Books like Educated

If you liked Educated by Tara Westover, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.

  1. The Last Lecture

    Randy Pausch · 2008

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, memoir, education.

    Dying professor Pausch lectures really achieving childhood dreams.

  2. A Child Called It

    Dave Pelzer · 1995 · Dave Pelzer #1

    Because shares tags: memoir, abuse, family.

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

  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, education.

    Mortenson fails K2 builds schools in Pakistan after Korphe kindness.

  4. 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, education.

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

  5. The Glass Castle

    Jeannette Walls · 2005

    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.

  6. 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.

  7. Spare

    Prince Harry · 2023

    Because shares tags: memoir, 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…

  8. Running with Scissors

    Augusten Burroughs · 2002

    Because shares tags: memoir, family.

    A boy sent to live with his mother's psychiatrist grows up in a chaotic house with no rules.

  9. 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.

  10. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History

    Art Spiegelman · 1986 · Maus #1

    Because shares tags: memoir, family.

    Art Spiegelman interviews his father Vladek about Sosnowiec and Auschwitz, drawing Jews as mice in this tense father and son memoir.

  11. 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.

  12. Greenlights

    Matthew McConaughey · 2020

    Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction.

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

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