The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies
By: Paul Fischer
3.58
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
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1. The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing
By: Damion Searls
3.73
Format: 405 pages, Hardcover
The captivating, untold story of Hermann Rorschach and his famous inkblot test, which has shaped ou… read more
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2. Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
By: William J. Mann
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Day of the Locustmeets The Devil in the White Cityand Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evilin… read more
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3. I'll Drink to That: A Life in Style, with a Twist
By: Rebecca Paley , Betty Halbreich
4.65
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Eighty-six-year-old Betty Halbreich is a true original. A tough broad who could have stepped straig… read more
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4. The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America
By: James L. Swanson
3.44
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of the New York Times bestseller Empire of the Summer Moon comes a spellbinding ac… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
- true crime
5. Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
By: Eric Jay Dolin
3.89
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told before, yet m… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
6. Directed by James Burrows: Five Decades of Stories from the Legendary Director of Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Friends, Will & Grace, and More
By: James Burrows
3.86
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
"Being directed by the Jimmy Burrows, while on Friends, was like hitting the jackpot. I'm delighte… read more
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- nonfiction
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7. Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story
By: Max Marshall
3.50
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
A brilliant young investigative journalist traces a murder and a multi-million-dollar drug ring, le… read more
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- history
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- mystery
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8. American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper
By: Daniel Stashower
3.50
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-winner Daniel Stashower returns with American Dem… read more
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9. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever
By: Matt Singer
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten To… read more
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- biography
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- film
- media tie in
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10. The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood
By: Sam Wasson
4.09
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and Fosse comes the revelator… read more
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- film
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11. Grimmish
By: Michael Winkler
3.86
Format: 207 pages, Paperback
Pain was Joe Grim's self-expression, his livelihood and reason for being. In 1908-09 the Italian-Am… read more
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12. Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century
By: Stephen Galloway
3.75
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST A New York Times Bestseller "A "well rou… read more
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- film
- historical
- media tie in
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13. Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears
By: Michael Schulman
4.09
Format: 589 pages, Hardcover
The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively histor… read more
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14. Blood & Ink: An Heiress, a Tabloid War, and the Unsolved Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime
By: Joe Pompeo
3.58
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
Vanity Fair's Joe Pompeo investigates the notorious 1922 double murder of a high-society minister a… read more
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- history
- true crime
- historical
- nonfiction
- mystery
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15. Watergate: A New History
By: Garrett M. Graff
4.49
Format: 832 pages, Hardcover
From Garrett Graff, comes the first definitive narrative history of Watergate, exploring the full … read more
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- crime
16. The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies
By: Paul Fischer
3.58
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
One of the New York Times Best True Crime of 2022 A “spellbinding, thriller-like” ( Shelf Awarenes… read more
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17. Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
By: Alexandra Lange
3.61
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Few places have been as nostalgized, or as maligned, as malls. Since their birth in the 1950s, they… read more
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- history
"These early successes were a boon to developers, who could now confidently double their shopping area and add the final technological breakthrough that made a mall a mall: air-conditioning."-Alexandra Lange, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
"People often tell me that they get lost in malls. Malls are a habitat. Some of us are natives. If you grew up hiking, you know to look for blazes. If you grew up with malls, you know to look for the …"-Alexandra Lange, Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
18. Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century
By: Roseanne Montillo
3.68
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Exploring the darkly intertwined fates of infamous socialite Ann Woodward and literary icon Truman … read more
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- true crime
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- nonfiction
- mystery
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19. A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
By: David Gibbins
3.44
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human … read more
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- science
20. Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free
By: Sarah Weinman
3.55
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the author of The Real Lolita and editor of Unspeakable Acts, the astonishing story of a murde… read more
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- biography
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21. Riverman: An American Odyssey
By: Ben McGrath
3.74
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The true story of Dick Conant, an American folk hero who, over the course of more than twenty years… read more
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"No fleeting moment can bear the scrutiny that a lone voyager is able to give it."-Ben McGrath, Riverman: An American Odyssey
22. A Mansion for Murder (Kate Shackleton, #13)
By: Frances Brody
3.86
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
1930, Yorkshire. Intrigued by a mysterious letter from a stranger offering important information, P… read more
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23. Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
By: Dana Stevens
4.19
Format: 432 pages, ebook
Named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, and NPR In this genre-defying work … read more
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24. The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring
By: Patti McCracken
3.45
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Angel Makers is a true-crime story like no other--a 1920s midwife who may have been the century… read more
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25. Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven’s Gate, and the Price of a Vision
By: Charles Elton
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The “revelatory” ( The New Yorker ) first biography of critically acclaimed then critically derided… read more
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26. Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University
By: Richard White
3.26
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son.… read more
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- true crime
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- mystery
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27. Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night
By: Lisa Belkin
3.77
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The multigenerational tale of three families whose paths collide one summer night in 1960 with the … read more
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28. 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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29. Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America
By: Greg King
3.82
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Greg King and Penny Wilson turn the original crime of the century on its head in Nothing But the Ni… read more
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30. The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss
By: Margalit Fox
3.48
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A Jewish mother of four, a gracious society hostess, a beloved member of her community—and the firs… read more
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- true crime
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- crime
31. The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982
By: Chris Nashawaty
4.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From legendary entertainment journalist and author of Caddyshack comes a rollicking history of 1980… read more
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