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12 books with a reading profile close to The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton. Inward-looking and contemplative; an easy read.

1

Left to Tell

by Immaculée Ilibagiza, Steve Erwin

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, inspirational

Immaculée Ilibagiza details her survival during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, where Hutu extremists murdered nearly her entire family.
2

Know My Name

by Chanel Miller

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, inspirational

Chanel Miller recounts her experience as the victim in the People v.
3

Finding Me

by Viola Davis

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, inspirational

In this memoir, Viola Davis recounts her upbringing in Central Falls, Rhode Island, marked by extreme poverty, food insecurity, and chronic domestic violence.
4

The End of Your Life Book Club

by Will Schwalbe

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, inspirational

While Mary Anne Schwalbe undergoes chemotherapy for pancreatic cancer, she and her son, Will, spend their hours in hospital waiting rooms discussing the books they are reading.
5

The Salt Path

by Raynor Winn

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, inspirational

Within days of losing their family home to a legal dispute, Raynor Winn and her husband Moth receive a terminal diagnosis for his rare neurodegenerative condition.
6

Totto-chan: The Little Girl at the Window

by Tetsuko Kuroyanagi

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, inspirational

Tetsuko Kuroyanagi recounts her childhood experiences at Tomoe Gakuen, an experimental elementary school in Tokyo during World War II.
7

An Invisible Thread

by Laura Schroff

Also inward-looking · memoir, inspirational

In 1986, Laura Schroff, a busy advertising executive in Manhattan, encountered Maurice Mazyck, an eleven-year-old panhandler, on a street corner.
8

The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates

by Wes Moore

memoir, inspirational

The narrative follows two men named Wes Moore who grew up blocks apart in Baltimore.
9

Mom & Me & Mom

by Maya Angelou

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, inspirational

Maya Angelou documents the complicated reconnection with her mother, Vivian Baxter, who abandoned her for a decade during her childhood.
10

Have a Little Faith: a True Story

by Mitch Albom

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, inspirational

Mitch Albom recounts an eight-year odyssey triggered by a request from his childhood rabbi, Albert Lewis, to write his eulogy.
11

Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together

by Ron Hall

Also inward-looking and contemplative · memoir, inspirational

Denver Moore grew up as a modern-day sharecropper in Louisiana, trapped in a system of manual labor that mirrored nineteenth-century slavery.
12

Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed - A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings

by Michelle Knight

Also inward-looking · memoir, inspirational

Michelle Knight narrates her eleven-year captivity in the house of Ariel Castro, where she was the first of three women abducted.

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