Books like On Writing
If you liked On Writing by Stephen King, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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This Is Going to Hurt
Because shares tags: memoir, biography.
Adam Kay retells his junior doctor diaries with humour and strain, from labour ward nights to leaving medicine.
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Because shares tags: memoir, biography.
Malcolm X traces his life from Michigan childhood through Harlem, prison, and the Nation of Islam to Mecca in this 1965 memoir told to Alex…
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Shoe Dog
Because shares tags: memoir, biography.
Phil Knight tells how Blue Ribbon Sports grew from a trunk of Japanese running shoes into Nike.
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Just Kids
Because shares tags: memoir, biography.
Patti Smith recalls broke young years with Robert Mapplethorpe in 1960s New York, from Brooklyn rooms to the Chelsea Hotel, art, music, and…
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Heaven Is for Real
Because shares tags: memoir, biography.
A Nebraska pastor's four-year-old survives a burst appendix, then describes angels, Jesus, and relatives he never met.
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Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
Because shares tags: memoir, biography.
Matthew Perry revisits Friends fame and a long struggle with addiction, from junior tennis to Chandler Bing to a 2018 health crisis, with…
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Spare
Because shares tags: memoir, biography.
Prince Harry recalls Diana's death in 1997, two tours in Afghanistan, and stepping back from royal life with Meghan in this frank 2023…
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I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Because shares tags: memoir, biography.
Malala grows up in Swat, blogged for school under ban, and survives a bus shooting.
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Becoming
Because shares tags: memoir, biography.
Michelle Obama traces her path from South Side Chicago through Princeton, Harvard law and the White House years in this warm, candid memoir…
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Under the Dome
Because also by Stephen King; shares tag: horror.
Chester's Mill is sealed under an invisible dome as cook Barbie and editor Julia face Big Jim Rennie's rule.
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The Institute
Because also by Stephen King; shares tag: horror.
A kidnapped prodigy wakes in a Maine facility where gifted kids earn tokens in Front Half and vanish from Back Half.
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The Drawing of the Three
Because also by Stephen King; shares tag: horror.
Wounded on a beach, Roland pulls two strangers from New York through doors to survive and keep moving toward the Tower.
