Anonymous
Post 08/05/2025 00:30     Subject: Memoirs like Maid, The Glass Castle, Educated
Anonymous wrote:It's old but Angela's Ashes is one of my all time favorits (Frank McCourt)


The best
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2025 00:29     Subject: Memoirs like Maid, The Glass Castle, Educated
Anonymous wrote:Trevor Noah’s memoir called Born a Crime is fantastic. About growing up mixed race in South Africa under Apartheid. His mother (who was Black) could not be seen with him in public because it was against the law since they were different races. It was hilarious and heartbreaking and very insightful.


+1000
Great book!!
Anonymous
Post 08/05/2025 00:04     Subject: Memoirs like Maid, The Glass Castle, Educated
I just read “one in a billion” by Zarna Garg and loved it.
Anonymous
Post 07/25/2025 21:24     Subject: Memoirs like Maid, The Glass Castle, Educated
Anonymous wrote:Finding Me by Viola Davis


Ditto!
Anonymous
Post 07/25/2025 19:21     Subject: Memoirs like Maid, The Glass Castle, Educated
It's old but Angela's Ashes is one of my all time favorits (Frank McCourt)
Anonymous
Post 07/25/2025 13:26     Subject: Memoirs like Maid, The Glass Castle, Educated
Will add to the pile on for Ugly Cry.


Dirtbag, Massachusetts -- Isaac Fitzgerald

With or Without You -- Domenica Ruta

Shooting out the Lights -- Kim Fairley

Punch Me Up to the Gods -- Brian Broome

Somebody's Daughter -- Ashley Ford

Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart. Not as poverty-pornish as some of the others mentioned here (Gary's family were Russian immigrants to NYC), but really hilarious and engaging.
Anonymous
Post 07/25/2025 13:14     Subject: Memoirs like Maid, The Glass Castle, Educated
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Dry by Mary Carr is wonderful


Also The Liars Club by her is good.


Dry is by Augusten Burroughs who also wrote Running with Scissors among other books. Both are good
Mary Karr wrote the memoirs The Liar’s Club, Cherry and Lit which are all good.
Anonymous
Post 07/25/2025 11:31     Subject: Re:Memoirs like Maid, The Glass Castle, Educated
Anonymous wrote:All of those memoirs, which I also really liked, involve poverty and dysfunctional families. I'd suggest Blackbird: A Childhood Lost and Found by Jennifer Lauck.

This is a really good book.
Anonymous
Post 07/25/2025 11:25     Subject: Memoirs like Maid, The Glass Castle, Educated
a little different, but I read memoirs and enjoyed Maid, Nickeled and Dimes, and The glass castle - Hidden Valley Road, The Undocumented Americans, Evicted
Anonymous
Post 07/25/2025 10:01     Subject: Re:Memoirs like Maid, The Glass Castle, Educated
Free Spirit, Growing Up On the Road and Off the Grid by Joshua Safran

https://www.amazon.com/Free-Spirit-Growing-Road-Grid/dp/1401324606
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2025 20:23     Subject: Memoirs like Maid, The Glass Castle, Educated
A Well Trained Wife by Tia Levinhs
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2025 16:39     Subject: Memoirs like Maid, The Glass Castle, Educated
Non-fiction and a little academic but There Are No Children Here was really good
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2025 16:01     Subject: Memoirs like Maid, The Glass Castle, Educated
Anonymous wrote:Maybe nickel and dimed? It’s different because she was a journalist who deliberately embedded herself in a low income life to report on it.

The Glass Castle is one of my favorite books ever and I also really liked Nickeled and Dimed.
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2025 10:53     Subject: Memoirs like Maid, The Glass Castle, Educated
The Sound of Gravel is an excellent (yet heart wrenching) memoir.

I also loved:
The Ugly Cry (funny and heart breaking)
Hunger (Roxane Gay is an incredible writer)
Somebody's Daughter

A little less dramatic but still great was Molly Shannon's memoir. Also Trevor Noah's (but do the audiobook if you can because he does the voices of everyone in the book and it's so good).
Anonymous
Post 07/24/2025 10:45     Subject: Memoirs like Maid, The Glass Castle, Educated
OP here. Great suggestions! I did read Nickel and Dimed so any more books similar to that (I love watching documentaries too).