The most popular based on a true story books

These novels are built on real people and real events. The author has researched what happened and imagined what the records leave out: conversations, motives and private moments. They read like fiction and send you off to look up how much is true.

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The Crucible
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The Crucible

Arthur Miller

1971 · 2022 edition

168 pages

Seabiscuit
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Seabiscuit

Laura Hillenbrand

2000 · 2003 edition

448 pages

Alive
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Alive

Piers Paul Read

1973 · 2012 edition

480 pages

Story of a shipwrecked sailor who drifted on a life raft for ten days without food or water, was proclaimed a national hero, kissed by beauty queens, made rich through publicity, and then spurned by the government and forgotten for all time
Cover of Story of a shipwrecked sailor who drifted on a life raft for ten days without food or water, was proclaimed a national hero, kissed by beauty queens, made rich through publicity, and then spurned by the government and forgotten for all time

Story of a shipwrecked sailor who drifted on a life raft for ten days without food or water, was proclaimed a national hero, kissed by beauty queens, made rich through publicity, and then spurned by the government and forgotten for all time

Gabriel García Márquez

1970 · 2004 edition

106 pages

Hana's Suitcase
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Hana's Suitcase

Karen Levine

2002 · 2004 edition

112 pages

The Bounty
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The Bounty

Caroline Alexander

Published 2003

491 pages

Ugly Americans
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Ugly Americans

Ben Mezrich

2004 · 2005 edition

352 pages

Orphaned
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Orphaned

Melissa Fay Greene

2006 · 2007 edition

480 pages

Shy Boy
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Shy Boy

Monty Roberts

Published 1999

256 pages

Hotel Babylon
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Hotel Babylon

Imogen Edwards-Jones

Published 2004

308 pages

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