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Books Like Angela's Ashes

by Frank McCourt · about this book

Loved Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt? If its nonfiction, memoir & biography and ireland hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Demon Copperhead, Ham On Rye and The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside Angela's Ashes: Nonfiction · Memoir & Biography · Ireland · Emotional · Autobiography

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   Demon Copperhead

   Barbara Kingsolver

   Neglect · Working-Class Protagonist · Substance Abuse · Economic Inequality · Coming of Age

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   Ham On Rye

   Charles Bukowski

   Coming of Age · Working-Class Protagonist · Father and Son · Toxic Family Dynamics · Substance Abuse

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   The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

   Griffin Dunne

   Death of a Sibling · Memoir & Biography · Father and Son · Nonfiction · Grief and Mourning

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   The Four Winds

   Kristin Hannah

   Leaving Home · Economic Inequality · Class Struggle · Tearjerker · Absent Parent

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   Crying in H Mart: A Memoir

   Michelle Zauner

   Memoir & Biography · Tearjerker · Nonfiction · Grief and Mourning · Bittersweet

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   Spare

   Prince Harry

   Autobiography · Memoir & Biography · Brothers · Father and Son · Nonfiction

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   The Diary of a Young Girl

   Anne Frank

   Autobiography · Memoir & Biography · Coming of Age · Nonfiction · Religious Identity

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   The Outsiders

   S.E. Hinton

   Class Struggle · Working-Class Protagonist · Coming of Age · Tearjerker · Brothers

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   This Is Me: A Reckoning

   Hayden Panettiere

   Memoir & Biography · Death of a Sibling · Substance Abuse · Nonfiction · Toxic Family Dynamics

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    Little Women

    Louisa May Alcott

    Death of a Sibling · Coming of Age · Large Family · Tearjerker · Bittersweet

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    On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

    Ocean Vuong

    Substance Abuse · Coming of Age · Working-Class Protagonist · Child Abuse · Grief and Mourning

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    Tess of the Road

    Rachel Hartman

    Leaving Home · Infant Loss Content · Toxic Family Dynamics · Coming of Age · Religious Identity

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    Becoming

    Michelle Obama

    Autobiography · Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · Working-Class Protagonist · First Person Narrator

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14. 

    Gather

    Kenneth M. Cadow

    Coming of Age · Working-Class Protagonist · Economic Inequality · Bittersweet · Substance Abuse

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15. 

    I'm Glad My Mom Died

    Jennette McCurdy

    Memoir & Biography · Toxic Family Dynamics · Child Abuse · Nonfiction · Dark Comedy

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16. 

    This Is Where I Leave You

    Jonathan Tropper

    Large Family · Brothers · Grief and Mourning · Dark Comedy · Bittersweet

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17. 

    Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir

    Matthew Perry

    Memoir & Biography · Substance Abuse · Nonfiction · Emotional · First Person Narrator

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18. 

    The Lovely Bones

    Alice Sebold

    Child Death Depicted · Death of a Sibling · Child Narrator · Grief and Mourning · Bittersweet

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19. 

    Good Morning, Monster

    Catherine Gildiner

    Memoir & Biography · Neglect · Child Abuse · Nonfiction · Toxic Family Dynamics

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    As I Lay Dying

    William Faulkner

    Large Family · Working-Class Protagonist · Toxic Family Dynamics · Bleak · Child Narrator

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