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10 best books like Everybody into the Pool: True Tales (Beth Lisick): Plenty Enough Suck to Go Around, Fighting Fire, Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers, Fogtown, The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America, Miss American Pie: A Diary of Love, Secrets and Growing Up in the 1970s, Breakfast with Tiffany: An Uncle's Memoir, Loser Goes First: My Thirty-Something Years of Dumb Luck and Minor Humiliation, Cabin Pressure: One Man's Desperate Attempt to Recapture His Youth as a Camp Counselor, Bald in the Land of Big Hair: A True Story

Plenty Enough Suck to Go Around
AuthorCheryl Wagner
ISBN0806531037
Print and public-radio journalist Wagner describes rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina...Despite Kafkaesque experiences with the infamous bureaucratic mess that threatened to undo New Orleans once and for all, the couple held on to their optimism for the city and their little piece of it. Wagner...
Fighting Fire
AuthorCaroline Paul
ISBN0312970005
She fought the prejudice. She fought the stereotype. Then she fought the greatest force of all-- fire.

When the San Francisco Fire Department broke their all-male rule to hire women, Caroline Paul never thought she'd be chosen. She had already enrolled in film school. And Caroline, a strikingly...
Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers
AuthorKaty Lederer
ISBN1400052769
“The intricacies of family and the complexities of the games they play mingle wonderfully here in a memoir quite unlike any other.”—George Plimpton, author of Truman Capote

Katy Lederer grew up on the bucolic campus of an exclusive East Coast boarding school where her father taught...
Fogtown
AuthorAndersen Gabrych
ISBN1401213847
A gritty, graphic pulp fiction about the temptation, damnation and redemption of Frank Grissel, an aging, hard-knuckled private eye--and a deeply closeted homosexual, set in the very real world of 1953 San Francisco.

Aided by his long-suffering secretary (and sometime live-in lover)...
The Passionate Mistakes and Intricate Corruption of One Girl in America
AuthorMichelle Tea
ISBN1570270740
"Passionate Mistakes" helped catapult the nascent queer girl culture of San Francisco's Mission district to the world. The novel charts the turbulent adventures of one girl in America as she moves from Boston's teenage goth world to whoring in New Age Tucson before finally arriving in San Francisco's...
Miss American Pie: A Diary of Love, Secrets and Growing Up in the 1970s
AuthorMargaret Sartor
ISBN1596912014
Margaret Sartor, a fiercely determined girl from rural Louisiana, who is equal parts "Holden Caulfield and Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" (Atlanta Journal Constitution), presents a poignant portrait of American life during the 1970s. Crafted from diaries, notebooks, and letters, this deeply personal...
Breakfast with Tiffany: An Uncle's Memoir
AuthorEdwin John Wintle
Edwin Wintle was a successful, urbane professional whose life, at forty, was very comfortable. He had reached the point when he looked around at his well-ordered, unfettered existence and wondered, "Is this all there is?" After a desperate call from his sister at her wit's end, his street-wise thirteen-year-old...
Loser Goes First: My Thirty-Something Years of Dumb Luck and Minor Humiliation
AuthorDan Kennedy
ISBN1400053749
It all begins on Christmas morning, 1978. Dan Kennedy is ten years old and wants a black Gibson Les Paul guitar, the kind Peter Frampton plays. It will be his passport to the coolest (only) band in the neighborhood—Jokerz. He doesn’t get it. Instead, his parents present him with what they think he...
Cabin Pressure: One Man's Desperate Attempt to Recapture His Youth as a Camp Counselor
AuthorJosh Wolk
ISBN1401302602
What happens when a grown man returns to the site of his fondest childhood memories? A wry, clear-eyed, and laugh-out-loud look at the transition to adulthoodThree months before getting married at age thirty-four, Josh Wolk decides to treat himself to a "farewell to childhood" extravaganza: one...
Bald in the Land of Big Hair: A True Story
AuthorJoni Rodgers
ISBN0060955260
Bald in the Land of Big Hair is the hilarious—and often heartbreaking—tale of Joni Rodgers's journey through the badlands of cancer told with humor, occasional anger, and unflinching honesty. More than just a cancer book, this is a deeply affecting memoir of one woman's struggle to come to terms...
Not a Happy Camper: A Memoir
AuthorMindy Schneider
ISBN0802118488
Remember those long sultry summer days at camp, the sun setting over the lake as you sang Kumbaya? Well, Mindy Schneider remembers her summer at Camp Kin-A-Hurra in 1974 just a wee bit differently. Not a Happy Camper chronicles a young girl’s adventures at a camp where the sun never shines, the breakfast...
Confessions of a Recovering Slut: And Other Love Stories
AuthorHollis Gillespie
ISBN0060834382
The next "screamingly hilarious"(Miami Herald) installment in the wild ride that is the life of Hollis Gillespie.

