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Books like Know My Name: A Memoir

Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller is about trauma, recovery, identity. 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
    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. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. The Glass Castle: A Memoir
    The Glass Castle: A Memoir

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    The Glass Castle: A Memoir

    Jeannette Walls · Memoir

    The Glass Castle is Jeannette Walls's memoir about growing up as the second of four children in a family that moved constantly across the American Southwest and West Virginia, rarely had enough to eat, and existed almost entirely outside conventional institutions.

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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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