Books like Menteuse

Loved Menteuse by Sophie Marceau? Here are 9 books with the same pull, and why each one fits.

About Menteuse →

9 books

Show only

1L'Amant
L'Amant
Marguerite Duras
A short French book that returns to a remembered youth and a loaded relationship, written in a spare, fragmented voice.
Buy on Amazon
2Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée
Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée
Simone de Beauvoir
A French memoir of a girlhood shaped by family expectations and an early awareness of what is left unsaid.
Books like it →
Buy on Amazon
3Une femme
Une femme
Annie Ernaux
A brief French account of a mother's life, written from the daughter's position and kept close to documented facts.
Buy on Amazon
4Les années
Les années
Annie Ernaux
A French memoir that uses the public events and images of decades to shape a personal account of memory.
Buy on Amazon
5Sido
Sido
Colette
A French memoir centred on the author's mother and childhood, written with close attention to the household and its moods.
Buy on Amazon
6Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
Mary McCarthy
A memoir of a girl's upbringing in which the author looks back critically at her own early certainties and the stories she was told.
Buy on Amazon
7This Boy's Life
This Boy's Life
Tobias Wolff
A memoir of a boy's childhood with a restless mother, told with a sharp eye for the self-deceptions of the people around him.
Buy on Amazon
8I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
An autobiography of early years marked by displacement and family strain, written in a plain, direct voice.
Books like it →
Buy on Amazon
9Angela's Ashes
Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt
A memoir of a poor childhood in Limerick, told from the child's point of view with humour and hardship side by side.
Buy on Amazon

Want picks just for you? Tell us books you love.

Wrote a book on this list? Claim your author page

More book lists