Books like The Glass Castle
If you liked The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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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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Hillbilly Elegy
Because shares tags: memoir, family, poverty.
Vance traces Mamaw and Papaw from Kentucky to Middletown through addiction, Marines, and Yale Law.
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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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Angela's Ashes
Because shares tags: memoir, poverty, childhood.
Frank recalls Brooklyn and Limerick childhood with Angela's struggle, Malachy's drink and stories that saved him.
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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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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Because shares tags: nonfiction, memoir.
Mortenson fails K2 builds schools in Pakistan after Korphe kindness.
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The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction.
The Ten Booms hide Jews in Haarlem, suffer Ravensbruck, lose Betsie, and learn forgiveness.
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Spare
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…
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Running with Scissors
Because shares tags: memoir, family.
A boy sent to live with his mother's psychiatrist grows up in a chaotic house with no rules.
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Because shares tags: nonfiction, memoir.
Therapist Lori Gottlieb counsels John, Julie and Rita while seeing her own therapist Wendell after a breakup.
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
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.
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction.
Bourdain on rough kitchens, past drug use, Les Halles years, and why you should never order fish on Monday.
