Books like Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
If you liked Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
Because also by David Sedaris; shares tags: humor, essays, memoir.
Sedaris on French classes, family chaos, and learning to speak badly in two languages.
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The Last Lecture
Because shares tags: nonfiction, memoir, family.
Dying professor Pausch lectures really achieving childhood dreams.
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Running with Scissors
Because shares tags: memoir, family, humor.
A boy sent to live with his mother's psychiatrist grows up in a chaotic house with no rules.
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Everything I Know About Love
Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction, humor.
Dolly Alderton recalls bad dates flatshares and female friendship in her twenties memoir.
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Marley & Me
Because shares tags: memoir, family, humor.
A young couple learns marriage, parenthood, and goodbye through thirteen years with Marley, their wild and loving Labrador.
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Because shares tags: memoir, humor, essays.
Mindy Kaling recalls Boston childhood, Dartmouth comedy, New York hustle, and The Office writers room.
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A Child Called It
Because shares tags: memoir, family, nonfiction.
Dave survives his mother games of hunger and cold in Daly City until teachers and foster care step in.
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Bossypants
Because shares tags: memoir, humor, essays.
Tina Fey moves from Pennsylvania childhood through improv and SNL to 30 Rock in this funny 2011 memoir. Expect backstage stories, jokes…
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The Glass Castle
Because shares tags: memoir, family, nonfiction.
Jeannette Walls's memoir of a childhood spent hungry and moving, from a stove fire at three to a Bronx apartment and parents on the street.
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Educated
Because shares tags: memoir, family, nonfiction.
Educated retold: Idaho scrapyard, no school, BYU, Cambridge, break with father and brother.
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We Should All Be Feminists
Because shares tags: essays, nonfiction.
Adichie turns her 2012 TEDx talk into a short sharp essay on gender, using stories from Lagos and America to argue equality helps everyone.
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This Is Going to Hurt
Because shares tags: memoir, humor.
Adam Kay retells his junior doctor diaries with humour and strain, from labour ward nights to leaving medicine.
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