10 Best biography books like Parkland Speaks: Survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas Share Their Stories by Sarah Lerner

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Parkland Speaks: Survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas Share Their Stories

By: Sarah Lerner

4.52

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Featuring art and writing from the students of the Parkland tragedy, this is a raw look at the even…

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1. An Unseen Angel: A Mother's Story of Faith, Hope, and Healing after Sandy Hook

By: Alissa Parker

3.56

Format: None pages, Paperback

As the mother of one of the children who died at Sandy Hook school in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland by Kevin Sullivan, None, Gina DeJesus, Mary Jordan, Amanda     Berry

2. Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland

By: Kevin Sullivan , None , Gina DeJesus , Mary Jordan , Amanda Berry

4.35

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

Two women kidnapped by infamous Cleveland school-bus driver Ariel Castro share the stories of their… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
Cover of A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy by Sue Klebold

3. A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

By: Sue Klebold

4.14

Format: 336 pages, ebook

On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Co… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
"A faraway look—I have heard suicidologist Thomas Joiner refer to it as “the thousand-yard stare"

-Sue Klebold, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

"Asking 'why' only makes us feel hopeless. Asking 'how' points the way forward, and shows us what we must do"

-Sue Klebold, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

"Indeed, I would not achieve the integration I sought until I found two nutrients essential to so many survivors. First, I found community and then I found a way to contribute."

-Sue Klebold, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

"People refer to the fog of war, and I am sure something similar applies to my situation. If I hadn't kept a running record of the days, weeks, and years, the fog would have swallowed too much of the …"

-Sue Klebold, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

Cover of Newtown: An American Tragedy by Matthew Lysiak

4. Newtown: An American Tragedy

By: Matthew Lysiak

3.77

Format: 341 pages, ebook

A journalist for The Daily News (New York) offers a "meticulous account of the Newtown massacre and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen by Kate Fagan

5. What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen

By: Kate Fagan

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

*InstantNew York TimesBestseller* The #1 New York Times Monthly Sports and Fitness bestseller From … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • mental health
Cover of Loving vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case by Shadra Strickland, Patricia Hruby Powell

6. Loving vs. Virginia: A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case

By: Shadra Strickland , Patricia Hruby Powell

3.14

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed author Patricia Hruby Powell comes the story of a landmark civil rights case, told i… read more

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  • poetry

7. My Story

By: Chris Stewart , Elizabeth Smart

4.12

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For the first time, ten years after her abduction from her Salt Lake City bedroom, Elizabeth Smart … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
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8. Banana Fish, Vol. 1

By: Akimi Yoshida

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback Manga

New York City, 1985. A dying man leaves gay gang leader Ash Lynx a strange drug, the key to somethi… read more

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9. Blood Water Paint

By: Joy McCullough

3.44

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A stunning debut novel based on the true story of the iconic painter, Artemisia Gentileschi. Her mo… read more

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  • poetry

10. Surviving the Angel of Death: The Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz

By: Eva Mozes Kor , Lisa Rojany Buccieri

4.05

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Eva Mozes Kor was 10 years old when she arrived in Auschwitz. While her parents and two older siste… read more

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11. Pretty Little Killers: The Truth Behind the Savage Murder of Skylar Neese

By: Daleen Berry , Geoffrey C. Fuller

4.32

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

In Pretty Little Killers, journalist Daleen Berry and investigator Geoffrey Fuller expand upon thei… read more

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Cover of The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #3) by Amanda Lovelace

12. The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #3)

By: Amanda Lovelace

3.68

Format: 210 pages, ebook

Goodreads Choice Award-winning poet and USA TODAY bestselling author Amanda Lovelace presents the m… read more

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  • poetry
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • mental health
"at this point, staying with you is nothing more than muscle memory."

-Amanda Lovelace, The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #3)

"When our villains win, do not fret, just rewrite the story. - mother knows best II"

-Amanda Lovelace, The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #3)

"becoming your own savior sometimes means knowing when you need to ask for help. - therapy session no. 1"

-Amanda Lovelace, The Mermaid's Voice Returns in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #3)

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13. Rez Dogs

By: Joseph Bruchac

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From the U.S.'s foremost indigenous children's author comes a middle grade verse novel set during t… read more

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  • poetry
"No one should feel guilty about the past. Unless they're not doing anything about the present."

-Joseph Bruchac, Rez Dogs

Cover of Parkland: Birth of a Movement by Dave Cullen

14. Parkland: Birth of a Movement

By: Dave Cullen

3.98

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Columbine offers a deeply moving account of the extraordin… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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15. Sandy Hook

By: Elizabeth Williamson

4.29

Format: 482 pages, Hardcover

Based on hundreds of hours of research, interviews, and access to exclusive sources and materials, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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16. Kent State

By: Deborah Wiles

3.96

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

An exploration of one of the darkest moments in our history, when American troops killed four Ameri… read more

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  • poetry
  • teen
"When the State silences freedom of assembly and freedom to dissent, it silences the people it is sworn to protect."

