Books like Becoming
12 books with a reading profile close to Becoming by Michelle Obama. Inward-looking, contemplative and clear-cut; an easy read.
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1
The Story of My Life
by Helen Keller
Also inward-looking and contemplative · biography, memoir
In this memoir, Helen Keller details her childhood following a severe illness that left her both blind and deaf at nineteen months old.
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2
Wings of Fire: An Autobiography
Also clear-cut · biography, memoir
Wings of Fire follows the life of A.P.J.
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3
Educated
Also inward-looking and contemplative · biography, memoir
Tara Westover recounts her upbringing in a survivalist Mormon family in the mountains of Idaho.
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4
Ghost Boy: My Miraculous Escape from a Life Locked Inside My Own Body
Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, inspirational
In January 1988, twelve-year-old Martin Pistorius fell ill with an undiagnosed brain infection that left him in a vegetative state.
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5
A Long Way Home
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
At five years old, Saroo Brierley fell asleep on a parked train in rural India and woke up thousands of miles away in Kolkata.
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6
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality
Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, inspirational
Michael J.
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7
Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
Jackie Hill Perry details her personal history of same-sex attraction and her subsequent conversion to Christianity.
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8
All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir
by Beth Moore
Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, inspirational
In this memoir, Beth Moore recounts her upbringing in Arkansas and Texas, revealing the private instability that existed behind her public image as a Bible teacher.
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9
Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
On October 13, 1972, a plane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team crashed in the Andes.
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10
The Beauty in Breaking
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
Michele Harper, an emergency room physician, details her life through a series of clinical encounters and personal upheavals.
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11
From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
Jesse Thistle was born to a Métis and Cree father and a Scottish-Canadian mother, and was abandoned with his brothers by his parents as a small child.
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12
Tramp for the Lord
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
Following her release from the Ravensbrück concentration camp, Corrie ten Boom spent twenty years traveling as a global itinerant speaker.
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