18 books like The Princess Diarist

What to read after The Princess Diarist — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

The Kid Stays in the Picture Robert Evans · 1995 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate An autobiographical account of the life and times of Robert Evans, Hollywood producer who worked on Love Story, Rosemary's Baby, The Godfather, Marathon Man, Chinatown The Cottonwood Club and many other films. Shares: Motion picture actors and actresses, Actors, Biography & Memoir

The Chaperone Laura Moriarty · 2012 · ★ 4.0 · 419p · ≈ 13h · Moderate "A novel about the friendship between an adolescent, pre-movie-star Louise Brooks, and the 36-year-old woman who chaperones her to New York City for a summer, in 1922, and how it changes both their lives"-- Shares: Motion picture actors and actresses, Actors, Literary

Z.E.O Scott Kenemore · 2009 · ★ 4.0 From professional athletes like Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan to philosophers like Confucius, inspirational business books love to suggest that readers can succeed in business and in life by adopting the traits of their famous subjects. In Z.E.O. by Scott Kenemore, frustrated employees will finally find inspiration in a source they can already relate to: zombies! A guide for any Joe-lunchbox or… Shares: Form, Humor

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

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: Motion picture actors and actresses, Actors, Biography & Memoir

Cheaper by the Dozen (Cheaper by the Dozen #1) Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. · 1948 · ★ 4.2 · 245p · ≈ 8h · Challenging A wonderful memoir of a large and wild family during the early part of the 20th century. The "progressive" parenting and lifestyle of the parents, the hilarious trials and tribulations of the children, and the many adventures through these very interesting decades provide an engrossing and endearing read. Shares: American Authors, Humor, Biography & Memoir

The faraway nearby Rebecca Solnit · 2013 · ★ 4.2 · 259p · ≈ 8h · Moderate A companion to "A Field Guide for Getting Lost" explores the ways that people construct lives from stories and connect to each other through empathy, narrative, and imagination, sharing anecdotes about historical figures and members of the author's own family. Shares: Personal Memoirs, Literary, 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

Calypso David Sedaris · 1900 · ★ 4.1 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Personal essays share the author's adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality. Shares: Form, Essays, Humor, Biography & Memoir

Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel · 2014 · ★ 4.1 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate One snowy night Arthur Leander, a famous actor, has a heart attack onstage during a production of "King Lear." Jeevan Chaudhary, a paparazzo-turned-EMT, is in the audience and leaps to his aid. A child actress named Kirsten Raymonde watches in horror as Jeevan performs CPR, pumping Arthur's chest as the curtain drops, but Arthur is dead. That same night, as Jeevan walks home from the theater, a… Shares: Actors, Literary

Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1902 · ★ 3.8 · 31p · ≈ 1h · Challenging A new, wide-ranging selection of Ralph Waldo Emerson's most influential writings, this edition captures the essence of American Transcendentalism and illustrates the breadth of one of America's greatest philosophers and poets.The writings featured here show Emerson as a protester against social conformity, a lover of nature, an activist for the rights of women and slaves, and a poet of great… Shares: American Authors, Essays

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: Personal Memoirs, Essays, Humor, Biography & Memoir

Committed Elizabeth Gilbert · 2010 · ★ 3.5 · 300p · ≈ 10h · Moderate At the end of her bestselling memoir "Eat, Pray, Love", Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe - a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who'd been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any circumstances get legally married. (Both survivors of difficult divorces. Enough said.) But… Shares: Personal Memoirs, Humor, Biography & Memoir

Yet again Sir Max Beerbohm · 1909 · 86p · ≈ 2h · Challenging This book is perfectly adapted and layout for a pleasant reading on a tablet, smartphone or computer. To improve your reading experience, this digital version has been edited and formatted according to the requirements of this platform. Shares: Essays

And Even Now Sir Max Beerbohm · 1920 · 150p · ≈ 5h · Challenging This book is perfectly adapted and layout for a pleasant reading on a tablet, smartphone or computer. To improve your reading experience, this digital version has been edited and formatted according to the requirements of this platform. Shares: Essays

Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion George Bernard Shaw · 1900 · 58p · ≈ 1h · Challenging The French Revolution overthrew one set of rulers and substituted another with different interests and different views. That is what a general election enables the people to do in England every seven years if they choose. Revolution is therefore a national institution in England; and its advocacy by an Englishman needs no apology. Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands.… Shares: Essays

Hausblätter F. W. Hackländer · 1855 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Challenging Shares: Essays

Escape, and other essays Arthur Christopher Benson · 1915 · ★ 5.0 · 302p · ≈ 10h · Challenging This book is romantic story, I walked to-day down by the river side. The Cam is a stream much slighted by the lover of wild and romantic scenery; and its chief merit, in the eyes of our boys, is that it approaches more nearly to a canal in its straightness and the deliberation of its slow lapse than many more famous floods--and is therefore more adapted for the maneuvres of eight-oared boats! But… Shares: Essays

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