13 best-selling nonfiction books like We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City by Justin Fenton

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We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City

By: Justin Fenton

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Baltimore, 2015. Riots were erupting across the city as citizens demanded justice for Freddie Gray,…

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1. Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

By: David Simon

3.65

Format: 135 pages,

From the creator of HBO's The Wire, the classic book about homicide investigation that became the b… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • crime
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2. The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood

By: David Simon , Edward Burns

3.65

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

The crime-infested intersection of West Fayette and Monroe Streets is well-known--and cautiously av… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • journalism

3. Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America

By: Jill Leovy

3.50

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

On a warm spring evening in South Los Angeles, a young man was shot and killed on a sidewalk minute… read more

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4. Street Warrior: The True Story of the NYPD’s Most Decorated Detective and the Era That Created Him

By: Patrick W. Picciarelli , None

4.30

Format: 543 pages, Hardcover

2,000 arrests. 100 off-duty arrests. 6,000 assists. 15 shootings. 8 shot. 4 kills. These are not th… read more

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5. All the Pieces Matter: The Inside Story of the Wire®

By: Jonathan Abrams

5.00

Format: 36 pages, Hardcover

The definitive oral history of the iconic and beloved TV show The Wire, as told by the actors, writ… read more

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6. Echeverría

By: Martín Caparrós

4.33

Format: 57 pages, Paperback

Buenos Aires, 1830. La Argentina acaba de empezar y no sabe, todavia, como ser. Un joven, entonces,… read more

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7. Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City

By: None

3.81

Format: 329 pages, Hardcover

Eugenics, racial thinking, and white supremacist attitudes influenced even the federal government's… read more

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8. The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

By: Steve Coll

4.44

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Steve Coll, the definitive story of the decades-… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Irlandia wstaje z kolan

By: Marta Abramowicz

4.49

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

Marta Abramowicz, autorka bestsellerowych Zakonnic, które odchodzą po cichu oraz Dzieci księży w s… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. Zły syn

By: Jarek Skurzyński

3.60

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Czy dziecko musi kochać rodzica? Historia matki samotnie wychowującej syna w małej, osiedlowej s… read more

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  • audiobook
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11. We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City

By: Justin Fenton

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Baltimore, 2015. Riots were erupting across the city as citizens demanded justice for Freddie Gray,… read more

Similar categories in Justin Fenton's We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City book and Justin Fenton's We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City

  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • police
  • journalism
  • audiobook
Cover of I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad by Baynard Woods

12. I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad

By: Baynard Woods

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The explosive true story of America's most corrupt police unit, the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), th… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • police
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth by Jack Goldsmith

13. In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth

By: Jack Goldsmith

4.14

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

"In Hoffa’s Shadow is compulsively readable, deeply affecting, and truly groundbreaking in its re-e… read more

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

14. 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

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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15. Gruby

By: Michał Michalski

3.47

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Chłopięca przyjaźń, początki dorastania, społeczne wykluczenie i potransformacyjna rzeczywistość, w… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Patodeweloperka. To nie jest kraj do mieszkania by Bartosz Józefiak

16. Patodeweloperka. To nie jest kraj do mieszkania

By: Bartosz Józefiak

4.43

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Cała prawda o branży deweloperskiej w Polsce. Na zamkniętej konferencji deweloperzy dzielą się p… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights

By: Adam Winkler

4.16

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

We the Corporations chronicles the astonishing story of one of the most successful yet least well-k… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Gównodziennikarstwo

By: Paulina Januszewska

3.33

Format: 292 pages, Paperback

Słyszą, że są beztalenciami, pracują zbyt wolno albo generują za mało kliknięć. Ale i tak z jakiego… read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City

By: Wes Moore

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A kaleidescopic account of five days in the life of a city on the edge, told through seven characte… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"… our fates are profoundly intertwined. We have to take care of one another."

-Wes Moore, Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City

"Poverty is so concentrated because it is generational and, research shows, created with relentless intention."

-Wes Moore, Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City

"… the criminal justice system affects more than the men whose lives are irrevcocably changed when they encounter the system."

-Wes Moore, Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City

"The stigma and lifelong negative bias that results from even a fleeting encounter with the criminal justice system is absolutely life changing."

-Wes Moore, Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City

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20. Noc szpilek

By: Santiago Roncagliolo

3.83

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Porywający od pierwszego zdania thriller autorstwa jednego z najważniejszych współczesnych południo… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Los escogidos by Patricia Nieto

21. Los escogidos

By: Patricia Nieto

4.20

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Hay al este de Medellín un pueblo que se alarga sobre el cauce del río Magdalena, un lugar donde la… read more

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  • nonfiction

12 Top audiobook books like We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City by Justin Fenton

Transform Your Habits

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

Steve Coll

4.44

Transform Your Habits

Irlandia wstaje z kolan

Marta Abramowicz

4.49

Transform Your Habits

Zły syn

Jarek Skurzyński

3.60

Transform Your Habits

We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City

Justin Fenton

4.26

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23 must-read audiobook books like In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth by Jack Goldsmith

Transform Your Habits

Crime Beat

Michael Connelly

3.63

Transform Your Habits

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives

Siddharth Kara

4.37

Transform Your Habits

Circle in the Water (A Sharon McCone Mystery)

Marcia Muller

3.57

Transform Your Habits

The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

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