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Books like Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J. D. Vance is about class, family dysfunction, appalachian identity. 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. Educated: A Memoir
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    Educated: A Memoir

    Tara Westover · Memoir

    Educated is Tara Westover's memoir about growing up in a survivalist family in rural Idaho and eventually earning a PhD in history from Cambridge University.

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  2. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
    Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

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    Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

    Trevor Noah · Memoir

    Born a Crime is Trevor Noah's memoir about growing up mixed-race in South Africa during the final years of apartheid and its chaotic aftermath.

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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. The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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    The Autobiography of Malcolm X

    Malcolm X and Alex Haley · Memoir

    The Autobiography of Malcolm X was assembled from a series of conversations between Malcolm X and the journalist Alex Haley, conducted over two years before Malcolm's assassination in February 1965.

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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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