Books like The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
12 books with a reading profile close to The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey by Ernesto Che Guevara. Contemplative; a moderate read.
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1
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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3
'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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4
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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5
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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6
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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Into the Wild
by Jon Krakauer
biography, memoir
In 1992, Chris McCandless abandoned his possessions and middle-class expectations to live off the land in the Alaskan interior.
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8
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X
biography, memoir
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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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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Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
by Barack Obama
Also contemplative · biography, memoir
Barack Obama reconstructs his personal history and identity as a biracial man in America through a narrative that spans Honolulu, Chicago, and Kenya.
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Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo
biography, narrative
Hayden Herrera tracks the life of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo from her childhood in Coyoacán through the catastrophic bus accident that left her in permanent physical pain.
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Educated
Also contemplative · biography, memoir
Tara Westover recounts her upbringing in a survivalist Mormon family in the mountains of Idaho.
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