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by Helen Keller · about this book

Loved The Story of My Life by Helen Keller? If its nonfiction, memoir & biography and autobiography hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with Becoming, The Diary of a Young Girl and Driven. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside The Story of My Life: Nonfiction · Memoir & Biography · Autobiography · Female Lead · Mentor Relationship

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   Becoming

   Michelle Obama

   Autobiography · Memoir & Biography · Uplifting · Nonfiction · Hopeful

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   The Diary of a Young Girl

   Anne Frank

   Autobiography · Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · Coming of Age · Classics

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   Driven

   Susie Wolff

   Autobiography · Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · Underdog · Uplifting

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   Eat, Pray, Love

   Elizabeth Gilbert

   Memoir & Biography · Uplifting · Nonfiction · First Person Narrator · Hopeful

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   The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell

   Robert Dugoni

   Disability Representation · Disabled Protagonist · Underdog · Hopeful · Coming of Age

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   Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person

   Shonda Rhimes

   Memoir & Biography · Uplifting · Nonfiction · Hopeful · First Person Narrator

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7. 

   An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

   Chris Hadfield

   Autobiography · Memoir & Biography · Uplifting · Nonfiction · Hopeful

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   Of Human Bondage

   W. Somerset Maugham

   Disabled Protagonist · Disability Representation · Coming of Age · Classics · Emotional

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   Sam Walton: Made In America

   Sam Walton, John Huey

   Autobiography · Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · First Person Narrator · Uplifting

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    By My Hands

    Florian Gadsby

    Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · Mentor Relationship · Uplifting · First Person Narrator

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    Under the Tuscan Sun

    Frances Mayes

    Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · Uplifting · First Person Narrator · Hopeful

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12. 

    My Next Breath

    Jeremy Renner

    Memoir & Biography · Uplifting · Nonfiction · Disability Representation · Hopeful

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13. 

    Girl, Interrupted

    Susanna Kaysen

    Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · Coming of Age · First Person Narrator · Emotional

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14. 

    Rules

    Cynthia Lord

    Disability Representation · Coming of Age · Hopeful · First Person Narrator · Emotional

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15. 

    The Woman in Me

    Britney Spears

    Memoir & Biography · Autobiography · Nonfiction · First Person Narrator · Female Lead

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    Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert's Story

    Debbie Tung

    Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · Uplifting · First Person Narrator · Female Lead

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17. 

    All the Light We Cannot See

    Anthony Doerr

    Disabled Protagonist · Disability Representation · Coming of Age · Hopeful · Emotional

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18. 

    Crying in H Mart: A Memoir

    Michelle Zauner

    Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · First Person Narrator · Coming of Age · Female Lead

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19. 

    Spare

    Prince Harry

    Autobiography · Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · First Person Narrator · Emotional

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20. 

    What My Bones Know

    Stephanie Foo

    Memoir & Biography · Nonfiction · First Person Narrator · Hopeful · Female Lead

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