Professional Idiot: A Memoir

10 best books like Professional Idiot: A Memoir (Stephen "Steve-O" Glover): The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star, Inside Out, Rites of Passage, Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism, Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future (And a Way to Get There from Here), Swish: My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever, Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums, The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory, Master Your Memory, The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People

The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star

Author	Nikki Sixx
ISBN	1847371663

A dark year in the life of Nikki Sixx

Although a member of other bands Nikki Sixx is best known as co-founder, bassist, and primary songwriter for the band Mötley Crüe.

A few years ago I was on a memoir kick and I ended up reading a few written by some current and former rock stars. I was...

Inside Out

Author	Demi Moore
ISBN	0062049534

Famed American actress Demi Moore at last tells her own story in a surprisingly intimate and emotionally charged memoir.

For decades, Demi Moore has been synonymous with celebrity. From iconic film roles to high-profile relationships, Moore has never been far from the spotlight—or the...

Rites of Passage

Author	William Golding
ISBN	0571209432

Well, William Golding, sir. You achieved something that not many men have done. You brought me very close to tears.
This novel really produced an amazingly strong emotional response in me. Odd, in that it keeps the reader at arm's length for much of Edmund Talbot's narrative. Young William is a prig...

Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism

Author	Natasha Walter
ISBN	1844084841

Empowerment, liberation, choice. Once the watchwords of feminism, these terms have now been co-opted by a society that sells women an airbrushed, highly sexualised and increasingly narrow vision of femininity. While the opportunities available to women may have expanded, the ambitions of many...

Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future (And a Way to Get There from Here)

Author	Bruce H. Lipton
ISBN	1591799643

If looking at today's headlines makes you wonder about the fate of our planet, here is some news that may surprise you: from an evolutionary standpoint, we are exactly where we need to be.

According to eminent biologist Bruce H. Lipton and political and cultural commentator Steve Bhaerman,...

Swish: My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever

Author	Joel Derfner
ISBN	0767924304

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,...

Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums

Author	Travis Barker
ISBN	0062319426

Travis Barker’s soul-baring memoir chronicles the highlights and lowlights of the renowned drummer’s art and his life, including the harrowing plane crash that nearly killed him and his traumatic road to recovery—a fascinating never-before-told-in-full story of personal reinvention...

The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

Author	Corey White
ISBN	0670079340

The current thinking in social work circles is that there are better long-term outcomes for children left with their family in an unstable home, than those removed and placed in foster care. This was in the back of my mind as I read comedian Corey White's recently published memoir, The Prettiest Horse...

Master Your Memory

Author

Ron Fry

Want to retain more of what you read, perform better on tests, or just remember where you left your car keys? Author Ron Fry’s effective system has helped hundreds of thousands of people successfully adapt today’s best memorization techniques to their own needs and situations. Packed with quizzes...

The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People

Author	David Niven
ISBN	0062517716

What are the keys to success? Scientists have studied the traits, beliefs, and practices of successful people in all walks of life. But the answers they find wind up in stuffy academic journals aimed at other scientists.

The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People takes the best and most important...

The Scientist: A Novel Autobiography

Author	John C. Lilly
ISBN	0397012748

[Review contains spoilers. I haven't read this book for a couple of years, and write this review based on my impressions after this time.]

This book is fascinating not least because Lilly lived a very unusual life, but also because it is an expression of a self-confessed ketamine addict, and...