Based On True Story Books
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,153,272 ratings — published 2018
Before We Were Yours (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.40 — 718,871 ratings — published 2017
Burial Rites (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.04 — 123,770 ratings — published 2013
A Long Walk to Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.25 — 102,528 ratings — published 2010
The Diamond Eye (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.29 — 199,292 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 — 4,156,739 ratings — published 1947
Never Fall Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.17 — 12,332 ratings — published 2012
The Personal Librarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.05 — 223,888 ratings — published 2021
The One and Only Ivan (The One and Only #1)
by (shelved 13 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.27 — 208,876 ratings — published 2012
Cilka's Journey (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #2)
by (shelved 12 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.40 — 214,252 ratings — published 2019
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,837,146 ratings — published 2018
The Invention of Wings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.26 — 331,300 ratings — published 2014
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.09 — 724,531 ratings — published 1966
The Frozen River (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.38 — 507,277 ratings — published 2023
Bright Young Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 3.99 — 223,175 ratings — published 2023
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 10 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.25 — 304,783 ratings — published 2019
Beneath a Scarlet Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.43 — 384,324 ratings — published 2017
Lilac Girls (Woolsey-Ferriday, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.29 — 339,946 ratings — published 2016
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,352,229 ratings — published 2005
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,187,684 ratings — published 1997
Horse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.24 — 202,289 ratings — published 2022
West With Giraffes (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.32 — 195,080 ratings — published 2021
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.35 — 252,921 ratings — published 2016
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.14 — 459,304 ratings — published 1995
The Paris Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.06 — 144,818 ratings — published 2021
The Alice Network (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.32 — 617,855 ratings — published 2017
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.07 — 862,856 ratings — published 2012
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 3.91 — 231,954 ratings — published 2009
In the Time of the Butterflies (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.15 — 79,057 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 — 359,433 ratings — published 2013
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.58 — 252,103 ratings — published 1980
The Girl Next Door (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 3.92 — 54,903 ratings — published 1989
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 — 993,224 ratings — published 2010
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.14 — 29,317 ratings — published 1977
Isola (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.00 — 72,430 ratings — published 2025
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,432,616 ratings — published 2022
Memoirs of a Geisha (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,102,557 ratings — published 1997
The Indigo Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.21 — 50,715 ratings — published 2017
The Other Einstein (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 3.86 — 85,489 ratings — published 2016
My Dear Hamilton (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.30 — 53,062 ratings — published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.49 — 798,875 ratings — published 2016
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.14 — 441,269 ratings — published 2017
We Were the Lucky Ones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.42 — 195,377 ratings — published 2017
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 — 12,555 ratings — published 1997
The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 3.49 — 91,545 ratings — published 2007
The Paris Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 3.82 — 304,488 ratings — published 2011
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 3.98 — 349,526 ratings — published 2019
The Children's Blizzard (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 3.95 — 24,647 ratings — published 2021
Code Name Hélène (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.41 — 75,113 ratings — published 2020
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as based-on-true-story)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,188,307 ratings — published 2012
“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
