Books like Running with Scissors

If you liked Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.

  1. Marley & Me

    John Grogan · 2005

    Because shares tags: memoir, family, humor.

    A young couple learns marriage, parenthood, and goodbye through thirteen years with Marley, their wild and loving Labrador.

  2. Me Talk Pretty One Day

    David Sedaris · 2000

    Because shares tags: humor, memoir, family.

    Sedaris on French classes, family chaos, and learning to speak badly in two languages.

  3. The Last Lecture

    Randy Pausch · 2008

    Because shares tags: memoir, family.

    Dying professor Pausch lectures really achieving childhood dreams.

  4. She's Come Undone

    Wally Lamb · 1992

    Because shares tags: coming of age, family.

    Abused as a girl, divorced and struggling with weight, Dolores Price slowly finds healing after years of trauma.

  5. 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.

  6. Everything I Know About Love

    Dolly Alderton · 2018

    Because shares tags: memoir, humor.

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

  7. Where the Red Fern Grows

    Wilson Rawls · 1961

    Because shares tags: coming of age, family.

    Billy earns two hounds and hunts raccoons in the Ozarks with love and loss.

  8. Untamed

    Glennon Doyle · 2020

    Because shares tags: memoir, family.

    Glennon Doyle leaves a strained marriage, falls for Abby Wambach, and rebuilds life around honesty and desire.

  9. The Woman in Me

    Britney Spears · 2023

    Because shares tags: memoir, family.

    Britney Spears tells her own story from teen stardom to a thirteen year conservatorship, and how she fought to reclaim her voice and…

  10. The Kiss Quotient

    Helen Hoang · 2018 · The Kiss Quotient #1

    Because shares tags: family, humor.

    Stella Lane hires escort Michael Phan to practice dating and learns logic fails where touch and family press in.

  11. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

    Mindy Kaling · 2011

    Because shares tags: memoir, humor.

    Mindy Kaling recalls Boston childhood, Dartmouth comedy, New York hustle, and The Office writers room.

  12. Hillbilly Elegy

    J.D. Vance · 2016

    Because shares tags: memoir, family.

    Vance traces Mamaw and Papaw from Kentucky to Middletown through addiction, Marines, and Yale Law.

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