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The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,323,826 ratings — published 1947
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.14 — 467,220 ratings — published 1995
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,223,610 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 — 887,447 ratings — published 2012
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,408,281 ratings — published 2005
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.09 — 754,332 ratings — published 1966
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,967,711 ratings — published 2018
A Stolen Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as true-life)
avg rating 3.97 — 151,662 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 — 1,016,899 ratings — published 2010
Half Broke Horses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.09 — 176,313 ratings — published 2009
The Lost Boy (Dave Pelzer #2)
by (shelved 10 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.13 — 73,350 ratings — published 1997
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,401,001 ratings — published 1956
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor (ebook)
by (shelved 8 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.39 — 343,152 ratings — published 2017
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,216,394 ratings — published 2018
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as true-life)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,869,080 ratings — published 2006
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,240,783 ratings — published 2018
A Long Way Home (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.12 — 69,538 ratings — published 2013
Damaged (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.28 — 19,618 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 4.13 — 115,246 ratings — published 1980
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.16 — 668,559 ratings — published 1996
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.26 — 589,572 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 — 122,975 ratings — published 2000
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.20 — 403,857 ratings — published 2000
A Man Named Dave (Dave Pelzer #3)
by (shelved 7 times as true-life)
avg rating 3.94 — 35,959 ratings — published 1999
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,615,775 ratings — published 2022
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as true-life)
avg rating 3.83 — 514,541 ratings — published 2016
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.15 — 197,134 ratings — published 2016
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.14 — 469,518 ratings — published 2017
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.48 — 845,313 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 — 638,515 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 — 15,543 ratings — published 1995
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.13 — 827,291 ratings — published 2010
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.14 — 138,606 ratings — published 1845
The Last Lecture (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.26 — 368,465 ratings — published 2008
Ghost Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.15 — 10,939 ratings — published 1991
Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as true-life)
avg rating 3.74 — 20,474 ratings — published 2003
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.06 — 248,306 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 — 63,354 ratings — published 2008
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.16 — 196,747 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 — 206,972 ratings — published 2001
Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.11 — 72,831 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 — 5,962 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 — 271,561 ratings — published 2018
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.00 — 781,567 ratings — published 2003
The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.20 — 80,876 ratings — published 2002
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.01 — 231,532 ratings — published 2003
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.09 — 243,000 ratings — published 2012
Mummy Told Me Not to Tell (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as true-life)
avg rating 4.39 — 6,397 ratings — published 2010
“It's a blessing to have someone who understands that your anger comes from the pain in your heart.”
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“Europeans the Poles or Balts coming in here … we brought here knowledge with us and our culture with us, but we assimilated … assimilated is not one way, it’s a two-way street. - Fred Ritzkowski, German”
― Suffering, Redemption and Triumph: The first wave of post-war Australian immigrants 1945-66
― Suffering, Redemption and Triumph: The first wave of post-war Australian immigrants 1945-66
