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The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 4,357,906 ratings — published 1947
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 107 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.14 — 469,041 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 — 1,023,020 ratings — published 2010
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 82 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,231,916 ratings — published 1996
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,420,168 ratings — published 2005
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 75 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,998,822 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 — 595,540 ratings — published 1997
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,412,161 ratings — published 2012
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,228,930 ratings — published 2018
A Stolen Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.98 — 152,991 ratings — published 2011
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.09 — 762,212 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 58 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.16 — 642,727 ratings — published 2012
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.14 — 834,908 ratings — published 2010
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.48 — 370,993 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 — 373,828 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 — 895,295 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 — 378,718 ratings — published 2019
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.48 — 858,008 ratings — published 2016
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,875,196 ratings — published 2006
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,649,533 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 — 788,027 ratings — published 2003
The Lost Boy (Dave Pelzer #2)
by (shelved 40 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.13 — 73,697 ratings — published 1997
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,293,193 ratings — published 1997
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 36 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.41 — 862,733 ratings — published 2016
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.14 — 475,885 ratings — published 2017
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.15 — 203,619 ratings — published 2016
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,255,686 ratings — published 2018
A Street Cat Named Bob (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.00 — 62,565 ratings — published 2012
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 — 359,747 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 — 116,306 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 — 601,799 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 — 274,646 ratings — published 2018
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.47 — 183,185 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 — 343,699 ratings — published 2010
A Man Named Dave (Dave Pelzer #3)
by (shelved 28 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.94 — 36,132 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 — 479,509 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 — 517,296 ratings — published 2016
Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed - A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.19 — 31,925 ratings — published 2014
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.29 — 106,380 ratings — published 2009
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.06 — 157,348 ratings — published 1974
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.36 — 951,649 ratings — published 1946
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.40 — 296,003 ratings — published 2018
Just Mercy (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.62 — 274,430 ratings — published 2014
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 25 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,077,721 ratings — published 2011
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.16 — 672,314 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 — 233,237 ratings — published 2003
Not Without My Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.20 — 41,118 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 — 91,592 ratings — published 1973
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as true-stories)
avg rating 4.16 — 246,811 ratings — published 2023
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as true-stories)
avg rating 3.96 — 117,240 ratings — published 2016
“I always try to stay positive, but right now I just want to scream and cry a little. I have an amazing support system here, but sometimes I feel like I can't cry or be mad because they think I'm not being positive.”
― Voices of Cancer: What We Really Want, What We Really Need
― Voices of Cancer: What We Really Want, What We Really Need
“The worst stories usually make you think: 'but nobody had to die'.
These are called true stories.”
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These are called true stories.”
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