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Michelle Obama

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I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr.

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The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis (The W.E.B. Dubois Institute Series)

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The Devil That Danced on the Water: A Daughter's Memoir

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Anything We Love Can Be Saved

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The Turkish Lover

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Red Seas: Ferdinand Smith and Radical Black Sailors in the United States and Jamaica

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We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century

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Brother to a Dragonfly

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Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature

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Black Dog of Fate: An American Son Uncovers His Armenian Past

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The Classic Slave Narratives

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Martin Luther King, Jr.: On Leadership

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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

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The Year of Magical Thinking

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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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1776

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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Written by Himself

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The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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Between the World and Me

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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

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Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster

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How to Be an Antiracist

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A Promised Land

Barack Obama

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Trump: The Art of the Deal

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Just Kids

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Broken (In the Best Possible Way)

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Maus. A Survivor's Tale

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Autobiography of a Yogi

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Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey Into the Afterlife

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Actes and Monuments of these latter and perilous days, touching matters of the Church, wherein are comprehended and described the great persecutions and horrible troubles that have been wrought and pr

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I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer

Michelle McNamara

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The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother

James McBride

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Angela's Ashes: A Memoir

Frank McCourt

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Bonhoeffer

Eric Metaxas

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Maus II : And Here My Troubles Began

Art Spiegelman

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I'm Glad My Mom Died

Jennette McCurdy

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When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi

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All Creatures Great and Small

James Herriot

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Walden; or, Life in the Woods

Henry David Thoreau

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Greenlights

Matthew McConaughey

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The Splendid and the Vile

Erik Larson

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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin

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The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Many Lives, Many Masters

Brian L. Weiss

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Black Elk Speaks

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I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

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Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone

Brené Brown

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Travels with Charley: In Search of America

John Steinbeck

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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

S.C. Gwynne

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Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Cheryl Strayed

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Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Meth Addiction

David Sheff

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Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson

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Truman

David McCullough

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Diana: Her True Story

Andrew Morton

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Killing Kennedy: The End of Camelot

Bill O'Reilly

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Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10

Marcus Luttrell

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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

Candice Millard

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A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II

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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, written by herself

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Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever

Bill O'Reilly

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Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela

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My Life in France

Julia Child

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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

Tom Wolfe

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American Prometheus

Kai Bird

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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

Joseph J. Ellis

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Killing Patton: The Strange Death of World War II's Most Audacious General

Bill O'Reilly

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

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Mornings on Horseback

David McCullough

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Einstein: His Life and Universe

Walter Isaacson

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A Long Way Gone. Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

Ishmael Beah

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84, Charing Cross Road

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The Journals of Lewis and Clark

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One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey

Richard Proenneke

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March: Book One

John Lewis

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Letter to My Daughter

Maya Angelou

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What I Talk about When I Talk about Running [Hashiru koto ni tsuite kataru toki ni boku no kataru koto]

Haruki Murakami

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Down and Out in Paris and London

George Orwell

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Notes of a Native Son

James Baldwin

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Reading Lolita in Teheran

Azar Nafisi

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The Writing Life

Annie Dillard

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The Anthropocene Reviewed

John Green

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This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage

Ann Patchett

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World of Wonders

Aimee Nezhukumatathil

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These Precious Days: Essays

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The Cloud of Unknowing: and The Book of Privy Counseling

Anonymous

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Life on the Mississippi

Mark Twain

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The Solace of Open Spaces

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This is a diverse list of books on biographies and history, covering a wide range of topics and styles. Some common themes include personal struggles and journeys, social justice issues, historical events and figures, and reflections on life experiences. Many of these books are memoirs or autobiographical accounts that offer insights into the lives of individuals who have faced adversity and overcome challenges. Others are biographies or historical accounts that shed light on important events or people in our collective past. Overall, this collection provides a rich tapestry of stories that illuminate the human experience in all its complexity and diversity.

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