Books like Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History

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  1. Night

    Elie Wiesel · 1956

    Because shares tags: memoir, holocaust, history.

    Elie Wiesel's account of Sighet, the cattle cars, Auschwitz and Buchenwald, told in short flat sections by a boy about fifteen. Why the…

  2. The Last Lecture

    Randy Pausch · 2008

    Because shares tags: memoir, family.

    Dying professor Pausch lectures really achieving childhood dreams.

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

    Corrie ten Boom · 1971

    Because shares tags: memoir, holocaust.

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

  4. Running with Scissors

    Augusten Burroughs · 2002

    Because shares tags: memoir, family.

    A boy sent to live with his mother's psychiatrist grows up in a chaotic house with no rules.

  5. Between the World and Me

    Ta-Nehisi Coates · 2015

    Because shares tags: memoir, history.

    Coates writes to his son about the Black body in America, from Howard to the loss of Prince Jones.

  6. Untamed

    Glennon Doyle · 2020

    Because shares tags: memoir, family.

    Glennon Doyle leaves a strained marriage, falls for Abby Wambach, and rebuilds life around honesty and desire.

  7. The Woman in Me

    Britney Spears · 2023

    Because shares tags: memoir, family.

    Britney Spears tells her own story from teen stardom to a thirteen year conservatorship, and how she fought to reclaim her voice and…

  8. Sarah's Key

    Tatiana de Rosnay · 2006

    Because shares tags: holocaust, family.

    In 1942 Paris Sarah locks her brother to save him, then vanishes. Sixty years later journalist Julia traces her, exposing family guilt and…

  9. Marley & Me

    John Grogan · 2005

    Because shares tags: memoir, family.

    A young couple learns marriage, parenthood, and goodbye through thirteen years with Marley, their wild and loving Labrador.

  10. Hillbilly Elegy

    J.D. Vance · 2016

    Because shares tags: memoir, family.

    Vance traces Mamaw and Papaw from Kentucky to Middletown through addiction, Marines, and Yale Law.

  11. Crying in H Mart

    Michelle Zauner · 2021

    Because shares tags: memoir, family.

    Japanese Breakfast singer Michelle Zauner remembers her Korean mother through food, grief, and growing up in Oregon.

  12. A Child Called It

    Dave Pelzer · 1995 · Dave Pelzer #1

    Because shares tags: memoir, family.

    Dave survives his mother games of hunger and cold in Daly City until teachers and foster care step in.

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