Books like Running with Scissors
If you liked Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Marley & Me
Because shares tags: memoir, family, humor.
A young couple learns marriage, parenthood, and goodbye through thirteen years with Marley, their wild and loving Labrador.
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
Because shares tags: humor, memoir, family.
Sedaris on French classes, family chaos, and learning to speak badly in two languages.
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The Last Lecture
Because shares tags: memoir, family.
Dying professor Pausch lectures really achieving childhood dreams.
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She's Come Undone
Because shares tags: coming of age, family.
Abused as a girl, divorced and struggling with weight, Dolores Price slowly finds healing after years of trauma.
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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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Everything I Know About Love
Because shares tags: memoir, humor.
Dolly Alderton recalls bad dates flatshares and female friendship in her twenties memoir.
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Where the Red Fern Grows
Because shares tags: coming of age, family.
Billy earns two hounds and hunts raccoons in the Ozarks with love and loss.
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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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The Kiss Quotient
Because shares tags: family, humor.
Stella Lane hires escort Michael Phan to practice dating and learns logic fails where touch and family press in.
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Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Because shares tags: memoir, humor.
Mindy Kaling recalls Boston childhood, Dartmouth comedy, New York hustle, and The Office writers room.
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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.
