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Books like The Light We Carry

The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama is about resilience, identity, relationships. 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. Daring Greatly
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    Daring Greatly

    Brené Brown · Health

    Daring Greatly is Brené Brown's argument, drawn from twelve years of qualitative research on shame and vulnerability, that the willingness to show up without guarantees — to be seen, to risk failure, to remain open in the presence of uncertainty — is not weakness but the foundation of courage, connection, and meaningful achievement.

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  3. 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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  4. When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
    When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

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    When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

    Pema Chödrön · Religion & Spirituality

    When Things Fall Apart is a collection of talks and essays by Pema Chödrön, an American Buddhist nun in the Tibetan tradition, addressing how to work with difficulty, loss, and uncertainty rather than escape them.

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  5. 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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  6. A Grief Observed
    A Grief Observed

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    A Grief Observed

    C. S. Lewis · Memoir

    A Grief Observed is C.

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