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Books like Educated: A Memoir

Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover is about education, family trauma, self-invention. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. The Glass Castle: A Memoir
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    The Glass Castle: A Memoir

    Jeannette Walls · Memoir

    The Glass Castle is Jeannette Walls's memoir about growing up as the second of four children in a family that moved constantly across the American Southwest and West Virginia, rarely had enough to eat, and existed almost entirely outside conventional institutions.

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  2. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
    Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

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    Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

    Cheryl Strayed · Memoir

    Wild is Cheryl Strayed's account of hiking 1,100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail alone in 1995 at twenty-six, with no prior backpacking experience and a pack so heavy she could barely lift it.

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  3. Becoming
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    Becoming

    Michelle Obama · Memoir

    Becoming is Michelle Obama's account of how a girl from a modest house on Chicago's South Side became one of the most recognized people in the world — and what that journey cost and revealed.

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  4. When Breath Becomes Air
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    When Breath Becomes Air

    Paul Kalanithi · Memoir

    When Breath Becomes Air is Paul Kalanithi's account of his life before and after being diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer at 36, while completing his residency in neurosurgery at Stanford.

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  5. 10% Happier
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    10% Happier

    Dan Harris · Memoir

    10% Happier is Dan Harris's account of discovering meditation after a panic attack live on Good Morning America in 2004 forced him to confront an anxiety problem he'd been managing with cocaine and a punishing work schedule.

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  6. A Grief Observed
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    A Grief Observed

    C. S. Lewis · Memoir

    A Grief Observed is C.

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