7 Best nonfiction books like Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

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Running With Scissors

By: Augusten Burroughs

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton…

"look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it"

-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors

"Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal."

-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors

"I like it when she's shiny, like a star, like a guest on the Donnie and Marie Show ."

-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors

"Doctor, if being a bitch is healthy, then I am the healthiest damn woman on the face of the earth"

-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Yes Please

By: Amy Poehler

4.11

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In Amy Poehler's highly anticipated first book, Yes Please, she offers up a big juicy stew of perso… read more

Similar categories in Amy Poehler's Yes Please book and Augusten Burroughs's Running With Scissors

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
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2. She's Come Undone

By: Wally Lamb

4.02

Format: 424 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journe… read more

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3. When You Are Engulfed in Flames

By: David Sedaris

4.27

Format: 359 pages, Hardcover

It's early autumn 1964. Two straight-A students head off to school, and when only one of them retur… read more

Similar categories in David Sedaris's When You Are Engulfed in Flames book and Augusten Burroughs's Running With Scissors

  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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4. Bossypants

By: Tina Fey

2.74

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl wit… read more

Similar categories in Tina Fey's Bossypants book and Augusten Burroughs's Running With Scissors

  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's by John Elder Robison

5. Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's

By: John Elder Robison

4.23

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Ever since he was small, John Robison had longed to connect with other people, but by the time he w… read more

Similar categories in John Elder Robison's Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's book and Augusten Burroughs's Running With Scissors

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

6. My Friend Leonard

By: James Frey

4.15

Format: 399 pages, Paperback

The New York Timesbestselling follow-up to the #1 New York Timesbestseller A Million Little Pieces-… read more

Similar categories in James Frey's My Friend Leonard book and Augusten Burroughs's Running With Scissors

  • biography memoir
  • mental health
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7. A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer #1)

By: Dave Pelzer

3.59

Format: 370 pages,

Also see: Alternate Cover Editions for this ISBN [ACE]  This book chronicles the unforgettable ac… read more

Similar categories in Dave Pelzer's A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer #1) book and Augusten Burroughs's Running With Scissors

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction

8. A Million Little Pieces

By: James Frey

3.72

Format: 134 pages,

Intense, unpredictable, and instantly engaging, this is a story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehab… read more

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9. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

By: David Sedaris

3.71

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a jo… read more

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10. Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)

By: Frank McCourt

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Imbued on every page with Frank McCourt's astounding humor and compassion. This is a glorious book … read more

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Cover of Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

11. Running With Scissors

By: Augusten Burroughs

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton… read more

Similar categories in Augusten Burroughs's Running With Scissors book and Augusten Burroughs's Running With Scissors

  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • humor
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it"

-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors

"Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal."

-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors

"I like it when she's shiny, like a star, like a guest on the Donnie and Marie Show ."

-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors

"Doctor, if being a bitch is healthy, then I am the healthiest damn woman on the face of the earth"

-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors

12. Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

By: David Sedaris

3.85

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

A guy walks into a bar car and... From here the story could take many turns. When this guy is David… read more

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13. Naked

By: David Sedaris

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris tu… read more

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14. The Glass Castle

By: Jeannette Walls

3.57

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A tender, moving tale of unconditional love in a family that, despite its profound flaws, gave the … read more

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15. Eat, Pray, Love

By: Elizabeth Gilbert

4.14

Format: None pages,

A celebrated writer's irresistible, candid, and eloquent account of her pursuit of worldly pleasure… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love book and Augusten Burroughs's Running With Scissors

16. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Cheryl Strayed

3.84

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, h… read more

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17. Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

By: Jenny Lawson

4.00

Format: 201 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Tina Fey and David Sedaris--Internet star Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggess, makes her lit… read more

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18. Me Talk Pretty One Day

By: David Sedaris

4.33

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

David Sedaris' move to Paris from New York inspired these hilarious pieces, including the title ess… read more

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19. Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea

By: Chelsea Handler

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When Chelsea Handler needs to get a few things off her chest, she appeals to a higher power - vodka… read more

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20. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

By: Mindy Kaling

3.92

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster … read more

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21. Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

By: Susannah Cahalan

4.09

Format: 300 pages, ebook

An award-winning memoir and instant New York Times bestseller that goes far beyond its riveting med… read more

Similar categories in Susannah Cahalan's Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness book and Augusten Burroughs's Running With Scissors

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
"To move foward, you have to leave the past behind"

-Susannah Cahalan, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

"there’s nothing worse than seeing pity radiating from the eyes of a former lover."

-Susannah Cahalan, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

"Unutmanın varlığı asla kanıtlanmamıştır. Tek bildiğimiz, bazı şeylerin istediğimiz zaman aklımıza gelmemesidir."

-Susannah Cahalan, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

"Like daffodils in the early days of spring, my neurons were resprouting receptors as the winter of the illness ebbed."

-Susannah Cahalan, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

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