Tara Westover

Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed (2012)

Memoir of a woman meets her life unraveling with a soul-searching solo hike of the Pacific Crest Trail from California to Washington.

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo (2022)

Memoir of a radio show producer who on learning she has Complex PTDS, applies her journalistic/narrative skills to she light with her experience of trauma and recovery.

The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook by Bruce D. Perry (2007)

Perry explains the effects of terrible childhood trauma.

I'm Glad My Mom Died
by Jennette McCurdy (2022)

A by a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook control of her life.

Educated by Tara Westover (2018)

A memoir of growing up oppressed by her parents worldview, discovering history/reality without her parents dogma, and learning to navigate the world everyone else knows, and relate to the extent she can with her family.