20 Best nonfiction books like Open Book by Jessica Simpson

Cover of Open Book by Jessica Simpson

Open Book

By: Jessica Simpson

4.11

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An alternate cover edition can be found here. Jessica tells of growing up in 1980s Texas where s…

"Who was I if I had no one to blame for my life but myself?"

-Jessica Simpson, Open Book

"Sometimes we are all so afraid to be honest with ourselves because we know that honesty will lead to somewhere."

-Jessica Simpson, Open Book

"Give a girl an insult, she'll feel bad for a day, but teach a girl to hate her body and she'll feel bad forever."

-Jessica Simpson, Open Book

"...The people I want to focus on are Lesa, who was kind to me and went on to become a successful therapist, and you. If you are being bullied, whether it's because you're gay or someone decides they don't like something about you, let me be the Lesa who says, "I see you." You are perfectly made."

-Jessica Simpson, Open Book

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1. Wildflower

By: Drew Barrymore

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Wildflower is a portrait of Drew's life in stories as she looks back on the adventures, challenges,… read more

Similar categories in Drew Barrymore's Wildflower book and Jessica Simpson's Open Book

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • adult
  • audiobook
"You can be a warrior and be full of grace and class."

-Drew Barrymore, Wildflower

"He is so wonderful. And he is door number one. And I know it. And he’s right here."

-Drew Barrymore, Wildflower

"Well, I think to myself now, domestic bliss may be one thing, but domestic goddess you are not."

-Drew Barrymore, Wildflower

"The house is chaos sometimes when the dogs are trying to eat the kids' food or jumping into the tub with them. But it's worth it. Life with dogs is better."

-Drew Barrymore, Wildflower

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2. Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

By: Holly Madison

3.55

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A former girlfriend of Hugh Hefner describes how her years inside the Playboy Mansion went from a f… read more

Similar categories in Holly Madison's Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny book and Jessica Simpson's Open Book

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Marriage and family are certainly beautiful parts of life, but I believe those things can truly be appreciated only when we find, love, and respect ourselves first."

-Holly Madison, Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

"But let that not be the moral of my story. True happiness doesn't come from simply getting married. I don't believe a woman's worth should be measured by whether or not she's married."

-Holly Madison, Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

Cover of Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology by Rebecca Paley, Leah Remini

3. Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

By: Rebecca Paley , Leah Remini

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The outspoken actress, talk show host, and reality television star offers up a no-holds-barred memo… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Paley's Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology book and Jessica Simpson's Open Book

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"By their actions, they will show you who they are."

-Rebecca Paley, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

"Belief and faith are great, but very few people have been led astray by thinking for themselves."

-Rebecca Paley, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

"He wasn't attached to Scientology like I was. For him it was simply a tool to better your life. Then, if it wasn't doing that, it was time to leave the church."

-Rebecca Paley, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

"I hate when people say 'Enjoy it' when you're complaining or something. I am enjoying it. But I also enjoy complaining about it. It's one of my favorite pastimes."

-Rebecca Paley, Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

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4. First Lie Wins

By: Ashley Elston

4.05

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house w… read more

Similar categories in Ashley Elston's First Lie Wins book and Jessica Simpson's Open Book

  • adult
  • audiobook
"Blunt honesty has more value than blind worship"

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

"It’s because you’re not ready to tell me the truth and I’d rather you not lie to me."

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

"There’s an old saying: The first lie wins. It’s not referring to the little white kind that tumble out with no thought; it refers to the big one. The one that changes the game. The one that is delibe…"

-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins

Cover of Counting the Cost by Jill Duggar

5. Counting the Cost

By: Jill Duggar

4.06

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

For the first time, discover the unedited truth about the Duggars, the traditional Christian family… read more

Similar categories in Jill Duggar's Counting the Cost book and Jessica Simpson's Open Book

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"He loved spending time with us and told us often that we were his number one hobby."

-Jill Duggar, Counting the Cost

"Sometimes you have to be okay with other people not being okay with you. And you have to be okay with you not being okay too."

-Jill Duggar, Counting the Cost

"The dangers were not just out there on the street or in the mall, and they weren't just limited to the summer. They were closer to home as I soon discovered."

-Jill Duggar, Counting the Cost

"It's like roses and thorns, justice and grace. You can recognize the beauty and happy parts of your story while also recognizing the more difficult parts. The two can coexist. The highs aren't automa…"

-Jill Duggar, Counting the Cost

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6. Paris: The Memoir

By: Paris Hilton

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

🎧Listening Length: 8 hours and 22 minutes ***An Instant New York Times Bestseller*** From the… read more

Similar categories in Paris Hilton's Paris: The Memoir book and Jessica Simpson's Open Book

  • biography
  • memoir
  • pop culture
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Some friendships just have their seasons, and that's ok."

-Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir

"Don’t waste energy living a life someone else designed for you. Life is one per customer. Let them do theirs. You do yours."

-Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir

"Know your worth, girls. You're not lucky to be at the party, the party is lucky to have you. Apply as needed to relationships, jobs, and family."

-Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir

"Maybe if one of them had told someone, it wouldn't have happened to me. And maybe if I had told someone, it wouldn't have happened to someone else."

-Paris Hilton, Paris: The Memoir

Cover of The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

7. The Woman in Me

By: Britney Spears

3.86

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival… read more

Similar categories in Britney Spears's The Woman in Me book and Jessica Simpson's Open Book

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • pop culture
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I realized how powerful it can be when women defy expectations. I can make my own way in life. I can make my dreams come true."

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

"But then, when it came time to end the conservatorship, I realized one thing: You can’t fuck with a woman who knows how to pray. Really pray. All I did was pray."

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

"Later, I walked all the way home so I could take in the city, breaking one of my heels along the way. When I got to my apartment, I went to my terrace and just looked up at the stars for hours. At th…"

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

"Giving a person no grace in a hard time is just not nice. Especially when you can't take as good as you give. When I started to speak and throw it back at them a little, God knows they were far from …"

-Britney Spears, The Woman in Me

Cover of Open Book by Jessica Simpson

8. Open Book

By: Jessica Simpson

4.11

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An alternate cover edition can be found here. Jessica tells of growing up in 1980s Texas where s… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Simpson's Open Book book and Jessica Simpson's Open Book

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • pop culture
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Who was I if I had no one to blame for my life but myself?"

-Jessica Simpson, Open Book

"Sometimes we are all so afraid to be honest with ourselves because we know that honesty will lead to somewhere."

-Jessica Simpson, Open Book

"Give a girl an insult, she'll feel bad for a day, but teach a girl to hate her body and she'll feel bad forever."

-Jessica Simpson, Open Book

"...The people I want to focus on are Lesa, who was kind to me and went on to become a successful therapist, and you. If you are being bullied, whether it's because you're gay or someone decides they …"

-Jessica Simpson, Open Book

Cover of Bad Mormon: A Memoir by Heather Gay

9. Bad Mormon: A Memoir

By: Heather Gay

3.50

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Drinking and Tweeting meets Unorthodox in this vulnerable memo… read more

Similar categories in Heather Gay's Bad Mormon: A Memoir book and Jessica Simpson's Open Book

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I was beginning to learn the gendered rules for behavior. My parents did not want a steely-eyed warrior for a daughter- they wanted someone obedient and kind. She didn't have to be a quivering sack o…"

-Heather Gay, Bad Mormon: A Memoir

Cover of Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

10. Greenlights

By: Matthew McConaughey

4.21

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

From the Academy Award®–winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw… read more

Similar categories in Matthew McConaughey's Greenlights book and Jessica Simpson's Open Book

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"All I want is all I can see, All I can see in front of me"

-Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights

"To lose the power of confrontation is to lose the power of unity."

-Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights

"I never wrote things down to remember; I always wrote things down so I could forget."

-Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights

"Me? I haven't made all As in the art of living. But I give a damn. And I'll take an experienced C over an ignorant A any day."

-Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights

Cover of If You Would Have Told Me by John Stamos

11. If You Would Have Told Me

By: John Stamos

3.81

Format: 333 pages, Hardcover

If you would have told a young John Stamos flipping burgers at his dad’s fast-food joint that one d… read more

Similar categories in John Stamos's If You Would Have Told Me book and Jessica Simpson's Open Book

  • biography
  • memoir
  • pop culture
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. Inside Out

By: Demi Moore

3.91

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Daily Mail Book of the Year. A Mail on Sunday Book of the Year. F… read more

Similar categories in Demi Moore's Inside Out book and Jessica Simpson's Open Book

  • biography
  • memoir
  • pop culture
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We all suffer, and we all triumph, and we all get to choose how we hold both."

-Demi Moore, Inside Out

"I belong. Here. In myself. In this house. On this planet. I'm in my mid-50s now, I've outlived both of my parents, I know that what I walked through was a lot, especially coming from where I came fro…"

-Demi Moore, Inside Out

"They divorce and years later the dad mellow as men tend to when they get older. You know the kind. They're assholes when their young then they get sweet when they age. It's the mother who seems bitte…"

-Demi Moore, Inside Out

Cover of Love, Pamela by Pamela Anderson

13. Love, Pamela

By: Pamela Anderson

3.80

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

To live and dream is a wicked dance. My dreams often come true -- a curse, and a blessing. Pa… read more

Similar categories in Pamela Anderson's Love, Pamela book and Jessica Simpson's Open Book

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She told me that you get to have only one true love, and once you've found it, whether you kept it or lost it, you'd never recover...Accepting that was the hardest part."

