Tara Westover's Reading List

"Hilary Mantel because she passed away last year, and I can't stop thinking about what a loss that was to literature."

"Judith Herman because she is one of the best experts writing on the topic of harm and healing — how we confront the past in order to leave it behind."

"An unthinkably brave book to have written. Compelling and important."

"A bizarre and dark little fable about aging and mortality … I laughed out loud all the way through."

"The book is desperately sad and philosophically daring. It is a book about beliefs, and how beliefs can be meaningful and comforting and inspiring and also costly. The trip was wonderful, like a pilgrimage."

"I've read a few pages and I'm hooked. The writing is downright nutritious."