16 must-read nonfiction books like Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream (Jewish Lives) by Michael Shnayerson

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Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream (Jewish Lives)

By: Michael Shnayerson

3.86

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

The story of the notorious Jewish gangster who ascended from impoverished beginnings to the glitter…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream (Jewish Lives) by Michael Shnayerson , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Wiseguy

By: Nicholas Pileggi

0.00

Format: 798 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"Wiseguy" is Nicholas Pileggi's remarkable bestseller, the most intimate account ever printed of li… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Pileggi's Wiseguy book and Michael Shnayerson's Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream (Jewish Lives)

  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of Blood and Honor: Inside the Scarfo Mob--The Mafia's Most Violent Family by George Anastasia

2. Blood and Honor: Inside the Scarfo Mob--The Mafia's Most Violent Family

By: George Anastasia

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

Here is the inside story about the rise and fall of Philadelphia's notorious Scarfo organization. I… read more

Similar categories in George Anastasia's Blood and Honor: Inside the Scarfo Mob--The Mafia's Most Violent Family book and Michael Shnayerson's Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream (Jewish Lives)

  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
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3. Stuart Little

By: E.B. White , Garth Williams

3.90

Format: 131 pages, Paperback

E.B. White's classic novel about one small mouse on a very big adventure! Stuart Little is no o… read more

Similar categories in E.B. White's Stuart Little book and Michael Shnayerson's Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream (Jewish Lives)

"Well,"

-E.B. White, Stuart Little

"Very fine law,"

-E.B. White, Stuart Little

"(Not every doctor can look into a mouse's ear without laughing)"

-E.B. White, Stuart Little

"A shaft of sunlight at the end of a dark afternoon, a note of music, and the way the back of a baby’s neck smells if it’s mother keeps it tidy,"

-E.B. White, Stuart Little

4. Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde

By: Jeff Guinn

3.27

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Forget everything you think you know about Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. Previous books and films… read more

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5. Reset: Living a Grace-Paced Life in a Burnout Culture

By: David P. Murray

3.29

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

Largely due to overwork and the stresses of modern life, men in work and ministry are increasingly … read more

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6. Chin: The Life and Crimes of Mafia Boss Vincent Gigante

By: Larry McShane

3.82

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

"Full of astonishment . . . a kind of dark wonder." --Pete Hamill This is the story of Vincent Loui… read more

Similar categories in Larry McShane's Chin: The Life and Crimes of Mafia Boss Vincent Gigante book and Michael Shnayerson's Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream (Jewish Lives)

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7. Vanished in Vermillion: The Real Story of South Dakota’s Most Infamous Cold Case

By: Lou Raguse

3.91

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The result of hundreds of interviews, Vanished in Vermillion is a cold case story that flips the sc… read more

Similar categories in Lou Raguse's Vanished in Vermillion: The Real Story of South Dakota’s Most Infamous Cold Case book and Michael Shnayerson's Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream (Jewish Lives)

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments

By: Joe Posnanski

4.56

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

A masterful ode to the a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to m… read more

Similar categories in Joe Posnanski's Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments book and Michael Shnayerson's Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream (Jewish Lives)

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. The Baseball 100

By: Joe Posnanski

4.74

Format: 869 pages, Hardcover

A magnum opus from acclaimed baseball writer Joe Posnanski, The Baseball 100 is an audacious, singu… read more

Similar categories in Joe Posnanski's The Baseball 100 book and Michael Shnayerson's Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream (Jewish Lives)

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder by Douglas Preston

10. The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder

By: Douglas Preston

3.81

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

Douglas Preston, the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God , presents jaw-droppi… read more

Similar categories in Douglas Preston's The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder book and Michael Shnayerson's Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream (Jewish Lives)

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students by J. Reuben Appelman

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

By: J. Reuben Appelman

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, tells the inside story of the “Univers… read more

Similar categories in J. Reuben Appelman's While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students book and Michael Shnayerson's Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream (Jewish Lives)

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris by Holly Tucker

12. City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris

By: Holly Tucker

3.60

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Appointed to conquer the 'crime capital of the world', the first police chief of Paris faces an epi… read more

