21 best-selling true crime books like King of the Godfathers by Anthony M. DeStefano

Cover of King of the Godfathers by Anthony M. DeStefano

King of the Godfathers

By: Anthony M. DeStefano

3.87

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

The Last Of The Old-World Mob Bosses--And The Ultimate Betrayal For more than twenty years, Jose…

If you liked the true crime plot in King of the Godfathers by Anthony M. DeStefano , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of The Quiet Don: The Untold Story of Mafia Kingpin Russell Bufalino by Matt Birkbeck

1. The Quiet Don: The Untold Story of Mafia Kingpin Russell Bufalino

By: Matt Birkbeck

3.80

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

To what extent was Rosario “Russell” Bufalino involved in the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa in 1975?… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of I Will Find You: Solving Killer Cases from My Life Fighting Crime (Homicide Hunter) by Joe Kenda

2. I Will Find You: Solving Killer Cases from My Life Fighting Crime (Homicide Hunter)

By: Joe Kenda

4.44

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

Detective Lt. Joe Kenda, star of Homicide Hunter, shares his deepest, darkest, and never before rev… read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Above Suspicion by Joe Sharkey

3. Above Suspicion

By: Joe Sharkey

4.02

Format: 394 pages, Kindle Edition

The “expertly told” true story of an FBI agent’s affair that leads to murder in Kentucky coal count… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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4. 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

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

5. 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

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  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of Gaspipe: Confessions of a Mafia Boss by Philip Carlo

6. Gaspipe: Confessions of a Mafia Boss

By: Philip Carlo

3.78

Format: 479 pages, Hardcover

Anthony "Gaspipe" Casso is currently serving thirteen consecutive life sentences plus 455 years at … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of Murder Machine: A True Story of Murder, Madness, and the Mafia by Gene Mustain, Jerry Capeci

7. Murder Machine: A True Story of Murder, Madness, and the Mafia

By: Gene Mustain , Jerry Capeci

3.77

Format: None pages,

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Last Godfather: The Rise and Fall of Joey Massino by Joseph D. Pistone, Simon Crittle

8. The Last Godfather: The Rise and Fall of Joey Massino

By: Joseph D. Pistone , Simon Crittle

3.89

Format: 221 pages, Mass Market Paperback

As head of the Bonanno clan, Joey Massino was the last don, and ran his world with an iron hand--un… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • biography
  • true crime
Cover of Takedown: The Fall of the Last Mafia Empire by Rick Cowan, Douglas Century

9. Takedown: The Fall of the Last Mafia Empire

By: Rick Cowan , Douglas Century

4.75

Format: 144 pages, Audio CD

The bestselling true story of a young NYPD detective's life-or-death undercover odyssey that led to… read more

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  • history
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Double Cross: The Explosive, Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America by Sam Giancana, Chuck Giancana

10. Double Cross: The Explosive, Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America

By: Sam Giancana , Chuck Giancana

4.21

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

Brutally violent and ruthlessly ambitious, Sam Giancana started as a hitman for Al Capone, then cla… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of The Last Gangster by George Anastasia

11. The Last Gangster

By: George Anastasia

3.56

Format: None pages, Paperback

"It's over. You'd have to be Ray Charles not to see it." --former New Jersey capo Ron Previte, on t… read more

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  • history
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime

12. The Rise and Fall of a 'Casino' Mobster: The Tony Spilotro Story Through A Hitman's Eyes

By: Dennis Griffin , Frank Cullotta

3.71

Format: 412 pages,

The True Story Behind The Hit Film 'Casino' From An 'Enforcer' