Books like Just Mercy

If you liked Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.

  1. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

    Robert M. Pirsig · 1974

    Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction.

    Father and son ride west while lectures on Quality and past madness intrude.

  2. A Promised Land

    Barack Obama · 2020

    Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction.

    First-volume memoir from Iowa 2008 through the 2011 bin Laden raid, crisis management and doubt.

  3. The Year of Magical Thinking

    Joan Didion · 2005

    Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction.

    After sudden loss at dinner, Didion records the year mind keeps expecting return.

  4. Naked

    David Sedaris · 1997

    Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction.

    Growing up odd in Carolina, working bad jobs, and learning to watch people closely and kindly.

  5. The Autobiography of Malcolm X

    Malcolm X · 1965

    Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction.

    Malcolm X traces his life from Michigan childhood through Harlem, prison, and the Nation of Islam to Mecca in this 1965 memoir told to Alex…

  6. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

    David Sedaris · 2004

    Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction.

    Sedaris on snow days, rental houses, Dutch Christmas, and the family that made him funny.

  7. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time

    Greg Mortenson · 2006

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, memoir.

    Mortenson fails K2 builds schools in Pakistan after Korphe kindness.

  8. The Last Lecture

    Randy Pausch · 2008

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, memoir.

    Dying professor Pausch lectures really achieving childhood dreams.

  9. The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

    Corrie ten Boom · 1971

    Because shares tags: memoir, nonfiction.

    The Ten Booms hide Jews in Haarlem, suffer Ravensbruck, lose Betsie, and learn forgiveness.

  10. Spare

    Prince Harry · 2023

    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…

  11. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

    Lori Gottlieb · 2019

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, memoir.

    Therapist Lori Gottlieb counsels John, Julie and Rita while seeing her own therapist Wendell after a breakup.

  12. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

    Anthony Bourdain · 2000

    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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