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• Endurance; Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

  Lansing, Alfred

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  Alfred Lansing's classic account of Shackleton's legendary third attempt to reach the South Pole. Suggested because you like Into Thin Air.

• Genocidal Love

  a Life After Residential School

  Fox, Bevann, 1968-

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  A residential school survivor's semi-autobiographical novel about trauma and healing.

• Go Tell It on the Mountain

  Baldwin, James, 1924-1987

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  A partially autobiographical novel by one of the most famous voices in Black literature. Suggested because you like James Wright.

• Invisible Man

  Ellison, Ralph

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  Winner of the Fiction category in the 1953 National Book Awards. Suggested because you like James Wright.

• The Lost City of Z

  a Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

  Grann, David

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  Interweaves the story of an obsessed explorer's attempt to find a legendary lost city with the author's own journey in the Amazon. Suggested because you like Into Thin Air.

• Miracle in the Andes

  72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home

  Parrado, Nando, 1949-

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  A personal account of the 1972 Andes plane crash made famous by the book and movie Alive. Suggested because you like Into Thin Air.

• Remarkably Bright Creatures

  a Novel

  Van Pelt, Shelby

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  A grieving widow befriends an intelligent octopus at the aquarium she works at in this magical realism novel.

• Touching the Void

  Simpson, Joe, 1960-

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  Winner of the 1989 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature. Suggested because you like Into Thin Air.

• Tuesdays With Morrie

  An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

  Albom, Mitch, 1958-

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  The classic account of the author's reunion with the dying philosophy professor who had influenced him years before. Suggested because you like The Year of Magical Thinking.