Who recommended The Choice?

4 people have recommended The Choice in the interviews, articles and reading lists we track, including Bill Gates, Morgan Housel, Chip Conley and Jonathan Sacks. Each name links to their full reading list.

Is The Choice worth reading?

4 people we track recommend it. It is best for: a high-school history teacher building a Holocaust unit who wants a readable, human testimony to assign and a memoir that yields classroom discussion points about memory and moral choice; a family caregiver or relative trying to understand how survivors narrate life after trauma and looking for accessible, personal reflections rather than academic analysis; a book-group organizer seeking an emotionally direct memoir that supplies both vivid scenes and explicit topics to debate (memory, responsibility, resilience). It may not suit: you'll likely put it down when the narrative shifts into repeated exhortations about 'choice'—readers wanting a steady, chronologically detailed history may lose patience at those prescriptive stretches; annoying if you prefer footnoted, source-driven history or academic context—the book prioritizes personal memory and reflection over archival analysis; lose interest if you avoid graphic, emotionally intense descriptions of violence and suffering—the early wartime passages are detailed and can be draining.

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The Choice by Edith Eva Eger: Recommended by 4 People

Name: The Choice
Author: Edith Eva Eger

A New York Times Bestseller ?I?ll be forever changed by Dr. Eger?s story?The Choice is a reminder of what courage looks like in the worst of times and that we all have the ability to pay attention to what we?ve lost, or to pay attention to what we still have.??Oprah ?Dr. Eger?s life reveals our capacity to transcend even the greatest of horrors and...