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12 books with a reading profile close to 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff. Inward-looking, contemplative and clear-cut; an easy read.

1

Dear Fahrenheit 451

by Annie Spence

Also clear-cut · memoir, accessible

Libarian Annie Spence writes specific, direct letters to the physical books she has encountered throughout her career and personal life.
2

Theft by Finding: Diaries 1977-2002

by David Sedaris

memoir, accessible

Theft by Finding gathers twenty-five years of David Sedaris's private diary entries, beginning with his early adulthood in North Carolina and ending as an established writer in London.
3

The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

by Marina Keegan

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, accessible

The collection compiles fiction and non-fiction written by Marina Keegan before her death just days after graduating from Yale.
4

Beautiful Country

by Qian Julie Wang

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, accessible

Qian Julie Wang was seven when she and her parents left China for New York in 1994, where her mother and father, a former professor and a professional, became undocumented workers.
5

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

by Sherman Alexie

Also inward-looking · memoir, accessible

Fourteen-year-old Arnold Spirit Jr., a budding cartoonist born with physical vulnerabilities, lives on the Spokane Indian Reservation where poverty and alcoholism are pervasive.
6

I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections

by Nora Ephron

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, accessible

In this collection of autobiographical essays, Nora Ephron examines the realities of aging, memory loss, and the loss of friends.
7

Solutions and Other Problems

by Allie Brosh

Also inward-looking · memoir, accessible

Allie Brosh uses crude digital illustrations and humorous vignettes to document her life after a long public absence.
8

I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

by Nora Ephron

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, accessible

Nora Ephron examines the physical humiliations and domestic frustrations of aging, focusing on the specific maintenance required to camouflage a sagging neck.
9

Persepolis, Volume 1

by Marjane Satrapi

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, accessible

Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical graphic novel chronicles her childhood in Tehran during the Islamic Revolution and the subsequent outbreak of the Iran-Iraq War.
10

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death

by Maggie O'Farrell

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, accessible

This memoir documents seventeen instances where Maggie O’Farrell narrowly escaped death.
11

Brown Girl Dreaming

by Jacqueline Woodson

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, accessible

Jacqueline Woodson’s memoir, written in verse, chronicles her childhood across the 1960s and 1970s.
12

Crying in H Mart

by Michelle Zauner

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, accessible

Michelle Zauner, the musician known as Japanese Breakfast, recounts her transition from a rebellious daughter to a primary caregiver after her mother receives a terminal cancer diagnosis.

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