What do you call them?

Please help Dorothea!
You know when that certain sort of person comes in, usually a woman, usually with kids in tow, and asks for biographies. Well, you know what she means, but if you are anything like Dorothea you take them to where the lives of Leonardo da Vinci, Stanley Matthews, Winston Churchill, Mohammed Ali are shelved. About five minutes later they come back. "No it's biographies we want. There is one about someone called Dave, I think." And so you take them to the shelves where the books are mainly white, with a distressed looking child on the front clutching a teddy bear, and with titles like "Please No Mummy Don't Sell Me To The White Slavers, At Least Not Until Daddy Has Beaten Me Again." And they are delighted. I am waiting for the first memoir called "Mummy Took Me To The Library And Left Me There While She Read Books About Neglected Children."
Anyway what Dorothea wants to know is, what do you call them? I've scoured libraries and bookshops and so far we have:

Misery Literature
Real Lives
Alternative Childhoods
Painful Lives

Please send your suggestions.