Books like First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
12 books with a reading profile close to First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung. Inward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.
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Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · 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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I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · 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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The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
Also inward-looking · 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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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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The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
Also inward-looking · history, memoir
Władysław Szpilman, a Jewish pianist for Polish Radio, provides a first-hand account of the Nazi occupation of Warsaw.
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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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Assata: An Autobiography
history, memoir
Assata Shakur recounts her life as a member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, structured around her 1973 arrest on the New Jersey Turnpike and subsequent imprisonment.
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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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The Happiest Man on Earth
by Eddie Jaku
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · history, memoir
Eddie Jaku recounts his survival during the Holocaust, detailing his experiences in Buchenwald and Auschwitz after being arrested as a Jewish man in Nazi Germany.
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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah
Also inward-looking · history, memoir
Ishmael Beah recounts his transition from a twelve-year-old fleeing rebel attacks in Sierra Leone to a government soldier fueled by cocaine, gunpowder, and trauma.
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The Sound of Gravel
by Ruth Wariner
Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, narrative
Ruth Wariner’s memoir details her upbringing as the forty-second child of her father within a polygamist Mormon colony in Colonia LeBaron, Mexico.
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