8 Best true crime books like Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries by Rick Emerson

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Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries

By: Rick Emerson

3.96

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

Two teens. Two diaries. Two social panics. One incredible fraud. In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvente…

If you liked the true crime plot in Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries by Rick Emerson , here is a list of 8 books like this:

1. We Believe the Children: The Story of a Moral Panic

By: None

3.76

Format: 180 pages, Hardcover

During the 1980s in California, New Jersey, and New York, Michigan, Massachusetts, and Florida, Ten… read more

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2. Jay's Journal

By: Beatrice Sparks

3.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Jay was a sweet, bright high school student who cared about his grades and his friends. He had ambi… read more

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3. Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone

By: Richard Lloyd Parry

4.58

Format: None pages, Hardcover

On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of nort… read more

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4. Go Ask Alice

By: Anonymous , Beatrice Sparks

3.82

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

A teen plunges into a downward spiral of addiction in this classic cautionary tale. January 24th Af… read more

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5. 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 Rick Emerson's Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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6. Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls

By: Kathleen Hale

3.94

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

The first full account of the Slenderman stabbing, a true crime narrative of mental illness, the Am… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Hale's Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls book and Rick Emerson's Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. Sociopath: A Memoir

By: Patric Gagne

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own soci… read more

Similar categories in Patric Gagne's Sociopath: A Memoir book and Rick Emerson's Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries

  • biography
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"In a universe where everything seemed to be associated with everything else, jazz was in a world all its own. The untethered notes didn't propel me backward in time or force me into imaginations of t…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"Regardless of whether they realized it, my parents, my friends, my teachers, my lovers—everyone, on some level—was uncomfortable with my limited emotion. Because it meant something sinister. Because,…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"I loved people. I truly did. But the way I loved was different than most. And, if I was being honest, not all that compatible. I didn’t need to get love in order to give love. I never had. I preferre…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and T…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

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8. Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing

By: Emily Lynn Paulson

3.62

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

She signed up for the sisterhood, free cars, and the promise of a successful business of her own. I… read more

Similar categories in Emily Lynn Paulson's Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing book and Rick Emerson's Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries

  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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9. Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries

By: Greg Melville

4.00

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our de… read more

Similar categories in Greg Melville's Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries book and Rick Emerson's Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries

  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • history
  • audiobook
"Every life holds an epic tale, even if no one alive remembers it."

-Greg Melville, Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries

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10. Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries

By: Rick Emerson

3.96

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

Two teens. Two diaries. Two social panics. One incredible fraud. In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvente… read more

Similar categories in Rick Emerson's Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries book and Rick Emerson's Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • sociology
  • books about books
  • audiobook
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11. Horror Movie

By: Paul Tremblay

3.45

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's Horror Movie book and Rick Emerson's Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries

  • adult
  • audiobook
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12. The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis

By: Maria Smilios

4.33

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remar… read more

Similar categories in Maria Smilios's The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis book and Rick Emerson's Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
  • audiobook
"Missouria took in Mr. Morris’s information and this system of demarcating lives. Maps and lines had defined her entire life. They were drawn throughout history, straightened, elongated, bent up and d…"

-Maria Smilios, The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis

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13. Go Ask Alice

By: Anonymous

3.69

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

A teen plunges into a downward spiral of addiction in this classic cautionary tale. January 24th Af… read more

Similar categories in Anonymous's Go Ask Alice book and Rick Emerson's Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries

  • audiobook
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14. When the Moon Turns to Blood: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and a Story of Murder, Wild Faith, and End Times

By: Leah Sottile

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

WHEN THE MOON TURNS TO BLOOD examines the culture of end times paranoia and a trail of mysterious d… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession by Rachel Monroe

15. Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession

By: Rachel Monroe

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A provocative and original investigation of our cultural fascination with crime, linking four arche… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Monroe's Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession book and Rick Emerson's Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries

  • history
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Sometimes women’s attraction to true crime is dismissed as trashy and voyeuristic (because women are vapid!). Sometimes it is unquestioningly celebrated as feminist (because if women like something, …"

-Rachel Monroe, Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession

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16. A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy

By: Kathy Kleiner Rubin

4.21

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In January 1978, I slept in my bed at the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University as T… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Without a Prayer: The Death of Lucas Leonard and How One Church Became a Cult by Susan Ashline

17. Without a Prayer: The Death of Lucas Leonard and How One Church Became a Cult

By: Susan Ashline

3.77

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The horrifying true story of a killing inside the secluded Word of Life Christian Church, a parish-… read more

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

18. 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

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  • history
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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19. Complicit: How Our Culture Enables Misbehaving Men

By: Reah Bravo

4.10

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A thoroughly researched and deeply personal examination of how women unintentionally condone workpl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
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20. The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth

By: Josh Levin

3.70

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

On the South Side of Chicago in 1974, Linda Taylor reported a phony burglary, concocting a lie abou… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of I Can't Remember If I Cried: Rock Widows on Life, Love, and Legacy by Lori Tucker-Sullivan

21. I Can't Remember If I Cried: Rock Widows on Life, Love, and Legacy

By: Lori Tucker-Sullivan

4.03

Format: 251 pages, Kindle Edition

The stories of rock musicians who die young are the thing of lore and legend. Accidents, drug overd… read more

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  • nonfiction

8 must-read adult books like Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries by Rick Emerson

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Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

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Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls

Kathleen Hale

3.94

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Sociopath: A Memoir

Patric Gagne

3.84

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Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing

Emily Lynn Paulson

3.62

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Jonathan Kennedy

3.94

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While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students

J. Reuben Appelman

3.62

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Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless

Laurah Norton

3.87

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Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries

Greg Melville

4.00

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