Books like The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
12 books with a reading profile close to The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin. Clear-cut; a moderate read.
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A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
Also clear-cut · history, biography
Masaji Ishikawa recounts his thirty-six years living under the North Korean regime after his family migrated from Japan in 1960.
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Wild Swans
by Jung Chang
Also clear-cut · history, biography
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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Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family
by Miep Gies
Also clear-cut · history, biography
Miep Gies recounts her years working as a secretary for Otto Frank in Amsterdam and her subsequent decision to provide food, supplies, and emotional support to the Frank family during their concealment in the Secret Ann…
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Long Walk to Freedom
history, biography
Nelson Mandela details his progression from a childhood in the rural Eastern Cape to his career as a lawyer and activist in Johannesburg against the National Party’s apartheid system.
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The Story of My Life
by Helen Keller
Also clear-cut · biography, memoir
In this memoir, Helen Keller details her childhood following a severe illness that left her both blind and deaf at nineteen months old.
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Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
Also clear-cut · history, memoir
Frederick Douglass recounts his transition from an enslaved child in Maryland to an abolitionist leader in the North.
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X
history, biography
The narrative chronicles Malcolm Little’s evolution from a Midwestern childhood marked by white supremacist violence to his street life as a hustler and thief in Harlem.
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The World of Yesterday
by Stefan Zweig
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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Black Boy
history, memoir
Richard Wright’s memoir documents his youth in the Jim Crow South and his eventual migration to Chicago.
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Twelve years a slave
Also clear-cut · history, memoir
Solomon Northup, a free Black man residing in Saratoga Springs, New York, was kidnapped in 1841 after being lured to Washington, D.C., under the guise of traveling employment.
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
history, memoir
Harriet Ann Jacobs writes under the pseudonym Linda Brent to chronicle her life as an enslaved woman in North Carolina.
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