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The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 4,311,153 ratings — published 1947
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 106 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.14 — 466,693 ratings — published 1995
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,015,319 ratings — published 2010
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 81 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,220,451 ratings — published 1996
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,404,014 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 — 587,373 ratings — published 1997
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,957,216 ratings — published 2018
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,398,232 ratings — published 1956
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 65 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,212,205 ratings — published 2018
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.09 — 752,017 ratings — published 1966
A Stolen Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.97 — 151,284 ratings — published 2011
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.48 — 366,211 ratings — published 1971
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 — 637,132 ratings — published 2012
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.13 — 825,301 ratings — published 2010
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 — 370,251 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 — 885,731 ratings — published 2012
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.48 — 841,387 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 — 371,599 ratings — published 2019
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,866,761 ratings — published 2006
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,603,015 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 — 779,521 ratings — published 2003
The Lost Boy (Dave Pelzer #2)
by (shelved 40 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.13 — 73,238 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 — 1,261,723 ratings — published 1997
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 36 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.41 — 846,929 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 — 467,375 ratings — published 2017
A Street Cat Named Bob (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.00 — 61,937 ratings — published 2012
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,236,659 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 — 359,389 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 — 114,946 ratings — published 1980
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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avg rating 4.30 — 595,958 ratings — published 1969
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 — 270,908 ratings — published 2018
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 — 342,127 ratings — published 2010
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.46 — 177,879 ratings — published 1959
A Man Named Dave (Dave Pelzer #3)
by (shelved 28 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.94 — 35,897 ratings — published 1999
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.15 — 195,766 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 — 478,692 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 — 513,659 ratings — published 2016
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.29 — 105,352 ratings — published 2009
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.37 — 929,707 ratings — published 1946
Just Mercy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.62 — 270,894 ratings — published 2014
Bossypants (ebook)
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avg rating 3.96 — 1,071,081 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 — 31,601 ratings — published 2014
Not Without My Daughter (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 40,438 ratings — published 1987
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.06 — 156,268 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 — 91,371 ratings — published 1973
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.16 — 667,424 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 — 230,948 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 — 288,041 ratings — published 2018
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.96 — 116,264 ratings — published 2016
Spare (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.83 — 442,684 ratings — published 2023
“Life is the courier of the universal brilliance." Elysse”
― The Mind of Poetess
― The Mind of Poetess
“I mean, everyone who tells a ghost story starts by saying it’s true, but I want to know if it’s really true.”
― Fourteen Days
― Fourteen Days
