Little Girl Lost
by Drew Barrymore
★ Top 10 book of 1990 · #7 on Best Books of 1990
A former child star recounts a childhood that went badly off course, with drinking, drugs and chaos arriving while she was still very young. It follows her fight as a young woman to bring order back to her life.
Best for: Readers who like candid celebrity memoirs about hardship and recovery
Little Girl Lost is #7 on BookWard's Best Books of 1990, out of 39 1990 books that cleared our data bar.
What Little Girl Lost is about
Drew Barrymore was described as a modern-day Shirley Temple. Behind that sunny public image, her own account tells a very different story. She was drinking at nine, using marijuana at ten, and snorting cocaine by twelve, a childhood that went badly off course.
The memoir follows a young woman trying to bring order back to a life that had become chaotic. It looks at what early fame can do to a child, how addiction takes hold, and what the first steps toward recovery look like. Readers curious about child stardom, or anyone who has watched a young person struggle and wondered how they got there, may find it a candid and affecting read.
Little Girl Lost on the Best Books of 1990
Little Girl Lost came out in 1990. Of the 39 books first published in 1990 that met BookWard's data bar, it ranks #7 on our Best Books of 1990 list.
Why it made the list: 527 readers have shelved it on Open Library; 37 are reading it right now. The list ranks each year’s books on how many readers have picked them up, how highly readers rate them, and how many are reading them right now.
It earns Being read right now.
Nearby on the 1990 list
- Flow Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, #5
- The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien, #6
- The Great Hunt (the Wheel of Time Book 2) Robert Jordan, #8
- Maniac Magee Jerry Spinelli, #9
See all Best Books of 1990 Best books by year
More years: Best Books of 1991.
The numbers behind it
- Readers: 471 want to read it, 37 are reading it now and 19 have read it, according to Open Library.
| Signal | This book (0 to 100) | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| Reach | 87 | 55% |
| Reader love | 44 | 25% |
| Being read right now | 92 | 20% |
Questions about Little Girl Lost
When was Little Girl Lost published?
Little Girl Lost by Drew Barrymore was first published in 1990.
Was Little Girl Lost one of the best books of 1990?
Little Girl Lost is #7 on BookWard's Best Books of 1990, out of 39 1990 books that cleared our data bar. 527 readers have shelved it on Open Library; 37 are reading it right now.
Why is Little Girl Lost on the Best Books of 1990 list?
527 readers have shelved it on Open Library; 37 are reading it right now.
More of the best books of 1990
- Good Omens Terry Pratchett, #1
- Jurassic Park Michael Crichton, #2
- The Eye of the World Robert Jordan, #3
- The Witching Hour Anne Rice, #4
- Flow Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, #5
- The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien, #6
See the full Best Books of 1990, the Top 100, or new books on Rising.
How we know
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