Books like Twelve years a slave
12 books with a reading profile close to Twelve years a slave by Solomon Northup. Contemplative and clear-cut; a moderate read.
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Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass
Also contemplative and clear-cut · history, memoir
Frederick Douglass recounts his transition from an enslaved child in Maryland to an abolitionist leader in the North.
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Black Boy
Also contemplative · history, memoir
Richard Wright’s memoir documents his youth in the Jim Crow South and his eventual migration to Chicago.
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Also contemplative · history, memoir
Harriet Ann Jacobs writes under the pseudonym Linda Brent to chronicle her life as an enslaved woman in North Carolina.
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Quo Vadis
by Henryk Sienkiewicz, W.S. Kuniczak
history, narrative
Set in Nero's Rome, "Quo Vadis" tells the story of the Roman patrician Marcus Vinicius and his passionate, yet conflicted, love for the Christian Ligia.
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Life of Black Hawk, Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak
by Black Hawk
history, memoir
In this 1833 autobiography, Sauk leader Black Hawk recounts his military life and the territorial disputes leading to the Black Hawk War.
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The Moon is Down
history, narrative
In a coastal mining town, an unnamed invading force led by Colonel Lanser replaces the local government to secure coal exports.
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Hawaii
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
James Michener’s narrative begins with the volcanic formation of the islands before chronicling the successive waves of human arrivals.
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Shadows of the Workhouse
Also contemplative and clear-cut · history, memoir
In this second volume of her memoirs, Jennifer Worth documents the lives of people in London’s East End who were shaped by the British Victorian workhouse system.
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Homage to Catalonia
history, memoir
George Orwell recounts his personal involvement in the Spanish Civil War, specifically his time serving within the POUM militia on the Aragon front and in Barcelona.
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The Last of the Mohicans
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Set in 1757 during the French and Indian War, the narrative follows frontiersman Natty Bumppo, known as Hawkeye, and his Mohican companions, Chingachgook and Uncas.
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