8 must-read media tie in books like The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies by Paul Fischer

Cover of The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies by Paul   Fischer

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…

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Cover of The Inkblots: Hermann Rorschach, His Iconic Test, and the Power of Seeing by Damion Searls

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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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
  • science

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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Cover of The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America by James L. Swanson

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
Cover of Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution by Eric Jay Dolin

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
Cover of Directed by James Burrows: Five Decades of Stories from the Legendary Director of Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Friends, Will & Grace, and More by James Burrows

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
  • biography
  • history
Cover of Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story by Max  Marshall

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
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper by Daniel Stashower

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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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever by Matt Singer

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
  • history
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood by Sam Wasson

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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  • biography
  • history
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of Grimmish by Michael Winkler

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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Cover of Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century by Stephen Galloway

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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  • biography
  • history
  • film
  • historical
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
Cover of Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears by Michael        Schulman

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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  • history
  • film
  • historical
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
Cover of Blood & Ink: An Heiress, a Tabloid War, and the Unsolved Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime by Joe Pompeo

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
  • crime
Cover of Watergate: A New History by Garrett M. Graff

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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  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies by Paul   Fischer

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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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • film
  • historical
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • science
Cover of Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall by Alexandra Lange

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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  • nonfiction
  • 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

Cover of Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century by Roseanne Montillo

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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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks by David Gibbins

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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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
Cover of Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free by Sarah Weinman

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
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Riverman: An American Odyssey by Ben McGrath

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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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"No fleeting moment can bear the scrutiny that a lone voyager is able to give it."

-Ben McGrath, Riverman: An American Odyssey

Cover of A Mansion for Murder (Kate Shackleton, #13) by Frances Brody

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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  • mystery
  • historical
  • crime
Cover of Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century by Dana Stevens

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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  • biography
  • history
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring by Patti McCracken

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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  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of Cimino: The Deer Hunter, Heaven’s Gate, and the Price of a Vision by Charles Elton

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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  • history
  • biography
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
Cover of Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University by Richard White

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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  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night by Lisa Belkin

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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  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy by Kathy Kleiner Rubin

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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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America by Greg King

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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  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
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Cover of The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss by Margalit Fox

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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  • nonfiction
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Cover of The Future Was Now: Madmen, Mavericks, and the Epic Sci-Fi Summer of 1982 by Chris Nashawaty

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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Damion Searls

3.73

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James L. Swanson

3.44

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Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

Eric Jay Dolin

3.89

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James Burrows

3.86

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Erik Larson

4.24

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Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

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The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective

Steven Johnson

4.08

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Emily Nussbaum

4.02

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