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Books like The disaster artist
A hilarious, jaw-dropping, and surprisingly tender exploration of a spectacularly bizarre friendship and the making of a cinematic disaster. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with The disaster artist.
- absurd
- chaotic
- surreal
- strangely poignant
- 01
Carsick
John Waters
A wickedly funny, subversive road trip that blurs the line between outrageous fantasy and the astonishing generosity of everyday strangers.
- 02
It Gets Worse
Shane Dawson
A chaotic, laugh-out-loud trip through the most mortifying moments of a millennial internet icon's life.
- 03
The Dirt
Tommy Lee
A chaotic, unapologetic plunge into the absolute extremes of rock-and-roll hedonism and its devastating hangovers.
- 04
Furiously Happy
Jenny Lawson
A wildly tangential, laugh-out-loud manifesto on fighting crippling depression with weaponized absurdity.
- 05
Just Kids
Patti Smith · 2006
A tender, poetic elegy to a transformative friendship and the gritty, magical crucible of 1970s bohemian New York.
- 06
The Library Book
Susan Orlean
A love letter to the magic of public spaces wrapped inside a captivating true-crime mystery.
- 07
Endurance
Scott Kelly
A grounded, gritty look at the physical and mental toll of living among the stars.
- 08
Shrill
Lindy West
A hilarious, battle-tested manifesto for taking up space and refusing to apologize for it.
- 09
Role Models
John Waters
A gleefully subversive self-portrait painted through intimate, amusing, and happily horrifying profiles of eccentric inspirations.
- 10
Horror Movie
Paul Tremblay
A dread-soaked, meta-fictional descent into the dark, obsessive heart of cursed media and the ghosts we invite back in.
- 11
Broken
Jenny Lawson
A wildly funny, deeply vulnerable plunge into the chaotic reality of living with severe mental illness.
- 12
The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls
An unsentimental, deeply affecting journey through a childhood defined by both breathtaking freedom and devastating neglect.
