11 must-read true crime books like In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning by Grace Elizabeth Hale

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In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning

By: Grace Elizabeth Hale

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“Courageous and compelling…essential and critically important.” —Bryan Stevenson An award-winnin…

If you liked the true crime plot in In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning by Grace Elizabeth Hale , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime

By: Casey Sherman

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The dark story behind the bright lights of Tinseltown From the outside, Hollywood starlet Lana Turn… read more

Similar categories in Casey Sherman's A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime book and Grace Elizabeth Hale's In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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2. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

Similar categories in Erik Larson's The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War book and Grace Elizabeth Hale's In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning

  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

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

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

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

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

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

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

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

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3. Grief Is for People

By: Sloane Crosley

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more

Similar categories in Sloane Crosley's Grief Is for People book and Grace Elizabeth Hale's In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"Grief is for people, not things."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

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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

Similar categories in James L. Swanson's The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America book and Grace Elizabeth Hale's In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning

  • american history
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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5. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

Similar categories in Tommy Orange's Wandering Stars book and Grace Elizabeth Hale's In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning

  • audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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6. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

By: Antonia Hylton

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more

Similar categories in Antonia Hylton's Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum book and Grace Elizabeth Hale's In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning

  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades by Rebecca Renner

7. Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades

By: Rebecca Renner

3.81

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

David Grann meets Susan Orlean in this page-turning true story of an underground operation into the… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Renner's Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades book and Grace Elizabeth Hale's In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning

  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. Between Two Trailers

By: J. Dana Trent

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer to earn a… read more

Similar categories in J. Dana Trent's Between Two Trailers book and Grace Elizabeth Hale's In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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9. Fire Exit

By: Morgan Talty

3.79

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The blood that came out of me was blood that ran through her veins. It’s strange: all blood looks t… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Talty's Fire Exit book and Grace Elizabeth Hale's In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning

  • audiobook
"...what's more sacred than laughter at the dinner table?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"That's my life, though--not knowing, but wishing. [Charles Lamosway]"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"We are made of stories, and if we don't know them--the ones that make us--how can we ever be fully realized? How can we ever be who we really are?"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

"...I was thinking and thinking about how, in just the past year, I had just started to know her, but then I began to unknow her, getting farther and farther away like watching a boat drift from the s…"

-Morgan Talty, Fire Exit

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10. The Madstone

By: Elizabeth Crook

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

With echoes of Lonesome Dove and News of the World, the riveting story of a pregnant young mother, … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Crook's The Madstone book and Grace Elizabeth Hale's In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning

  • audiobook
"Your mother leaned her head on my shoulder. I hardly breathed for having it there. I had certainly never felt so alive and cozy whilst nearly frozen to death."

-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone

"Despite I was tired, it was a comfort to stare at the red and brown stripes of the blanket in the lantern light and move my fingers along them. It was a steady, dependable task, as opposed to every o…"

-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone

"We had one horse, one mule, and a wagon. We had Horhay with his limp arm and his long past, and Dickie with his hopes for the necklace now dashed and turned to dread of its curse, and me with my ache…"

-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone

"Had we been in town amongst people, then we might have been merely interested at the news of having a cursed item in our possession. But out in the midst of no place, shielded by only a scanty wall o…"

-Elizabeth Crook, The Madstone

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11. 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 Grace Elizabeth Hale's In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning

  • american history
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Birds Aren't Real: The True Story of Mass Avian Murder and the Largest Surveillance Campaign in U.S. History by Peter McIndoe

12. Birds Aren't Real: The True Story of Mass Avian Murder and the Largest Surveillance Campaign in U.S. History

By: Peter McIndoe

3.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The true story of the greatest conspiracy in US history―and how to fight back. Have you ever see… read more

Similar categories in Peter McIndoe's Birds Aren't Real: The True Story of Mass Avian Murder and the Largest Surveillance Campaign in U.S. History book and Grace Elizabeth Hale's In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang by Tom Clavin

13. The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang

By: Tom Clavin

3.67

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

The definitive account of the Dalton Gang and the most brazen bank heist in history, by the multipl… read more

Similar categories in Tom Clavin's The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang book and Grace Elizabeth Hale's In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning

  • american history
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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14. Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America

By: Joy-Ann Reid

4.57

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The host of MSNBC’s  The ReidOut  and  New York Times  bestselling author of  The Man Who Sold Amer… read more

Similar categories in Joy-Ann Reid's Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story that Awakened America book and Grace Elizabeth Hale's In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning

  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs by Benjamin  Herold

15. Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs

By: Benjamin Herold

3.89

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, hist… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Herold's Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs book and Grace Elizabeth Hale's In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning

  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child by Kim Cross

16. In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child

By: Kim Cross

4.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Paced like a thriller and full of insider information on the history and science of Crime Scene Inv… read more

Similar categories in Kim Cross's In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child book and Grace Elizabeth Hale's In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church by Rachel L. Swarns

17. The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church

By: Rachel L. Swarns

4.13

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

“An absolutely essential addition to the history of the Catholic Church, whose involvement in New W… read more

