Books like Men We Reaped: A Memoir
12 books with a reading profile close to Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward. Deep and inward-looking; a moderate read.
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Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
by Lea Ypi
Also deep · history, memoir
Lea Ypi narrates her upbringing in Albania during the final decade of the Cold War and the subsequent transition to a market economy.
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The Best We Could Do
by Thi Bui
Also inward-looking · history, memoir
Thi Bui narrates her family’s history through a graphic memoir format, beginning with the birth of her own child in the present day.
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3
War's Unwomanly Face
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.
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4
Night
by Elie Wiesel
Also deep and inward-looking · history, memoir
In this memoir, Eliezer, a Jewish teenager from Sighet, Transylvania, is deported to Auschwitz and Buchenwald during the final years of World War II.
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The Complete Maus
Also deep and inward-looking · history, memoir
Art Spiegelman uses the graphic novel format to document his father Vladek’s survival during the Holocaust.
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How to Say Babylon
Also inward-looking · memoir, literary
Safiya Sinclair recounts her childhood in Jamaica under the rigid authority of her father, a strict Rastafarian musician who enforced a sequestered life to protect his daughters from "Babylon," his term for the corrupti…
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Letters to Milena
by Franz Kafka
Also deep and inward-looking · memoir, literary
Franz Kafka’s correspondence with Milena Jesenská begins as a professional exchange regarding the translation of his prose into Czech but quickly pivots into a private record of obsessive emotional attachment.
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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.
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The World of Yesterday
by Stefan Zweig
Also deep · history, memoir
Stefan Zweig chronicles the collapse of European civilization from the late nineteenth century through the start of World War II.
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Between the World and Me
Also deep and inward-looking · history, memoir
Written as a letter to his teenage son, Ta-Nehisi Coates frames the black body as the central site of American history and civic stability.
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Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
Also deep and inward-looking · memoir, literary
In this memoir, William Styron documents his descent into a paralyzing clinical depression that began during a trip to Paris in 1985.
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Mother Mary Comes to Me
Also inward-looking · memoir, literary
Arundhati Roy's 'Mother Mary Comes To Me' is a collection of essays and non-fiction pieces rather than a novel, despite the evocative title.
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