22 must-read nonfiction books like I've Seen Dead People: Diary of a Deputy Coroner by Donna Francart

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I've Seen Dead People: Diary of a Deputy Coroner

By: Donna Francart

3.37

Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition

DEATH, FEAR, LOVE, EMOTIONS, SPIRITS Step inside the mind of Donna Francart, a former deputy corone…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in I've Seen Dead People: Diary of a Deputy Coroner by Donna Francart , here is a list of 22 books like this:

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1. Sometimes Amazing Things Happen: Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward

By: Elizabeth Ford

3.99

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the Executive Director of Mental Health for Correctional Services in New York City, comes a re… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality Disorder by Randi Kreger, Paul T. Mason

2. Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality Disorder

By: Randi Kreger , Paul T. Mason

4.01

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

Stop Walking on Eggshells: Coping When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder i… read more

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  • nonfiction
"It's important that you don't continue to ignore or accept rages. Realize that extreme rage directed at you or your children is verbal and emotional abuse. Even if you think you can handle it, over t…"

-Randi Kreger, Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality Disorder

"Children who experience abuse also learn to deny pain and chaos or accept them as normal and proper. They learn that their feelings were wrong or didn't matter. They learn to focus on immediate survi…"

-Randi Kreger, Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care about Has Borderline Personality Disorder

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3. Murdered

By: Paul Alexander

4.18

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

For nearly a quarter-century, the Los Angeles Police Department considered the brutal 1986 killing … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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4. Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner

By: Judy Melinek , T.J. Mitchell

3.18

Format: 183 pages, Hardcover

The fearless memoir of a young forensic pathologist's rookie season as a NYC medical examiner, and … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • death
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5. Secrets in the Cellar

By: John Glatt

4.16

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

Josef Fritzl was a 73-year-old retired engineer in Austria. He seemed to be living a normal life wi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases by Cory Franklin

6. Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases

By: Cory Franklin

3.57

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An inside look at one of the nation's most famous public hospitals, Cook County, as seen through th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir

7. Unfinished Business: A Collection of Reader-Submitted Medical Stories

By: Kerry Hamm

3.00

Format: 285 pages,

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8. Dead Men Do Tell Tales: The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist

By: Michael Browning , William R. Maples

4.31

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

From a skeleton, a skull, a mere fragment of burnt thighbone, Dr. William Maples can deduce the age… read more

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9. The Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death

By: John Bateson

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Dr. Judy Melinek's Working Stiff, an account of the hair-raising and heartbreaking c… read more

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10. Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science

By: Erika Engelhaupt

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Science reporter Erika Engelhaupt investigates the gross, strange, and morbid absurdities of our bo… read more

Similar categories in Erika Engelhaupt's Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science book and Donna Francart's I've Seen Dead People: Diary of a Deputy Coroner

  • nonfiction
  • death
"This kind of scientific boldness is something the world could use more of. All too often, we’re hemmed in by our fears and our sense of propriety. Some subjects simply aren’t discussed, or aren’t tak…"

-Erika Engelhaupt, Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science

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11. Shallow Graves: My life as a Forensic Scientist on Britain's Biggest Cases

By: Ray Fysh

4.34

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

Shortlisted for the True Crime Awards 2023 Best New True Crime Author The murder of Sarah Payne, Ad… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • true crime
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12. All the Living and the Dead

By: Hayley Campbell

4.25

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A compelling and compassionate exploration of the death industry and the people—embalmers, detecti… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • death
"Death shows us what is buried in the living. By shielding ourselves from what happens past the moment of death we deny ourselves a deeper understanding of who we truly are."

-Hayley Campbell, All the Living and the Dead

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13. The Facemaker

By: Lindsey Fitzharris

4.29

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true s… read more

Similar categories in Lindsey Fitzharris's The Facemaker book and Donna Francart's I've Seen Dead People: Diary of a Deputy Coroner

  • nonfiction
Cover of I've Seen Dead People: Diary of a Deputy Coroner by Donna Francart

14. I've Seen Dead People: Diary of a Deputy Coroner

By: Donna Francart

3.37

Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition

DEATH, FEAR, LOVE, EMOTIONS, SPIRITS Step inside the mind of Donna Francart, a former deputy corone… read more

Similar categories in Donna Francart's I've Seen Dead People: Diary of a Deputy Coroner book and Donna Francart's I've Seen Dead People: Diary of a Deputy Coroner

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • death
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15. True stories from the rolling Band-Aid box.

