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The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,160,424 ratings — published 1947
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 106 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.14 — 459,436 ratings — published 1995
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.39 — 993,692 ratings — published 2010
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 80 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,185,956 ratings — published 1996
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,353,258 ratings — published 2005
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.26 — 564,389 ratings — published 1997
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,355,620 ratings — published 1956
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,839,556 ratings — published 2018
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,154,403 ratings — published 2018
A Stolen Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.97 — 145,261 ratings — published 2011
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 — 620,179 ratings — published 2012
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.09 — 725,204 ratings — published 1966
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.13 — 800,657 ratings — published 2010
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.48 — 354,540 ratings — published 1971
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.39 — 359,690 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 — 863,350 ratings — published 2012
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.49 — 799,789 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 — 349,854 ratings — published 2019
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.00 — 754,487 ratings — published 2003
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,837,505 ratings — published 2006
The Lost Boy (Dave Pelzer #2)
by (shelved 41 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.12 — 71,874 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 4.21 — 1,189,204 ratings — published 1997
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,435,918 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 — 441,831 ratings — published 2017
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 33 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.41 — 798,412 ratings — published 2016
A Street Cat Named Bob (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.99 — 60,141 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 — 262,845 ratings — published 2018
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.29 — 102,043 ratings — published 2009
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 — 358,583 ratings — published 2006
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,188,011 ratings — published 2018
A Man Named Dave (Dave Pelzer #3)
by (shelved 30 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.93 — 35,281 ratings — published 1999
Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.04 — 337,080 ratings — published 2010
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.14 — 111,477 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 — 578,433 ratings — published 1969
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.16 — 183,809 ratings — published 2016
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.46 — 163,192 ratings — published 1959
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.06 — 153,701 ratings — published 1974
Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.14 — 476,630 ratings — published 2005
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 25 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,051,866 ratings — published 2011
Not Without My Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.19 — 38,717 ratings — published 1987
Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.99 — 90,741 ratings — published 1973
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 866,862 ratings — published 1946
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 224,379 ratings — published 2003
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.84 — 501,150 ratings — published 2016
Just Mercy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.62 — 260,201 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 — 30,629 ratings — published 2014
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.15 — 656,721 ratings — published 1996
The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.43 — 100,945 ratings — published 2014
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.23 — 64,318 ratings — published 1988
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.16 — 193,827 ratings — published 2007
“I am grateful for everything and every day, and that is no longer just words I feed myself from Post-it notes stuck to my mirror as positive affirmations.”
― Voices of Cancer: What We Really Want, What We Really Need
― Voices of Cancer: What We Really Want, What We Really Need
“Life is the courier of the universal brilliance." Elysse”
― The Mind of Poetess
― The Mind of Poetess












