7 Top memoir books like Educating by LaRee Westover

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Educating

By: LaRee Westover

1.71

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

My Memoir This book is my memoir—a memoir that for several years now, I have known I would one day…

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1. Triumph: Life After the Cult--A Survivor's Lessons

By: Carolyn Jessop , Laura Palmer

3.83

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

A moving and inspirational true story of one woman’s life after fleeing the ultra-fundamentalist Am… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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2. Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets

By: Sudhir Venkatesh

4.07

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside capture… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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3. The Book of Polly

By: Kathy Hepinstall

4.25

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

Willow Havens is ten years old and obsessed with the fear that her mother will die. Her mother, Pol… read more

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4. After Auschwitz

By: Eva Schloss

3.77

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday and sent to Auschwitz. Her survival depende… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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5. A House Divided (House of Earth, #3)

By: Pearl S. Buck

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

"A House Divided," the third volume of the trilogy that began with "The Good Earth" and "Sons," is … read more

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6. Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women

By: Rachel Held Evans , Sarah Bessey

3.87

Format: 216 pages, ebook

Written with poetic rhythm, a prophetic voice, and a deeply biblical foundation, this loving yet fe… read more

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  • nonfiction
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7. Blue Christmas (Weezie and Bebe Mysteries, #3)

By: Mary Kay Andrews

3.71

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

The popular Mary Kay Andrews delivers a tasty holiday treat as she brings back the winning characte… read more

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8. The Soul of Shame: Retelling the Stories We Believe about Ourselves

By: Curt Thompson

3.47

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Hearts & Minds Bookstore's Best Books of 2015, Applied Theology, Basic Christian Living, Whole Life… read more

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  • nonfiction

9. Irena's Children: The Extraordinary Story of the Woman Who Saved 2,500 Children from the Warsaw Ghetto

By: Tilar J. Mazzeo

3.47

Format: None pages,

A New York PostBest Book of 2016 One of Kirkus Reviews' Ten Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of Fa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography

10. Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories (Wonder #1.5, 1.6, 1.7)

By: R.J. Palacio

4.03

Format: 606 pages, Paperback

WONDER tells the story of Auggie Pullman: an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face, whose first y… read more

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11. A Single Shard

By: Linda Sue Park

3.85

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Tree-ear, an orphan, lives under a bridge in Ch'ulp'o, a potters' village famed for delicate celado… read more

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12. Abandoned Prayers: The Incredible True Story of Murder, Obsession and Amish Secrets

By: Gregg Olsen

4.33

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

On Christmas Eve in 1985, a hunter found a young boy's body along an icy corn field in Nebraska. Th… read more

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13. Escape

By: Carolyn Jessop , Laura Palmer

5.00

Format: None pages,

The dramatic first-person account of life inside an ultra-fundamentalist American religious sect, a… read more

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14. Beezus and Ramona (Ramona, #1)

By: Beverly Cleary

3.15

Format: 252 pages,

Nine-year-old Beezus Quimby has her hands full with her little sister, Ramona. Sure, other people h… read more

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15. Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission

By: Hampton Sides

3.66

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected U.S. troops slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. T… read more

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16. Earthly Possessions

By: Anne Tyler

3.62

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

"To read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love." PEOPLE Charlotte Emory has always lived a quiet… read more

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17. Get Lucky

By: Katherine Center

3.19

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

How do you change your luck? Katherine Center's marvelously entertaining and poignant new novel is … read more

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18. Believarexic

By: J.J. Johnson

3.26

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Fifteen-year-old Jennifer has to force her family to admit she needs help for her eating disorder. … read more

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19. Becoming Free Indeed: My Story of Disentangling Faith from Fear

By: Jinger Duggar Vuolo

3.60

Format: 221 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller Jinger Vuolo, the sixth child in the famous Duggar family of TLC's 19 Kid… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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20. Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (And More Life to Live)

By: Eve Rodsky

3.56

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A revolutionary, real-world solution to the problem of unpaid, invisible work that women have shoul… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Resentment grows out of perceived unfairness."

