Books like The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story
12 books with a reading profile close to The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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Schindler’s List
history, biography
In German-occupied Poland, industrialist Oskar Schindler utilized his connections within the Nazi Party and the SS to shield Jewish workers from liquidation.
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Careless Love
history, biography
This volume documents the final two decades of Elvis Presley’s life, beginning with his 1958 military service in Germany and concluding with his death in 1977.
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Roots
by Alex Haley
history, biography
Alex Haley reconstructs his family lineage starting with Kunta Kinte, a Mandinka youth abducted from West Africa in 1767 and sold into chattel slavery in Maryland.
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
history, biography
Hallie Rubenhold reconstructs the biographies of Polly Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, and Mary Jane Kelly, shifting the historical focus away from their murderer.
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Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"
history, biography
In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston traveled to Plateau, Alabama, to interview Oluale Kossola, known as Cudjo Lewis.
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
by Dava Sobel
history, biography
Dava Sobel reconstructs the life of Galileo Galilei through the preserved correspondence of his eldest child, Suor Maria Celeste.
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Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter
history, biography
Kate Clifford Larson reconstructs the life of Rosemary Kennedy, the eldest daughter of Joe and Rose Kennedy, who was born with intellectual disabilities.
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The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
by Kate Moore
history, biography
In 1860, Elizabeth Packard’s husband committed her to the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane because she challenged his religious authority and asserted her intellectual independence.
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Marie Antoinette: The Journey
history, biography
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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The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World
by Andrea Wulf
history, biography
Andrea Wulf chronicles the life of Alexander von Humboldt, the nineteenth-century Prussian naturalist who envisioned the earth as a single living organism where all biological and physical forces are interconnected.
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The princes in the tower
by Alison Weir
history, biography
Alison Weir investigates the 1483 disappearance of Edward V and Richard, Duke of York, from the Tower of London.
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Mornings on Horseback
history, biography
David McCullough chronicles the formative years of Theodore Roosevelt, focusing on the two decades between 1869 and 1886.
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