Books like Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
12 books with a reading profile close to Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family by Miep Gies. Clear-cut; an easy read.
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A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
Also clear-cut · history, biography
Masaji Ishikawa recounts his thirty-six years living under the North Korean regime after his family migrated from Japan in 1960.
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Also clear-cut · history, biography
Benjamin Franklin outlines his transition from a printer's apprentice in Boston to a prominent civic leader and scientist in Philadelphia.
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Wild Swans
by Jung Chang
Also clear-cut · history, biography
Jung Chang traces the history of twentieth-century China through the lives of three generations of women: her grandmother, her mother, and herself.
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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
Also clear-cut · history, biography
Blaine Harden chronicles the life of Shin Dong-hyuk, the only person known to have been born in and successfully escaped from a North Korean "total control zone" political prison.
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Decision Points
history, biography
Decision Points functions as a non-linear memoir centered on fourteen distinct choices made by the forty-third president.
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The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
by Nadia Murad
Also clear-cut · history, memoir
Nadia Murad tells the story of the 2014 genocide against the Yazidi people in Iraq.
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Long Walk to Freedom
history, biography
Nelson Mandela details his progression from a childhood in the rural Eastern Cape to his career as a lawyer and activist in Johannesburg against the National Party’s apartheid system.
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Shadows of the Workhouse
Also clear-cut · history, memoir
In this second volume of her memoirs, Jennifer Worth documents the lives of people in London’s East End who were shaped by the British Victorian workhouse system.
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Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
by Joe Simpson
Also clear-cut · biography, memoir
Joe Simpson and Simon Yates reached the 21,000-foot summit of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes before disaster struck during their descent.
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Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter
Also clear-cut · history, biography
Kate Clifford Larson reconstructs the life of Rosemary Kennedy, the eldest daughter of Joe and Rose Kennedy, who was born with intellectual disabilities.
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X
history, biography
The narrative chronicles Malcolm Little’s evolution from a Midwestern childhood marked by white supremacist violence to his street life as a hustler and thief in Harlem.
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Seven Years in Tibet
Also clear-cut · biography, memoir
Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountaineer, details his escape from a British internment camp in India during World War II and his subsequent trek across the Himalayas into the forbidden city of Lhasa.
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