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The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,207,508 ratings — published 1947
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 104 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.14 — 461,617 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 — 1,000,174 ratings — published 2010
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 80 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,196,136 ratings — published 1996
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,367,872 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 — 570,801 ratings — published 1997
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,368,726 ratings — published 1956
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,872,802 ratings — published 2018
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,172,951 ratings — published 2018
A Stolen Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.97 — 147,080 ratings — published 2011
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.09 — 732,388 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 56 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.16 — 625,333 ratings — published 2012
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 — 358,095 ratings — published 1971
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.13 — 807,229 ratings — published 2010
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.39 — 362,811 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 — 869,871 ratings — published 2012
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.49 — 810,933 ratings — published 2016
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 43 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.98 — 356,060 ratings — published 2019
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,846,968 ratings — published 2006
The Lost Boy (Dave Pelzer #2)
by (shelved 41 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.12 — 72,249 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 — 761,549 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 — 1,208,551 ratings — published 1997
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,485,097 ratings — published 2022
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 — 449,135 ratings — published 2017
A Street Cat Named Bob (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.99 — 60,524 ratings — published 2012
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 32 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.11 — 264,966 ratings — published 2018
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.41 — 812,002 ratings — published 2016
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 — 358,778 ratings — published 2006
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,202,686 ratings — published 2018
A Man Named Dave (Dave Pelzer #3)
by (shelved 30 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.93 — 35,460 ratings — published 1999
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.14 — 112,341 ratings — published 1980
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.30 — 583,382 ratings — published 1969
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 — 338,984 ratings — published 2010
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.16 — 187,370 ratings — published 2016
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.46 — 167,173 ratings — published 1959
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.29 — 102,821 ratings — published 2009
Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.14 — 477,153 ratings — published 2005
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.84 — 505,877 ratings — published 2016
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 25 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,058,013 ratings — published 2011
Not Without My Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.19 — 39,126 ratings — published 1987
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.37 — 884,593 ratings — published 1946
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.01 — 226,010 ratings — published 2003
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.62 — 262,931 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 — 30,915 ratings — published 2014
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.06 — 154,323 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 — 90,899 ratings — published 1973
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.15 — 659,559 ratings — published 1996
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.16 — 194,506 ratings — published 2007
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.96 — 113,975 ratings — published 2016
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.40 — 282,645 ratings — published 2018
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“When you get sick you will be surprised by who steps up and who steps away. I can honestly say I did not think this would apply to me. I could not imagine that anyone in my family or circle of friends would not be there for me. Wrong!”
― Voices of Cancer: What We Really Want, What We Really Need
― Voices of Cancer: What We Really Want, What We Really Need
“When it comes to bending the truth to assist a story’s plot versus staying completely true to the facts, we can assure you any dramatist will always select the former. Mark Twain’s old saying “Never let the truth get in the way of a good story” still reigns in Hollywood.”
― The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy
― The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy
