The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll
The famous diary novel that inspired the so-so film with Leo and Marky Mark. Very easy read but not light. I actual don't believe the stories in them to be honest and imagine they are far-fetched versions of the truth. Still, i'd always heard of this book and of Carroll's presence in the early NY punk and art scene with Warhol and Patti Smith and wanted to check it out.