Books like My Life
12 books with a reading profile close to My Life by Bill Clinton. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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My Own Words
biography, memoir
My Own Words is a curated selection of speeches, legal briefs, and judicial opinions written by Ruth Bader Ginsburg over five decades.
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Seven Years in Tibet
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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Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
by Joe Simpson
biography, memoir
Joe Simpson and Simon Yates reached the 21,000-foot summit of Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes before disaster struck during their descent.
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The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
biography, memoir
In 1952, twenty-three-year-old medical student Ernesto Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado, a biochemist, departed Buenos Aires on a Norton 500 motorcycle to see the South American continent.
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Decision Points
biography, memoir
Decision Points functions as a non-linear memoir centered on fourteen distinct choices made by the forty-third president.
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'Tis
biography, memoir
Starting where his previous memoir concluded, Frank McCourt chronicles his arrival in New York City as an impoverished nineteen-year-old immigrant.
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Life
biography, memoir
In this autobiography, Keith Richards details the formation of the Rolling Stones and their evolution from London blues enthusiasts into a global stadium act.
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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
biography, memoir
Blaine Harden chronicles the life of Shin Dong-hyuk, the only person known to have been born in and successfully escaped from a North Korean "total control zone" political prison.
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A Promised Land
by Barack Obama
biography, memoir
In this memoir, Barack Obama details his political rise from his early organizers’ roots in Chicago to the conclusion of his first term in the Oval Office.
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Wild Swans
by Jung Chang
biography, memoir
Jung Chang traces the history of twentieth-century China through the lives of three generations of women: her grandmother, her mother, and herself.
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Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains
by Jon Krakauer
memoir, narrative
In this collection of non-fiction reports, Jon Krakauer chronicles the high-risk pursuits of ice climbers and mountaineers.
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