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The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,255,268 ratings — published 1947
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 104 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.14 — 464,046 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 — 1,007,341 ratings — published 2010
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 80 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,206,918 ratings — published 1996
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,384,543 ratings — published 2005
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.26 — 578,388 ratings — published 1997
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,383,474 ratings — published 1956
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,912,330 ratings — published 2018
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 65 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,192,501 ratings — published 2018
A Stolen Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.97 — 149,249 ratings — published 2011
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.09 — 742,215 ratings — published 1966
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 — 631,041 ratings — published 2012
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.13 — 816,243 ratings — published 2010
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.48 — 362,168 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 — 366,447 ratings — published 2013
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.07 — 876,834 ratings — published 2012
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.49 — 824,536 ratings — published 2016
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 — 363,513 ratings — published 2019
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,856,241 ratings — published 2006
The Lost Boy (Dave Pelzer #2)
by (shelved 41 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.13 — 72,740 ratings — published 1997
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 — 770,106 ratings — published 2003
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,232,364 ratings — published 1997
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,546,262 ratings — published 2022
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 35 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.41 — 828,539 ratings — published 2016
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.14 — 457,845 ratings — published 2017
A Street Cat Named Bob (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.99 — 61,308 ratings — published 2012
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,219,315 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 — 359,083 ratings — published 2006
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.30 — 589,655 ratings — published 1969
A Man Named Dave (Dave Pelzer #3)
by (shelved 30 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.93 — 35,670 ratings — published 1999
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 — 267,756 ratings — published 2018
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.14 — 113,595 ratings — published 1980
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 — 340,515 ratings — published 2010
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.46 — 172,494 ratings — published 1959
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.16 — 192,372 ratings — published 2016
Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.14 — 477,892 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 — 509,568 ratings — published 2016
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.29 — 104,064 ratings — published 2009
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.37 — 906,270 ratings — published 1946
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 25 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,063,964 ratings — published 2011
Not Without My Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.19 — 39,726 ratings — published 1987
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.62 — 267,008 ratings — published 2014
Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed - A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.18 — 31,232 ratings — published 2014
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.06 — 155,289 ratings — published 1974
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 — 91,141 ratings — published 1973
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.16 — 662,871 ratings — published 1996
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.01 — 228,334 ratings — published 2003
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.40 — 285,125 ratings — published 2018
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.96 — 115,175 ratings — published 2016
Spare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.83 — 436,880 ratings — published 2023
“Sharing my uniquely funny true stories with a twist is cathartic, and helps me figure life out. You really can’t make this stuff up.”
― …But It’s Okay If I Do It: True Confessions of an Unintentional A$$HOLE
― …But It’s Okay If I Do It: True Confessions of an Unintentional A$$HOLE
“Sometimes losses in life are not losses at all. They are simply the evidence God provides, in order to build a story so profound, that it will cause social change.”
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