Bully: a True Story of High School Revenge

8 best books like Bully: a True Story of High School Revenge (Jim Schutze): Mysterious Skin, The Basketball Diaries, Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland, BLOW: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel And Lost It All, Riding in Cars with Boys: Confessions of a Bad Girl Who Makes Good, Fear and Loathing: The Strange and Terrible Saga of Hunter S. Thompson, Gonzo, Taken

Mysterious Skin

Author	Scott Heim
ISBN	0060841699

At the age of eight Brian Lackey is found bleeding under the crawl space of his house, having endured something so traumatic that he cannot remember an entire five–hour period of time.

During the following years he slowly recalls details from that night, but these fragments are not enough...

The Basketball Diaries

Author

Jim Carroll

The urban classic coming-of-age story about sex, drugs, and basketball.

Jim Carroll grew up to become a renowned poet and punk rocker. But in this memoir of the mid-1960's, set during his coming-of-age from 12 to 15, he was a rebellious teenager making a place and a name for himself on the unforgiving...

Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland

Author	James St. James
ISBN	0743259823

Murder Was Never So Much Fun! When Disco Bloodbath was first published, it created a storm of controversy for its startlingly vivid, strikingly fresh, and outrageously funny depiction of the hedonistic world of the New York City club kids, for whom nothing was too outré -- including murder. Nominated...

BLOW: How a Small-Town Boy Made $100 Million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel And Lost It All

Author	Bruce Porter
ISBN	0312267126

BLOW is the unlikely story of George Jung's roller coaster ride from middle-class high school football hero to the heart of Pable Escobar's Medellin cartel-- the largest importer of the United States cocaine supply in the 1980s. Jung's early business of flying marijuana into the United States from...

Riding in Cars with Boys: Confessions of a Bad Girl Who Makes Good

Author	Beverly Donofrio
ISBN	1860499473

Trouble began in 1963. I'm not blaming it on President Kennedy's assassination or its being the beginning of the sixties or the Vietnam War or The Beatles. The trouble I'm talking about was my first real trouble, the age-old trouble. The getting in trouble as in Is she in trouble? trouble. As in pregnant....

Fear and Loathing: The Strange and Terrible Saga of Hunter S. Thompson

Author	Paul Perry
ISBN	1560256052

Fear and Loathing creates a sharp and savvy profile of one of the most provocative voices and distinctive personalities of our time. To Hunter S. Thompson, being a Gonzo journalist means doing whatever it takes to get to the truth; everything from dropping acid with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters...

Gonzo

Author	Hunter S. Thompson
ISBN	0978607600

This is more of an art book, with maybe a 25-page bio of the Doctor written by Ben Corbett. But the next 220-some pages are nothing but pure joy in the form of old photos from Thompson. It's great to see candid snapshots of his famed trip to Vegas, pictures of all of the anti-drug pamphlets he got at the narcotics...

Taken

Author	Chris Jordan
ISBN	0778322939

No parent believes it can happen to them -- their child taken from a suburban schoolyard in the gentle hours of dusk. But as widowed mother Kate Bickford discovers, everything can change in the blink of an eye. One minute her lanky, amazing, maddening Tommy is begging for ice cream. Then in a terrible instant,...