-Deborah Wiles, Kent State

Cover of While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students by J. Reuben Appelman

17. While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students

By: J. Reuben Appelman

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, tells the inside story of the “Univers… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn

18. The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

By: Jeff Guinn

4.16

Format: 454 pages, Kindle Edition

By the New York Times bestselling author of Manson, the comprehensive, authoritative, and tragic st… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • true crime
"No one listening [to Jones' sermons], even those who were the most devoted to him, could take it all in. But at some point each follower heard something that reaffirmed his or her personal reason for…"

-Jeff Guinn, The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

Cover of Secrets Never Die by Vincent Ralph

19. Secrets Never Die

By: Vincent Ralph

3.46

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

We call it the Dark Place. I don’t know who built it or when but, for us, it’s special. Every ye… read more

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"Was he okay with you staying over? Wasnt worried about you two bumping uglies in the night?" Haran is dicking around. He knows that my uglies and Elisha's have never officially met."

-Vincent Ralph, Secrets Never Die

Cover of A Dark Night in Aurora: Inside James Holmes and the Colorado Mass Shootings by William H. Reid

20. A Dark Night in Aurora: Inside James Holmes and the Colorado Mass Shootings

By: William H. Reid

3.89

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

James Holmes killed or wounded seventy people in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. Only one man … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • mental health
Cover of How We Fall Apart (How We Fall Apart, #1) by Katie Zhao

21. How We Fall Apart (How We Fall Apart, #1)

By: Katie Zhao

3.34

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

Nancy Luo is shocked when her former best friend, Jamie Ruan, top ranked junior at Sinclair Prep, g… read more

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"No lonelier feeling in the world than having people stare at you all the time, but nobody truly seeing you."

-Katie Zhao, How We Fall Apart (How We Fall Apart, #1)

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22. Shout

By: Laurie Halse Anderson

4.26

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

A searing poetic memoir and call to action from the bestselling and award-winning author of Speak, … read more

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  • poetry
  • teen
  • mental health
"I could only fix myself"

-Laurie Halse Anderson, Shout

"Eve ate the apple because Adam was afraid"

-Laurie Halse Anderson, Shout

"When we were girls we rode horses disguised as bicycles"

-Laurie Halse Anderson, Shout

"when I wasn't stoned the only thing that helped me breathe was a book"

-Laurie Halse Anderson, Shout

Cover of Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas

23. Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

By: Jose Antonio Vargas

4.30

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, called “the most famous undocumented immigra… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Home is not something I should have to earn."

-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

"Humanity is not some box I should have to check."

-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

"Here in America, the libraries were my church, and I was an acolyte."

-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

"Dear America, is this what you really want? Do you even know what is happening in your name?"

-Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

Cover of Fear Street The Beginning: The New Girl; The Surprise Party; The Overnight; Missing by R.L. Stine

24. Fear Street The Beginning: The New Girl; The Surprise Party; The Overnight; Missing

By: R.L. Stine

3.65

Format: 552 pages, Paperback

The classic and heart-pounding Fear Street Series from beloved author R.L. Stine is back with the f… read more

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  • teen
  • anthologies
Cover of A Pocket Full of Posies by Shawn Sarles

25. A Pocket Full of Posies

By: Shawn Sarles

3.55

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Who will be the one to fall? In this terrifying spin on the old rhyme, a family moves to a seemingl… read more

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Cover of I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor's Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope by Chessy Prout

26. I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor's Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope

By: Chessy Prout

4.41

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

“A bold, new voice.” —People“A nuanced addition to the #MeToo conversation.” —ViceA young survivor … read more

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  • biography
  • teen
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
"#IHaveTheRightTo"

-Chessy Prout, I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor's Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope

Cover of Say Her Name by Zetta Elliott

27. Say Her Name

By: Zetta Elliott

4.34

Format: 90 pages, None

For ages 12 and up. Inspired by the #SayHerName campaign launched by the African American Policy Fo… read more

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  • poetry
  • teen
Cover of Black Is a Rainbow Color by Angela Joy

28. Black Is a Rainbow Color

By: Angela Joy

4.53

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

A child reflects on the meaning of being Black in this moving and powerful anthem about a people, a… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Parkland Speaks: Survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas Share Their Stories by Sarah Lerner

29. Parkland Speaks: Survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas Share Their Stories

By: Sarah Lerner

4.52

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Featuring art and writing from the students of the Parkland tragedy, this is a raw look at the even… read more

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  • poetry
  • biography
  • teen
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • anthologies
  • mental health
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • activism
Cover of The Agony House by Cherie Priest

30. The Agony House

By: Cherie Priest

3.66

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Denise Farber has just moved back to New Orleans with her mom and step-dad. They left in the wake o… read more

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Cover of #NeverAgain: A New Generation Draws the Line by David  Hogg

31. #NeverAgain: A New Generation Draws the Line

By: David Hogg

4.14

Format: 166 pages, Kindle Edition

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From two survivors of the Parkland, Florida, shooting comes a declarati… read more

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  • activism
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"If you want to overthrow the government, you’re not really conservative anymore."

-David Hogg, #NeverAgain: A New Generation Draws the Line

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Alissa Parker

3.56

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Kevin Sullivan , None , Gina DeJesus , Mary Jordan , Amanda Berry

4.35

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A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

Sue Klebold

4.14

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3.77

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Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters

Peter Langman

3.83

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Sue Klebold

4.14

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Dave Cullen

4.29

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