This Is Not My Memoir
By: André Gregory
4.18
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The autobiography-of-sorts of André Gregory, an iconic figure in American theater and the star of M…
Want to Read $ 9.99If you liked the biography plot in This Is Not My Memoir by André Gregory , here is a list of 10 books like this:
1. Democracy
By: Joan Didion
3.85
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
Inez Victor knows that the major casualty of the political life is memory. But the people around In… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Joan Didion's Democracy book and André Gregory's This Is Not My Memoir
"By 'the long view' I believe she meant history. Or more exactly, the particular undertow of having and not having, the convulsions of a world largely unaffected by the individual efforts of anyone in…"-Joan Didion, Democracy
2. Chronicles, Volume One
By: Bob Dylan
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
"I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manif… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Bob Dylan's Chronicles, Volume One book and André Gregory's This Is Not My Memoir
- history
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"People were people."-Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One
"My big fear was that my guitar would go out of tune."-Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One
"Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on."-Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One
"Sebuah lagu laksana mimpi, dan kita berusaha untuk membuatnya jadi kenyataan."-Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One
3. The Moon and Sixpence
By: W. Somerset Maugham
4.13
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
Based on the life of Paul Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence is W. Somerset Maugham's ode to the powerf… read more
Want to Read $ 3.00Similar categories in W. Somerset Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence book and André Gregory's This Is Not My Memoir
- audiobook
"The writer is more concerned to know than to judge."-W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
"Can the law get blood out of a stone? I haven't any money."-W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
"I shall beat you,' he said, looking at her. How else should I know you loved me,' she answered."-W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
"It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh."-W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence
4. God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
3.96
Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition
Second only to Slaughterhouse-Five of Vonnegut's canon in its prominence and influence, God Bless Y… read more
Want to Read $ 6.99Similar categories in Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater book and André Gregory's This Is Not My Memoir
"Sons of suicides seldom do well."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
"God damn it, you've got to be kind."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
"Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
"May I ask you a highly personal question?" "It's what life does all the time."-Kurt Vonnegut Jr., God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
5. Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman
By: Sam Wasson
3.69
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
Audrey Hepburn is an icon like no other, yet the image many of us have of Audrey—dainty, immaculate… read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Sam Wasson's Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman book and André Gregory's This Is Not My Memoir
- history
- biography
- memoir
- film
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"There were human beings and there was Audrey Hepburn."-Sam Wasson, Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman
"Have another drink honey, it was right there all along."-Sam Wasson, Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman
"Like every fiction, Holly Golightly was a composite of multiple nonfictions."-Sam Wasson, Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman
"We don't want to make a movie about a hooker," he assured her, "we want to make a movie about a dreamer of dreams."-Sam Wasson, Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman
6. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)
By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , James Grieve
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Floweris Proust's spectacular dissection of male and female adolesc… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Marcel Proust's In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2) book and André Gregory's This Is Not My Memoir
7. Night Thoughts
By: Wallace Shawn
3.30
Format: 215 pages, Hardcover
Although he is guided and inspired by the people he respects, and despite the insufficiency of his … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Wallace Shawn's Night Thoughts book and André Gregory's This Is Not My Memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
8. Min kamp 1 (Min kamp #1)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
4.11
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Min kamp ar Karl Ove Knausgards maktiga sjalvbiografiska roman. Forsta delen inleds med en svepande… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Karl Ove Knausgård's Min kamp 1 (Min kamp #1) book and André Gregory's This Is Not My Memoir
- biography memoir
9. Nine Stories
By: J.D. Salinger
3.67
Format: 346 pages, Paperback
"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" (1948) "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" (1948) "Just Before the War wi… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in J.D. Salinger's Nine Stories book and André Gregory's This Is Not My Memoir
10. Uncle Vanya
By: Anton Chekhov
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Famous play by the Russian short story writer and playwright. His major plays are frequently revive… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya book and André Gregory's This Is Not My Memoir
11. Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
By: David Shields
2.92
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An open call for new literary and other art forms to match the complexities of the twenty-first cen… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in David Shields's Reality Hunger: A Manifesto book and André Gregory's This Is Not My Memoir
12. Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need
By: Blake Snyder
3.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
This ultimate insider's guide reveals the secrets that none dare admit, told by a show biz veteran … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Blake Snyder's Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need book and André Gregory's This Is Not My Memoir
13. 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
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Denis Johnson's Train Dreams book and André Gregory's This Is Not My Memoir
14. Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said
By: Philip K. Dick
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Jason Tavener woke up one morning to find himself completely unknown. The night before he had been … read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Philip K. Dick's Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said book and André Gregory's This Is Not My Memoir
15. Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches
By: Tony Kushner
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama, 1993. The first part of Tony Kushner's epic drama of America in th… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Tony Kushner's Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches book and André Gregory's This Is Not My Memoir
16. Leaves of Grass
By: Walt Whitman
3.50
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass book and André Gregory's This Is Not My Memoir
17. Rebel Without a Crew, or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player
By: Robert Rodríguez
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Rebel Without a Crew, famed independent screenwriter and director Robert Rodriguez (Sin City, Si… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Robert Rodríguez's Rebel Without a Crew, or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player book and André Gregory's This Is Not My Memoir
18. Maxims
