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Becoming by Michelle Obama is about identity, race and class, resilience. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. Educated: A Memoir
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    Educated: A Memoir

    Tara Westover · Memoir

    Educated is Tara Westover's memoir about growing up in a survivalist family in rural Idaho and eventually earning a PhD in history from Cambridge University.

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  2. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
    Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

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    Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

    Trevor Noah · Memoir

    Born a Crime is Trevor Noah's memoir about growing up mixed-race in South Africa during the final years of apartheid and its chaotic aftermath.

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  3. Between the World and Me
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    Between the World and Me

    Ta-Nehisi Coates · Memoir

    Between the World and Me is a letter from Ta-Nehisi Coates to his teenage son, Samori, about what it means to live in a Black body in the United States.

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  4. When Breath Becomes Air
    When Breath Becomes Air

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    When Breath Becomes Air

    Paul Kalanithi · Memoir

    When Breath Becomes Air is Paul Kalanithi's account of his life before and after being diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer at 36, while completing his residency in neurosurgery at Stanford.

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  5. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
    Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

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    Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

    Cheryl Strayed · Memoir

    Wild is Cheryl Strayed's account of hiking 1,100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail alone in 1995 at twenty-six, with no prior backpacking experience and a pack so heavy she could barely lift it.

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  6. 10% Happier
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    10% Happier

    Dan Harris · Memoir

    10% Happier is Dan Harris's account of discovering meditation after a panic attack live on Good Morning America in 2004 forced him to confront an anxiety problem he'd been managing with cocaine and a punishing work schedule.

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