Books like My Own Words
12 books with a reading profile close to My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Clear-cut; a moderate read.
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1
My Life
by Bill Clinton
biography, memoir
In this autobiography, Bill Clinton traces his trajectory from a childhood in Hope, Arkansas, through his tenure as Governor and his two terms as the forty-second President of the United States.
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2
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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3
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
by Joe Simpson
Also clear-cut · 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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4
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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5
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
Also clear-cut · 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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6
'Tis
Also clear-cut · 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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7
A Promised Land
by Barack Obama
Also clear-cut · 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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8
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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9
Wild Swans
by Jung Chang
Also clear-cut · 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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10
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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11
Marie Antoinette: The Journey
Also clear-cut · biography, narrative
Antonia Fraser reconstructs the life of the last Queen of France, moving from her childhood as an Austrian archduchess to her execution during the French Revolution.
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12
Life
Also clear-cut · 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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