By: François de la Rochefoucauld , Leonard Tancock
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
The philosophy of La Rochefoucauld, which influenced French intellectuals as diverse as Voltaire an… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in François de la Rochefoucauld's Maxims book and André Gregory's This Is Not My Memoir
19. This Side of Paradise
By: F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.64
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald's romantic and witty first novel, was written when the a… read more
Want to Read $ 2.99Similar categories in F. Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise book and André Gregory's This Is Not My Memoir
"A squalid phantasmagoria of breath"-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
"Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
"Amory: I love you. Rosalind: I love you- now."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
"Good luck to you and bad luck to your theories."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
20. Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting
By: Robert McKee
4.29
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Robert McKee's screenwriting workshops have earned him an international reputation for inspiring no… read more
Want to ReadSimilar categories in Robert McKee's Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting book and André Gregory's This Is Not My Memoir
21. 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
Want to Read $ 16.99Similar categories in Quentin Tarantino's Cinema Speculation book and André Gregory's This Is Not My Memoir
- history
- biography
- memoir
- film
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"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
22. Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles
By: Kate Flannery
3.67
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Strip Tees is a fever dream of a memoir—Hunter S. Thompson meets Gloria Steinem—about a recent coll… read more
Want to Read $ 11.99Similar categories in Kate Flannery's Strip Tees: A Memoir of Millennial Los Angeles book and André Gregory's This Is Not My Memoir
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
23. What Are You Going Through
By: Sigrid Nunez
3.74
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
A story about the meaning of life and death, and the value of companionship A woman describes a … read more
Want to Read $ 12.99Similar categories in Sigrid Nunez's What Are You Going Through book and André Gregory's This Is Not My Memoir
- audiobook
"Only those who are writers, it seems, get to say what happened"-Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through
"And what the movie makes clear is that, if there really was a Supreme Being who had to listen to people's prayers all the time, he would go out of his mind."-Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through
"Anyway, don't they say that every good story is a suspense story? And every story is a love story. And every love story is a ghost story. And everybody loves somebody sometime."-Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through
"What are you going through? When Simone Weil said that being able to ask this question was what love of one's neighbor truly meant, she was writing in her native French. And in French the great quest…"-Sigrid Nunez, What Are You Going Through
24. There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.40
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A poignant, personal reflection on basketball, talent and allegiance, and of course, LeBron James—f… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Hanif Abdurraqib's There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension book and André Gregory's This Is Not My Memoir
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Heartbreak itself is a primary color. Stagnant without a series of secondary colors to activate it. Longing is an activator."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"With enough repetition, anything can become a religion. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it simply matters if a person returns."-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
"It is a strange miracle to be able to trace your own aging, your own mortality through someone who's living alongside you, someone who has survived eras at the same time as you have in some of the sa…"-Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
25. Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius
By: Carrie Courogen
3.92
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
"A deeply researched, psychologically astute new biography of May by Carrie Courogen...The book is … read more
Want to Read $ 14.99Similar categories in Carrie Courogen's Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius book and André Gregory's This Is Not My Memoir
- history
- biography
- memoir
- film
- nonfiction
- audiobook
26. Everybody Thought We Were Crazy: Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward, and 1960s Los Angeles
By: Mark Rozzo
3.89
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
National Bestseller "A landmark and long-overdue cultural history." — Vogue The stylish, wild story… read more
Want to Read $ 16.99Similar categories in Mark Rozzo's Everybody Thought We Were Crazy: Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward, and 1960s Los Angeles book and André Gregory's This Is Not My Memoir
- history
- biography
- memoir
- film
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
27. Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven’s Gate, and the Price of a Vision
By: Charles Elton
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The “revelatory” ( The New Yorker ) first biography of critically acclaimed then critically derided… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Charles Elton's Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven’s Gate, and the Price of a Vision book and André Gregory's This Is Not My Memoir
- history
- biography
- film
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
28. A Bright Ray of Darkness
By: Ethan Hawke
3.72
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
The blistering story of a young man making his Broadway debut in Henry IV just as his marriage impl… read more
Want to Read $ 13.99Similar categories in Ethan Hawke's A Bright Ray of Darkness book and André Gregory's This Is Not My Memoir
- audiobook
"the theater is the living consciousness of the world."-Ethan Hawke, A Bright Ray of Darkness
"the actual joy of acting lies in the absence of personality."-Ethan Hawke, A Bright Ray of Darkness
"a man needs to aspire to greatness and if he gives up on his hope for excellence, his soul dies"-Ethan Hawke, A Bright Ray of Darkness
"It’s our job to transform literature into an event. We do this with why and how. Why our character speaks and how our character speaks."-Ethan Hawke, A Bright Ray of Darkness
29. The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth
By: Ken Krimstein
3.92
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
For Persepolis and Logicomix fans, a New Yorker cartoonist's page-turning graphic biography of the … read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Ken Krimstein's The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth book and André Gregory's This Is Not My Memoir
- history
- biography
- nonfiction
- biography memoir
"For me, in the ashes, it’s not enough to describe what happened, but to focus unforgivingly on what actually happened, to provide a road map, a game plan for how hell happens, not just in Nazi German…"-Ken Krimstein, The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth
30. The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby
By: Ellery Lloyd
4.15
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Some women won't be painted out of history . . . Everybody knows that in 1938, runaway heiress a… read more
Want to Read $ 2.99Similar categories in Ellery Lloyd's The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby book and André Gregory's This Is Not My Memoir
- audiobook
31. This Is Not My Memoir
By: André Gregory
4.18
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
The autobiography-of-sorts of André Gregory, an iconic figure in American theater and the star of M… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in André Gregory's This Is Not My Memoir book and André Gregory's This Is Not My Memoir
- audiobook
- history
- biography
- memoir
- film
- theatre
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- drama
