Books Like Eat, Pray, Love

by Elizabeth Gilbert · about this book

Loved Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert? If its nonfiction, memoir & biography and female lead hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Under the Tuscan Sun, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person and Becoming. 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 Eat, Pray, Love: Nonfiction · Memoir & Biography · Female Lead · First Person Narrator · Self-Discovery

Under the Tuscan Sun
Frances Mayes

Travel Writing · Memoir & Biography · Starting Over · Nonfiction · Uplifting

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Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person
Shonda Rhimes

Memoir & Biography · Self-Discovery · Nonfiction · Uplifting · First Person Narrator

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Becoming
Michelle Obama

Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · Uplifting · Self-Discovery · First Person Narrator

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Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert's Story
Debbie Tung

Memoir & Biography · Self-Discovery · Nonfiction · Uplifting · First Person Narrator

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The Life List
Lori Nelson Spielman

Starting Over · Finding Purpose · Self-Discovery · Uplifting · First Person Narrator

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By My Hands
Florian Gadsby

Memoir & Biography · Finding Purpose · Nonfiction · Uplifting · First Person Narrator

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A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003-2020
David Sedaris

Travel Writing · Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · First Person Narrator · Character-Driven

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What My Bones Know
Stephanie Foo

Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · Self-Discovery · First Person Narrator · Female Lead

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Becoming Ted
Matt Cain

Starting Over · Self-Discovery · Finding Purpose · Uplifting · Character-Driven

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Driven
Susie Wolff

Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · Finding Purpose · Uplifting · First Person Narrator

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Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark
Sarafina El-Badry Nance

Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · Finding Purpose · Self-Discovery · Female Lead

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Idiot: Life Stories from the Creator of Help Helen Smash
Laura Clery

Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · Uplifting · First Person Narrator · Female Lead

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An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
Chris Hadfield

Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · Uplifting · Finding Purpose · First Person Narrator

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Girl, Interrupted
Susanna Kaysen

Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · First Person Narrator · Character-Driven · Female Lead

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The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank

Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · First Person Narrator · Female Lead · Character-Driven

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Good in Bed
Jennifer Weiner

Self-Discovery · Starting Over · First Person Narrator · Character-Driven · Female Lead

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Where the Sky Begins
Rhys Bowen

Starting Over · Finding Purpose · Self-Discovery · Character-Driven · Female Lead

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

Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · First Person Narrator · Finding Purpose · Depression

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My Next Breath
Jeremy Renner

Memoir & Biography · Uplifting · Nonfiction · Finding Purpose · Hopeful

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Everybody's Fly: A Life of Art, Music, and Changing the Culture
Fab 5 Freddy

Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · Finding Purpose · Uplifting · First Person Narrator

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