Confessions of a Recovering Slut is the hilarious and often heartrending sequel to Bleachy–Haired Honky Bitch, which concludes with Hollis Gillespie, the daughter of a...
Spygirl: True Adventures from My Life as a Private Eye
AuthorAmy Gray
ISBN0812971523
While her friends are making mad cash and getting massages at their dot-com jobs, Amy Gray quits her low-status publishing position to realize her girlhood dream of being a private investigator. Joining a small Manhattan agency, she finds herself plunged into an intriguing world of “con men, lunatics,...
Breakup: The End of a Love Story
AuthorCatherine Texier
ISBN0385495234
I will never forgive you.
I will never make love with you again.
I do not love you anymore.

Breakup is the erotically charged chronicle of the tempestuous final months of an eighteen-year romantic and literary partnership, self-destructing in the aftermath of the ultimate betrayal....
Depth Takes a Holiday
AuthorSandra Tsing Loh
ISBN1573226114
I love the writing of Sandra Tsing Loh because she is incredibly witty and acerbic, and doesn't take herself or anything too seriously. And, she can write about the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles in language that makes it sound downright pleasant.
Loh is the Queen of the San Fernando Valley,...
Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants: Based on a True Story
AuthorJill Soloway
ISBN0743272188
From the creator and director of Transparent and Emmy nominated writer for Six Feet Under comes a hilarious and unforgettable memoir.

When Jill Soloway was just thirteen, she and her best friend donned the tightest satin pants they could find, poufed up their hair and squeezed into Candies...
Bare: The Naked Truth About Stripping
AuthorElisabeth Eaves
ISBN1580051219
Her curiosity began as a teenager, with an awareness of her body and the reaction other people had to it. It continued with the realization that women’s bodies often gave them a strange power over men. As an adult, it became a fascination with professional sex workers, leading to a plunge into their...
The Sound of No Hands Clapping
AuthorToby Young
ISBN0306814560
Young is back with the eagerly awaited follow-up to his account of a hilariously failed attempt to conquer the Manhattan social and professional scene in How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. All the elements that turned Toby's earlier memoir into a bestseller from coast to coast and on both sides...
Mortified
AuthorDavid Nadelberg
ISBN1416928073
Share the shame.

In the days before blogs, teenagers recorded their lives with a pen in top-secret notebooks, usually emblazoned with an earnest, underlined plea to parents to keep away. Since 2002, David Nadelberg has tapped that vast wellspring of adolescent anguish in the stage show Mortified,...
Swish: My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever
AuthorJoel Derfner
ISBN0767924304
Joel Derfner is gayer than you.

Don’t feel too bad about it, though, because he has made being gayer than you his life’s work. At summer day camp, when he was six, Derfner tried to sign up for needlepoint and flower arranging, but the camp counselors wouldn’t let him, because, they said,...
Cad: Confessions of a Toxic Bachelor
AuthorRick Marin
ISBN0786868821
You know him. He's the funny, sweet guy with the great eyes who asks you a million questions and seems mesmerized by every reply. He takes you on the greatest, longest date of your life. He swears he loves cats and cuddling. And his apartment is so clean. He just might be the One.

Then he doesn't call,...
Why Is My Mother Getting a Tattoo?: And Other Questions I Wish I Never Had to Ask
AuthorJancee Dunn
ISBN0345501926
Despite her forty years and a successful career as a rock journalist, Jancee Dunn still feels like a teenager, especially around her parents and sisters. Looking around, Dunn realizes that she’s not alone in this regression: Her friends, all with successful jobs, marriages, and families of their...
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