Books like Life
12 books with a reading profile close to Life by Keith Richards. Clear-cut; a moderate read.
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1
Spare
by Prince Harry
Also clear-cut · biography, memoir
Prince Harry recounts his life within the British royal family, centering on the psychological impact of his mother’s death and his subordinate position as the younger brother to the heir.
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2
Open
by Andre Agassi
Also clear-cut · biography, memoir
Andre Agassi begins this memoir with a blunt confession: he hates tennis.
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3
Orange Is the New Black
by Piper Kerman
Also clear-cut · memoir, narrative
Piper Kerman recounts the year she spent in a minimum-security federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, following a decade-old conviction for drug money laundering.
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4
Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil
Also clear-cut · memoir, narrative
Deborah Rodriguez, an American hairdresser from Michigan, traveled to Afghanistan in 2002 as part of a humanitarian aid mission following the fall of the Taliban.
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5
Seven Years in Tibet
Also clear-cut · biography, memoir
Heinrich Harrer, an Austrian mountaineer, details his escape from a British internment camp in India during World War II and his subsequent trek across the Himalayas into the forbidden city of Lhasa.
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6
Clapton: The Autobiography
by Eric Clapton
Also clear-cut · memoir, narrative
Eric Clapton details his life from a secluded childhood in Surrey to his status as a central figure in blues and rock music.
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7
Me Talk Pretty One Day
Also clear-cut · memoir, narrative
David Sedaris organizes this collection around his move from New York to Normandy and the resulting linguistic displacement.
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8
Red Roulette
by Desmond Shum
biography, memoir
Desmond Shum details his rise from an impoverished background to the peak of China’s billionaire class alongside his former wife, Whitney Duan.
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9
The Other Einstein
Also clear-cut · biography, narrative
Mileva Maric, a brilliant physicist and the only female student in her class at Zurich Polytechnic, faces the rigid gender barriers of the late nineteenth century.
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10
My Life in France
by Julia Child
Also clear-cut · memoir, narrative
After moving to post-war Paris in 1948 with her husband Paul, Julia Child discovers a lifelong vocation in French cuisine.
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11
Geisha, a Life
Also clear-cut · memoir, narrative
Mineko Iwasaki provides a factual account of her career as a geiko in Kyoto’s Gion district, a role that required mastery of classical Japanese dance and rigorous social etiquette.
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12
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner
by Judy Melinek
Also clear-cut · memoir, narrative
In this memoir, Dr.
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