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Books like Between the World and Me

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates is about race, identity, history. 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. Becoming
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    Becoming

    Michelle Obama · Memoir

    Becoming is Michelle Obama's account of how a girl from a modest house on Chicago's South Side became one of the most recognized people in the world — and what that journey cost and revealed.

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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. Educated: A Memoir
    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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  4. Man's Search for Meaning
    Man's Search for Meaning

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    Man's Search for Meaning

    Viktor E. Frankl · Psychology

    Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's account of his years as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, and the psychological theory he developed from that experience.

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  5. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
    The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

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    The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

    Michelle Alexander · Politics

    Michelle Alexander's central argument is stark: the United States has not ended racial caste, it has merely redesigned 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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