Books like Tropic of Capricorn
Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller reads as raw, provocative. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
Diary of a teenage girl
Phoebe Gloeckner · 2002
Reads raw in the same way — and goes just as deep on sexuality and art.
Baby driver
Jan Kerouac · 1981
Reads raw in the same way — and goes just as deep on rebellion.
My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness
Kabi Nagata · 2016
A raw, confessional autobiographical manga that alternates painful self-examination with wry self-deprecation, using simple expressive art to render loneliness, sexuality, and mental illness with disarming honesty.
How To Slowly Kill Yourself And Others In America Essays
Kiese Laymon · 2013
A raw, self-interrogating essay collection confronting racism, family, and self-destruction in America with unflinching candor.
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things
JT LeRoy · 2001
Same raw register, circling identity and poverty from its own angle.
My New York Diary
Julie Doucet · 1999
Reads raw in the same way — and goes just as deep on identity and sexuality.
Hell's Angel
Ralph Barger · 2000
Another road into rebellion, taken at steady pacing.
Walking through clear water in a pool painted black
Cookie Mueller · 1990
A collection of unflinching autobiographical stories from an underground art-scene icon, chronicling a life lived on the fringes of Baltimore and New York.
So sad today
Melissa Broder · 2016
Reads like scrolling a very online, very anxious confessional feed turned essays — rapid, self-lacerating jokes about panic, sex, and addiction that puncture the humor with real bleakness.
Blood, Bones & Butter
Gabrielle Hamilton · 2008
Same raw register, circling identity from its own angle.
Crazy enough
Storm Large · 2012
Another road into identity, taken at steady pacing.
You Can't Win
Jack Black · 1926
A first-person picaresque tour through the criminal underworld of the American frontier-to-Depression era, told in the slangy, unapologetic voice of a career hustler and thief.
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