5 Best memoir books like Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot by John Callahan

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Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot

By: John Callahan

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Now a major motion picture directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, and R…

If you liked the memoir plot in Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot by John Callahan , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

By: William Finnegan

4.27

Format: 447 pages, Hardcover

A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writer Barbaria… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"Writing felt like it justified, barely, my existence -- this extremity of obscurity I had chosen."

-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

"I did not consider, even passingly, that I had a choice when it came to surfing. My enchantment would take me where it would."

-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

"Still, I wondered what Sam, mental illness and all, might have to tell us about adulthood. Why, for example, did it seem to be always receding as a concept, even as we got older?"

-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

"But surfing always had this horizon, this fear line, that made it different from other things, certainly from other sports I knew. You could do it with friends, but when the waves got big, or you got…"

-William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

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2. Sense & Sensibility

By: Joanna Trollope

3.49

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

John Dashwood promised his dying father that he would take care of his half sisters. But his wife, … read more

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"It's better to do something rather than talk about it. Don't you think?"

-Joanna Trollope, Sense & Sensibility

"Marianne would love watching paint dry, if Wills was watching it with her."

-Joanna Trollope, Sense & Sensibility

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3. On the Road

By: Jack Kerouac

3.61

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

A quintessential novel of America & the Beat Generation On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years… read more

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  • american
"We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301)."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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4. Million Dollar Baby: Stories from the Corner

By: F.X. Toole

3.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

This hard-hitting collection of powerful and moving tales based on the experiences of the late, gre… read more

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5. The Cement Garden

By: Ian McEwan

3.93

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

In this tour de force of psychological unease - now a major motion picture starring Charlotte Gains… read more

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6. The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made

By: Tom Bissell , Greg Sestero

4.04

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

From the actor who lived through the most improbable Hollywood success story, with an award-winning… read more

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7. Future Home of the Living God

By: Louise Erdrich

3.60

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

Louise Erdrich paints a startling portrait of a young woman fighting for her life and her unborn ch… read more

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"She has decided to appear to nobody but the feckless."

-Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God

"I’d been a snowflake. Without my specialness, I melted,"

-Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God

"Where will you be my darling, the last time it snows on earth?"

-Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God

"I want to see the story. More than anything, I am frustrated by the fact that I’ll never know how things turn out."

-Louise Erdrich, Future Home of the Living God

8. Gonzo

By: Alan Rinzler , None , None

3.67

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Over the course of Hunter S. Thompson'sextraordinary life he was publicly branded a bum, a vandal, … read more

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9. Drunk Mom

By: Jowita Bydlowska

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Three years after giving up drink, Jowita Bydlowska found herself throwing back a glass of champagn… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"There's this parallel, perhaps less conscious desire, which is to numb myself to the world. To deal with the world tomorrow. Living is difficult. Dying is difficult."

-Jowita Bydlowska, Drunk Mom

"It was too much happiness. Happiness puts you at too much risk - what if you were to lose it? Too much happiness is a paradox. It's a tragedy, even: getting something you've always wanted but being u…"

-Jowita Bydlowska, Drunk Mom

10. The Manchurian Candidate

By: Richard Condon

3.93

Format: 152 pages,

As compelling and disturbing as when it was first published in the midst of the Cold War, "The Manc… read more

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11. A Child of Hitler: Germany in the Days When God Wore a Swastika

By: Alfons Heck

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this starkly candid account of one boy's indoctrination into the Hitler Youth, we see a side of … read more

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12. The Commitments

By: Roddy Doyle

4.30

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

Barrytown, Dublin, has something to sing about. The Commitments are spreading the gospel of the sou… read more

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13. The Ten Loves of Mr. Nishino

By: Hiromi Kawakami

3.45

Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition

Who loves Mr Nishino?Minami is the daughter of Mr Nishino's true love.Bereaved Shiori is tempted by… read more

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"People have the right to fall in love, but not the right to be loved."

-Hiromi Kawakami, The Ten Loves of Mr. Nishino

"Of course, everyone has a touch of madness in them. In fact, there’s something frightening about a person who isn’t a little crazy."

-Hiromi Kawakami, The Ten Loves of Mr. Nishino

"He had underestimated me. All along. Even though I had not underestimated him. But, how do you love someone without blinding yourself? Don’t we all have to indulge each other, let our guard down, and…"

-Hiromi Kawakami, The Ten Loves of Mr. Nishino

"I really just couldn’t think of anything. Absolutely nothing that I wanted to do. There were plenty of things that I don’t want to do. Like torment animals. Or be jealous of other people’s happiness.…"

-Hiromi Kawakami, The Ten Loves of Mr. Nishino

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14. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

By: Quentin Tarantino

3.88

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Quentin Tarantino’s long-awaited first work of fiction — at once hilarious, delicious, and brutal —… read more

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"What’s the secret?"

-Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

"Sharon has such a sunny presence that whenever she blocks out the sun, the effect is chilling."

-Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

"Due to Cliff's good looks, he'd been manipulating women to do things against their best interests his whole life."

-Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

"Foreign films, Cliff thought, were more like novels. They didn't care if you liked the main character or not. And Cliff found that intriguing."

-Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

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15. The Pole

By: J.M. Coetzee

3.69

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

A psychologically probing, compulsively readable novel about dogged love and the unpredictability o… read more

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16. The Prettiest Star

By: Carter Sickels

4.43

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Small-town Appalachia doesn't have a lot going for it, but it’s where Brian is from, where his fami… read more

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17. You Will Find Your People: How to Make Meaningful Friendships as an Adult

By: Lane Moore

3.29

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

From Lane Moore, the critically acclaimed author of How to Be Alone, comes a searingly intimate, ye… read more

Similar categories in Lane Moore's You Will Find Your People: How to Make Meaningful Friendships as an Adult book and John Callahan's Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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18. Long Way Home

By: Cameron Douglas

3.96

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

From the scion of Hollywood royalty--son of Michael Douglas, grandson of Kirk Douglas--a moving, of… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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19. Ladykiller

By: Katherine Wood

3.73

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

When an heiress goes missing, her best friend races to unravel the secrets behind her disappearance… read more

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20. Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot

By: John Callahan

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Now a major motion picture directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, and R… read more

Similar categories in John Callahan's Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot book and John Callahan's Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot

  • american
  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • disability
Cover of Tiger Tiger: His Life as It's Never Been Told Before by James  Patterson

21. Tiger Tiger: His Life as It's Never Been Told Before

By: James Patterson

4.02

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The impossible life of Tiger Woods—how did he become the GOAT, and what drove him to fall so specta… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography

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Transform Your Habits

Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

William Finnegan

4.27

Transform Your Habits

Drunk Mom

Jowita Bydlowska

3.76

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You Will Find Your People: How to Make Meaningful Friendships as an Adult

Lane Moore

3.29

Transform Your Habits

Long Way Home

Cameron Douglas

3.96

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The Shawshank Redemption: Different Seasons

Stephen King

4.47

Transform Your Habits

Million Dollar Baby: Stories from the Corner

F.X. Toole

3.00

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Brotherly Love

Pete Dexter

3.93

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Train

Pete Dexter

3.93

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