Similar categories in Rachel L. Swarns's The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church book and Grace Elizabeth Hale's In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning

  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning by Grace Elizabeth Hale

18. In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning

By: Grace Elizabeth Hale

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“Courageous and compelling…essential and critically important.” —Bryan Stevenson An award-winnin… read more

Similar categories in Grace Elizabeth Hale's In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning book and Grace Elizabeth Hale's In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning

  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • crime
  • audiobook
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19. Cold Victory

By: Karl Marlantes

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Karl Marlantes comes a propulsive and sweeping novel in whic… read more

Similar categories in Karl Marlantes's Cold Victory book and Grace Elizabeth Hale's In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning

  • audiobook
Cover of The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective by Steven Johnson

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

By: Steven Johnson

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York—and the detective duo w… read more

Similar categories in Steven Johnson's The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective book and Grace Elizabeth Hale's In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning

  • american history
  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction by Fergus M. Bordewich

21. Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction

By: Fergus M. Bordewich

4.29

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A stunning history of the first national anti-terrorist campaign waged on American soil—when Ulysse… read more

Similar categories in Fergus M. Bordewich's Klan War: Ulysses S. Grant and the Battle to Save Reconstruction book and Grace Elizabeth Hale's In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning

  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity by Michele Norris

22. Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity

By: Michele Norris

4.62

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

Peabody Award–winning journalist Michele Norris offers a transformative dialogue on race and identi… read more

Similar categories in Michele Norris's Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity book and Grace Elizabeth Hale's In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning

  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
"Racism is a shape-shifter. It is not the same thing today as it was yesterday, and it will not be the same tomorrow or ten years from now. That’s shorthand for the academic definition that describes …"

-Michele Norris, Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity

Cover of The MAGA Diaries: My Surreal Adventures Inside the Right-Wing (And How I Got Out) by Tina  Nguyen

23. The MAGA Diaries: My Surreal Adventures Inside the Right-Wing (And How I Got Out)

By: Tina Nguyen

3.31

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An explosive, first-person account of the alt-right from acclaimed political journalist Tina Nguyen… read more

Similar categories in Tina Nguyen's The MAGA Diaries: My Surreal Adventures Inside the Right-Wing (And How I Got Out) book and Grace Elizabeth Hale's In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning

  • american history
  • history
  • memoir
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice by Elizabeth  Flock

24. The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice

By: Elizabeth Flock

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Renowned journalist and author of The Heart is a Shifting Sea Elizabeth Flock investigates what few… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Flock's The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice book and Grace Elizabeth Hale's In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning

  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • crime
  • audiobook
"I saw how their violent actions had both helped and harmed them, and others around them... They all found agency, a voice, and an identity beyond how the men in their towns saw them. But they got no …"

-Elizabeth Flock, The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice

Cover of Hip-Hop Is History by Questlove

25. Hip-Hop Is History

By: Questlove

4.00

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In Hip-Hop is History, Questlove, one of the major and most revolutionary figures of that genre, un… read more

Similar categories in Questlove's Hip-Hop Is History book and Grace Elizabeth Hale's In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist by Lisa G. Bailey

26. Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

By: Lisa G. Bailey

3.75

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Told with unflinching honesty and a touch of gallows humor, Clay and Bones is the personal memoir o… read more

Similar categories in Lisa G. Bailey's Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist book and Grace Elizabeth Hale's In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning

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

27. 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

Similar categories in Kathy Kleiner Rubin's A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy book and Grace Elizabeth Hale's In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning

  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Most Tolerant Little Town: A Forgotten Story of Desegregation in America by Rachel Louise Martin

28. A Most Tolerant Little Town: A Forgotten Story of Desegregation in America

By: Rachel Louise Martin

4.22

Format: 384 pages, ebook

An intimate portrait of a small town living through tumultuous times, this propulsive piece of forg… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Louise Martin's A Most Tolerant Little Town: A Forgotten Story of Desegregation in America book and Grace Elizabeth Hale's In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning

  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of Go to Hell Ole Miss by Jeff Barry

29. Go to Hell Ole Miss

By: Jeff Barry

3.68

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

To what lengths will a father go to save his daughter? Big John, a former POW in WWII, thinks wome… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Barry's Go to Hell Ole Miss book and Grace Elizabeth Hale's In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning

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30. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

Similar categories in Anne Applebaum's Autocracy, Inc. book and Grace Elizabeth Hale's In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

Cover of Housewife: Why Women Still Do It All and What to Do Instead by Lisa Selin Davis

31. Housewife: Why Women Still Do It All and What to Do Instead

By: Lisa Selin Davis

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The Rules of Womanhood, the Lies We’re Told, and the Choices We Have   The notion of “housewife” ev… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Selin Davis's Housewife: Why Women Still Do It All and What to Do Instead book and Grace Elizabeth Hale's In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook

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Erik Larson

4.24

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Sloane Crosley

3.91

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3.44

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Uché Blackstock

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