17 must-read biography books like Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper by Diablo Cody

Cover of Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper by Diablo Cody

Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper

By: Diablo Cody

4.16

Format: 422 pages, Paperback

Die 30-jahrige Diablo Cody ist ein Phanomen. Mit ihrem Internet-Blog machte sie sich einen Namen, d…

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Cover of If I Am Missing or Dead: A Sister's Story of Love, Murder, and Liberation by Janine Latus

1. If I Am Missing or Dead: A Sister's Story of Love, Murder, and Liberation

By: Janine Latus

3.50

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In April 2002, Janine Latus's youngest sister, Amy, wrote a note and taped it to the inside of her … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination by Elizabeth McCracken

2. An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination

By: Elizabeth McCracken

4.19

Format: 186 pages, Hardcover

"This is the happiest story in the world with the saddest ending," writes Elizabeth McCracken in he… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"I want a book that acknowledges that life goes on, but death goes on too, that a person who is dead is a long, long story. You move on from it, , but the death will never disappear from view."

-Elizabeth McCracken, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination

"All I can say is, it's a sort of kinship, as though there is a family tree of grief. On this branch, the lost children, on this the suicided parents, here the beloved mentally ill siblings. When some…"

-Elizabeth McCracken, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination

"I'm thinking of that Florida lady again, the one who wanted a book about the lighter side of a child's death, and I know: all she wanted was permission to remember her child with pleasure instead of …"

-Elizabeth McCracken, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination

"Perhaps it goes without saying that I believe in the geographic cure. Of course you can't out-travel sadness. You will find it has smuggled itself along in your suitcase. It coats the camera lens, it…"

-Elizabeth McCracken, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination

Cover of Still Waters by Jennifer Lauck

3. Still Waters

By: Jennifer Lauck

3.99

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Separated from her brother Bryan, and passed from caretaker to caretaker, Jenny discovers - as she … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of The Glass Eye: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco

4. The Glass Eye: A Memoir

By: Jeannie Vanasco

3.95

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

The night before her father dies, eighteen-year-old Jeannie Vanasco promises she will write a book … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why It Often Sucks in the City, or Who Are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me? by Jen Lancaster

5. Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl's Guide to Why It Often Sucks in the City, or Who Are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me?

By: Jen Lancaster

4.32

Format: 632 pages, Paperback

Jen Lancaster hates to burst your happy little bubble, but life in the big city isn't all it's crac… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of My Sergei: A Love Story by Ekaterina Gordeeva, E.M. Swift

6. My Sergei: A Love Story

By: Ekaterina Gordeeva , E.M. Swift

4.39

Format: 280 pages,

Thrown together as children by the Soviet regime and told to skate for the good of the state, Serge… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Change Me into Zeus's Daughter: A Memoir by Barbara Robinette Moss

7. Change Me into Zeus's Daughter: A Memoir

By: Barbara Robinette Moss

4.16

Format: 144 pages,

A haunting and triumphant story of a difficult and keenly felt life, Change Me into Zeus's Daughter… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Please Don't Eat the Daisies by Jean Kerr

8. Please Don't Eat the Daisies

By: Jean Kerr

4.04

Format: 192 pages,

Please Don't Eat the Daisieshas sold millions of copies since its original publication in 1957. It … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • humor
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Cross Creek by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Edward Shenton

9. Cross Creek

By: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings , Edward Shenton

4.33

Format: 308 pages,

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper by Diablo Cody

10. Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper

By: Diablo Cody

4.16

Format: 422 pages, Paperback

Die 30-jahrige Diablo Cody ist ein Phanomen. Mit ihrem Internet-Blog machte sie sich einen Namen, d… read more

Similar categories in Diablo Cody's Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper book and Diablo Cody's Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper

  • biography
  • memoir
  • sex work
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality
Cover of Breaking Clean by Judy Blunt

11. Breaking Clean

By: Judy Blunt

3.71

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

Blunt has turned the memories of her childhood and young adulthood in rural Montana into a beautifu… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Borrowed Finery: A Memoir by Paula Fox

12. Borrowed Finery: A Memoir

By: Paula Fox

3.72

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Born in the 1920s to nomadic, bohemian parents, Paula Fox is left at birth in a Manhattan orphanage… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow by Daniel Paisner, Krystyna Chiger

13. The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow

By: Daniel Paisner , Krystyna Chiger

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1943, with Lvov's 150,000 Jews having been exiled, killed, or forced into ghettos and facing ext… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

14. Strip City: A Stripper's Farewell Journey Across America

By: Lily Burana

3.38

Format: None pages,

There's no business like the sex business -- or is there? In this poignant, bittersweet, sometimes … read more

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Cover of A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance by Jane Juska

15. A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance

By: Jane Juska

3.48

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

“Round-heeled” is an old-fashioned label for a woman who is promiscuous—someone who nowadays might … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • sexuality

16. Prison Baby: A Memoir

By: Deborah Jiang Stein

4.21

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A deeply personal and inspiring memoir recounting one woman's struggles--beginning with her birth i… read more

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17. Speaking Truth to Power

By: Anita Hill

4.75

Format: 2112 pages, Paperback

After her astonishing testimony in the Clarence Thomas hearings, Anita Hill ceased to be a private … read more

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Cover of Undercurrents: A Life Beneath the Surface by Martha Manning

18. Undercurrents: A Life Beneath the Surface

By: Martha Manning

3.97

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

This is the memoir of an ordinary woman—a mother, a daughter, a psychologist, a wife—who tells the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Depression is such a cruel punishment. There are no fevers, no rashes, no blood tests to send people scurrying in concern, just the slow erosion of self, as insidious as cancer. And like cancer, it i…"

