Non-fiction Family Secrets
4. 
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
by:
Alexandra Fuller
3.97 avg rating — 56,652 ratings 
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
by:
David Grann
4.14 avg rating — 425,944 ratings 
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Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
by:
Robert Kolker
4.15 avg rating — 139,627 ratings 14. 
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
by:
Mary L. Trump
3.82 avg rating — 95,051 ratings 
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Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love
by:
Dani Shapiro
3.89 avg rating — 45,334 ratings 18. 
Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult
by:
Faith Jones
3.87 avg rating — 9,943 ratings 19. 
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 19. 
The Cut Out Girl: A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found
by:
Bart van Es
4.05 avg rating — 5,445 ratings 
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Little Sister: My Investigation into the Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood
by:
Lana Wood
3.56 avg rating — 934 ratings 23. 
The Last Lynching: How a Gruesome Mass Murder Rocked a Small Georgia Town
by:
Anthony S. Pitch
3.59 avg rating — 138 ratings 24. 
This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone
by:
Melissa Coleman
3.75 avg rating — 2,960 ratings 
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The Sweet Hell Inside: The Rise of an Elite Black Family in the Segregated South
by:
Edward Ball
4.04 avg rating — 154 ratings 27. 
Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family’s Story of Slavery
by:
Alex Renton
4.29 avg rating — 218 ratings 28. 
The Manson Women and Me: Monsters, Morality, and Murder
by:
Nikki Meredith
3.23 avg rating — 1,749 ratings 29. 
Ghosts of Mississippi: The Murder of Medgar Evers, the Trials of Byron De LA Beckwith, and the Haunting of the New South
by:
Maryanne Vollers
4.29 avg rating — 290 ratings 
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Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
by:
John Carreyrou
4.41 avg rating — 276,359 ratings 32. 
Unto the Daughters: The Legacy of an Honor Killing in a Sicilian-American Family
by:
Karen Tintori
4.07 avg rating — 249 ratings 33. 
The Stranger in My Genes: A Memoir
by:
Bill Griffeth
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,229 ratings 34. 
Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
by:
Bill Dedman
3.80 avg rating — 39,198 ratings 35. 
A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination
by:
Philip Shenon
4.07 avg rating — 1,307 ratings 
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Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child
by:
Laura Cumming
3.58 avg rating — 6,487 ratings 38. 
Little Shoes: The Sensational Depression-Era Murders That Became My Family's Secret
by:
Pamela Everett
3.83 avg rating — 1,678 ratings 38. 
Those Who Forget: My Family's Story in Nazi Europe – A Memoir, A History, A Warning 4.31 avg rating — 1,554 ratings
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The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity 3.89 avg rating — 9,086 ratings
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American Ghost: A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest
by:
Hannah Nordhaus
3.44 avg rating — 3,000 ratings 
43. 
Finding Family: My Search for Roots and the Secrets in My DNA
by:
Richard Hill
4.24 avg rating — 920 ratings 
45. 
Leave Out the Tragic Parts: A Grandfather's Search for a Boy Lost to Addiction
by:
Dave Kindred
4.13 avg rating — 840 ratings 46. 
Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom
by:
Tiya Miles
4.17 avg rating — 379 ratings 46. 
The Book of Atlantis Black: The Search for a Sister Gone Missing
by:
Betsy Bonner
3.58 avg rating — 1,016 ratings 48. 
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A Nazi in the Family: The hidden story of an SS family in wartime Germany
by:
Derek Niemann
4.06 avg rating — 329 ratings 50. 
Patient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets
by:
Luke Dittrich
3.85 avg rating — 5,702 ratings 
51. 
One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life - A Story of Race and Family Secrets
by:
Bliss Broyard
3.68 avg rating — 1,751 ratings 
51. 
An Echo in My Blood: The Search for My Family's Hidden Past
by:
Alan Weisman
3.61 avg rating — 23 ratings 
51. 
Letters to Ex-Lovers: A Collection From Women
by:
Alison Schmidt
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 51. 
Finding My Way: A Memoir of Family, Identity, and Political Ambition 4.30 avg rating — 92 ratings
51. 
Wonderland: A Tale of Hustling Hard and Breaking Even
by:
Nicole Treska
3.49 avg rating — 245 ratings 
62. 
The Temptress: The Scandalous Life of Alice, Countess de Janzé
by:
Paul Spicer
3.65 avg rating — 572 ratings 
62. 
Garlic and Sapphires: The Secret Life of a Critic in Disguise
by:
Ruth Reichl
3.94 avg rating — 47,448 ratings 62. 
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The Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and the End of an American Family
by:
John Glatt
3.78 avg rating — 3,443 ratings 67. 
Did She Kill Him?: A Victorian tale of deception, adultery and arsenic
by:
Kate Colquhoun
3.56 avg rating — 505 ratings 
67. 
Henry's Demons: Living with Schizophrenia, A Father and Son's Story
by:
Patrick Cockburn
3.71 avg rating — 1,123 ratings 
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Secret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away
by:
June Cross
3.95 avg rating — 1,615 ratings 67. 
A Secret Life: The Lies and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland
by:
Charles Lachman
3.73 avg rating — 497 ratings 
75. 
The Lost Night: A Daughter's Search for the Truth of Her Father's Murder
by:
Rachel Howard
3.76 avg rating — 176 ratings 75. 
Vital Remains: Winston Wicomb, the Heart Transplant Pioneer Apartheid Could Not Stop 3.76 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Family Next Door: The Heartbreaking Imprisonment of the Thirteen Turpin Siblings and Their Extraordinary Rescue
by:
John Glatt
3.61 avg rating — 7,639 ratings 
79. 
North of Normal: A Memoir of My Wilderness Childhood, My Unusual Family, and How I Survived Both 4.25 avg rating — 17,610 ratings
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The Suspicions of Mr Whicher: Or The Murder at Road Hill House
by:
Kate Summerscale
3.51 avg rating — 24,676 ratings 79. 
Tribal: College Football and the Secret Heart of America
by:
Diane Roberts
3.59 avg rating — 165 ratings 
79. 
Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries
by:
Rick Emerson
3.95 avg rating — 8,109 ratings 
86. 
The Family Tree: A Lynching in Georgia, a Legacy of Secrets, and My Search for the Truth
by:
Karen Branan
3.53 avg rating — 250 ratings 
89. 
Dirty Secret: A Daughter Comes Clean About Her Mother's Compulsive Hoarding
by:
Jessie Sholl
3.74 avg rating — 2,330 ratings 89. 
The Milkman's Son: A Memoir of Family History, a DNA Mystery, and a Story of Paternal Love
by:
Randy Lindsay
3.59 avg rating — 559 ratings 89. 
Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime
by:
Debora Harding
3.94 avg rating — 3,447 ratings 
92. 
Madeleine's Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France's Indian Ocean Colonies
by:
Sue Peabody
4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings 92. 
The Fiddler on Pantico Run: An African Warrior, His White Descendants, A Search for Family
by:
Joe Mozingo
3.89 avg rating — 246 ratings 95. 
Secret Yankees: The Union Circle in Confederate Atlanta
by:
Thomas G. Dyer
3.57 avg rating — 23 ratings 
99. 
The Secrets of Happy Families: Improve Your Mornings, Rethink Family Dinner, Fight Smarter, Go Out and Play, and Much More
by:
Bruce Feiler
3.98 avg rating — 6,147 ratings 99. 
The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life
by:
Jasmin Darznik
3.95 avg rating — 3,718 ratings