Books like This Boy's Life
12 books with a reading profile close to This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff. Inward-looking; a moderate read.
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The End of Eddy
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Eddy Bellegueule grows up in a poor village in northern France, in a family where men are expected to be tough and unemployment and alcohol are common.
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Wat ik nooit eerder heb gezegd
by Celeste Ng
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Set in 1970s Ohio, the narrative begins with the death of Lydia Lee, the favorite daughter of a mixed-race couple.
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Moab Is My Washpot
by Stephen Fry
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
In this memoir, Stephen Fry recounts his first twenty years, focusing on his turbulent education at various English boarding schools and his eventual imprisonment.
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The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
James McBride alternates between his own upbringing in a Brooklyn housing project and the oral history of his mother, Ruth Jordan.
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Just Kids
by Patti Smith
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Just Kids chronicles the relationship between Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe, beginning with their chance meeting in Brooklyn in 1967.
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When All Is Said
by Anne Griffin
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Maurice Hannigan, an elderly Irish farmer, sits in a pub in a small town one evening and orders five drinks, one for each person who has been important in his life.
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Priestdaddy
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Patricia Lockwood, a poet, moves back with her husband into her parents' house in a Kansas City rectory.
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Truth & Beauty
by Ann Patchett
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Ann Patchett narrates the decades-long friendship between herself and the writer Lucy Grealy, beginning at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
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Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Carrie Brownstein chronicles her development from a fan in the Pacific Northwest underground music scene to the guitarist of Sleater-Kinney.
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
Jeanette Winterson’s semi-autobiographical novel follows Jeanette, a young girl adopted into a strict Pentecostal household in Northern England.
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Stitches: A Memoir
by David Small
Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative
David Small’s graphic memoir recounts his childhood in 1950s Detroit, living in a household defined by emotional withdrawal and medical negligence.
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