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Books like Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

12 books with a reading profile close to Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Ann Jacobs. Deep, inward-looking and contemplative; a moderate read.

1

Black Boy

by Richard Wright

Also deep and inward-looking · history, memoir

Richard Wright’s memoir documents his youth in the Jim Crow South and his eventual migration to Chicago.
2

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass

by Frederick Douglass

Also deep and contemplative · history, memoir

Frederick Douglass recounts his transition from an enslaved child in Maryland to an abolitionist leader in the North.
3

The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45

by Władysław Szpilman

Also deep and inward-looking · history, memoir

Władysław Szpilman, a Jewish pianist for Polish Radio, provides a first-hand account of the Nazi occupation of Warsaw.
4

Twelve years a slave

by Solomon Northup

Also contemplative · history, memoir

Solomon Northup, a free Black man residing in Saratoga Springs, New York, was kidnapped in 1841 after being lured to Washington, D.C., under the guise of traveling employment.
5

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

by Eugene B. Sledge

Also deep · history, memoir

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6

The World of Yesterday

by Stefan Zweig

Also deep and contemplative · history, memoir

Stefan Zweig chronicles the collapse of European civilization from the late nineteenth century through the start of World War II.
7

The Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust

by Edith Hahn Beer

Also inward-looking and contemplative · 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.
8

War's Unwomanly Face

by Svetlana Alexievich

Also deep and inward-looking · history, memoir

Svetlana Alexievich interviewed hundreds of Soviet women who served in the Red Army during World War II as snipers, tank drivers, pilots, and field surgeons.
9

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.
10

Survival in Auschwitz

by Primo Levi

Also deep and inward-looking · history, memoir

Primo Levi, an Italian Jewish chemist, details his eleven months of imprisonment in the Monowitz-Buna concentration camp.
11

The Diary of a Young Girl

by Anne Frank

Also deep and inward-looking · history, memoir

Between 1942 and 1944, Anne Frank lived in a hidden attic annex in occupied Amsterdam to escape Nazi persecution.
12

Suite française

by Irène Némirovsky

Also deep · history, narrative

Set in 1940 during the German invasion of France, the narrative follows a chaotic exodus from Paris as civilians flee an oncoming army.

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