What should I read after Go Ask Alice?

If you liked Go Ask Alice, try Little House in the Big Woods (Laura Ingalls Wilder), Girl in Pieces (Kathleen Glasgow) and Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides).

Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks: what it’s like, who it’s for

Name: Go Ask Alice
Author: Beatrice Sparks
ISBN: 9781416914631

Young adult Contemporary fiction Literary fiction

A teenager's diary of trying to fit in, wanting to be loved, and the compromises that start to feel like a life.

Feels like nostalgia, wonder and awe. About memory, identity and home.

A page from the book

How much of you is a borrowed copy?

I’m partly somebody else trying to fit in and say the right things and do the right thing and be in the right place and wear what everybody else is wearing. Sometimes I think we’re all trying to be shadows of each other, trying to buy the same records and everything even if we don’t like them. Kids are like robots, off an assembly line, and I don’t want to be a robot!

Excerpt from Go Ask Alice, Beatrice Sparks 1971. Quoted for discovery. Source Rights & removals

Beatrice Sparks.Published anonymously in 1971 as a real teenager's diary, it was later credited to Beatrice Sparks, a youth counsellor; its authorship is still debated.

Books that feel like this

Little House in the Big Woods

Laura Ingalls Wilder, 1932

Also nostalgia and memory.

Girl in Pieces

Kathleen Glasgow, 2016

Also identity and memory.

Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides, 2002

Also identity and wonder.

Neuromancer

William Gibson, 1984

Also memory and identity.

Memoirs of a Geisha

Arthur Golden, 1997

Also memory and nostalgia.

Ready Player One

Ernest Cline, 2011

Also memory and wonder.

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Questions readers ask

What is Go Ask Alice like?: Feels like nostalgia, wonder and awe. About memory, identity and home.
What should I read after Go Ask Alice?: If you liked Go Ask Alice, try Little House in the Big Woods (Laura Ingalls Wilder), Girl in Pieces (Kathleen Glasgow) and Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides).

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