Books like What My Mother and I Don't Talk About

What My Mother and I Don't Talk About by Michele Filgate reads as poignant, introspective. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Heavy

Kiese Laymon

Both explore trauma

60% genome match

Know My Name

Chanel Miller

Both explore trauma

58% genome match

Untamed

Glennon Doyle Melton · 2020

Same memoir feel

55% genome match

In Open Country

Rahawa Haile · 2021

Same memoir feel

59% genome match

Autobiography of a Face

Lucy Grealy · 1994

Both explore trauma

65% genome match

Hunger

Roxane Gay · 2016

Both explore trauma

52% genome match

Barbarian days

William Finnegan · 2015

Same memoir feel

51% genome match

Wide open

Gracie X · 2015

Same memoir feel

53% genome match

Trick Mirror

Jia Tolentino · 2019

Same nonfiction feel

45% genome match

Het zoutpad

Raynor Winn · 2018

Same memoir feel

59% genome match

Redefining realness

Janet Mock · 2014

Same memoir feel

44% genome match

Wild

Cheryl Strayed · 2012

Both explore healing

59% genome match