11 Best nonfiction books like Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World by Tosh Berman

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Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World

By: Tosh Berman

4.23

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

The triumphs and tragedies of growing up as the son of a famous Beat artist TOSH is a memoir of gro…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World by Tosh Berman , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, Barry Miles, James Grauerholz

1. Naked Lunch

By: William S. Burroughs , Barry Miles , James Grauerholz

3.46

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes. Burroughs stated that the chapte… read more

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"Exterminate all rational thought"

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time..."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"When he smiled the fear flew away in little pieces of light..."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

"And all that I was before is out there in the darkness looking for me."

-William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

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2. The Diary of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #1)

By: Shaun Bythell

3.72

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop, Wigtown - Scotland's largest second-hand bookshop. It contains 100… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"the immersive capacity of a good novel to transport you into a different world is unique to the written word."

-Shaun Bythell, The Diary of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #1)

"...people still cling to the notion that first editions are somehow imbued with a magical and financial value."

-Shaun Bythell, The Diary of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #1)

"I am putting a mental jigsaw together of what a hobbit looks like, based on a composite of every customer I have ever sold a copy to."

-Shaun Bythell, The Diary of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #1)

"A less than friendly email this morning... [from a booksop customer] After lunch I went to my parents' house to get my shotgun and shoot a kindle (broken screen, bought on eBay for £10)"

-Shaun Bythell, The Diary of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #1)

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3. Selected Poems

By: None , Edward Mendelson

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

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4. The Kid Stays in the Picture

By: Robert Evans

3.95

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

From his marriage to Ali McGraw, his cocaine bust, the accusations of murder, the friendships with … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of I'll Never Write My Memoirs by Paul Morley, Grace Jones

5. I'll Never Write My Memoirs

By: Paul Morley , Grace Jones

2.00

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Legendary influential performer Grace Jones offers a revealing account of her spectacular career an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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6. The Fire Next Time

By: James Baldwin

3.54

Format: None pages, Paperback

A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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7. One Hundred Demons

By: Lynda Barry

3.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this graphic novel that's part memoir and part creativity primer, Lynda Barry serves up comics t… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

8. Black Swans

By: Eve Babitz

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In nine stories that look back on a decade of dreams, drink, and stoned youth turning Republican, B… read more

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9. Other Voices, Other Rooms

By: Truman Capote

3.77

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Published when Truman Capote was only twenty-three years old, Other Voices, Other Rooms is a litera… read more

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"Only."

-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

"Are the dead as lonesome as the living?"

-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

"Все возможно, небо везде одно, только то, что под ним, разное."

-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

"And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came."

-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

10. Moominland Midwinter (The Moomins, #6)

By: Tove Jansson , Thomas Warburton

3.97

Format: 68 pages, Paperback

This children's story is one of a series of books about the Moomins that blend magic, humour and ad… read more

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11. Train Dreams

By: Denis Johnson

3.67

Format: 272 pages,

Denis Johnson's Train Dreamsis an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fiction… read more

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12. Kappa

By: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa , Geoffrey Bownas

2.86

Format: 442 pages, Paperback

From the author of Rashomon comes a Swiftian satire of Japanese society thinly disguised as the fic… read more

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13. The Hearing Trumpet

By: Leonora Carrington , Pablo Weisz Carrington

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter is also a writer of extraordi… read more

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14. My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)

By: Gerald Durrell , Helma Lapiņa

4.17

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

When the unconventional Durrell family can no longer endure the damp, gray English climate, they do… read more

Similar categories in Gerald Durrell's My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1) book and Tosh Berman's Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Larry was always full of ideas about things of which he had no experience."

-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)

"‎'All we need is a book,' roared Leslie; 'don't panic, hit 'em with a book."

-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)

"I can't be expected to produce deathless prose in an atmosphere of gloom and eucalyptus."

-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)

"Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen."

-Gerald Durrell, My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)

15. The Milk of Dreams

By: Leonora Carrington

4.20

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In English for the first time, a wild and darkly funny book that combines Surrealist painter Leonor… read more

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16. The Complete Cosmicomics

By: Italo Calvino , Tim Parks , William Weaver , Martin L. McLaughlin

4.47

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The definitive edition of Calvino's cosmicomics, bringing together all of these enchanting stories-… read more

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17. Cinema Speculation

By: Quentin Tarantino

4.06

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more

Similar categories in Quentin Tarantino's Cinema Speculation book and Tosh Berman's Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World

  • art
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

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18. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By: Kate Beaton

4.41

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more

Similar categories in Kate Beaton's Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands book and Tosh Berman's Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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19. Blackouts

By: Justin Torres

3.77

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more

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20. The Unteachables

By: Gordon Korman

4.34

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A hilarious new middle grade novel from beloved and bestselling author Gordon Korman about what hap… read more

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"Kid, that was something!"

-Gordon Korman, The Unteachables

"Everybody hates something,"

-Gordon Korman, The Unteachables

"Only ten months until June."

-Gordon Korman, The Unteachables

"It’s not just for little kids,"

-Gordon Korman, The Unteachables

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21. The Twilight World

By: Werner Herzog

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a… read more

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22. Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller: The Man Who Created Nancy

By: Bill Griffith

4.43

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From Bill Griffith, the acclaimed creator of Zippy the Pinhead, comes a history of comics as told t… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Minami’s Lover by Shungiku Uchida

23. Minami’s Lover

By: Shungiku Uchida

3.39

Format: 186 pages, Hardcover

In this raunchy, wry, and witty teen sex dramedy, everyone thinks Chiyomi has disappeared, and susp… read more

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24. Vercoquin y el plancton

By: Boris Vian

3.61

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

Alocada y fresca, turgente y frutal, Vercoquin y el plancton, primera novela de Boris Vian, inédita… read more

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25. The Gull Yettin

By: Joe Kessler

4.04

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

The life of an orphaned boy is shaped by the devotion of a fantastical Gull in this lovingly render… read more

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  • art
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26. My Picture Diary

By: Maki Fujiwara

4.04

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

The wife of Japan’s most lauded manga-ka documents a year in their lives with her own artistry. … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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27. La main coupée

By: Blaise Cendrars

4.20

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

"- Comment, vous ne savez pas ? Asseyez-vous... Ce n'était pas encore l'heure du thé. Nous étions… read more

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  • memoir
Cover of Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World by Tosh Berman

28. Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World

By: Tosh Berman

4.23

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

The triumphs and tragedies of growing up as the son of a famous Beat artist TOSH is a memoir of gro… read more

Similar categories in Tosh Berman's Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World book and Tosh Berman's Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World

  • art
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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29. Alay-Oop

By: William Gropper

3.82

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

William Gropper was one of the great American cartoonists and illustrators of the twentieth century… read more

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  • art
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30. Selected Writings

By: Blaise Cendrars

4.22

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

A collection of the best of Blaise Cendrars poetry. Includes three short prose pieces. read more

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2.00

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