Biographies and memoirs that will shock you.
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last updated October, 2025
In the Dream House: A Memoir
Carmen Maria Machado
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
Dave Pelzer
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Jung Chang
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
Loung Ung
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer
The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster
Sarah Krasnostein
Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries
Rick Emerson
The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
Maria Smilios
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of Americaâs Shining Women
Kate Moore
A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy
Kathy Kleiner Rubin
Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography
Mark Mathabane
Blood Brothers: The Dramatic Story of a Palestinian Christian Working for Peace in Israel
Elias Chacour
Into Thin Air
The Anthropocene Reviewed
John Green
Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
M.E. Thomas
Hijab Butch Blues
Lamya H.
Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)
Elie Wiesel
The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Down Below
Leonora Carrington
I Have Life: Raped, Stabbed & Left for Dead
Marianne Thamm
People Change
Vivek Shraya
Miracle in the Andes
Nando Parrado
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
Michael Finkel
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