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The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,262,046 ratings — published 1947
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.14 — 464,399 ratings — published 1995
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,208,552 ratings — published 1996
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.07 — 877,964 ratings — published 2012
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,386,881 ratings — published 2005
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,917,767 ratings — published 2018
A Stolen Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as true-life)
avg rating 3.97 — 149,545 ratings — published 2011
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,008,551 ratings — published 2010
Half Broke Horses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.09 — 174,927 ratings — published 2009
The Lost Boy (Dave Pelzer #2)
by (shelved 10 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.13 — 72,811 ratings — published 1997
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,385,569 ratings — published 1956
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.09 — 743,511 ratings — published 1966
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor (ebook)
by (shelved 8 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.40 — 337,322 ratings — published 2017
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,194,924 ratings — published 2018
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,221,431 ratings — published 2018
A Long Way Home (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.12 — 68,844 ratings — published 2013
Damaged (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.28 — 19,471 ratings — published 2007
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.14 — 113,777 ratings — published 1980
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.16 — 663,338 ratings — published 1996
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as true-life)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,857,645 ratings — published 2006
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.26 — 579,517 ratings — published 1997
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.17 — 121,082 ratings — published 2000
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.19 — 389,667 ratings — published 2000
A Man Named Dave (Dave Pelzer #3)
by (shelved 7 times as true-life)
avg rating 3.93 — 35,694 ratings — published 1999
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.49 — 826,487 ratings — published 2016
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.16 — 631,796 ratings — published 2012
My Story: "A Child Called It", "The Lost Boy", "A Man Named Dave" (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.25 — 15,344 ratings — published 1995
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.13 — 137,267 ratings — published 1845
The Last Lecture (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.26 — 366,419 ratings — published 2008
Ghost Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.15 — 10,875 ratings — published 1991
Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as true-life)
avg rating 3.74 — 20,361 ratings — published 2003
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.06 — 244,558 ratings — published 2003
Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as true-life)
avg rating 3.88 — 63,072 ratings — published 2008
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.16 — 195,670 ratings — published 2007
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as true-life)
avg rating 3.75 — 206,791 ratings — published 2001
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,553,474 ratings — published 2022
Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.11 — 72,297 ratings — published 2019
Twilight Children: Three Voices No One Heard Until a Therapist Listened (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,909 ratings — published 2005
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.11 — 268,122 ratings — published 2018
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as true-life)
avg rating 3.83 — 510,127 ratings — published 2016
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.16 — 193,005 ratings — published 2016
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.14 — 459,040 ratings — published 2017
The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.19 — 80,094 ratings — published 2002
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.13 — 817,453 ratings — published 2010
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.01 — 228,687 ratings — published 2003
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.09 — 240,634 ratings — published 2012
Mummy Told Me Not to Tell (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.39 — 6,297 ratings — published 2010
The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,824 ratings — published 2005
“Truth hurts! Even then that's all that we always want to know.”
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“Pat and Ian have since been to Kalgoorlie with metal detectors, scouring the red dirt in the hope of locating Lisa’s remains. If her clothes had something metal attached then the metal detector just might pick that up. Ian would locate something of interest with the detector then Pat would get down on her hands and knees and dig at the dirt, searching for her buried child.”
― Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons
― Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons
