Books like Educated
12 books with a reading profile close to Educated by Tara Westover. Inward-looking, contemplative and clear-cut; an easy read.
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Mom & Me & Mom
by Maya Angelou
Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, inspirational
Maya Angelou documents the complicated reconnection with her mother, Vivian Baxter, who abandoned her for a decade during her childhood.
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Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus: A Devout Muslim Encounters Christianity
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
Nabeel Qureshi describes his upbringing in a devout Ahmadiyya Muslim household, focusing on his childhood immersion in Islamic apologetics and Quranic study.
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, inspirational
In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two capital murders in Alabama based on flawed ballistics evidence and systemic racial bias.
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4
Know My Name
Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, inspirational
Chanel Miller recounts her experience as the victim in the People v.
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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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'Tis
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · biography, memoir
Starting where his previous memoir concluded, Frank McCourt chronicles his arrival in New York City as an impoverished nineteen-year-old immigrant.
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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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8
Left to Tell
by Immaculée Ilibagiza, Steve Erwin
Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, inspirational
Immaculée Ilibagiza details her survival during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, where Hutu extremists murdered nearly her entire family.
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The Water Is Wide
by Pat Conroy
Also contemplative and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
In 1969, Pat Conroy moved to Yamacraw Island, a remote landmass off the South Carolina coast, to teach at a two-room schoolhouse.
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10
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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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, inspirational
At twenty-six, Cheryl Strayed faced the collapse of her world following her mother’s sudden death from cancer and the subsequent disintegration of her marriage.
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12
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved
by Kate Bowler
Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, inspirational
At thirty-five, Kate Bowler was a professor at Duke Divinity School researching the prosperity gospel when she received a diagnosis of stage IV colon cancer.
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