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Across Biography & Autobiography — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Desert Children by Waris Dirie.

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She Wolves The Notorious Queens of England — Elizabeth Norton

She Wolves The Notorious Queens of England

Elizabeth Norton

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Tolstoy — A. N. Wilson

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Excursions in the Real World Memoirs — William Trevor

Excursions in the Real World Memoirs

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Life on the Mississippi — Mark Twain

Life on the Mississippi

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

The Most Dangerous Book The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses — Kevin Birmingham

The Most Dangerous Book The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses

Kevin Birmingham

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

How to Write Your Own Life Story The Classic Guide for the Nonprofessional Writer — Lois Daniel

How to Write Your Own Life Story The Classic Guide for the Nonprofessional Writer

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Beatrix Potter and the Unfortunate Tale of a Borrowed Guinea Pig — Deborah Hopkinson

Beatrix Potter and the Unfortunate Tale of a Borrowed Guinea Pig

Deborah Hopkinson

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Tastes Like War A Memoir — Grace M. Cho

Tastes Like War A Memoir

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Hemingway’s Boat Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost — Paul Hendrickson

Hemingway’s Boat Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost

Paul Hendrickson

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

The Priest of Love A Life of D.H. Lawrence — Harry Thornton Moore

The Priest of Love A Life of D.H. Lawrence

Harry Thornton Moore

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Dear Papa The Letters of Patrick and Ernest Hemingway — Ernest Hemingway

Dear Papa The Letters of Patrick and Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad The True Story of an Unlikely Friendship — Bee Rowlatt

Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad The True Story of an Unlikely Friendship

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

The Sinner and the Saint Dostoevsky, a Crime and Its Punishment — Kevin Birmingham

The Sinner and the Saint Dostoevsky, a Crime and Its Punishment

Kevin Birmingham

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Laura’s Album A Remembrance Scrapbook of Laura Ingalls Wilder — William Anderson

Laura’s Album A Remembrance Scrapbook of Laura Ingalls Wilder

William Anderson

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

First They Killed My Father A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers — Loung Ung

First They Killed My Father A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Truman Capote’s Southern Years, 25th Anniversary Edition Stories from a Monroeville Cousin — Marianne M. Moates

Truman Capote’s Southern Years, 25th Anniversary Edition Stories from a Monroeville Cousin

Marianne M. Moates

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

The Job Interviews with William S. Burroughs — Daniel Odier

The Job Interviews with William S. Burroughs

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Claudette Colvin Twice Toward Justice — Phillip Hoose

Claudette Colvin Twice Toward Justice

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

A Russian Journal — John Steinbeck

A Russian Journal

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

On Balance An Autobiography — Leila Seth

On Balance An Autobiography

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

A Personal Record The Mirror of the Sea — Joseph Conrad

A Personal Record The Mirror of the Sea

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Reporter A Memoir — Seymour M. Hersh

Reporter A Memoir

Seymour M. Hersh

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

Love Me Fierce In Danger The Life of James Ellroy — Steven Powell

Love Me Fierce In Danger The Life of James Ellroy

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Biography & Autobiography — the same threads that run through Desert Children by Waris Dirie. Among the authors featured: Elizabeth Norton, A. N. Wilson, William Trevor, Mark Twain, and others.

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