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The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 4,337,187 ratings — published 1947
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 106 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.14 — 467,898 ratings — published 1995
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,019,134 ratings — published 2010
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 82 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,226,865 ratings — published 1996
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,412,853 ratings — published 2005
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,979,420 ratings — published 2018
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.27 — 591,811 ratings — published 1997
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,404,905 ratings — published 1956
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,221,149 ratings — published 2018
A Stolen Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.98 — 152,138 ratings — published 2011
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.09 — 757,132 ratings — published 1966
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.13 — 829,869 ratings — published 2010
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.16 — 640,195 ratings — published 2012
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.48 — 368,325 ratings — published 1971
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.39 — 372,138 ratings — published 2013
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.07 — 889,910 ratings — published 2012
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 44 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.97 — 375,478 ratings — published 2019
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.48 — 849,966 ratings — published 2016
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,871,572 ratings — published 2006
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,628,701 ratings — published 2022
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.00 — 783,977 ratings — published 2003
The Lost Boy (Dave Pelzer #2)
by (shelved 40 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.13 — 73,482 ratings — published 1997
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,278,000 ratings — published 1997
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 36 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.41 — 855,200 ratings — published 2016
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.14 — 471,895 ratings — published 2017
A Street Cat Named Bob (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.00 — 62,250 ratings — published 2012
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,246,240 ratings — published 2018
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.66 — 359,541 ratings — published 2006
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.13 — 115,657 ratings — published 1980
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.30 — 599,019 ratings — published 1969
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.15 — 198,697 ratings — published 2016
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 29 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.11 — 272,498 ratings — published 2018
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.47 — 180,628 ratings — published 1959
Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.04 — 342,980 ratings — published 2010
A Man Named Dave (Dave Pelzer #3)
by (shelved 28 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.94 — 36,012 ratings — published 1999
Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.15 — 479,081 ratings — published 2005
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.83 — 515,586 ratings — published 2016
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.29 — 105,872 ratings — published 2009
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.37 — 941,368 ratings — published 1946
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.62 — 272,746 ratings — published 2014
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 25 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,074,410 ratings — published 2011
Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed - A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.19 — 31,749 ratings — published 2014
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.06 — 156,784 ratings — published 1974
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.16 — 669,884 ratings — published 1996
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.01 — 232,128 ratings — published 2003
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.40 — 290,293 ratings — published 2018
Not Without My Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.20 — 40,779 ratings — published 1987
Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.99 — 91,468 ratings — published 1973
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.96 — 116,773 ratings — published 2016
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.16 — 241,996 ratings — published 2023
“I want you to get remarried after I die.”
― Voices of Cancer: What We Really Want, What We Really Need
― Voices of Cancer: What We Really Want, What We Really Need
“As Rachel ran with her 18-month-old son James Pratt, she was knocked down to the ground by a hoe, dragged by her hair, and separated from her child. She found herself taken to the area where her uncle Benjamin had been mutilated; arrows had been stuck in his body, and passing warriors thrust spears into it.”
― Captives of the Southwest
― Captives of the Southwest
