18 books like The Fry Chronicles

What to read after The Fry Chronicles — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

What I Know For Sure Oprah Winfrey · 2014 · ★ 4.5 · 228p · ≈ 7h · Moderate "After film critic Gene Siskel asked her, "What do you know for sure?" Oprah Winfrey began writing the "What I Know For Sure" column in O, The Oprah Magazine. Saying that the question offered her a way to take "stock of her life," Oprah has penned one column a month over the last fourteen years, years in which she retired The Oprah Winfrey Show (the highest-rated program of its kind in history),… Shares: Television personalities, Actors, Biography & Memoir

Bossypants Tina Fey · 2011 · ★ 4.0 · 277p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Tina Fey’s new book Bossypants is short, messy, and impossibly funny (an apt description of the comedian herself). From her humble roots growing up in Pennsylvania to her days doing amateur improv in Chicago to her early sketches on Saturday Night Live, Fey gives us a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain of modern comedy with equal doses of wit, candor, and self-deprecation. Some of the… Shares: Television personalities, Comedians, Biography & Memoir

Paul Kelver Jerome Klapka Jérôme · 1902 · 322p · ≈ 10h · Challenging IN WHICH THE AUTHOR SEEKS TO CAST THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THIS STORY UPON ANOTHER. Shares: English Authors, Authors, Biography & Memoir

Born a Crime Trevor Noah · 2016 · ★ 4.5 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would… Shares: Television personalities, Comedians, Biography & Memoir

My autobiography Charlie Chaplin · 1964 · ★ 4.0 · 528p · ≈ 17h · Moderate “Charlie Chaplin's own Story” is the first of Chaplin's two published autobiographies : being a faithful recital of a romantic career, beginning with early recollections of boyhood in London and closing with the signing, in 1916, of his latest motion-picture of a $670,000 contract. Shares: Comedians, Actors, Biography & Memoir

Leslie F*cking Jones Leslie Jones · 2023 · ★ 4.1 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate “Now, I’m gonna be honest: Some of the details might be vague because a btch is fifty-five and she’s smoked a ton of weed. But while bits might be a touch hazy, I can promise you the underlying truth is REAL. Whether I’m talking about my childhood growing up in the South, my early stand-up days driving from gig to gig through the darkest parts of our country and praying I wouldn’t get murdered,… Shares: Comedians, Biography & Memoir

Malory Christina Hardyment · 2005 · ★ 3.9 · 634p · ≈ 21h · Moderate Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur (1469) is one of the most renown books in the world. Virtually all modern versions of the Arthurian legends are derived from its energetic, memorably phrased and remarkably individual telling of the stirring exploits of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. Yet the identity of the fifteenth-century knight who wrote it has remained an enigma for… Shares: English Authors, Authors, Great Britain, Biography & Memoir

Becoming Maria Sonia Manzano · 2015 · ★ 3.7 · 267p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Set in the 1950s in the Bronx, this is the story of a girl with a dream. Emmy award-winning actress and writer Sonia Manzano plunges us into the daily lives of a Latino family that is loving--and troubled. This is Sonia's own story rendered with an unforgettable narrative power. When readers meet young Sonia, she is a child living amidst the squalor of a boisterous home that is filled with noisy… Shares: Television actors and actresses, Biography & Memoir

Here Lies Eric Ambler · 1985 · 234p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Winner of the Edgar Award, Eric Ambler’s autobiography Here Lies is an intriguing look inside the mind of one of our greatest thriller writers. Here the famously recalcitrant Ambler peels back the layers of experience that affected his life with the same skill he uses to unfold the plots of his novels. His South London childhood; his brief engineering career, which he gave up to work in theater;… Shares: English Authors, Authors, Biography & Memoir

Cowper Goldwin Smith · 1800 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Challenging In this masterful biography, Goldwin Smith presents the life and works of William Cowper (1731-1800), whom Samuel Taylor Coleridge called “the best modern poet". Tracing Cowper's life—from his beginnings in England to his death—Smith analyzes his major lyrical works and as well as his hymns. Smith also offers an examination of the writer's lasting influence on Romantic poetry. Shares: English Authors, Authors, Biography & Memoir

On a Chinese screen William Somerset Maugham · 1922 · 242p · ≈ 8h · Challenging On a Chinese Screen was first published in 1922 by Heinemann Publishers, London. Its 58 short vignettes are based on Maugham’s travels along the Yangtze River from 1919 to 1920. Although later editions of the book added the subtitle “Sketches of Life in China,” there are actually only a few descriptions of the places he visited and the local Chinese people he met; rather, Maugham focuses on… Shares: English Authors, Authors, Biography & Memoir

A Certain Chemistry Mil Millington · 2003 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate "Brooding, self-loathing Tom Cartwright is a modestly successful ghostwriter whose ability to spell correctly and meet his deadlines has landed him the job of writing the autobiography of the wildly popular soap-opera star Georgina Nye. His imbibing, chain-smoking agent is swooning, and his offbeat, sweetly supportive live-in girlfriend of five years, Sara, is ecstatic?new carpets!Yet even as he… Shares: Television actors and actresses, Biography & Memoir

Nigger Dick Gregory · 1965 · ★ 4.3 · 209p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Gregory told his story in an extremely honest way. It starts off almost in a reflective state, with him speaking to his mother in his own way. He moves on to talk about his childhood, which was unpleasant to say the least. How he, along with many other people who live under those conditions, survived it is a testament to itself. He had a lot of help along the way from friends, family, associates,… Shares: Comedians, Biography & Memoir

Conversations with Brando Lawrence Grobel · 1991 · ★ 4.0 · 209p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Marlon Brando ha sido considerado como el mejor actor del siglo XX, el actor por antonomasia. Un ser excéntrico y extraño, pero, también, genial y extremadamente humano. En definitiva, la expresión máxima de lo que entendemos como un espíritu libre, constituido en auténtico mito del cine. Sin duda, una obra única y especial, por tratarse de un documento de primera mano en el que Marlon Brando se… Shares: Actors, Biography & Memoir

The Life of Charlotte Bronte Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell · 1857 · 411p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Intertwining fact and story, The Life of Charlotte Bronte takes the reader by one hand and Charlotte Bronte by the other to run rampant through the making of one of the greatest authoresses of all time. Follow Charlotte from her birthplace of Thornton as she sets off for school and later returns to teach her sisters, and come to know the “characteristic kindness of the Brontes.” This… Shares: English Authors, Authors, Biography & Memoir

Mosaic Holroyd, Michael. · 2004 · ★ 3.9 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate A love story, a detective story, a book of secrets, a beautifully written journey into a forest of family trees. After writing the definitive biographies of Lytton Strachey and George Bernard Shaw, Michael Holroyd turned his hand to a more personal subject: his own family. The result was Basil Street Blues, published in 1999. But rather than the story being over, it was in fact only beginning. As… Shares: English Authors, Authors, Great Britain, Biography & Memoir

Wild Wales George Henry Borrow · 1798 · 608p · ≈ 20h · Demanding Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery is a travel book by the English Victorian gentleman writer George Borrow (1803–1881), first published in 1862. Shares: English Authors, Great Britain, Biography & Memoir

Origins of the individualist self Michael Mascuch · 1996 · 288p · ≈ 9h · Moderate This book traces the emergence of the concept of self-identity in modern Western culture, as it was both reflected in and advanced by the development of autobiographical practice in early modern England. It offers a fresh and illuminating appraisal of the nature of autobiographical narrative in general and of the early modern forms of biography, diary and autobiography in particular. The result… Shares: English Authors, Authors, Great Britain, Biography & Memoir

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