Books like In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
12 books with a reading profile close to In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom by Yeonmi Park. Clear-cut; an easy read.
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The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
Also clear-cut · history, memoir
Corrie ten Boom lived in Haarlem, the Netherlands, where she worked as a watchmaker alongside her sister Betsie and father Casper.
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2
The Bronze Bow
Also clear-cut · history, inspirational
Set in first-century Galilee, the story follows Daniel bar Jamin, a young Jewish rebel consumed by a desire to expel the Roman occupiers.
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3
My Beloved World
Also clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
In this memoir, Sonia Sotomayor traces her life from a childhood in a Bronx housing project to her appointment as a federal judge.
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4
God's Smuggler
Also clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
Born into a working-class Dutch family and hardened by military service in Indonesia, Andrew van der Bijl finds dynamic faith that leads him across the Iron Curtain.
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The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State
by Nadia Murad
Also clear-cut · history, memoir
Nadia Murad tells the story of the 2014 genocide against the Yazidi people in Iraq.
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Mao's Last Dancer
by Li Cunxin
Also clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
Li Cunxin recounts his childhood as one of seven brothers living in extreme poverty in rural Qingdao during the Cultural Revolution.
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7
The Happiest Man on Earth
by Eddie Jaku
Also 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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The Masterpiece
Also clear-cut · history, inspirational
Roman Velasco is a successful Los Angeles artist hiding a secret identity as a prolific graffiti tagger known as Bird.
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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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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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From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way
Also clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
Jesse Thistle was born to a Métis and Cree father and a Scottish-Canadian mother, and was abandoned with his brothers by his parents as a small child.
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Desert Flower
by Waris Dirie
Also clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
Born in the Somali desert, Waris Dirie describes her early life as a nomad, herding livestock and navigating a harsh landscape before fleeing an arranged marriage at thirteen.
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