Start with high-confidence lives in education books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Somebody Else's Kids
Torey Hayden
One Child
Stones Into Schools
Greg Mortenson
Front of the Class
Brad Cohen, Lisa Wysocky
Thank You, Teachers
James Patterson, Matt Eversmann
And Still We Rise
Miles Corwin
On Great Fields
Ronald C. White
The Water Is Wide
Pat Conroy
The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost
Molly Worthen
A Personal Odyssey
Thomas Sowell
Tuesdays With Morrie
Mitch Albom
Beyond the Miracle Worker
Kim E. Nielsen
Fire in the Ashes
Jonathan Kozol
Education of Henry Adams
Henry Adams
