Family Secrets - Mainly Memoirs
1. 
Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
by:
Dani Shapiro
3.89 avg rating — 45,339 ratings 1. 
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
by:
Trevor Noah
4.49 avg rating — 778,850 ratings 3. 
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
by:
Lori Gottlieb
4.37 avg rating — 385,781 ratings 4. 
Finding My Way: A Memoir of Family, Identity, and Political Ambition 4.30 avg rating — 92 ratings
5. 
The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers 3.91 avg rating — 2,230 ratings
7. 
The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Uncovering Secrets, Reuniting Relatives, and Upending Who We Are
by:
Libby Copeland
4.01 avg rating — 3,112 ratings 
9. 
White Like Her: My Family's Story of Race and Racial Passing
by:
Gail Lukasik
3.70 avg rating — 2,378 ratings 10. 
The Foundling: The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret, and My Search for the Real Me 3.99 avg rating — 4,506 ratings
11. 
The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father
by:
Janny Scott
3.49 avg rating — 1,302 ratings 
13. 
The Lie: A Memoir of Two Marriages, Catfishing & Coming Out
by:
William Dameron
3.94 avg rating — 5,477 ratings 
15. 
One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life - A Story of Race and Family Secrets
by:
Bliss Broyard
3.68 avg rating — 1,751 ratings 
17. 
A World Erased: A Grandson's Search for His Family's Holocaust Secrets
by:
Noah Lederman
4.31 avg rating — 134 ratings 
