Books like Just Mercy
12 books with a reading profile close to Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson. Clear-cut; an easy read.
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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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2
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Also clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
In 1993, mountaineer Greg Mortenson failed to summit K2 and wandered, exhausted, into the remote Pakistani village of Korphe.
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3
My Next Breath
Also clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
Jeremy Renner chronicles his recovery following a near-fatal snowplow accident on New Year’s Day 2023.
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An Invisible Thread
Also 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.
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5
The Cross and the Switchblade
Also clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
In 1958, David Wilkerson, a small-town Pentecostal pastor, moved to New York City after seeing a sketch in a magazine of seven teenagers on trial for murder.
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Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed - A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings
Also 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.
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Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window
Also clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
Tetsuko Kuroyanagi recounts her childhood experiences at Tomoe Gakuen, an experimental elementary school in Tokyo during World War II.
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8
The Salt Path
by Raynor Winn
Also clear-cut · 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.
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My Life on the Road
Also clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
Gloria Steinem details her decades spent traveling as an organizer and speaker, tracing her life from a childhood in a house trailer to her work in global social activism.
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Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
by Mitch Albom
Also clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
When the 2010 earthquake struck Haiti, Mitch Albom was already running an orphanage in Port-au-Prince.
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Know My Name
Also clear-cut · memoir, inspirational
Chanel Miller recounts her experience as the victim in the People v.
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Permanent Record
memoir, narrative
Edward Snowden details his transition from a committed CIA and NSA technologist to a whistleblower who exposed the United States government’s system of mass digital surveillance.
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