Books like Born a Crime
If you liked Born a Crime by Trevor Noah, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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The Last Lecture
Because shares tags: memoir, family.
Dying professor Pausch lectures really achieving childhood dreams.
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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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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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Untamed
Because shares tags: memoir, family.
Glennon Doyle leaves a strained marriage, falls for Abby Wambach, and rebuilds life around honesty and desire.
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The Woman in Me
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…
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Marley & Me
Because shares tags: memoir, family.
A young couple learns marriage, parenthood, and goodbye through thirteen years with Marley, their wild and loving Labrador.
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Hillbilly Elegy
Because shares tags: memoir, family.
Vance traces Mamaw and Papaw from Kentucky to Middletown through addiction, Marines, and Yale Law.
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Crying in H Mart
Because shares tags: memoir, family.
Japanese Breakfast singer Michelle Zauner remembers her Korean mother through food, grief, and growing up in Oregon.
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A Child Called It
Because shares tags: memoir, family.
Dave survives his mother games of hunger and cold in Daly City until teachers and foster care step in.
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Yes Please
Because shares tags: memoir, comedy.
Amy Poehler moves from Boston childhood through UCB and SNL to Parks and Recreation in this 2014 memoir. Funny essays on work, motherhood,…
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Because shares tags: comedy, family.
Bee compiles emails to find architect mother Bernadette missing before Antarctica.
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The Rosie Project
Because shares tags: comedy, family.
Melbourne genetics professor Don Tillman launches the Wife Project to find a partner by questionnaire, then meets chaotic Rosie Jarman and…
