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Historical Accounts of the Struggle
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items This list of books will include works that have historic relevance to a marginalized population somewhere in the world. I enjoyed reading these works because it put me in the shoes of people who went through so much, and it allowed me to understand b...
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Accounts from the Middle East
Accounts from the Americas
Accounts from Asia
Accounts from Europe
Accounts from the Middle East
“Stones into Schools” by Greg Mortenson continues the powerful narrative of his mission to promote education in some of the most isolated and war-torn regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan. The book follows his deep commitment to building schools - par...
Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan
“The Places in Between” by Rory Stewart recounts his harrowing solo walk across Afghanistan in 2002, just weeks after the fall of the Taliban. Blending history, culture and personal narrative, Stewart invites readers into a raw, unfiltered journey th...
The Places In Between
“My Life as a Traitor” is Zarah Ghahramani's gripping memoir about her arrest and imprisonment in Iran's notorious Evin Prison at just 19 years old, after speaking out as a student activist. Her story unfolds within the walls of repression, where pol...
My Life as a Traitor: An Iranian Memoir
“Harem Years” by Huda Shaarawi, one of Egypt's most influential feminist voices, as she recounts her early life growing up in a traditional upper-class harem in the late 19th- and early 20th-century Cairo. The book offers a rare, firsthand look into ...
Harem Years: The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist, 1879-1924
Accounts from the Americas
“Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son” is Kevin Jennings' powerful memoir about growing up gay in a working-class, conservative, and deeply religious Southern community. The book traces his early years as the son of a fundamentalist preacher in North Carolina,...
Mama's Boy, Preacher's Son: A Memoir of Growing Up, Coming Out, and Changing America's Schools
“Coming of Age in Mississippi” is Anne Moody's powerful memoir of growing up Black and poor in the Jim Crow South. Spanning her childhood through early adulthood, the book traces Moody's life from working on Mississippi plantations as a child to beco...
Coming of Age in Mississippi: The Classic Autobiography of a Young Black Girl in the Rural South
Accounts from Asia
“The Aquariums of Pyongyang” is the harrowing memoir of Kang Chol-hwan, who was just a child when his world shifted from privilege to persecution under North Korea's regime. Once living comfortable in Pyongyang, his family was suddenly accused of dis...
The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
Accounts from Europe
“Survival in Auschwitz” is Primo Levi's firsthand account of his imprisonment in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz during World War II. Written with stark clarity and emotional restraint, the memoir details the brutal physical and psychologica...
Survival In Auschwitz