Untamed

A woman dismantles the identity her family built for her and forges a truer self — shares Untamed's core tension between inherited roles and personal liberation.

Readers looking for what to read after Untamed by Glennon Doyle consistently land on Educated, and for good reason. Tara Westover grew up in a survivalist family in rural Idaho, denied formal schooling and shaped by a version of reality she eventually realized was not her own. Like Doyle, Westover's journey is about learning to trust her own perception over the voices — family, religion, culture — that defined her. The tone is quieter and more literary than Untamed, but the emotional punch is just as significant. Both books ask the same central question: what do you owe the people who made you, and what do you owe yourself? If you liked Untamed and want a memoir with a gripping narrative backbone and a similarly hard-won sense of self, Educated is the perfect follow-up.

A young woman escapes an oppressive system and rebuilds her identity from scratch — a more extreme but structurally parallel story of personal liberation against enormous odds.

Readers drawn to the freedom-versus-captivity framework at the heart of Untamed by Glennon Doyle will find In Order to Live quietly devastating. Yeonmi Park escaped North Korea as a teenager, and her memoir charts the physical and psychological journey toward a self that was never allowed to exist under a totalitarian regime. The stakes are literally life and death rather than a marriage, but both Park and Doyle are grappling with the same fundamental question: who am I when the system that defined me is gone? Park's voice is direct, unsparing, and refuses self-pity — qualities Doyle's readers will recognize and respect. If you liked Untamed and want a memoir that pushes the theme of liberation to its most urgent extreme, this is the book to pick up next.

A daughter reckons with addiction, grief, and an identity shaped entirely by others — raw, unfiltered, and emotionally aligned with Untamed's confessional register.

If you liked Untamed by Glennon Doyle for its unflinching honesty about addiction, marriage, and the performance of a self that doesn't quite fit, From Here to the Great Unknown hits similar nerves. Lisa-Marie Presley's posthumous memoir — completed by her daughter Riley Keough — chronicles a life spent in the shadow of an impossible inheritance, moving through drug dependency, failed relationships, and the search for an authentic identity when the world has already decided who you are. Like Doyle, Presley doesn't sand down the difficult parts to make herself more sympathetic. The co-authorship adds an emotional layer — a daughter finishing her mother's story — that gives the book a grief-soaked intimacy Untamed readers will respond to. A natural pick for anyone searching for books like Untamed that center women's messy, unresolved inner lives.