Books like The Basketball diaries
The Basketball diaries by Jim Carroll reads as raw, gritty. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Hit #29
Joey. · 1974
Shares the vvoice + vhypno thread
69% genome match
Atop an Underwood
Jack Kerouac · 1999
Shares the comingofage + vvoice thread
69% genome match
American Junkie
Tom Hansen · 2010
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69% genome match
Please kill me
Legs McNeil · 1997
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69% genome match
Walking through clear water in a pool painted black
Cookie Mueller · 1990
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69% genome match
You Can't Win
Jack Black · 1926
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69% genome match
Sing Backwards and Weep
Mark Lanegan · 2020
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69% genome match
How to murder your life
Cat Marnell · 2017
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69% genome match
I Was a Teenage Dominatrix
Shawna Kenney · 1999
Shares the comingofage + vvoice thread
69% genome match
Another Brooklyn
Jacqueline Woodson · 2016
Shares the comingofage + vhypno thread
69% genome match
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls
T. Kira Madden · 2019
Shares the comingofage + vhypno thread
69% genome match
Close to the Knives
David Wojnarowicz · 1991
Shares the vhypno thread
69% genome match
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