True stories of several people (and one cat) who overcame hardship, followed their dreams, and made an impact. A mix of memoirs and true stories about history, sports, war, civil rights and music.
created by Nezuko83
last updated May, 2026
Worth Fighting For: Love, Loss, and Moving Forward
Lisa Niemi Swayze
Growing Up King: An Intimate Memoir
Dexter Scott King
A Street Cat Named Bob: How One Man and His Cat Found Hope on the Streets
James Bowen
Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination
Toni Morrison
Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season
Stewart O'Nan
Strange Fruit: Billie Holiday and the Biography of a Song – The Essential History of Jazz, Lynching, and Civil Rights in America
David Margolick
My Next Breath: A Memoir
Jeremy Renner
The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson
Tituba of Salem Village
Ann Petry
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Malala Yousafzai
The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien
Never Grow Up
Jackie Chan
Bruce Lee: A Life
Matthew Polly
Lucky Man
Michael J. Fox
Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation's Treasures from the Nazis
Robert M. Edsel
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
October Sky (Coalwood #1)
Homer Hickam
Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Outofshapeworthlessloser: A Memoir of Figure Skating, F*cking Up, and Figuring It Out
Gracie Gold
One Jump at a Time: My Story
Nathan Chen
An Unlikely Warrior: A Jewish Soldier in Hitler's Army
Georg Rauch
Let Love Rule
Lenny Kravitz
Girl, Interrupted
Susanna Kaysen
Hidden Figures
Margot Lee Shetterly
Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream
Joshua Davis
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