Books like The Blind Side
12 books with a reading profile close to The Blind Side by Michael Lewis. Clear-cut; an easy read.
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1
The Innocent Man
by John Grisham
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Ron Williamson was a former minor league baseball player who spiraled into mental illness and addiction before being arrested for the 1982 murder of Debra Sue Carter in Ada, Oklahoma.
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The Small and the Mighty: Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Sharon McMahon, a former high school government teacher, profiles twelve lesser-known Americans whose choices, often made quietly, changed the country, from the founding era through the civil rights movement.
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3
Fever 1793
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In 1793 Philadelphia, fourteen-year-old Mattie Cook works in her family’s coffeehouse, dreaming of future expansion.
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4
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
by Timothy Egan
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Timothy Egan chronicles the environmental disaster of the 1930s Dust Bowl by following several families who remained in the High Plains rather than fleeing to California.
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5
The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
The story centers on the Watsons, a Black family living in Flint, Michigan.
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The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
by Jim DeFede
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
When U.S.
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7
Refugee
by Alan Gratz
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Three children, in three different decades, are forced to flee their homes.
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A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
by Adam Makos
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In December 1943, Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown flew a crippled B-17 bomber over Germany, its fuselage shredded and half its crew wounded.
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A Single Shard
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
In twelfth-century Korea, an orphan named Tree-ear lives under a bridge in Ch’ulp’o, scavenging for food alongside his disabled protector, Crane-man.
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10
The First Ladies
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
This historical novel centers on the real-world partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune.
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11
The Bookseller of Kabul
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Following the fall of the Taliban in 2001, Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad lived with the family of Sultan Khan, a bookseller in Kabul who risked imprisonment to preserve Afghan literature.
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America's First Daughter
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Martha "Patsy" Jefferson Randolph serves as the primary protector of Thomas Jefferson’s reputation and household throughout this narrative.
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