-Pamela Anderson, Love, Pamela

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14. Tell Me Everything

By: Minka Kelly

4.31

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“A timely, urgent portrait of working-class American women.”—Gabrielle UnionMinka Kelly takes reade… read more

Similar categories in Minka Kelly's Tell Me Everything book and Jessica Simpson's Open Book

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself by Crystal Hefner

15. Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself

By: Crystal Hefner

3.73

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A raw and unflinching look at the objectification and misogyny of the Playboy mansion, a woman’s st… read more

Similar categories in Crystal Hefner's Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself book and Jessica Simpson's Open Book

  • biography
  • memoir
  • pop culture
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Things I Should Have Said: Family, Fame, and Figuring it Out by Jamie Lynn Spears

16. Things I Should Have Said: Family, Fame, and Figuring it Out

By: Jamie Lynn Spears

2.79

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Now a National Bestseller!In this intimate memoir, actress and musician Jamie Lynn Spears opens up … read more

Similar categories in Jamie Lynn Spears's Things I Should Have Said: Family, Fame, and Figuring it Out book and Jessica Simpson's Open Book

  • music
  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Rebel Rising by Rebel Wilson

17. Rebel Rising

By: Rebel Wilson

3.91

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

From the scene-stealing star of Pitch Perfect and Bridesmaids comes a refreshingly candid, hilariou… read more

Similar categories in Rebel Wilson's Rebel Rising book and Jessica Simpson's Open Book

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Would this performance feel internally like I was going to die? Yes. But my desire to win, my desire to be somebody, is so strong that it compels me to do the hardest thing possible: to perform in pu…"

-Rebel Wilson, Rebel Rising

"People would come up to me on the street and say, 'I just want to thank you for being so brave!' Why am I so fucking brave? I'm not going off to fight in a war! I'm not running into a burning buildin…"

-Rebel Wilson, Rebel Rising

Cover of Happy People Are Annoying by Josh  Peck

18. Happy People Are Annoying

By: Josh Peck

4.06

Format: 272 pages, ebook

A wonderfully candid memoir from one of the most recognizable faces of a generation, actor, writer,… read more

Similar categories in Josh Peck's Happy People Are Annoying book and Jessica Simpson's Open Book

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing by Matthew  Perry

19. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

By: Matthew Perry

3.91

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

“Hi, my name is Matthew, although you may know me by another name. My friends call me Matty. And I … read more

Similar categories in Matthew Perry's Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing book and Jessica Simpson's Open Book

  • biography
  • memoir
  • pop culture
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Addiction is like the Joker. It just wants to see the whole world burn."

-Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

"I wasn't fully me yet; I was just parts of me (and not the best parts, either)."

-Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

"My mother is beautiful; she was a star in every room she entered. And she's certainly the reason I'm funny."

-Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

"Addiction, the big terrible thing, is far too powerful for anyone to defeat alone. But together, one day at a time, we can beat it down."

-Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

Cover of Girl With No Job: The Crazy Beautiful Life of an Instagram Thirst Monster by Claudia Oshry

20. Girl With No Job: The Crazy Beautiful Life of an Instagram Thirst Monster

By: Claudia Oshry

3.84

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The instant New York Times bestseller and laugh-out-loud look at pop culture and social media stard… read more

Similar categories in Claudia Oshry's Girl With No Job: The Crazy Beautiful Life of an Instagram Thirst Monster book and Jessica Simpson's Open Book

  • biography
  • memoir
  • pop culture
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Spare by Prince Harry

21. Spare

By: Prince Harry

3.85

Format: 410 pages, Hardcover

It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walkin… read more

Similar categories in Prince Harry's Spare book and Jessica Simpson's Open Book

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It wasn’t that she felt no emotions. On the contrary, I always thought that Granny experienced all the normal human emotions. She just knew better than the rest of us mortals how to control them."

-Prince Harry, Spare

"I heard the story of what Pa allegedly said to Mummy the day of my birth: Wonderful! Now you’ve given me an Heir and a Spare—my work is done. A joke. Presumably. On the other hand, minutes after deli…"

-Prince Harry, Spare

"I'd traveled the world from top to bottom, literally. I'd hopscotched the continents. I'd met hundreds of thousands of people, I'd crossed paths with a ludicrously large cross-section of the planet's…"

-Prince Harry, Spare

"It occurred to me then that identity is a hierarchy. We are primarily one thing, and then we're primarily another, and then another, and so on, until death- in succession. Each new identity assumes t…"

-Prince Harry, Spare

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Drew Barrymore

3.59

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Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

Holly Madison

3.55

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Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

Rebecca Paley , Leah Remini

4.06

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Jill Duggar

4.06

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Drew Barrymore

3.59

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Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

Holly Madison

3.55

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Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology

Rebecca Paley , Leah Remini

4.06

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3.50

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