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The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 220 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.20 � 4,003,624 ratings � published 1947
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 140 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.13 � 451,442 ratings � published 1995
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.39 � 979,456 ratings � published 2010
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
by (shelved 107 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.31 � 1,089,399 ratings � published 2018
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.47 � 1,721,687 ratings � published 2018
Into the Wild (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 102 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.02 � 1,150,046 ratings � published 1996
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.38 � 1,315,506 ratings � published 1956
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.25 � 540,341 ratings � published 1997
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.32 � 1,302,840 ratings � published 2005
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.09 � 700,147 ratings � published 1966
The Lost Boy (Dave Pelzer #2)
by (shelved 75 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.12 � 70,483 ratings � published 1997
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.00 � 727,937 ratings � published 2003
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as true-story)
avg rating 3.98 � 323,285 ratings � published 2019
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.13 � 774,868 ratings � published 2010
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.19 � 1,124,924 ratings � published 1997
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.47 � 343,488 ratings � published 1971
Eat, Pray, Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as true-story)
avg rating 3.64 � 1,805,581 ratings � published 2006
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.06 � 840,362 ratings � published 2012
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.45 � 1,285,181 ratings � published 2022
Becoming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.44 � 1,139,724 ratings � published 2018
A Man Named Dave (Dave Pelzer #3)
by (shelved 54 times as true-story)
avg rating 3.93 � 34,630 ratings � published 1999
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.16 � 606,199 ratings � published 2012
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-story)
avg rating 4.39 � 346,713 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 � 413,282 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 � 474,532 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 � 254,054 ratings � published 2018
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.49 � 761,503 ratings � published 2016
A Stolen Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as true-story)
avg rating 3.96 � 137,968 ratings � published 2011
Man’s Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.37 � 807,130 ratings � published 1946
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.16 � 169,223 ratings � published 2016
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.45 � 150,519 ratings � published 1959
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.15 � 646,452 ratings � published 1996
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 40 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.41 � 746,476 ratings � published 2016
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 � 8,591 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 � 17,373 ratings � published 2018
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (ebook)
by (shelved 38 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.09 � 230,491 ratings � published 2012
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.14 � 80,174 ratings � published 1974
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.06 � 150,796 ratings � published 1974
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as true-story)
avg rating 3.85 � 477,071 ratings � published 2016
Bossypants (ebook)
by (shelved 35 times as true-story)
avg rating 3.96 � 1,034,826 ratings � published 2011
A Long Walk to Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.25 � 97,131 ratings � published 2010
Not Without My Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.18 � 37,070 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 � 272,984 ratings � published 2018
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 � 90,208 ratings � published 1973
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 32 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.22 � 121,905 ratings � published 1853
Columbine 25th Anniversary Memorial Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.29 � 97,296 ratings � published 2009
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.01 � 217,557 ratings � published 2003
Schindler’s List (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.34 � 163,397 ratings � published 1982
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as true-story)
avg rating 3.66 � 358,353 ratings � published 2006
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor (ebook)
by (shelved 30 times as true-story)
avg rating 4.40 � 309,178 ratings � published 2017
“US General Mathew Ridgeway was speaking about “Operation Vultureâ€�. He said, “When the day comes for me to meet my maker and account for my actions, the thing that I would be most proud of is the fact that I fought against and perhaps totally prevented the carrying out of one of the most hare-brained tactical schemes that would have cost the lives of thousands upon thousands of men!â€�
(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
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(A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
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“My therapist opens my wounds a little deeper, then picks at the scabs.”
― Transcending Depression: Quest Without a Compass
― Transcending Depression: Quest Without a Compass
