15 best-selling history books like The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy by Joe Sexton

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The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy

By: Joe Sexton

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An account of two linked and tragic deaths stemming from the 2020 George Floyd protests that explor…

If you liked the history plot in The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy by Joe Sexton , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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1. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

By: Timothy Egan

4.38

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more

Similar categories in Timothy Egan's A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them book and Joe Sexton's The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy

  • race
  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

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2. Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Andrea Lankford

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From a former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure… read more

Similar categories in Andrea Lankford's Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail book and Joe Sexton's The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
"A solo woman is more likely to survive a perilous incident in the outdoors than a solo man. Yet, the average female hiker fears for her safety more than the average guy does. Ironically, this phenome…"

-Andrea Lankford, Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

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3. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

By: Keith O'Brien

4.43

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s mo… read more

Similar categories in Keith O'Brien's Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball book and Joe Sexton's The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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4. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

By: Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more

Similar categories in Roxanna Asgarian's We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America book and Joe Sexton's The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy

  • race
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

By: Rachel Louise Snyder

3.94

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Louise Snyder's Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir book and Joe Sexton's The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I didn't intentionally gravitate towards stories of women. I was interested in human rights, which often boiled down to this question: who was winning and who was losing? And over and over again, cou…"

-Rachel Louise Snyder, Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

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6. Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

By: Christian Cooper

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video th… read more

Similar categories in Christian Cooper's Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World book and Joe Sexton's The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Nor did I know back then that McCartney had written the song as an ode to Black women ("bird" being British slang for a pretty girl) at the pivotal moment of the civil rights struggle. That would onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Writing a memoir is akin to taking off one's clothes in public, and as I learned years ago in the amateur strip contest as Darren and the go-go boys cheered me on, success at such an endeavor can onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Beginning around 1910, The Great Migration saw some 6 million black people surge Northward, out of the states of the former Confederacy, spurred by the same thing that lies behind the yearly migratio…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"What makes birding such a phenomenon? Why not "mammaling" or insecting? Certainly those pursuits have their adherents, as the thousands who visit Africa on safari or who catalog butterflies can attes…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

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7. The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy

By: Joe Sexton

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An account of two linked and tragic deaths stemming from the 2020 George Floyd protests that explor… read more

Similar categories in Joe Sexton's The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy book and Joe Sexton's The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy

  • race
  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
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8. Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America

By: Harry N. MacLean

3.71

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

The definitive story of Charles Starkweather, often considered to be the first mass killer in the m… read more

Similar categories in Harry N. MacLean's Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America book and Joe Sexton's The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism

By: Jeffrey Toobin

4.16

Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition

The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh… read more

Similar categories in Jeffrey Toobin's Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism book and Joe Sexton's The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy

  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms by Mike Hixenbaugh

10. They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms

By: Mike Hixenbaugh

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas subu… read more

Similar categories in Mike Hixenbaugh's They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms book and Joe Sexton's The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy

  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State by Kerry Howley

11. Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State

By: Kerry Howley

3.81

Format: 233 pages, Hardcover

A wild, humane, and hilarious meditation on post-privacy America--from the acclaimed author of Thro… read more

Similar categories in Kerry Howley's Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State book and Joe Sexton's The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy

  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
"Leaks are the way Washington DC communicates with itself. The fortress allows itself to be breached. The ship of state the same goes is the only ship that leaks from the top"

-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State

"We tend to think of privacy as the freedom to keep intentional secrets separate from public knowledge but privacy has been the freedom to live as if most of what passes for experience will not endure."

-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State

"Surveillance capitalism doesn't manage the system of jails. It will not kidnap you from your country of origin strap you down and pour water down your throat until you break your ribs trying to free …"

-Kerry Howley, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs: A Journey Through the Deep State

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12. There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish

By: Anna Akbari

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of th… read more

Similar categories in Anna Akbari's There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish book and Joe Sexton's The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance by Azam Ahmed

13. Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance

By: Azam Ahmed

3.95

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A riveting true story of a mother who fought back against the drug cartels in Mexico, pursuing her … read more

Similar categories in Azam Ahmed's Fear Is Just a Word: A Missing Daughter, a Violent Cartel, and a Mother's Quest for Vengeance book and Joe Sexton's The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy

  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
Cover of The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him by Eric Blehm

14. The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him

By: Eric Blehm

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From Eric Blehm, the bestselling author of  The Last Season and Fearless , comes an extraordinary n… read more

Similar categories in Eric Blehm's The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him book and Joe Sexton's The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"You go up into the mountains empty, even with no lunch, you come home full."

-Eric Blehm, The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him

"It's braver and more honorable to turn back than to forge forward into uncertain terrain. Snowboarding is about living, not about dying."

-Eric Blehm, The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him

"I'm honestly not that concerned with what's modern, or what's up-to-date, or what's cool, stylish... The smile after a good run, to me, is all I need to know about snowboarding. -Craig Kelly"

-Eric Blehm, The Darkest White: A Mountain Legend and the Avalanche That Took Him

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15. Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy

By: Alex Mar

3.98

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A masterful, revelatory work of literary non-fiction about a teenage girl's shocking crime--and its… read more

Similar categories in Alex Mar's Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy book and Joe Sexton's The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy

  • race
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader by Mark Bowden

16. Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader

By: Mark Bowden

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

In this unprecedented deep dive into inner-city gang life, Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Balti… read more

Similar categories in Mark Bowden's Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader book and Joe Sexton's The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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17. The War Begins in Paris

By: Theodore Wheeler

3.49

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Kings of Broken Things and In Our Other Lives comes a provocative and stylish li… read more

Similar categories in Theodore Wheeler's The War Begins in Paris book and Joe Sexton's The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy

  • audiobook
Cover of Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum

18. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

By: Emily Nussbaum

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more

Similar categories in Emily Nussbaum's Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV book and Joe Sexton's The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping by Shane McCrae

19. Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping

By: Shane McCrae

3.29

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable memoir by an award-winning poet about being kidnapped from his Black father and ra… read more

Similar categories in Shane McCrae's Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping book and Joe Sexton's The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy

  • race
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"When she told me why she was divorcing my grandfather, I was surprised - all my life, I had thought he could do anything he wanted. But after a few long moments of silence, I realized: he had only ev…"

-Shane McCrae, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun: A Memoir of a Kidnapping

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20. The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels

By: Pamela Prickett

4.08

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon—the rising number of unclai… read more

Similar categories in Pamela Prickett's The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels book and Joe Sexton's The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook

21. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

By: Jesselyn Cook

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more

Similar categories in Jesselyn Cook's The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family book and Joe Sexton's The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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Transform Your Habits

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

Timothy Egan

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

Andrea Lankford

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

Keith O'Brien

4.43

Transform Your Habits

We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

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18 Best audiobook books like Life Sentence: The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimore’s Deadliest Gang Leader by Mark Bowden

Transform Your Habits

The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Hampton Sides

4.51

Transform Your Habits

When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season

Rich Cohen

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

Keith O'Brien

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story

Max Marshall

3.50

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