Books › Small Fry › Books like it
If you loved
Books like Small Fry
A beautifully rendered, aching exploration of what it means to grow up in the shadow of a myth. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Small Fry.
- melancholic
- yearning
- sun-drenched
- tense
- 01
Steve Jobs
Karen Blumenthal
An engaging, accessible portrait of a brilliant but complicated mind that redefined how we interact with technology.
- 02
Creative Selection
Ken Kocienda
A quiet, meticulous look over the shoulder of a craftsman building the digital tools that changed the world.
- 03
Becoming Steve Jobs
Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli
An intimate, deeply humanizing portrait of how a brilliant but flawed founder learned to actually lead.
- 04
iWoz
Steve Wozniak and Gina Smith · 2006
A joyful, geeky conversation with the ultimate hardware hacker about the pure thrill of invention.
- 05
Priestdaddy
Patricia Lockwood
A wildly poetic, laugh-out-loud descent into the absurdities of a deeply eccentric Catholic upbringing.
- 06
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
A gripping, unvarnished portrait of how ferocious drive and uncompromising vision can change the world while leaving a trail of personal wreckage.
- 07
Steve Jobs
Carol Kelly-Gangi
A sleek, thematic distillation of a visionary's thoughts on business, innovation, and life.
- 08
The chronology of water
Lidia Yuknavitch
A raw, untraditional plunge into grief, fluid sexuality, and the fierce current of survival.
- 09
Jony Ive
Leander Kahney
A sleek, admiring portrait of the quiet perfectionist who shaped the modern technological aesthetic.
- 10
The Woman Warrior
Maxine Hong Kingston · 1976
A fierce, myth-soaked exploration of girlhood, ghosts, and the struggle to forge a voice between two colliding worlds.
- 11
Who Was Steve Jobs?
Meg Belviso
An energetic, accessible journey into the mind of a restless innovator who changed how the world communicates.
- 12
The One Device
Brian Merchant
A globetrotting, investigative journey that shatters the myth of the lone genius to reveal the sprawling, messy human reality behind a sleek modern marvel.
