Books like Know My Name
12 books with a reading profile close to Know My Name by Chanel Miller. Inward-looking, contemplative and clear-cut; an easy read.
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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, inspirational
In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two capital murders in Alabama based on flawed ballistics evidence and systemic racial bias.
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2
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.
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The End of Your Life Book Club
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.
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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.
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5
Left to Tell
by Immaculée Ilibagiza, Steve Erwin
Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, inspirational
Immaculée Ilibagiza details her survival during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, where Hutu extremists murdered nearly her entire family.
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Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window
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.
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An Invisible Thread
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.
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Mom & Me & Mom
by Maya Angelou
Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, inspirational
Maya Angelou documents the complicated reconnection with her mother, Vivian Baxter, who abandoned her for a decade during her childhood.
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Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed - A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings
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.
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10
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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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 inward-looking and contemplative · 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.
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Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo
Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, narrative
Christiane Felscherinow narrates her descent into heroin addiction in 1970s West Berlin, beginning with her experimentation with hashish and pills at age twelve.
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