Books like A stolen life by Jaycee Lee Dugard

Eighteen‑year‑old Susanna Kaysen is admitted to McLean Hospital in 1967, where she documents life in the psychiatric ward, exploring mental illness, recovery, and the cultural landscape of the late 1960s.

A compelling biography of Susannah Cahalan's battle with encephalitis and the challenges of diagnosis and recovery.

Roxane Gay’s memoir "Hunger" confronts her struggles with food, body image, and trauma, offering a candid look at healing through self‑care and acceptance.

Lisa Brennan‑Jobs recounts a childhood in Silicon Valley, shaped by a distant father and a struggling mother, and the evolving family dynamics that framed her early life.

Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped on June 10, 1991, when she was 11 years-old and remained missing for more than 18 years until August 26, 2009, when a 29 year-old Dugard, along with her two daughters and Phillip Craig Garrido appeared on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, to hand out religious literature. The case attracted national media attention. "Shattered Innocence" is the previously untold story of the Jaycee Lee Dugard abduction. Seeking to set the record straight, it examines the case that stunned the nation first in 1991 when 11-year-old Jaycee was kidnapped, and then again nearly 20 years later, when her captors were finally arrested so she could go free. Through extensive research, interviews and investigation, Scott reveals startling new information about Phillip Garrido that has not been reported anywhere else, including 16 pages of shocking photographs never before available to the media or the public. Written by an acclaimed investigative journalist and insider who grew up in the same time and place as Phillip Garrido, this harrowing account reveals new insights and evidence about Garrido's criminal past and manipulation of the legal system. With police and psychologist testimony, this book answers the question: How could someone so evil get away with his crimes for so long?--Publisher.

A harrowing true‑crime narrative of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight, who survived ten years of kidnapping and abuse by Ariel Castro in Cleveland, and the investigative reporting that uncovered their story.

Sarah Graves, a young woman from Vermont, faces unimaginable hardship on the Donner Overland Journey to California in 1846, as her family and an emigrant party battle snowstorms, starvation, and limited resources in the Sierra Nevada.

Federal prosecutor Stanley N. Alpert recounts his 1998 kidnapping in Manhattan, where he was held in a Brooklyn apartment by armed thugs who sought his ATM card and threatened his family.

The Astronaut Wives Club follows the lives of the wives of NASA’s Mercury Seven astronauts as they navigate fame, social change, and personal trials while supporting one another during a historic era.

Jaycee Dugard shares her journey from captivity to reintegration, detailing the first milestones of rebuilding her life after her 18‑year abduction in 1991 and her return in 2009.

In rural Mexico a girl disguised as a boy escapes traffickers, and in Mexico City she falls in love before finding herself imprisoned with other women who share her dreams of escape.

A first‑person account of Michelle Knight’s kidnapping by Ariel Castro, her decade‑long captivity, and her path to healing and hope.