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Across Personal Memoirs, Historical, and Biography & Autobiography — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as …And They Wrote Back by Ellen Granat.

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Got to Go Now An Oregon GI Writes Home During World War II — Edsel V. Colvin

Got to Go Now An Oregon GI Writes Home During World War II

Edsel V. Colvin

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

In My Life A Music Memoir — Alan Johnson

In My Life A Music Memoir

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

A Woman in Defence My Story of the Enemy Within the Irish Army — Karina Molloy

A Woman in Defence My Story of the Enemy Within the Irish Army

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

Awesome Bill from Dawsonville My Life in NASCAR — Bill Elliott

Awesome Bill from Dawsonville My Life in NASCAR

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

You Ought to Do a Story about Me Addiction, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Endless Quest for Redemption — Ted Jackson

You Ought to Do a Story about Me Addiction, an Unlikely Friendship, and the Endless Quest for Redemption

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

A Bucket of Prop Wash From Poverty to Silver Wings — Gaelord O’Neal

A Bucket of Prop Wash From Poverty to Silver Wings — Gaelord O’Neal

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

Defining Pearl …a precious difference — Pearl Matibe

Defining Pearl …a precious difference

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

Into the Planet My Life as a Cave Diver — Jill Heinerth

Into the Planet My Life as a Cave Diver

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

Opa Nobody — Sonya Huber

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

South to America A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation — Imani Perry

South to America A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

The Road from Coorain — Jill K. Conway

The Road from Coorain

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

Finding My Voice My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward — Valerie Jarrett

Finding My Voice My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward

Valerie Jarrett

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

My Friend Anne Frank The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds — Hannah Pick-Goslar

My Friend Anne Frank The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds

Hannah Pick-Goslar

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

Witness For the Prosecution of Scott Peterson — Amber Frey

Witness For the Prosecution of Scott Peterson

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

Seven Pillars of Wisdom A Triumph — T. E. Lawrence

Seven Pillars of Wisdom A Triumph

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

Home Waters A Chronicle of Family and a River — John N. Maclean

Home Waters A Chronicle of Family and a River

John N. Maclean

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

Cinderella Man James J. Braddock, Max Baer, and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History — Jeremy Schaap

Cinderella Man James J. Braddock, Max Baer, and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

Thoreau, Philosopher of Freedom Writings on Liberty by Henry David Thoreau — Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau, Philosopher of Freedom Writings on Liberty

Henry David Thoreau

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

More Home Cooking A Writer Returns to the Kitchen — Laurie Colwin

More Home Cooking A Writer Returns to the Kitchen

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

Secret of Weifang — James Hess Hannon

Secret of Weifang

James Hess Hannon

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

My Silent War The Autobiography of a Spy — Kim Philby

My Silent War The Autobiography of a Spy

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

We Were Eight Years in Power An American Tragedy — Ta-Nehisi Coates

We Were Eight Years in Power An American Tragedy

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

The Happiest Man on Earth The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor — Eddie Jaku

The Happiest Man on Earth The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

Frontier Fighters On Active Service in Waziristan — Walter James Cumming

Frontier Fighters On Active Service in Waziristan

Walter James Cumming

Themes: Personal Memoirs • Historical • Biography & Autobiography

If …And They Wrote Back by Ellen Granat is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Personal Memoirs, Historical, Biography & Autobiography and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Edsel V. Colvin, Alan Johnson, Karina Molloy, Bill Elliott, and others.

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