What are some good books to read that are based on a true story?
What are some good books to read that are based on a true story?
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What are some good books to read that are based on a true story?
I don’t know. I want to go to the library soon and get a real book. Following.
Historical fiction wraps a story around an actual event.
And After the Fire by Lauren Belfer
Unbroken
Try Great Santini by Pat Conroy
The Stranger Beside Me (if you like true crime)
An officer and a spy – the true story behind the Dreyfus case.
Finding Me was interesting
The Glass Castle
Such an amazing book!
The Stranger Beside me by Anne rule
Real life story of Anne Rule who had a personal relationship with Ted Bundy while she was working to become an investigative journalist. She spent years working with him as a colleague at a crisis hotline center while the investigation of several murdered woman was going on. She worked with the police, being a retired policewoman to help solve the cases little did she know she was friends with their serial killer. She never suspected him. This book blew my mind.
Unbroken, stranger beside me were good. Love Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis, a piece of cake by Cupcake Brown
Yes! A Piece of Cake!
A million little pieces by James Frey is a true story (I think).
I loved that book too and then found out the author made large chunks of it up https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/books/2006/sep/15/usa.world
Unbroken was amazing.
Lion
Papillon
The Glass Castle. Girls of a Tender Age. Unbroken. Mary (the story of Abraham Lincoln’s wife).
Devil in the White City
I can’t wait to read This! I have it on my to read list!!!
I have this on my shelf!
Marching Powder
Anything by Philippa Gregory is a fun way to learn history. Plus brilliant writer.
Wild by Cheryl strayed
The Seamstress by Maria Dueno
The orphan train
I was just going to recommend this one. Great book. The author is on Facebook and responds to comments ?
Book thief, amazing book.
Great book, but thought it was a fictional story
No based on what happened in ww2 from the perspective view of a German village. Film is brilliant too.
Interesting. Thanks for enlightening me ?
The setting is real, but the characters and their actual stories are fictional. One of my all-time favourite books, but I don’t think the film does it any justice at all.
Books are always better.
Denise Mina’s latest, The Long Drop x
I’m reading Lucky by Alice Sebold. Her own true story.
This is an excellent one.
Thnxs , I may send him one to say how much I enjoyed his book
Two Prayers before bedtime by @Nadine
Angela’s Ashes.
A true classic. The book that made memoirs my favorite genre.
The Invention of Wings is based on the real life Grimke sisters who as privileged white Americans fought for the abolition of slavery. One of my favourite books ever.
I loved it too 🙂
Excellent read
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
Wild by Cheryl Strayed as already mentioned on here.
Circling the sun- about the life of Beryl Markham the transatlantic aviator and racehorse trainer, set largely in colonial Kenya
Loved it
The Glass Castle
The Small Woman
The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
i will be publishing a true story book later in the year ..watch this space …..
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
The Rent Collector and The Orphan Keeper, both by Camron Wright. Both excellent reads.
Little deaths by Emma Flint
The immortal life of Henrietta lack
The Zoo Keepers Wife!
And I don’t want to live this life – Deborah Spungen https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/And_I_Don_t_Want_to_Live_This_Life.html?id=BWpH6RQ1jT8C&redir_esc=y&hl=en
I Fatty Gerry Stahl 🙂
The Theseus Paradox, A Street Cat Named Bob, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Wild, Forget You Had A Daughter, Trafficked, Marching Powder, Hush
‘Wild’
Autobiographies.
To race the wind by Harold krents. A movie very loosely based on the book was called butterflies are free.
The Kabul Beauty School byDeborah Rodriguez
Really interesting read
The Mission Walker …. will blow you mind!!!!!
The will be released soon
The author was given 3 months to live with stage 4 gallbladder cancer. She had 79 rounds of chemo – no right lung at all and walked 1,600 miles on the Mission trail. She was 55 when this started – she is alive and thriving today
Little deaths someone flint
The Glass Castle, Girls of Tender Age, anything by Ruth Reichl.
Thank you everyone!
Very dear to my heart.