Books Like Just Kids

10 books for fans of Just Kids

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   M Train

   by Patti Smith

   From a Greenwich Village café to Frida Kahlo's Mexico, Smith's dreamlike prose blurs past and present in a meditation on creativity, loss, and coffee.

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   From a Greenwich Village café to Frida Kahlo's Mexico, Smith's dreamlike prose blurs past and present in a meditation on creativity, loss, and coffee.

   ★ 4.02 Goodreads (51.9K ratings)

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   Devotion

   Why I Write • Book 1

   by Patti Smith

   Smith opens her creative process to examination, tracing the mysterious connections and inspirations that transform raw experience into art that resonates with unknown audiences.

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   Smith opens her creative process to examination, tracing the mysterious connections and inspirations that transform raw experience into art that resonates with unknown audiences.

   ★ 3.85 Goodreads (16.6K ratings)

   95 pages • 2017

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   Finding Me

   by Viola Davis

   From a rat-infested apartment to the Academy Awards stage, Viola Davis chronicles her path to finding her voice as an artist and woman. Her memoir confronts poverty, racism, and self-doubt with unflinching honesty.

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   From a rat-infested apartment to the Academy Awards stage, Viola Davis chronicles her path to finding her voice as an artist and woman. Her memoir confronts poverty, racism, and self-doubt with unflinching honesty.

   ★ 4.53 Goodreads (184.9K ratings)

   304 pages • 2022

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   Born a Crime

   by Trevor Noah

   Mixed-race Trevor Noah tells stories of his childhood in apartheid South Africa, where his birth was literally criminal. Hilarious and heartbreaking memoir about his remarkable mother's influence.

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   Mixed-race Trevor Noah tells stories of his childhood in apartheid South Africa, where his birth was literally criminal. Hilarious and heartbreaking memoir about his remarkable mother's influence.

   ★ 4.49 Goodreads (817.0K ratings)

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   Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within

   by David Goggins

   Goggins' follow-up dives deeper into mental strategies for breaking through self-imposed limitations. Raw examination of how comfort becomes the enemy of growth and potential.

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   Goggins' follow-up dives deeper into mental strategies for breaking through self-imposed limitations. Raw examination of how comfort becomes the enemy of growth and potential.

   ★ 4.39 Goodreads (48.0K ratings)

   312 pages • 2022

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   God's Smuggler

   by Unknown Author

   ★ 4.38 Goodreads (47.8K ratings)

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   The Glass Castle

   by Jeannette Walls

   Walls recounts growing up with nomadic parents whose inspiring dreams and devastating addictions created a childhood of both wonder and profound neglect.

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   Walls recounts growing up with nomadic parents whose inspiring dreams and devastating addictions created a childhood of both wonder and profound neglect.

   ★ 4.33 Goodreads (1.4M ratings)

   288 pages • 2005

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   The Sound of Gravel

   by Ruth Wariner

   Growing up as one of 42 children in a fundamentalist Mormon colony, Wariner reveals how she escaped a world where authorities ignored abuse and poverty.

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   Growing up as one of 42 children in a fundamentalist Mormon colony, Wariner reveals how she escaped a world where authorities ignored abuse and poverty.

   ★ 4.31 Goodreads (68.6K ratings)

   336 pages • 2016

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   I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

   Maya Angelou's Autobiography • Book 1

   by Maya Angelou

   Growing up Black in Depression-era Arkansas, Angelou survives rape, racism, and muteness to discover that words can be weapons against oppression. Her lyrical prose transforms trauma into transcendent art.

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   Growing up Black in Depression-era Arkansas, Angelou survives rape, racism, and muteness to discover that words can be weapons against oppression. Her lyrical prose transforms trauma into transcendent art.

   ★ 4.30 Goodreads (586.4K ratings)

   289 pages • 1969

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    North of Ordinary

    by Michael Vlessides

    Life Below Zero's Sue Aikens reveals what it really takes to survive alone in the Alaskan wilderness, where everything wants to kill you.

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    Life Below Zero's Sue Aikens reveals what it really takes to survive alone in the Alaskan wilderness, where everything wants to kill you.

    ★ 4.60 Goodreads (305 ratings)

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