Books like Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
12 books with a reading profile close to Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas. Deep; a moderate read.
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1
Schindler’s List
history, biography
In German-occupied Poland, industrialist Oskar Schindler utilized his connections within the Nazi Party and the SS to shield Jewish workers from liquidation.
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
history, biography
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston traveled to Plateau, Alabama, to interview Oluale Kossola, known as Cudjo Lewis.
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3
Roots
by Alex Haley
history, biography
Alex Haley reconstructs his family lineage starting with Kunta Kinte, a Mandinka youth abducted from West Africa in 1767 and sold into chattel slavery in Maryland.
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4
Careless Love
history, biography
This volume documents the final two decades of Elvis Presley’s life, beginning with his 1958 military service in Germany and concluding with his death in 1977.
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The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
history, biography
Jan and Antonina Zabinski managed the Warsaw Zoo during the 1939 German invasion of Poland.
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The princes in the tower
by Alison Weir
history, biography
Alison Weir investigates the 1483 disappearance of Edward V and Richard, Duke of York, from the Tower of London.
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7
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
by Dava Sobel
history, biography
Dava Sobel reconstructs the life of Galileo Galilei through the preserved correspondence of his eldest child, Suor Maria Celeste.
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
history, philosophy
Stephen Greenblatt centers his narrative on Poggio Bracciolini, a fifteenth-century papal secretary and book hunter who discovered a rare manuscript of Lucretius’s "De Rerum Natura" in a remote German monastery.
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X
Also deep · 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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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
by Andrea Wulf
history, biography
Andrea Wulf chronicles the life of Alexander von Humboldt, the nineteenth-century Prussian naturalist who envisioned the earth as a single living organism where all biological and physical forces are interconnected.
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Marie Antoinette: The Journey
history, biography
Antonia Fraser reconstructs the life of the last Queen of France, moving from her childhood as an Austrian archduchess to her execution during the French Revolution.
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Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty
history, biography
Robert K.
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