Books like Assata: An Autobiography
12 books with a reading profile close to Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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Infidel
history, memoir
Infidel follows Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s life from her childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya to her career as a Dutch parliamentarian.
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Life of Black Hawk, Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak
by Black Hawk
history, memoir
In this 1833 autobiography, Sauk leader Black Hawk recounts his military life and the territorial disputes leading to the Black Hawk War.
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I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
history, memoir
Austin Channing Brown narrates her life navigating predominantly white religious and corporate organizations, beginning with the story of how her parents chose her name to ensure she would reach the interview stage of e…
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Shadows of the Workhouse
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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Homage to Catalonia
history, memoir
George Orwell recounts his personal involvement in the Spanish Civil War, specifically his time serving within the POUM militia on the Aragon front and in Barcelona.
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
history, memoir
For over a decade, a violent predator terrorized California through fifty sexual assaults and thirteen murders, vanishing without a trace.
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The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
history, memoir
In 1942, Edith Hahn, a Jewish law student from Vienna, escaped deportation by assuming the identity of a Christian woman named Grete Denner.
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Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
history, memoir
Deborah Feldman details her youth within the Satmar Hasidic community in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a world defined by strict gender roles and the trauma of the Holocaust.
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First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
by Loung Ung
history, memoir
In 1975, five-year-old Loung Ung lived a comfortable life in Phnom Penh as the daughter of a high-ranking government official.
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Half Broke Horses
history, memoir
Jeannette Walls reconstructs the life of her maternal grandmother, Lily Casey Smith, in this oral history styled as a novel.
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