8 must-read autobiography books like Uncultured: A Memoir by Daniella Mestyanek Young

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Uncultured: A Memoir

By: Daniella Mestyanek Young

4.08

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle, Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured is more than a …

"Daniella,"

-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir

"Daniella,"

-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir

"The body keeps the score."

-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir

"The body keeps the score."

-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir

If you liked the autobiography plot in Uncultured: A Memoir by Daniella Mestyanek Young , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape

By: Lisa Pulitzer , Jenna Miscavige Hill

3.77

Format: 402 pages, Hardcover

Jenna Miscavige was raised to obey. As niece of the Church of Scientology's leader David Miscavige,… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Pulitzer's Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape book and Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • cults
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • cult classics
  • audiobook
"Scientology always has been a game of power and control. L. Ron Hubbard was the ultimate con man, and it's hard to figure out how much of Scientology was an experiment in brainwashing and controlling…"

-Lisa Pulitzer, Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape

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2. Counting the Cost

By: Jill Duggar

4.06

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

For the first time, discover the unedited truth about the Duggars, the traditional Christian family… read more

Similar categories in Jill Duggar's Counting the Cost book and Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"He loved spending time with us and told us often that we were his number one hobby."

-Jill Duggar, Counting the Cost

"Sometimes you have to be okay with other people not being okay with you. And you have to be okay with you not being okay too."

-Jill Duggar, Counting the Cost

"The dangers were not just out there on the street or in the mall, and they weren't just limited to the summer. They were closer to home as I soon discovered."

-Jill Duggar, Counting the Cost

"It's like roses and thorns, justice and grace. You can recognize the beauty and happy parts of your story while also recognizing the more difficult parts. The two can coexist. The highs aren't automa…"

-Jill Duggar, Counting the Cost

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3. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

By: Meg Kissinger

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more

Similar categories in Meg Kissinger's While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence book and Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education

By: Stephanie Land

3.62

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling m… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Land's Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education book and Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere by Maria Bamford

5. Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

By: Maria Bamford

3.77

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

A brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfo… read more

Similar categories in Maria Bamford's Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere book and Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian

6. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

By: Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more

Similar categories in Roxanna Asgarian's We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America book and Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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7. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

By: Amanda Montell

3.54

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Montell's The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality book and Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"

-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality

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8. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

By: Stephanie Foo

4.52

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Foo's What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma book and Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Sociopath: A Memoir

By: Patric Gagne

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own soci… read more

Similar categories in Patric Gagne's Sociopath: A Memoir book and Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"In a universe where everything seemed to be associated with everything else, jazz was in a world all its own. The untethered notes didn't propel me backward in time or force me into imaginations of t…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"Regardless of whether they realized it, my parents, my friends, my teachers, my lovers—everyone, on some level—was uncomfortable with my limited emotion. Because it meant something sinister. Because,…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"I loved people. I truly did. But the way I loved was different than most. And, if I was being honest, not all that compatible. I didn’t need to get love in order to give love. I never had. I preferre…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and T…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

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10. Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

By: Rachel Louise Snyder

3.94

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Louise Snyder's Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir book and Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I didn't intentionally gravitate towards stories of women. I was interested in human rights, which often boiled down to this question: who was winning and who was losing? And over and over again, cou…"

-Rachel Louise Snyder, Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

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11. Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing

By: Emily Lynn Paulson

3.62

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

She signed up for the sisterhood, free cars, and the promise of a successful business of her own. I… read more

Similar categories in Emily Lynn Paulson's Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing book and Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. Uncultured: A Memoir

By: Daniella Mestyanek Young

4.08

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Educated and The Glass Castle, Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured is more than a … read more

Similar categories in Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured: A Memoir book and Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • cults
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • cult classics
  • audiobook
"Daniella,"

-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir

"The body keeps the score."

-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir

"I can run and run, but I’m always still here."

-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir

"...the only real friend I had, and would ever have, was myself."

-Daniella Mestyanek Young, Uncultured: A Memoir

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13. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

Similar categories in Sarah McCammon's The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church book and Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured: A Memoir

  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself by Crystal Hefner

14. Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself

By: Crystal Hefner

3.73

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A raw and unflinching look at the objectification and misogyny of the Playboy mansion, a woman’s st… read more

Similar categories in Crystal Hefner's Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself book and Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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15. Scarred

By: Sarah Edmondson

3.94

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

"'Master, would you brand me? It would be an honor.' From the second I climb onto the table, acutel… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Edmondson's Scarred book and Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • cult classics
  • audiobook
Cover of When the World Didn't End: A Memoir by Guinevere Turner

16. When the World Didn't End: A Memoir

By: Guinevere Turner

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this immersive, spell-binding memoir, an acclaimed screenwriter tells the story of her childhood… read more

Similar categories in Guinevere Turner's When the World Didn't End: A Memoir book and Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • cult classics
  • audiobook
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17. A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

By: Mike Rinder

4.31

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

One of the highest-ranking defectors from Scientology exposes the secret inner workings of the powe… read more

Similar categories in Mike Rinder's A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology book and Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • cults
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • cult classics
  • audiobook
"The fear of psychiatry is one of the hardest ideas to shake when you escape from the mind-prison."

-Mike Rinder, A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology

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18. Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice

By: Jessica Willis Fisher

4.52

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

Using the written word as her witness statement, Jessica Willis Fisher gives a lacerating portrait … read more

Similar categories in Jessica Willis Fisher's Unspeakable: Surviving My Childhood and Finding My Voice book and Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • cults
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  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult

By: Faith Jones

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Named a Best Book of 2021 by Newsweek and a Most Anticipated by People , TIME , USA Today , Real Si… read more

Similar categories in Faith Jones's Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult book and Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • cult classics
  • audiobook
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20. Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult

By: Michelle Dowd

3.70

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A moving, heartbreaking, and inspiring true story of the author’s escape from an apocalyptic cult—a… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Dowd's Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult book and Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

By: Tia Levings

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more

Similar categories in Tia Levings's A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy book and Daniella Mestyanek Young's Uncultured: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

Meg Kissinger

4.28

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Catherine Gildiner

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