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Books like The Diary of a Young Girl
The best books like The Diary of a Young Girl are Night, Man's Search for Meaning, and The Hiding Place. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank is about identity, survival, coming of age. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Night
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Elie Wiesel · Memoir
Night is Elie Wiesel's account of his deportation from the Transylvanian town of Sighet in 1944 and his survival of Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.
Both dig into survival.
Read the summary → - Man's Search for Meaning
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Viktor E. Frankl · Psychology
Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's account of his years as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and the psychological theory he developed from that experience.
A kindred memoir read.
Read the summary → - The Hiding Place
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Corrie ten Boom · Memoir
Corrie ten Boom's memoir of her family's decision to hide Jewish people in their Haarlem home during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, and of the arrest, imprisonment, and concentration camp ordeal that followed, has been continuously in print since its 1971 publication and is one of the most widely read Christian testimonies of the twentieth century.
Both dig into survival.
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- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Laura Hillenbrand · Biography
Unbroken follows Louis Zamperini from his juvenile delinquency in Depression-era California to the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he ran the 5,000 meters at nineteen and briefly caught Hitler's attention.
Shares identity and survival with The Diary of a Young Girl.
Read the summary → - A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Ishmael Beah · Memoir
Ishmael Beah was twelve years old when the Sierra Leone civil war reached his village and he was separated from his family.
Shares survival and war with The Diary of a Young Girl.
Read the summary → - Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
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Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted
Suleika Jaouad · Memoir
Suleika Jaouad was twenty-two and newly graduated, living in Paris with her first real job and a boyfriend, when she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia.
Shares identity and survival with The Diary of a Young Girl.
Read the summary → - Boy Erased: A Memoir
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Garrard Conley · Memoir
Boy Erased is Garrard Conley's memoir of attending Love in Action, a conversion therapy program in Memphis, Tennessee, in the early 2000s.
Shares identity and coming of age with The Diary of a Young Girl.
Read the summary → - Hunger
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Roxane Gay · Memoir
Hunger is Roxane Gay's memoir about her body, the trauma that shaped it, and the world's persistent refusal to accommodate it.
Shares identity and survival with The Diary of a Young Girl.
Read the summary → - I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou · Memoir
Maya Angelou's first volume of autobiography covers her childhood and adolescence in Stamps, Arkansas and San Francisco during the 1930s and 1940s, ending with the birth of her son at age sixteen.
Shares identity and coming of age with The Diary of a Young Girl.
Read the summary → - Scar Tissue
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Anthony Kiedis · Memoir
Scar Tissue is Anthony Kiedis's account of his life from a chaotic childhood in Michigan through the formation and commercial peak of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, with addiction and recovery as the book's spine.
Shares identity and survival with The Diary of a Young Girl.
Read the summary → - The Bell Jar
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Sylvia Plath · Memoir
The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's only novel, published in January 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas, one month before Plath's death.
Shares identity and survival with The Diary of a Young Girl.
Read the summary → - The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45
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The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45
Wladyslaw Szpilman · Memoir
The Pianist is Wladyslaw Szpilman's account of surviving the German occupation of Warsaw from 1939 to 1945.
Shares survival and war with The Diary of a Young Girl.
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Books like The Diary of a Young Girl: quick answers
What are the best books like The Diary of a Young Girl?
The best books like The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank are Night by Elie Wiesel, Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Diary of a Young Girl, such as identity, survival, coming of age.
What should I read after The Diary of a Young Girl?
A natural next read after The Diary of a Young Girl is Night by Elie Wiesel. Both dig into survival. Other strong choices are Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand.
What books are similar to The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank?
The Diary of a Young Girl centers on identity, survival, coming of age. Books with a similar feel include Night by Elie Wiesel, Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl, The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah, Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
