Books like Becoming

If you liked Becoming by Michelle Obama, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.

  1. Spare

    Prince Harry · 2023

    Because shares tags: memoir, biography, nonfiction.

    Prince Harry recalls Diana's death in 1997, two tours in Afghanistan, and stepping back from royal life with Meghan in this frank 2023…

  2. I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

    Malala Yousafzai and Christina Lamb · 2013

    Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction, biography.

    Malala grows up in Swat, blogged for school under ban, and survives a bus shooting.

  3. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time

    Greg Mortenson · 2006

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, memoir.

    Mortenson fails K2 builds schools in Pakistan after Korphe kindness.

  4. The Last Lecture

    Randy Pausch · 2008

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, memoir.

    Dying professor Pausch lectures really achieving childhood dreams.

  5. The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

    Corrie ten Boom · 1971

    Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction.

    The Ten Booms hide Jews in Haarlem, suffer Ravensbruck, lose Betsie, and learn forgiveness.

  6. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

    Lori Gottlieb · 2019

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, memoir.

    Therapist Lori Gottlieb counsels John, Julie and Rita while seeing her own therapist Wendell after a breakup.

  7. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

    Anthony Bourdain · 2000

    Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction.

    Bourdain on rough kitchens, past drug use, Les Halles years, and why you should never order fish on Monday.

  8. John Adams

    David McCullough · 2001

    Because shares tags: biography, nonfiction.

    McCullough follows Adams from Braintree lawyer to second president.

  9. Greenlights

    Matthew McConaughey · 2020

    Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction.

    McConaughey shares outlaw stories and greenlight catching from Texas to Hollywood.

  10. Everything I Know About Love

    Dolly Alderton · 2018

    Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction.

    Dolly Alderton recalls bad dates flatshares and female friendship in her twenties memoir.

  11. Between the World and Me

    Ta-Nehisi Coates · 2015

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, memoir.

    Coates writes to his son about the Black body in America, from Howard to the loss of Prince Jones.

  12. A Child Called It

    Dave Pelzer · 1995 · Dave Pelzer #1

    Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction.

    Dave survives his mother games of hunger and cold in Daly City until teachers and foster care step in.

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