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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is an autobiographical narrative by Harriet Jacobs, published in 1861 under the ps...

African American Feminist Slavery Jacobs

9.1 Excellent

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Twelve Years a Slave

Twelve Years a Slave is an 1853 memoir by Solomon Northup, a free Black man from New York who was kidnapped in Washingto...

African American 19TH Century Slavery Northup

8.9 Great

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Educated

Tara Westover's 'Educated' recounts her extraordinary journey from a survivalist upbringing in rural Idaho to earning a...

Resilience Education UK Escape

8.8 Great

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Finding Me

Finding Me is a 2022 memoir by American actor Viola Davis. It recounts her childhood in poverty in Central Falls, Rhode...

African American Film Childhood Viola Davis

8.4 Great

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The Big Sea

The Big Sea is the first autobiography by American poet and writer Langston Hughes, published in 1940. It recounts his c...

African American Literary Harlem Renaissance Langston Hughes

8.2 Great

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Hunger of Memory

Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez is a 1982 autobiographical book by American writer Richard Rodrigue...

Education Identity Chicano Rodriguez

8.1 Great

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Dusk of Dawn

Dusk of Dawn is a 1940 work by American sociologist, historian, and civil-rights activist W. E. B. Du Bois. Subtitled "A...

African American Sociology Race Du Bois

8.1 Great

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The Heart of a Woman

The Heart of a Woman is the fourth volume in Maya Angelou's series of autobiographical books, published in 1981. It reco...

African American Literary Civil Rights Angelou

8.0 Great

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American Hunger

American Hunger is a memoir by American author Richard Wright, published posthumously in 1977. The text recounts Wright'...

African American Chicago Communist Richard Wright

8.0 Great

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Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas

Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas is the third volume in Maya Angelou's autobiographical series, pub...

Entertainment African American 1950S Angelou

7.9 Good

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The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois

The Autobiography of W.E.B. Du Bois is the final self-written memoir of the American scholar, author, and civil rights a...

African American Intellectual Civil Rights Du Bois

7.9 Good

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All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes

All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes is the fifth volume in Maya Angelou's autobiographical series, published in 1986...

African American Identity Ghana Angelou

7.7 Good

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Dust Tracks on a Road

Dust Tracks on a Road is a 1942 autobiography by American writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston. It traces her ch...

African American Literary Harlem Renaissance Hurston

7.7 Good

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Hitch-22

Hitch-22: A Memoir is Christopher Hitchens's 2010 account of his upbringing in Britain, education at Oxford, political d...

Intellectual Journalism Political Hitchens

7.6 Good

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I Wonder as I Wander

I Wonder as I Wander is the second volume of autobiography by American poet and writer Langston Hughes, published in 195...

Travel African American Literary Langston Hughes

7.6 Good

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A Song Flung Up to Heaven

"A Song Flung Up to Heaven" is the sixth book in Maya Angelou's series of autobiographies, published in 2002. The narrat...

African American Memoir Civil Rights Angelou

7.3 Good

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Mom & Me & Mom

"Mom & Me & Mom" is an autobiographical memoir published in 2013 by the American author and poet Maya Angelou. The book...

African American Family Angelou Mother Daughter

7.3 Good

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Living History

Living History is a 2003 autobiography by Hillary Rodham Clinton. The memoir covers her public and private experiences a...

Political Senator Hillary Clinton First Lady

6.3 Fair

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Decision Points

Decision Points is George W. Bush's 2010 presidential memoir. Instead of presenting a complete day-by-day account, the b...

American President Political Bush

6.2 Fair

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Mein Kampf

Mein Kampf is a two-volume political book by Adolf Hitler, written after the failed Beer Hall Putsch of 1923 and publish...

Nazi Historical Political Hitler

1.3 Poor