Books like Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
12 books with a reading profile close to Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival by Joe Simpson. Clear-cut; an easy read.
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Seven Years in Tibet
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.
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2
'Tis
Also clear-cut · 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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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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My Own Words
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.
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The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
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.
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Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
Also clear-cut · biography, memoir
Blaine Harden chronicles the life of Shin Dong-hyuk, the only person known to have been born in and successfully escaped from a North Korean "total control zone" political prison.
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Life
Also clear-cut · 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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Cash
by Johnny Cash
Also clear-cut · memoir, narrative
Johnny Cash details his life from his childhood in the Arkansas cotton fields to his decades as a country music icon.
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Open
by Andre Agassi
Also clear-cut · biography, memoir
Andre Agassi begins this memoir with a blunt confession: he hates tennis.
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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.
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Decision Points
biography, memoir
Decision Points functions as a non-linear memoir centered on fourteen distinct choices made by the forty-third president.
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When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
Also clear-cut · memoir, narrative
Patrisse Khan-Cullors recounts the systemic pressures that shaped her life in Van Nuys, California, focusing on the heavy policing and incarceration of her brother, Monte.
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