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The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 225 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,103,200 ratings — published 1947
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 141 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.14 — 456,547 ratings — published 1995
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.39 — 993,353 ratings — published 2010
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 109 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,131,190 ratings — published 2018
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 106 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,172,802 ratings — published 1996
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,794,935 ratings — published 2018
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,341,372 ratings — published 1956
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.26 — 555,382 ratings — published 1997
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,335,228 ratings — published 2005
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.09 — 715,109 ratings — published 1966
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.00 — 744,791 ratings — published 2003
The Lost Boy (Dave Pelzer #2)
by (shelved 75 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.12 — 71,370 ratings — published 1997
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 72 times as true-story)
avg rating 3.98 — 342,218 ratings — published 2019
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.13 — 791,758 ratings — published 2010
Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.29 — 10,405 ratings — published
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,166,300 ratings — published 1997
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.48 — 350,469 ratings — published 1971
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as true-story)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,826,115 ratings — published 2006
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,379,425 ratings — published 2022
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.07 — 855,048 ratings — published 2012
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,169,676 ratings — published 2018
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.16 — 614,740 ratings — published 2012
A Man Named Dave (Dave Pelzer #3)
by (shelved 54 times as true-story)
avg rating 3.93 — 35,040 ratings — published 1999
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.39 — 355,212 ratings — published 2013
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.14 — 431,260 ratings — published 2017
Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World’s Worst Dog (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.14 — 475,858 ratings — published 2005
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer (ebook)
by (shelved 49 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.12 — 259,433 ratings — published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.49 — 785,426 ratings — published 2016
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.46 — 158,046 ratings — published 1959
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.16 — 178,972 ratings — published 2016
A Stolen Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as true-story)
avg rating 3.97 — 142,789 ratings — published 2011
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.37 — 843,262 ratings — published 1946
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 42 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.41 — 776,509 ratings — published 2016
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.15 — 652,979 ratings — published 1996
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 40 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.09 — 234,484 ratings — published 2012
Shot Down: The True Story of Pilot Howard Snyder and the Crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.21 — 8,577 ratings — published 2014
Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.30 — 17,179 ratings — published 2018
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.06 — 152,611 ratings — published 1974
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as true-story)
avg rating 3.84 — 493,004 ratings — published 2016
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.14 — 81,175 ratings — published 1974
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 35 times as true-story)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,045,202 ratings — published 2011
Not Without My Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.18 — 38,139 ratings — published 1987
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.41 — 277,822 ratings — published 2018
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 34 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.23 — 123,660 ratings — published 1853
A Long Walk to Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.25 — 100,458 ratings — published 2010
Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as true-story)
avg rating 3.99 — 90,555 ratings — published 1973
The Woman in Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as true-story)
avg rating 3.83 — 555,149 ratings — published 2023
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.01 — 221,699 ratings — published 2003
The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.12 — 118,147 ratings — published 1997
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.16 — 192,908 ratings — published 2007
“Have you really read all those books in your room?"
She laughed, "Oh God no. I've maybe read a third of 'em. But I'm going to read them all. I call it my Life's Library. Every summer since I was little, I've gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read. But there is so much to do: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on. I'll have more time for reading when I'm old and boring.”
― Looking for Alaska
She laughed, "Oh God no. I've maybe read a third of 'em. But I'm going to read them all. I call it my Life's Library. Every summer since I was little, I've gone to garage sales and bought all the books that looked interesting. So I always have something to read. But there is so much to do: cigarettes to smoke, sex to have, swings to swing on. I'll have more time for reading when I'm old and boring.”
― Looking for Alaska
“I know who I am, and I know who you are, and nothing else matters. it's how we live our life.”
― A Case for Solomon: Bobby Dunbar and the Kidnapping That Haunted a Nation
― A Case for Solomon: Bobby Dunbar and the Kidnapping That Haunted a Nation
