Books like Daisy Jones & The Six

01

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Taylor Jenkins Reid · Contemporary fiction

Evelyn Hugo is eighty-one, a reclusive Hollywood legend who has outlived her beauty, most of her enemies, and all seven of her husbands.

A kindred contemporary fiction read.

02

Normal People

Sally Rooney · Literary fiction

Normal People follows Connell and Marianne from their small-town Irish secondary school through their years at Trinity College Dublin.

A kindred contemporary fiction read.

03

A Visit from the Goon Squad

Jennifer Egan · Literary fiction

A Visit from the Goon Squad is a novel told in thirteen chapters, each from a different point of view and sometimes in a radically different form — including one chapter composed entirely as a PowerPoint presentation.

A kindred contemporary fiction read.

04

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong · Literary fiction

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is structured as a letter from a young Vietnamese-American man, Little Dog, to his illiterate mother — a letter she will never be able to read.

A kindred contemporary fiction read.

05

Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

David Sheff · Memoir

Beautiful Boy is David Sheff's account of watching his son Nic become addicted to methamphetamine through his late teens and early twenties, and of the years Sheff spent trying to understand it, respond to it, and survive it as a parent.

Both dig into addiction.

06

Chronicles: Volume One

Bob Dylan · Memoir

Chronicles: Volume One is the first installment of what Dylan announced as a multi-volume memoir, and it is one of the stranger and more rewarding books any major artist has written about their own formation.

Both dig into artistic identity.

07

Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver · Literary fiction

Demon Copperhead is Barbara Kingsolver's retelling of David Copperfield, transposed from Victorian England to the opioid-ravaged mountains of southwest Virginia.

Both dig into addiction.

08

Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

Anna Lembke · Psychology

Dopamine Nation is psychiatrist Anna Lembke's account of how modern life has engineered an environment of endless easy pleasure — and what that does to the brain.

Both dig into addiction.

09

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

J. D. Vance · Memoir

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Both dig into addiction.

10

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

Gabor Maté · Health

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts is Gabor Maté's book about addiction, written while he was working as a physician in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, one of North America's most concentrated pockets of poverty, drug use, and homelessness.

Both dig into addiction.

11

Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

Anthony Bourdain · Memoir

Kitchen Confidential began as an essay in The New Yorker in 1999.

Both dig into addiction.

12

Life

Keith Richards · Memoir

Keith Richards's Life was written with journalist James Fox and published when Richards was 66, after more than fifty years with the Rolling Stones.

Both dig into addiction.