Educated
A February 2018 LibraryReads Pick
An Elle Magazine Pick for February 2018
A Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week
An Entertainment Weekly Pick of Most Anticipated Books
A Vogue Pick
An Amazon Best Book of the Month selection
A USA Today Pick of New and Noteworthy Books
A #1 New York Times bestseller in Nonfiction
A BookPage Top Pick for March
A USA Today bestseller
Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
A Kirkus Reviews Pick of 9 Women Writing Bold Memoirs
A #1 New York Times audio bestseller
A #1 iBooks bestseller
A 2018 LibraryReads Favorites of the Favorites selection
A 2018 Time Magazine Top 10 Books of the Year selection in Nonfiction
A New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book of the Year
On the ALA Listen List for Outstanding Audiobook Narration
Longlisted for the 2019 Wellcome Trust Book Prize
The 2019 Audie Award Winner for Best Narration in Autobiography/Memoir
The 2019 Audie Award Winner for Best Female Narrator
Finalist for the 2019 Indies Choice Book Award for Audiobook of the Year
An iBooks bestseller in audiobooks
One of the most acclaimed books of our time: an unforgettable memoir about a young woman who, kept out of school, leaves her survivalist family and goes on to earn a PhD from Cambridge University
Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education and no one to intervene when one of Tara’s older brothers became violent.
When another brother got himself into college, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she had traveled too far, if there were still a way home.
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