Biography & Memoir
The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
Two years in a hidden annexe in Amsterdam, written by a teenager who wanted to be a writer.
Biography & Memoir
Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl
A psychiatrist's account of the camps, and the therapy he built from what he observed there.
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Audience
- Adult
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- Memoir
- Philosophy
- Short
About the book
Part memoir, part introduction to logotherapy, Frankl's short book argues that meaning, not comfort, is what people survive on.
Why we recommend it
Under two hundred pages, and one of the most quoted books of the last century.
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