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Books Like Just Kids

by Patti Smith · about this book

Loved Just Kids by Patti Smith? If its nonfiction, memoir & biography and artist protagonist hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Scar Tissue, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl and Everybody's Fly: A Life of Art, Music, and Changing the Culture. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside Just Kids: Nonfiction · Memoir & Biography · Artist Protagonist · Musician · New York City

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   Scar Tissue

   Anthony Kiedis

   Musician · Music History · Punk Subculture · Memoir & Biography · Autobiography

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   Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl

   Carrie Brownstein

   Music History · Musician · Finding Purpose · Autobiography · Celebrity Memoir

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   Everybody's Fly: A Life of Art, Music, and Changing the Culture

   Fab 5 Freddy

   Music History · Artist Protagonist · New York City · Memoir & Biography · Finding Purpose

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4. 

   Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division

   Peter Hook

   Punk Subculture · Musician · Music History · Celebrity Memoir · Autobiography

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5. 

   Bad Boy: A Memoir

   Walter Dean Myers

   Autobiography · Finding Purpose · Writer Protagonist · Memoir & Biography · Nostalgic

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6. 

   Girl in a Band

   Kim Gordon

   Punk Subculture · Musician · Autobiography · Celebrity Memoir · Memoir & Biography

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7. 

   I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie

   Pamela Des Barres

   Music History · Nostalgic · Autobiography · Celebrity Memoir · Memoir & Biography

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8. 

   Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

   Steve Martin

   Artist Protagonist · Memoir & Biography · Autobiography · Musician · Nostalgic

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9. 

   A Visit from the Goon Squad

   Jennifer Egan

   Punk Subculture · Nostalgic · Musician · New York City · Bittersweet

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10. 

    Tuesday Nights in 1980

    Molly Prentiss

    Artist Protagonist · Punk Subculture · New York City · Nostalgic · Lyrical Prose

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11. 

    Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock's Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout

    Laura Jane Grace

    Punk Subculture · Autobiography · Celebrity Memoir · Musician · Music History

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12. 

    Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

    Cheryl Strayed

    Autobiography · Finding Purpose · Memoir & Biography · Bittersweet · Writer Protagonist

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13. 

    Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd

    Nick Mason

    Music History · Celebrity Memoir · Autobiography · Musician · Memoir & Biography

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14. 

    Punk Rock Blitzkrieg: My Life as a Ramone

    Marky Ramone, Rich Herschlag

    Punk Subculture · Music History · Autobiography · Celebrity Memoir · Memoir & Biography

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15. 

    A Moveable Feast

    Ernest Hemingway

    Autobiography · Nostalgic · Writer Protagonist · Memoir & Biography · Bittersweet

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16. 

    Life

    Keith Richards

    Musician · Music History · Memoir & Biography · Autobiography · Nostalgic

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17. 

    700 Sundays

    Billy Crystal

    Nostalgic · Autobiography · Memoir & Biography · New York City · Celebrity Memoir

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18. 

    Love Is a Mix Tape

    Rob Sheffield

    Music History · Nostalgic · Memoir & Biography · Autobiography · Writer Protagonist

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19. 

    Chronicles, Vol. 1

    Bob Dylan

    Music History · Autobiography · Musician · Nostalgic · Memoir & Biography

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20. 

    It's a Long Story: My Life

    Willie Nelson, David Ritz

    Music History · Musician · Autobiography · Celebrity Memoir · Memoir & Biography

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