10 Best Books Based on Real Events

1. "Bury Me Behind the Baseboard" by Pavel Sanaev
The book blew up the domestic book market and gained not just a cult, but a legendary status! A story in which the theme of growing up seems to turn upside down and acquires features of surreal humor!
A book in which the very idea of a happy childhood is parodied in a homeric funny and sophisticated evil.
Sensitive and intelligent Sanaev understood everything correctly. That is why the value of his story increases, and it is guaranteed a place in the history of Russian literature.

2. "The Many Minds of Billy Milligan" by Daniel Keyes
This stunning story, based on real events, reveals to us the shattered world of the mind of Billy Milligan, a man with multiple personalities. 24 individuals, different in intellect and aspirations, adults and children, men and women, persons with criminal tendencies and a subtle sense of artistic natures, are fighting for possession of his body, not allowing him to control his actions. Multiple personality is a kind of experiment of nature on man. Studying this mysterious state of consciousness can tell us a lot about ourselves, and it helps us understand something important in terms of controlling our bodies and minds.

3. "Schindler's List" by Thomas Keneally
The action of the novel is based on true events that took place in occupied Poland during World War II. The German industrialist, the head of the concentration camp, Oskar Schindler, single-handedly saved more people from death in the gas chambers than anyone in the entire history of the war.

4. "Zodiac" Robert Graysmith
A documentary story about a terrible serial killer who hid under the name of the Zodiac and terrorized America from 1966 to 1981. The book is based on a journalistic investigation undertaken by Robert Grasmith.

5. "An American Tragedy" by Theodore Dreiser
The novel "An American Tragedy" is the pinnacle of the work of the outstanding American writer Theodore Dreiser. He said: "No one creates tragedies – life creates them. Writers only depict them." Dreiser managed to depict the tragedy of Clive Griffiths so talentedly that his story does not leave the modern reader indifferent. A young man, who has tasted all the charm of the life of the rich, is so eager to establish himself in their society that he commits a crime for this.

6. "Up the Stairs Leading Down" by Bel Kaufman
Bel Kaufman is an American writer whose name is well known to readers all over the world. Bel Kaufman became famous for the novel "Up the Stairs Leading Down". The novel is about schoolchildren and their teachers, children and adults, about those who go against the system. The book begins with the words "Hello, teacher!" and ends with the words "Hello, crammer!", and between these two lines of letters, letters, letters are the cries of people hoping to be heard.

7. "On the Sunny Side of the Street" by Dean Rubin
The fates of the heroes of the novel are bizarre, in the "high-voltage" plot love and crime, talent and passion are intertwined, capable of destroying the personality or elevating to the heights of creativity.
Open this novel and you will not let go of a truly Babylonian pandemonium of types: urban madmen and drunks, Russian nobles, exiled and imprisoned prisoners, "white colonizers" and "hashish hunters"...

8. "Girl, Interrupted" by Suzanne Kaysen
The memoirs of a former patient of the clinic's psychiatric hospital are a brilliant depiction of a "parallel universe" against the backdrop of the ever-changing world of the late 1960s. This is an insightful and reliable testimony that allows us to look from a different perspective at sanity and insanity, at mental disorder and its causes.

9. "White on Black" by Rubén David González Gallego
The book may seem sad to some, cheerful to others. One thing is certain: Ruben gave all of us a unique opportunity to look at our terrible, cruel and beautiful world a little kinder, brighter and more joyful.

10. "Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert
..."Eat, Pray, Love" is a book about how you can find joy where you do not expect, and how you should not look for happiness where there will be none. By definition.
… A modern book about a modern woman, for whom to eat, to pray, to love means to enjoy life...