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12 books with a reading profile close to 'Tis by Frank McCourt. Inward-looking and clear-cut; an easy read.

1

Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival

by Joe Simpson

Also clear-cut · 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.
2

The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey

by Ernesto Che Guevara

biography, memoir

In 1952, twenty-three-year-old medical student Ernesto Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado, a biochemist, departed Buenos Aires on a Norton 500 motorcycle to see the South American continent.
3

Seven Years in Tibet

by Heinrich Harrer

Also clear-cut · 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.
4

Open

by Andre Agassi

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · biography, memoir

Andre Agassi begins this memoir with a blunt confession: he hates tennis.
5

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.
6

Spare

by Prince Harry

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · biography, memoir

Prince Harry recounts his life within the British royal family, centering on the psychological impact of his mother’s death and his subordinate position as the younger brother to the heir.
7

The Sound of Gravel

by Ruth Wariner

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · memoir, narrative

Ruth Wariner’s memoir details her upbringing as the forty-second child of her father within a polygamist Mormon colony in Colonia LeBaron, Mexico.
8

Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

by Mary L. Trump

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · biography, memoir

Mary Trump, a clinical psychologist and niece of Donald Trump, uses her family history to analyze the behavioral patterns of the 45th President.
9

My Own Words

by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Also clear-cut · biography, memoir

My Own Words is a curated selection of speeches, legal briefs, and judicial opinions written by Ruth Bader Ginsburg over five decades.
10

Wild Swans

by Jung Chang

Also clear-cut · 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.
11

Educated

by Tara Westover

Also inward-looking and clear-cut · biography, memoir

Tara Westover recounts her upbringing in a survivalist Mormon family in the mountains of Idaho.
12

The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

by Clemantine Wamariya

Also inward-looking · memoir, narrative

In 1994, six-year-old Clemantine Wamariya and her fifteen-year-old sister, Claire, fled the Rwandan massacre, leaving their parents behind.

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