Books like Homage to Catalonia
12 books with a reading profile close to Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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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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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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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 Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
history, memoir
Edmund de Waal traces a collection of 264 netsuke—tiny Japanese ivory and wood carvings—to reconstruct his ancestors’ history.
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The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
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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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
by Clint Smith
history, memoir
In this narrative nonfiction work, Clint Smith travels to nine distinct locations to examine how each site remembers or distorts its connection to the transatlantic slave trade.
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Shadows of the Workhouse
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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Down and Out in Paris and London
history, memoir
George Orwell’s 1933 memoir chronicles his deliberate descent into poverty within two European capitals.
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The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
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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I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
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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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer
history, memoir
Jon Krakauer chronicles the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, during which eight climbers died in a single storm.
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