18 books like The Kid Stays in the Picture

What to read after The Kid Stays in the Picture — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

My autobiography Charlie Chaplin · 1964 · ★ 3.7 · 528p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Shares Motion Picture Producers and Directors, Motion picture actors and actresses, Actors, Motion Pictures with this book.

The Hunger Whitley Strieber · 1981 · ★ 4.4 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Movie tie-in edition. Front cover art of Catherine Deneuve; back cover photos of Deneuve, David Bowie and Susan Sarandon. Shares Movies, Motion Pictures

Mr. Nice Howard Marks · 1996 · 468p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

The Library of American Biography Jared Sparks · 1846 · 402p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

Marse Henry : An Autobiography Henry Watterson · 1919 · 325p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

A history of autobiography in antiquity

A history of autobiography in antiquity Georg Misch · 1950 · 364p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

Missing Persons

Missing Persons Mary Evans · 1998 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

Two Sisters Gore Vidal · 1970 · ★ 5.0 · 236p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Originally published in 1970 this fairly short novel (174 pages) contains, according to the blurb on the dust jacket of the first edition, “Gore Vidal’s singular speculations on love, sex, death, literature and politics.” Shares Biography & Memoir

Autobiography

Autobiography Anderson L Staff · 2001 · 166p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

Ingrid Bergman Ingrid Bergman · 1980 · ★ 4.0 · 484p · ≈ 16h · Moderate from the front flap: "More than just an account of [Ingrid Bergman's] illustrious career, here is a totally candid self-portrait of a remarkable woman: her personal failures as well as her public successes." Shares Motion picture actors and actresses, Actors, Biography & Memoir

The Princess Diarist Carrie Fisher · 2016 · ★ 4.0 · 270p · ≈ 9h · Moderate In 1976, Carrie Fisher was a teenager filming a movie, with an all-consuming crush on her costar. And it just happened to become one of the most famous films of all time -- the first Star wars movie. When she recently discovered the journals she had kept, she found them full of plaintive love poems, unbridled musings with youthful naiveté, and a vulnerability that she barely recognized. In… Shares Motion picture actors and actresses, Actors, Biography & Memoir

20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth Xiaolu Guo · 2008 · ★ 4.0 · 208p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares Actors with this book.

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… Shares Actors, Biography & Memoir

Get Shorty

Get Shorty Elmore Leonard · 1990 · ★ 4.0 · 292p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Mob-connected loanshark Chili Palmer is sick of the Miami grind -- plus his "friends" have a bad habit of dying there. So when he chases a deadbeat client out to Hollywood, Chili figures he might like to stay. This town with its dreammakers, glitter, hucksters, and liars -- plus gorgeous, partially clad would-be starlets everywhere you look -- seems ideal for an enterprising criminal with a taste… Shares Motion Picture Producers and Directors, Motion picture actors and actresses

Take Four Karen Kingsbury · 2010 · ★ 4.4 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate The Above the Line Series follows two dedicated Hollywood producers as they seek to transform the culture through the power of film. After Chase Ryan returns to his family and a job in his hometown, his best friend and fellow filmmaker Keith Ellison pairs up with former Hollywood heartthrob Dayne Matthews to finish following the dream---making movies that might change the world. In this Take… Shares Motion Picture Producers and Directors, Motion Pictures

Torches Together Emmy Arnold · 1964 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Moderate **Not many people talk about "joy" these days.** Emmy Arnold's memoir radiates just that - an enthusiasm for life and an unflagging optimism grounded in faith. In a genre awash in sordid sex and dysfunctional relationships, she offers a refreshing account of a hard life lived victoriously, of people brought together, despite their own weakness and turbulent times, to experience new levels of… Shares Biography & Memoir

Catch and Kill Ronan Farrow · 2018 · ★ 4.5 · 472p · ≈ 15h · Moderate In this newly updated edition of the “meticulous and devastating” (Associated Press) account of violence and espionage that spent months on the New York Times Bestsellers list, Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost – from Hollywood to Washington and beyond. In 2017, a routine network television investigation led to… Shares Motion Picture Producers and Directors, Motion picture actors and actresses

Impressions of America during the years 1833, 1834, and 1835 Power, Tyrone · 1836 · 232p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Shares Actors, Biography & Memoir with this book.

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