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12 books with a reading profile close to Have a Little Faith: a True Story by Mitch Albom. Practical, inward-looking, contemplative and clear-cut; an easy read.

1

Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together

by Ron Hall

Also practical and inward-looking · memoir, inspirational

Denver Moore grew up as a modern-day sharecropper in Louisiana, trapped in a system of manual labor that mirrored nineteenth-century slavery.
2

Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed - A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings

by Michelle Knight

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational

Michelle Knight narrates her eleven-year captivity in the house of Ariel Castro, where she was the first of three women abducted.
3

Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window

by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, inspirational

Tetsuko Kuroyanagi recounts her childhood experiences at Tomoe Gakuen, an experimental elementary school in Tokyo during World War II.
4

Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

by Mitch Albom

Also practical and inward-looking · memoir, inspirational

When the 2010 earthquake struck Haiti, Mitch Albom was already running an orphanage in Port-au-Prince.
5

The Salt Path

by Raynor Winn

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, inspirational

Within days of losing their family home to a legal dispute, Raynor Winn and her husband Moth receive a terminal diagnosis for his rare neurodegenerative condition.
6

An Invisible Thread

by Laura Schroff

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational

In 1986, Laura Schroff, a busy advertising executive in Manhattan, encountered Maurice Mazyck, an eleven-year-old panhandler, on a street corner.
7

Finding Me

by Viola Davis

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, inspirational

In this memoir, Viola Davis recounts her upbringing in Central Falls, Rhode Island, marked by extreme poverty, food insecurity, and chronic domestic violence.
8

The End of Your Life Book Club

by Will Schwalbe

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, inspirational

While Mary Anne Schwalbe undergoes chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer, she and her son, Will, spend their hours in hospital waiting rooms discussing the books they are reading.
9

My Next Breath

by Jeremy Renner

Also practical and clear-cut · memoir, inspirational

Jeremy Renner chronicles his recovery following a near-fatal snowplow accident on New Year’s Day 2023.
10

The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir

by Kelly Bishop

Also practical and inward-looking · memoir, narrative

Kelly Bishop traces her path from a young dancer in the New York City ballet scene to her Broadway success in the original cast of A Chorus Line.
11

Know My Name

by Chanel Miller

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, inspirational

Chanel Miller recounts her experience as the victim in the People v.
12

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

by Wes Moore

memoir, inspirational

The narrative follows two men named Wes Moore who grew up blocks apart in Baltimore.

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