Books like Untamed
Untamed by Glennon Doyle Melton reads as empowering, candid. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.
What Untamed is like to read
A memoir-in-vignettes that reads like a rallying cry to trust the inner voice — earnest, direct, and unabashedly message-forward. Best for: readers who want an empowering, permission-giving memoir about breaking free of expectations.
Educated
Tara Westover · 2018
A propulsive, clear-eyed memoir that moves from a violent Idaho mountainside to Cambridge lecture halls — the emotional weight comes from Westover's steady, unsentimental reckoning
The Gifts of Imperfection
Brene Brown · 2010
A warm, conversational guide to living 'wholeheartedly' — Brown blends research with personal anecdote and gentle exhortation, feeling more like a candid talk with a trusted friend than a clinical self-help manual.
Barbarian days
William Finnegan · 2015
Both explore self-discovery
In Open Country
Rahawa Haile · 2021
Both explore self-discovery
Tiny beautiful things
Cheryl Strayed · 2012
A collection of real advice-column letters and Strayed's replies, delivering unflinching, tender wisdom on love, loss, and survival that reads like memoir refracted through others' pain.
Get Untamed
Glennon Doyle Melton · 2021
An interactive guided journal built from prompts, quotes, and reflection space meant to help readers examine their truest selves.
The six pillars of self-esteem
Nathaniel Branden · 1994
A methodical, argument-driven examination of self-esteem that builds from theory to six concrete daily practices, addressing the reader directly with a psychologist's authority.
Het zoutpad
Raynor Winn · 2018
A raw, grounded memoir of walking through loss and illness, where physical hardship on the coast path mirrors emotional reckoning — quietly hopeful rather than sentimental.
Spare
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex · 2023
An unusually candid royal memoir that moves from a twelve-year-old's grief through army service, PTSD, and tabloid siege into the Meghan love story — confiding, raw, and score-settling by turns.
Becoming wise
Krista Tippett · 2016
Both explore spirituality
Gender Queer
Maia Kobabe · 2019
An intimate, candid graphic memoir that moves in vignettes through the author's journey to understanding eir nonbinary and asexual identity.
To shake the sleeping self
Jedidiah Jenkins · 2018
Both explore self-discovery & spirituality
About Untamed — what the genome says
Is Untamed a complete story or a cliffhanger?
It's a complete, standalone-satisfying story.
Who is Untamed for?
readers who want an empowering, permission-giving memoir about breaking free of expectations
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