Similar categories in Holly Tucker's City of Light, City of Poison: Murder, Magic, and the First Police Chief of Paris book and Michael Shnayerson's Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream (Jewish Lives)

  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson by Jeff Pearlman

13. The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson

By: Jeff Pearlman

4.20

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

By the New York Times bestselling author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definiti… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Pearlman's The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson book and Michael Shnayerson's Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream (Jewish Lives)

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America

By: Bill O'Reilly

4.19

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

The latest installment of the multimillion-selling Killing series is a gripping journey through the… read more

Similar categories in Bill O'Reilly's Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America book and Michael Shnayerson's Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream (Jewish Lives)

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Sonny: The Last of the Old Time Mafia Bosses, John "Sonny" Franzese by S.J. Peddie

15. Sonny: The Last of the Old Time Mafia Bosses, John "Sonny" Franzese

By: S.J. Peddie

4.19

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

“Couldn’t put it down.” —Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguy (Goodfellas) and CasinoThe extraordina… read more

Similar categories in S.J. Peddie's Sonny: The Last of the Old Time Mafia Bosses, John "Sonny" Franzese book and Michael Shnayerson's Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream (Jewish Lives)

  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream (Jewish Lives) by Michael Shnayerson

16. Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream (Jewish Lives)

By: Michael Shnayerson

3.86

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

The story of the notorious Jewish gangster who ascended from impoverished beginnings to the glitter… read more

Similar categories in Michael Shnayerson's Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream (Jewish Lives) book and Michael Shnayerson's Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream (Jewish Lives)

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • jewish
  • the united states of america
  • judaism
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth by Jack Goldsmith

17. 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

Similar categories in Jack Goldsmith's In Hoffa's Shadow: A Stepfather, a Disappearance in Detroit, and My Search for the Truth book and Michael Shnayerson's Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream (Jewish Lives)

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans by Peter Schweizer

18. Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans

By: Peter Schweizer

4.41

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER It’s often said that China is in a cold war with America. … read more

Similar categories in Peter Schweizer's Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans book and Michael Shnayerson's Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream (Jewish Lives)

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Puzzle Master by Danielle Trussoni

19. The Puzzle Master

By: Danielle Trussoni

3.32

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

Reality and the supernatural collide when an expert puzzle maker is thrust into an ancient mystery—… read more

Similar categories in Danielle Trussoni's The Puzzle Master book and Michael Shnayerson's Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream (Jewish Lives)

  • audiobook
"these changes to his way of experiencing reality were so strange that he didn't say anything about them at first. All he knew was he was experiencing highly-structured geometric hallucinations on reg…"

-Danielle Trussoni, The Puzzle Master

"There is a story from the midrash that I've always loved," she said. "It's about Lailah, the angel of conception. Lailah, the story goes, bequeaths babies the totality of knowledge in the womb. Then,…"

-Danielle Trussoni, The Puzzle Master

"the next seconds swelled, slowed, filled with a tension that pressed through me. And then, in that close stillness, the creature awoke. The eyes fluttered open and for ten seconds, perhaps twenty, I …"

-Danielle Trussoni, The Puzzle Master

Cover of The Deadly Don: Vito Genovese, Mafia Boss by Anthony M. DeStefano

20. The Deadly Don: Vito Genovese, Mafia Boss

By: Anthony M. DeStefano

3.81

Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition

Pulizter Prize-winning journalist Anthony M. DeStefano’s latest in-depth history of organized crime… read more

Similar categories in Anthony M. DeStefano's The Deadly Don: Vito Genovese, Mafia Boss book and Michael Shnayerson's Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream (Jewish Lives)

  • history
  • biography
  • 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

21. 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

Similar categories in Greg King's Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America book and Michael Shnayerson's Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream (Jewish Lives)

  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook

13 must-read audiobook books like Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream (Jewish Lives) by Michael Shnayerson

Transform Your Habits

Vanished in Vermillion: The Real Story of South Dakota’s Most Infamous Cold Case

Lou Raguse

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments

Joe Posnanski

4.56

Transform Your Habits

The Baseball 100

Joe Posnanski

4.74

Transform Your Habits

The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder

Douglas Preston

3.81

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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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