Read-alikes and related books

Books like Getting Lost

24 books recommended for fans of Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux, tied together by themes of Personal Memoirs, Women, Literary, and Biography & Autobiography.

Top related books to Getting Lost

Curated picks selected for thematic resonance, narrative overlap, and author diversity.

A Woman’s Story

Annie Ernaux

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Women • Literary

What Rhymes with Bastard?

Linda Robertson

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Women • Literary

Is There Still Sex in the City?

Candace Bushnell

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Women • Literary

A Writer’s Diary Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Women • Literary

Jane Eyre — Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Bronte

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Women • Literary

Essential Doris Lessing CD: Excerpts from The Golden Notebook Read by the Author

Doris Lessing

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Women • Literary

And Now I Spill the Family Secrets An Illustrated Memoir

Margaret Kimball

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Women • Literary

Girl Sleuth Nancy Drew and the Women who Created Her

Melanie Rehak

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Women • Literary

The Road Through Wonderland Surviving John Holmes

Dawn Schiller

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Women • Biography & Autobiography

#10

Dream Me Home Safely

Susan Richards Shreve

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Literary • Biography & Autobiography

#11

These Precious Days Essays

Ann Patchett

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Women • Biography & Autobiography

#12

A Moveable Feast The Restored Edition

Ernest Hemingway

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Literary • Biography & Autobiography

#13

The Spacious Adventures of the Man in the Street — Eimar O’Duffy

Eimar O'Duffy

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Literary • Biography & Autobiography

#14

Bath Times and Nursery Rhymes The Memoirs of a Nursery Nurse in the 1960s

Pam Weaver

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Women • Biography & Autobiography

#15

The Opposite of Loneliness Essays and Stories

Marina Keegan

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Literary • Biography & Autobiography

#16

French Kissing

Catherine Sanderson

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Women • Biography & Autobiography

#17

Into the Woods and Out Again A Memoir of Love, Madness, and Transformation

Dina Glouberman

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Women • Biography & Autobiography

#18

Mania

Janie Cochran

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Women • Biography & Autobiography

#19

I’m Dancing as Fast as I Can

Barbara Gordon

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Women • Biography & Autobiography

#20

The Illiterate

Agota Kristof

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Women • Biography & Autobiography

#21

A Little Learning The First Volume of an Autobiography

Evelyn Waugh

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Literary • Biography & Autobiography

#22

Romance Is My Day Job A Memoir of Finding Love at Last

Patience Bloom

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Women • Biography & Autobiography

#23

My Life, My Body

Marge Piercy

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Women • Biography & Autobiography

#24

The Winding Road

Lilly Wells

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Women • Biography & Autobiography

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Personal Memoirs, Women, Literary — the same threads that run through Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux. Among the authors featured: Annie Ernaux, Linda Robertson, Candace Bushnell, Virginia Woolf, and others.