Books like What Happened
12 books with a reading profile close to What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton. Clear-cut; a moderate read.
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1
Uncanny Valley
by Anna Wiener
analytical, memoir
Anna Wiener documents her transition from New York’s traditional publishing industry to the high-growth ecosystem of San Francisco’s tech start-ups.
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2
The Undocumented Americans
by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
analytical, memoir
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio rejects the common immigrant narrative that prioritizes the stories of high-achieving "Dreamers." Instead, she profiles day laborers in Queens, delivery drivers in ground zero’s wake, and eld…
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3
Girl in a Band
by Kim Gordon
Also clear-cut · memoir, narrative
In this memoir, Kim Gordon traces her trajectory from a visual arts upbringing in Los Angeles to the center of the New York City post-punk scene.
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Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist
analytical, memoir
Richard Shepherd details a career spent performing over 23,000 autopsies to determine the bridge between life and death.
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5
Complications
by Atul Gawande
Also clear-cut · analytical, memoir
Atul Gawande presents medicine as an imprecise craft defined by uncertainty and human fallibility.
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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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7
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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The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
by Nikki Sixx
memoir, narrative
Nikki Sixx documents the peak of his addiction through journal entries written between 1986 and 1987.
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Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island
Also clear-cut · memoir, narrative
Regina Calcaterra grew up on Long Island, New York, one of five children of a mother who abandoned and abused them.
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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
by Clint Smith
Also clear-cut · analytical, memoir
In this narrative nonfiction work, Clint Smith travels to nine distinct locations to examine how each site remembers or distorts its connection to the transatlantic slave trade.
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Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology and My Harrowing Escape
Also clear-cut · memoir, narrative
Jenna Miscavige Hill, the niece of Scientology’s leader David Miscavige, details her life within the Sea Organization, the church's elite paramilitary wing.
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The Sound of Gravel
by Ruth Wariner
Also 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.
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