-Eve Rodsky, Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (And More Life to Live)

"From where we sat, this man appeared to be enjoying a luxury all of the women we know couldn't imagine: the freedom to focus on one task at a time."

-Eve Rodsky, Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (And More Life to Live)

"A reminder, in itself, takes tremendous mental effort by you . It requires knowing what needs to be done, remembering what needs to be done, and reminding someone to get it done, whereas the person b…"

-Eve Rodsky, Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (And More Life to Live)

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21. Educated

By: Tara Westover

4.47

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mounta… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • book club
"An education is not so much about making a living as making a person."

-Tara Westover, Educated

"I would never again be made a foot soldier in a conflict I did not understand."

-Tara Westover, Educated

"I believed then--and part of me will always believe--that my father's words ought to be my own."

-Tara Westover, Educated

"I could stay, and search for what had been home, or I could go, now, before the walls shifted and the way out was shut."

-Tara Westover, Educated

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22. Christy

By: Catherine Marshall

4.24

Format: 514 pages, Kindle Edition

The train taking nineteen-year-old teacher Christy Huddleston from her home in Asheville, North Car… read more

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  • adult
"Truth could never be wholly contained in words."

-Catherine Marshall, Christy

"I was too old for my father to (be protective), too young to be flattered."

-Catherine Marshall, Christy

"The house, it's already been a-settin' here for a hundred years. It'll be right here tomorrow. It's today I must be livin'."

-Catherine Marshall, Christy

"Have you ever thought that the only ugly things in this Cove are man's fault, while the beautiful things are God's work? Look at those mountains."

-Catherine Marshall, Christy

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23. While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students

By: J. Reuben Appelman

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, tells the inside story of the “Univers… read more

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  • adult
  • nonfiction
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24. The Captive Kingdom (Ascendance, #4)

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.17

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

Jennifer A. Nielsen returns to the world of The False Prince in this fourth book of the Ascendance … read more

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"That was a long gulp," he said. "I just told you a gulp." I frowned at him. "Maybe you should have explained the difference between a long gulp and a regular gulp." "If I had intended for anything bu…"

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, The Captive Kingdom (Ascendance, #4)

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25. The Shattered Castle (Ascendance, #5)

By: Jennifer A. Nielsen

4.32

Format: 332 pages, ebook

Acclaimed author Jennifer A. Nielsen brings her signature twists and high-stakes action to the fift… read more

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"But then I was at the base of the steps, staring up at Imogen. I opened my mouth, but no words came out. "What happened to you?" she asked. I smiled. "I was nearly blown up, jumped through a waterfal…"

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, The Shattered Castle (Ascendance, #5)

"Jaron, stop," Fink said. "We have a problem." I turned back to see his face poke down from the hole through which I'd entered the cavern. In what little light he held, I saw how grim his expression w…"

-Jennifer A. Nielsen, The Shattered Castle (Ascendance, #5)

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26. Ghosted: An American Story

By: Nancy French

4.45

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A riveting look inside a life of poverty, success, and the inner circles of political influence--fr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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27. The Southern Side of Paradise (Peachtree Bluff #3)

By: Kristy Woodson Harvey

4.17

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From internationally bestselling author and “rising star of Southern fiction” (Mary Alice Monroe, N… read more

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28. The Secret to Southern Charm (Peachtree Bluff #2)

By: Kristy Woodson Harvey

4.11

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Leaving fans “practically [begging] for a sequel” (Bookpage), critically acclaimed author Kristy Wo… read more

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  • adult
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29. The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA

By: Liza Mundy

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

A thrilling and monumental new history of the CIA that reveals how women have always played crucial… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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30. Educating

By: LaRee Westover

1.71

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

My Memoir This book is my memoir—a memoir that for several years now, I have known I would one day… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • book club
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31. The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement

By: Sharon McMahon

4.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

America’s favorite government teacher offers thrilling, heartfelt stories of ordinary American hero… read more

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  • book club
  • nonfiction
  • biography

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