{"id":14254,"date":"2026-07-08T20:07:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T03:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=14254"},"modified":"2026-07-08T20:07:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T03:07:47","slug":"a-million-little-pieces-goodreads-best-books-of-the-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2026\/07\/08\/a-million-little-pieces-goodreads-best-books-of-the-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"A MILLION LITTLE PIECES – GoodReads Best Books of the 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

from PARADE<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Controversial 2003 Memoir Named a \u2018Best Book of the 21st Century\u2019 By Goodreads<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The scandal caused the author to be dropped by his literary manager and lose a 7-figure two-book deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Kendra Syrdal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Author James Frey appears on Bravo\u2019s, \u2018Watch What Happens Live.\u2019Bravo \/ Getty Images<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

American author and memoirist\u00a0James Frey<\/strong>\u00a0burst onto the literary scene in 2003 with his memoir titled\u00a0A Million Little Pieces<\/em>.<\/strong>\u00a0The book<\/a>\u00a0is marketed as a story of addiction, crime, mental health, rehab, and eventual sobriety, detailing Frey\u2019s recovery at 23 from drug addiction and alcoholism. The memoir goes through Frey\u2019s time in a facility and a 12-step program, and the different characters he meets on his journey of recovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Upon its publication in April of 2003, A Million Little Pieces<\/em> was selected to be a part of Oprah\u2019s Book Club<\/a>, skyrocketing sales. The memoir shot to the number-one paperback non-fiction book slot on Amazon<\/a>, and it topped The New York Times<\/em> Best Seller list for fifteen straight weeks at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of 2026, the book is still immensely popular among readers, with\u00a0Goodreads<\/a> ranking it as one of the\u00a0\u201cBest Books of the 21st Century.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[ click to continue reading at PARADE<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from PARADE Controversial 2003 Memoir Named a \u2018Best Book of the 21st Century\u2019 By Goodreads The scandal caused the author to be dropped by his literary manager and lose a 7-figure two-book deal. By\u00a0Kendra Syrdal American author and memoirist\u00a0James Frey\u00a0burst onto the literary scene in 2003 with his memoir titled\u00a0A Million Little Pieces.\u00a0The book\u00a0is marketed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversation-information","category-culture-art","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14255,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14254\/revisions\/14255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}