Reading List

Memoirs for the Millennial Woman

Books about figuring out your twenties, your relationships, your sense of self — written by women who have done the hard, honest work of putting it on the page. These are the ones I keep recommending to friends.

Dolly Alderton

Everything I Know About Love

The millennial woman’s essential read. Alderton captures your twenties in a way that makes you feel deeply seen.

Cheryl Strayed

Wild

Grief, reinvention, and one very long hike. A book about what it means to rebuild yourself from the ground up.

Tara Westover

Educated

About identity, family, and what it costs to choose yourself. Reads like the most intense novel you have ever picked up.

Isabel Klee

Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I’ve Cried About

The messy, tender reality of being a woman in her twenties — in essay form. You will laugh, then immediately cry.

Michelle Zauner

Crying in H Mart

About food, grief, and becoming the woman your mother raised you to be. One of the most quietly devastating memoirs of the last decade.

Ina Garten

Be Ready When the Luck Happens

A reminder that becoming yourself is a lifelong project — and it is never too late. Ina Garten is more candid here than you would expect, and that is exactly what makes it work.

Jennette McCurdy

I’m Glad My Mom Died

Dark, funny, and bracingly honest about growing up under the weight of someone else’s ambition. A book about survival dressed up as a celebrity memoir.

Kelly Bishop

The Third Gilmore

For the millennial woman who basically grew up in Stars Hollow. Kelly Bishop’s memoir is everything you would want — warm, self-aware, and full of the kind of stories that make you feel like you are catching up with an old friend.