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The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 51 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,218,100 ratings — published 2018
Before We Were Yours (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.40 — 759,448 ratings — published 2017
Burial Rites (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.04 — 129,611 ratings — published 2013
A Long Walk to Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.25 — 108,682 ratings — published 2010
The Diamond Eye (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.29 — 227,593 ratings — published 2022
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,328,936 ratings — published 1947
Never Fall Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.17 — 12,616 ratings — published 2012
The Frozen River (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.37 — 698,776 ratings — published 2023
The Personal Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.04 — 248,377 ratings — published 2021
Cilka's Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.40 — 225,654 ratings — published 2019
The One and Only Ivan (The One and Only, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.27 — 217,645 ratings — published 2012
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,972,023 ratings — published 2018
The Invention of Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.26 — 338,879 ratings — published 2014
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,272,689 ratings — published 1997
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 10 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.25 — 325,728 ratings — published 2019
Beneath a Scarlet Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.44 — 409,738 ratings — published 2017
Lilac Girls (Woolsey-Ferriday, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.29 — 354,923 ratings — published 2016
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.09 — 755,432 ratings — published 1966
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,409,984 ratings — published 2005
Bright Young Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 3.98 — 247,959 ratings — published 2023
Horse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.23 — 224,295 ratings — published 2022
West with Giraffes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.31 — 218,844 ratings — published 2021
The Girl Next Door (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 3.91 — 60,197 ratings — published 1989
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.14 — 467,449 ratings — published 1995
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,620,683 ratings — published 2022
The Paris Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.06 — 153,099 ratings — published 2021
The Alice Network (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.32 — 676,392 ratings — published 2017
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.48 — 846,970 ratings — published 2016
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.14 — 470,383 ratings — published 2017
We Were the Lucky Ones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.42 — 208,345 ratings — published 2017
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.35 — 270,524 ratings — published 2016
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.07 — 888,265 ratings — published 2012
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 3.92 — 240,738 ratings — published 2009
In the Time of the Butterflies (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.15 — 82,130 ratings — published 1994
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.39 — 371,502 ratings — published 2013
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.58 — 264,987 ratings — published 1992
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,017,637 ratings — published 2010
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.15 — 30,271 ratings — published 1977
Isola (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 3.99 — 128,886 ratings — published 2025
The Giver of Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.29 — 535,874 ratings — published 2019
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,144,827 ratings — published 1997
The Indigo Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.21 — 54,912 ratings — published 2017
The Other Einstein (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 3.87 — 90,617 ratings — published 2016
Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.22 — 12,995 ratings — published 1997
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.36 — 287,489 ratings — published 2011
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 3.91 — 305,812 ratings — published 1994
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 3.49 — 93,081 ratings — published 2007
The Paris Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 3.82 — 308,203 ratings — published 2011
Crow Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.34 — 24,438 ratings — published 2023
Love in the Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.47 — 3,926 ratings — published 2022
“On a smoggy spring day, the midday sun baked two California Highway Patrolmen in dark blue uniforms and a bearded dirt biker astride his Yamaha. They stood on a dirt road between the San Andreas barren earthquake faulted hills crisscrossed with biker’s trails. The sergeant stood next to the still body of Eduardo Sanchez, a thirteen-year-old boy clad in a t-shirt and oversized shorts, lying on his back with three bullet wounds and powder burns tattooed on his forehead. An astonished look captured his small immature cold face.”
― Rock and Roll Murders: An Entrepreneur Finds That Murder is No Business Solution
― Rock and Roll Murders: An Entrepreneur Finds That Murder is No Business Solution
“Respect and faith birth a heart for true love”
― The Heart to Seek Part II
― The Heart to Seek Part II