A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints is a 2001 memoir by Dito Montiel, in which he described growing up in Astoria, New York during the 1980s.

In 2006, it was made into a crime/drama film and directed by Dito Montiel.

Dito (Shia LaBeouf) is a boy growing up in Astoria, New York. All around him, his friends end up dead, on drugs, or in prison. He begins to believe that he has been saved from his friends' fate by his saints.