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To ask if you know of any good books that are a true story?

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mathsahh · 08/05/2024 23:13

Please! I am scrolling Amazon and can’t find anything that looks good/interesting/educational

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Thorinfling · 09/05/2024 07:48

Something that I really loved and stayed with me for ages, the biography of Maria Callas. Opera singer who had a long love affair with Aristotle Onassis. Her life was fascinating and I'm not hugely interested in opera at all.

Advent0range · 09/05/2024 07:39

The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks

Toasted · 09/05/2024 07:37

Ghost Boy by Marin Pistorious

Pigeonqueen · 08/05/2024 23:35

Fragile by Nikki Graheme
A very private school by Charles Spencer
Firemanscam
Lion
Coming Clean (about opioid addiction)
A miracle in the Andes - Nando parrado

I’ve read all these recently and all very good. Depends on your subject interests though!

Gorgonemilezola · 08/05/2024 23:32

Rumer Godden's two volumes of autobiography, A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep, and A House With Four Rooms.
Lillian Beckwith - About My Father's Business.

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 08/05/2024 23:31

The Radium Girls

BacktoBeginnersFran · 08/05/2024 23:29

Educated by Tara Westover, fascinating autobiography
www.goodreads.com/book/show/35133922-educated

YankSplaining · 08/05/2024 23:25

The Great Beanie Baby Bubble: Mass Delusion and the Dark Side of Cute by Zac Bissonnette

My other recommendations are true crime - not sure if you’re interested in that, but I can give you those if you want.

BlackCatsAreBrilliant · 08/05/2024 23:25

Touching the Void by Joe Simpson.

BlueFairyBugsBooks · 08/05/2024 23:23

Chocoholic1972 · 08/05/2024 23:15

The Tattooist of Auschwitz

A great book, but the actual accuracy is sketchy.

What Genre @mathsahh? A celebrity biography would be very different to an historical account of the first world War for example.

House4DS · 08/05/2024 23:21

Lion by Saroo Brierley

DoreenonTill8 · 08/05/2024 23:17

Midnight in the garden of good and evil

SleepPrettyDarling · 08/05/2024 23:16

The Art Thief by Jon Finkel. A page-turner!

stonebrambleboy · 08/05/2024 23:15

Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain.

Chocoholic1972 · 08/05/2024 23:15

The Tattooist of Auschwitz

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