5.) Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl: Deep life lessons learned inside a Nazi death camp.
4.) Being Mortal by Atul Gawande: A medical doctor discusses how living longer doesn't necessarily mean living better, and what that can mean for one's final years.
3.) When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi: Contemplations on the meaning of life from a doctor who was dying from a terminal illness, and who succumbed before completion of the book.
2.) The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby: The story of a man who developed Locked-In Syndrome in the wake of a severe stroke and couldn't move a muscle, save one eyelid.
1.) First They Killed My Father by Loung Ung: The title captures the family level tragedy of Pol Pot's rule, but the book conveys something of the national tragedy as well.
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