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex

By: Sophia Giovannitti

4.07

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

An exploration into the very similar work of selling art and selling sex, from a luminous new voice… read more

Similar categories in Sophia Giovannitti's Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex book and Cid V. Brunet's This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • sex work
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
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6. Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta

By: James Hannaham

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this “dangerously hilarious” novel ( Los Angeles Time s), a trans woman reenters life on the out… read more

Similar categories in James Hannaham's Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta book and Cid V. Brunet's This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir

  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
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7. Roaming

By: Jillian Tamaki

3.77

Format: 443 pages, Paperback

Spring break, 2009. High school best friends Zoe and Dani are now freshman college students, meetin… read more

Similar categories in Jillian Tamaki's Roaming book and Cid V. Brunet's This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir

  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
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8. Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart

By: Jen Sookfong Lee

3.91

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A sharply observed memoir in pieces that uses one woman's life-long love affair with pop culture as… read more

Similar categories in Jen Sookfong Lee's Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart book and Cid V. Brunet's This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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9. All Girls

By: Emily Layden

3.21

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A keenly perceptive coming-of-age novel, All Girls captures one year at a prestigious New England p… read more

Similar categories in Emily Layden's All Girls book and Cid V. Brunet's This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir

  • adult
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10. The Double Life of Benson Yu

By: Kevin Chong

3.54

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

This work of metafiction follows a graphic novelist losing control of his own narrative as he attem… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Chong's The Double Life of Benson Yu book and Cid V. Brunet's This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir

  • canada
Cover of Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington by James Kirchick

11. Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington

By: James Kirchick

4.17

Format: 848 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 Named one of Vanity Fair 's “Be… read more

Similar categories in James Kirchick's Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington book and Cid V. Brunet's This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • queer
  • lgbt
"Washington, it has been said, is Hollywood for ugly people."

-James Kirchick, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington

"Scratch the surface and what do you get?" asked Way Bandy, the two-thousand-dollars-a-day make up artist who "designed" Nancy's face. "More surface."

-James Kirchick, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington

"The following year, Kramer would put on Just Say No, "a play about a farce" based in the fictional country of New Columbia, wherein everyone call's the president "Daddy", the First Lady is a harridan…"

-James Kirchick, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington

"It was 3:15 in the morning of June 26, 1980, and Congressman Bob Livingston was extraordinarily drunk, hiding in the Congressional Gym beneath the Rayburn House Office Building, petrified that a team…"

-James Kirchick, Secret City: The Hidden History of Gay Washington

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12. This Is How You Remember It

By: Catherine Prasifka

4.11

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

You're nine when you get your first computer. Your favourite thing is a virtual pet website; you sp… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Prasifka's This Is How You Remember It book and Cid V. Brunet's This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir

  • adult
Cover of Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights by Molly  Smith

13. Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights

By: Molly Smith

4.61

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

You hear that selling sex is degrading; you hear that no one would ever choose to do it; you hear t… read more

Similar categories in Molly Smith's Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights book and Cid V. Brunet's This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir

  • sex work
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • sexuality
"A sex worker who is living precariously or in poverty, who is at risk of criminalization or police violence, or who is being exploited by a manager or lacks negotiating power is not likely to be part…"

-Molly Smith, Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights

"Sex workers are the original feminists. Often seen as merely subject to others' whims, in fact, sex workers have shaped and contributed to social movements across the world. In medieval Europe, broth…"

-Molly Smith, Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights

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14. Sync

By: Ellen Hopkins

4.42

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

From #1 NYT bestselling author Ellen Hopkins comes a new heartbreaking young adult novel in verse a… read more

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15. Camgirl

By: Isa Mazzei

3.80

Format: 347 pages, Hardcover

From the “former sex worker taking Hollywood by storm” (The Daily Beast), comes a candid and hilari… read more

Similar categories in Isa Mazzei's Camgirl book and Cid V. Brunet's This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
Cover of Naked: On Sex, Work, and Other Burlesques (-) by Fancy Feast

16. Naked: On Sex, Work, and Other Burlesques (-)

By: Fancy Feast

4.38

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In Naked , a celebrated burlesque performer, sex educator, and social worker bares it all, with inc… read more

Similar categories in Fancy Feast's Naked: On Sex, Work, and Other Burlesques (-) book and Cid V. Brunet's This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
Cover of Whorephobia: Strippers on Art, Work, and Life by Lizzie Borden

17. Whorephobia: Strippers on Art, Work, and Life

By: Lizzie Borden

4.23

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Illuminating accounts of how stripping and sex work informs writers’ experiences of friendship, mot… read more

Similar categories in Lizzie Borden's Whorephobia: Strippers on Art, Work, and Life book and Cid V. Brunet's This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • sex work
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
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18. Modern Whore

By: Andrea Werhun

4.23

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

Born out of an irrepressible urge to share my own complex experience of sex work, Modern Whore is a… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Werhun's Modern Whore book and Cid V. Brunet's This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir

  • memoir
  • canada
  • sex work
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
Cover of This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir by Cid V. Brunet

19. This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir

By: Cid V. Brunet

3.99

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

The electric and intimate memoir of a person who spent ten years as a stripper. This Is My Real … read more

Similar categories in Cid V. Brunet's This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir book and Cid V. Brunet's This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • sex work
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Thriving in Sex Work: Heartfelt Advice for Staying Sane in the Sex Industry by Lola Davina

20. Thriving in Sex Work: Heartfelt Advice for Staying Sane in the Sex Industry

By: Lola Davina

4.49

Format: 220 pages, ebook

A self-help book for sex workers. Sex work is “easy money?” Hardly. The adult industry is riddled … read more

Similar categories in Lola Davina's Thriving in Sex Work: Heartfelt Advice for Staying Sane in the Sex Industry book and Cid V. Brunet's This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir

  • sex work
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
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21. Food School

By: Jade Armstrong

3.80

Format: 75 pages, ebook

Olive, a twenty-something college dropout, enrolls in a full-time outpatient program for eating dis… read more

Similar categories in Jade Armstrong's Food School book and Cid V. Brunet's This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir

  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt

7 Top adult books like This Is My Real Name: A Stripper's Memoir by Cid V. Brunet

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Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta

James Hannaham

3.97

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Roaming

Jillian Tamaki

3.77

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Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart

Jen Sookfong Lee

3.91

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Emily Layden

3.21

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Whore of New York: A Confession

Liara Roux

3.16

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The Fake

Zoe Whittall

3.44

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Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

Elamin Abdelmahmoud

4.21

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We Want What We Want

Alix Ohlin

3.96

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