By: John Wyatt

4.36

Format: 100 pages, Kindle Edition

“She screams and whips her head back, spraying sweat from her hair on the back wall, as I gently pu… read more

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16. Through A Mother’s Tears

By: Cathy Broomfield

4.16

Format: 100 pages, Kindle Edition

When Cathy Broomfield’s youngest daughter Kirsty disappeared, Cathy hoped she had gone to stay with… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • true crime
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17. Critical: Science and Stories from the Brink of Human Life

By: Matt Morgan

4.07

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

Critical is an intelligent, compelling and profoundly insightful journey into the world of intensiv… read more

Similar categories in Matt Morgan's Critical: Science and Stories from the Brink of Human Life book and Donna Francart's I've Seen Dead People: Diary of a Deputy Coroner

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"I place my stethoscope onto their chest to listen for the lub-dub sound of the heart valves. Then I wait. I wait a long, silent, slow five minutes. I listen for silence and feel for the presence of a…"

-Matt Morgan, Critical: Science and Stories from the Brink of Human Life

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18. The Quick and the Dead: True Stories of Life and Death from a New Zealand Pathologist

By: Cynric Temple-Camp

4.19

Format: 336 pages, ebook

A dead body without a trace of trauma; alien parasites; worms of the brain; crocodile attacks and b… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • death
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19. What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

By: Barbara Butcher

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected a job at th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • death
"People can handle the truth, but not uncertainty. The things they imagine are almost always more painful than the facts."

-Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

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20. The Demon Next Door

By: Bryan Burrough

3.33

Format: 3 pages, Audible Audio

Best-selling author Bryan Burrough (Barbarians at the Gate, Public Enemies, Big Rich) recently made… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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21. The Doomsday Mother: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and the End of an American Family

By: John Glatt

3.82

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In The Doomsday Mother , bestselling true crime author John Glatt tells the twisted tale of Lori Va… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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22. The Removalist: On the Front Line of Death Care (Silent Siren #2)

By: Matthew Franklin Sias

4.27

Format: 144 pages, Kindle Edition

“To be able to thrive in a field most are terrified of is a source of pride…To be in the presence o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • death
Cover of The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine by Justin McElroy

23. The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine

By: Justin McElroy

4.00

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

A compelling, often hilarious and occasionally horrifying exploration of how modern medicine came t… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of A History of Women in 101 Objects by Annabelle Hirsch

24. A History of Women in 101 Objects

By: Annabelle Hirsch

4.21

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Discover the hidden history of women—and the world—through this visual exploration of intimate obje… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Pans and other such objects are the very opposite of monuments. They don't commemorate revolutions or victories on the battlefield; don't allude to great contracts or those moments of upheaval that h…"

-Annabelle Hirsch, A History of Women in 101 Objects

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25. FIVE AND TWENTY: An NYPD Cop Story

By: Robbin Ramos

3.85

Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition

Want to know what it's like being a rookie cop in one of the most dangerous precincts in America?Or… read more

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26. Shotgun Summer

By: Sean Mulcahy

4.47

Format: 489 pages, Paperback

He arrived at the scene; his backup had disappeared. Then he heard the screams. Peeking around the … read more

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27. GARBAGE COP

By: Robert L. Bryan

4.39

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

Jimmy Murphy had a dream to become a police officer with the NYPD, but poor eyesight prevented that… read more

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28. Unexplainable Happenings: Chilling True Stories, Volume 5

By: Autumn Barnes

4.21

Format: 57 pages, Kindle Edition

Our world is built upon mysteries, so when somebody tells you nothing is impossible, you best belie… read more

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29. Memoirs of a Life Saving Mortician (Silent Siren #1)

By: Matthew Franklin Sias

3.92

Format: 340 pages, Kindle Edition

Paramedics save lives. Morticians bury their mistakes. A twenty-three-year veteran of emergency me… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • death
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30. Donut Hole: A Marine’s Real-Life Battles in Vietnam During 1967 and 68 Marines, 1st Force Logistical Command Clutch Platoon

By: R.C. Lebeau

4.06

Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition

This book does not explore the religious aspects of war. Your very belief is tested in combat, you … read more

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31. Last Rites: The Evolution of the American Funeral

By: Todd Harra

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The Untold Story of American Funeral and Mourning Traditions Why do we embalm the deceased? Why ar… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • death

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Transform Your Habits

Sometimes Amazing Things Happen: Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward

Elizabeth Ford

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner

Judy Melinek , T.J. Mitchell

3.18

Transform Your Habits

Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases

Cory Franklin

3.57

Transform Your Habits

Shallow Graves: My life as a Forensic Scientist on Britain's Biggest Cases

Ray Fysh

4.34

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Transform Your Habits

Teasing Secrets from the Dead: My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime Scenes

Emily Craig , Emily Craig

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner

Judy Melinek , T.J. Mitchell

3.18

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Trauma Room Two

Philip Allen Green

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Corrupt Bodies: Death and Dirty Dealing in a London Morgue

Peter Everett

4.05

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