Educated is the autobiography of Tara Westover and tells the story of how she grew up in a rural Idaho community under the roof a religiously conservative family who home-schooled her until she was 17. Her childhood was spent learning herbalism, the trade at her father's junkyard, and a very extreme set of Mormonism beliefs. After enduring years of abuse from her older brother and family, Tara managed to self-study mathematics and grammar to gain admission into Brigham Young University along the way to eventually attending Harvard and earning a PhD from Cambridge.

Educated has earned numerous accolades and awards including Apple's Best Memoir of the Year, Audbile's Best Memoir of the Year, and Named Nonfiction Book of the Year by the American Bookseller's Association. It was also listed as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award's John Leonard Prize and the Autobiography Award. Educated is Tara Westover's first book.