Books like Greenlights
If you liked Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
Because shares tags: nonfiction, memoir, adventure.
Mortenson fails K2 builds schools in Pakistan after Korphe kindness.
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
Because shares tags: memoir, adventure, nonfiction.
At 26 Cheryl Strayed hikes the Pacific Crest Trail alone to grieve and reset.
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The Prince
Because shares tags: philosophy, nonfiction.
Machiavelli advises Lorenzo on rule through fear and love, fortune, cruelty and mercy.
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The Last Lecture
Because shares tags: nonfiction, memoir.
Dying professor Pausch lectures really achieving childhood dreams.
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The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction.
The Ten Booms hide Jews in Haarlem, suffer Ravensbruck, lose Betsie, and learn forgiveness.
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Spare
Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction.
Prince Harry recalls Diana's death in 1997, two tours in Afghanistan, and stepping back from royal life with Meghan in this frank 2023…
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Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
Because shares tags: nonfiction, memoir.
Therapist Lori Gottlieb counsels John, Julie and Rita while seeing her own therapist Wendell after a breakup.
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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction.
Bourdain on rough kitchens, past drug use, Les Halles years, and why you should never order fish on Monday.
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Everything I Know About Love
Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction.
Dolly Alderton recalls bad dates flatshares and female friendship in her twenties memoir.
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Between the World and Me
Because shares tags: nonfiction, memoir.
Coates writes to his son about the Black body in America, from Howard to the loss of Prince Jones.
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Mere Christianity
Because shares tags: philosophy, nonfiction.
C. S. Lewis builds a plain case for Christian belief from morals, faith, and habit.
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A Child Called It
Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction.
Dave survives his mother games of hunger and cold in Daly City until teachers and foster care step in.