-Martha Manning, Undercurrents: A Life Beneath the Surface

19. Out on a Limb

By: Shirley MacLaine

4.39

Format: None pages,

U ovoj dojmljivoj i dirljivoj prici Shirley Maclaine poziva nas da je slijedimo na jedinstvenom put… read more

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20. Raising My Rainbow: Adventures in Raising a Fabulous, Gender Creative Son

By: Neil Patrick Harris , None , None

4.00

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

Raising My Rainbow is Lori Duron's frank, heartfelt, and brutally funny account of her and her fami… read more

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21. The Customer Is Always Wrong

By: Mimi Pond

4.04

Format: 538 pages, Hardcover

A young woman's art career begins to lift off as those around her succumb to addiction and alcoholi… read more

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22. The Three Witches and The Master

By: Max Nowaz

4.30

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

When a beautiful naked woman Eve, unexpectedly turns up at his back door, Adam, an amateur wizard, … read more

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"Where’s my uncle?"

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

"You can’t escape me, I’m coming for you soon,"

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

"I haven’t got a clue why his bones disintegrated, but look at the bright side,"

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

"He desperately tried to think of a story to explain his involvement in her sudden appearance, without mentioning the book of magic in his possession. "

-Max Nowaz, The Three Witches and The Master

Cover of Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind by Darnyelle Jervey Harmon

23. Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind

By: Darnyelle Jervey Harmon

4.29

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Ready to break through the six-figure plateau? Discover an actionable strategy to cross over the mi… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives by Anne  Michaud

24. Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

By: Anne Michaud

4.29

Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition

Why do good women stay with bad men? What if political wives are just as calculating as their in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"The political wife came forward and publicly vouched for her straying man. If she could continue to trust and believe in him, the public could too – or so the script went."

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"For each of these women, the fear of the unknown — of leaving a marriage and casting off alone — may have bound them to a marriage where there is insensitivity, neglect, or even outright abuse. Peopl…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"What we witness playing out in the relationships of our public figures we risk finding acceptable in our private lives. Feminists have connected women’s sexual subordination to their unequal status i…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"To leave the marriage behind is to step out of the spotlight. It means fading into normalcy, returning to ordinary life, perhaps an impossible admission for women who have built their egos on being o…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

Cover of Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love by Aimee Cabo Nikolov

25. Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

By: Aimee Cabo Nikolov

4.30

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

Her family secrets burst in the spotlight when Aimee and her sister went to the authorities. In thi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"#metooasachild"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"We can be beacons of light"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"Unconditional Love conquers all!"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"God is the Cure, Love is the Answer"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

Cover of Don't Shoot! . . . I Have Another Story To Tell You by Elen Ghulam

26. Don't Shoot! . . . I Have Another Story To Tell You

By: Elen Ghulam

4.08

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Four languages, an assortment of passports and no where to call home. Don't Shoot! ... I have a… read more

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Cover of The Bare Melcessities: Walking Out. Waking Up. Getting Bare by Melanie Lutz

27. The Bare Melcessities: Walking Out. Waking Up. Getting Bare

By: Melanie Lutz

3.97

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

Book by Lutz, Melanie read more

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"The soul knows where it belongs, not some of the time, all of the time. When you strip everything away and get bare that fact sings."

-Melanie Lutz, The Bare Melcessities: Walking Out. Waking Up. Getting Bare

"Home was within.
 Home was without.
 Home was here and now. 
Home was everything that already was and always is. There were so many chases and trips, and directions and events and places and experime…"

-Melanie Lutz, The Bare Melcessities: Walking Out. Waking Up. Getting Bare

Cover of Hiding From Myself: My Complicated Rebirth into Womanhood and My Own Skin by Amber Rose Washington

28. Hiding From Myself: My Complicated Rebirth into Womanhood and My Own Skin

By: Amber Rose Washington

4.01

Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition

This is a warm, funny, educational, and very human story... a reminder that we are all just humans … read more

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Cover of Go, Gwen, Go: A Family's Journey to Olympic Gold by Nancy Smirl Jorgensen

29. Go, Gwen, Go: A Family's Journey to Olympic Gold

By: Nancy Smirl Jorgensen

3.97

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Narrated in alternating voices by mother Nancy and sister Elizabeth, Go, Gwen, A Midwest Family's … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Describing Water by R.  Read

30. Describing Water

By: R. Read

3.95

Format: 95 pages, Kindle Edition

Being around me caused the men in my life to want to choke, hit, or toss me to the floor. At fifty … read more

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Cover of Animal Quintet: A Southern Memoir by Colin Dayan

31. Animal Quintet: A Southern Memoir

By: Colin Dayan

4.00

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

In this haunting, lyrical, luminous book, Colin Dayan meditates on her family history, her relation… read more

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19 Top nonfiction books like Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper by Diablo Cody

Transform Your Habits

If I Am Missing or Dead: A Sister's Story of Love, Murder, and Liberation

Janine Latus

3.50

Transform Your Habits

An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination

Elizabeth McCracken

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Still Waters

Jennifer Lauck

3.99

Transform Your Habits

The Glass Eye: A Memoir

Jeannie Vanasco

3.95

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13 best-selling nonfiction books like My Sergei: A Love Story by Ekaterina Gordeeva, E.M. Swift

Transform Your Habits

Story of My Life: The Autobiography of George Sand (Women Writers in Translation)

George Sand , Thelma Jurgrau , Walter D. Gray

3.94

Transform Your Habits

My Sergei: A Love Story

Ekaterina Gordeeva , E.M. Swift

4.39

Transform Your Habits

Please Don't Eat the Daisies

Jean Kerr

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper

Diablo Cody

4.16

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