Books like Just Kids

If you liked Just Kids by Patti Smith, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.

  1. This Is Going to Hurt

    Adam Kay · 2017

    Because shares tags: memoir, biography.

    Adam Kay retells his junior doctor diaries with humour and strain, from labour ward nights to leaving medicine.

  2. The Autobiography of Malcolm X

    Malcolm X · 1965

    Because shares tags: memoir, biography.

    Malcolm X traces his life from Michigan childhood through Harlem, prison, and the Nation of Islam to Mecca in this 1965 memoir told to Alex…

  3. Shoe Dog

    Phil Knight · 2016

    Because shares tags: memoir, biography.

    Phil Knight tells how Blue Ribbon Sports grew from a trunk of Japanese running shoes into Nike.

  4. On Writing

    Stephen King · 2000

    Because shares tags: memoir, biography.

    Stephen King blends memoir and blunt writing advice on reading daily, drafting fast, and cutting hard.

  5. Heaven Is for Real

    Todd Burpo · 2010

    Because shares tags: memoir, biography.

    A Nebraska pastor's four-year-old survives a burst appendix, then describes angels, Jesus, and relatives he never met.

  6. Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing

    Matthew Perry · 2022

    Because shares tags: memoir, biography.

    Matthew Perry revisits Friends fame and a long struggle with addiction, from junior tennis to Chandler Bing to a 2018 health crisis, with…

  7. Spare

    Prince Harry · 2023

    Because shares tags: memoir, biography.

    Prince Harry recalls Diana's death in 1997, two tours in Afghanistan, and stepping back from royal life with Meghan in this frank 2023…

  8. The Woman in Me

    Britney Spears · 2023

    Because shares tags: memoir, music.

    Britney Spears tells her own story from teen stardom to a thirteen year conservatorship, and how she fought to reclaim her voice and…

  9. I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

    Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb · 2013

    Because shares tags: memoir, biography.

    Malala grows up in Swat, blogged for school under ban, and survives a bus shooting.

  10. The Goldfinch

    Donna Tartt · 2013

    Because shares tags: art, new york.

    Theo Decker steals a Dutch painting after a museum blast kills his mother, then drifts through guilt and crime.

  11. Becoming

    Michelle Obama · 2018

    Because shares tags: memoir, biography.

    Michelle Obama traces her path from South Side Chicago through Princeton, Harvard law and the White House years in this warm, candid memoir…

  12. Where She Went

    Gayle Forman · 2011 · If I Stay #2

    Because shares tag: music.

    Three years after the crash, rock star Adam Wilde spends one night in New York facing Mia and their breakup.

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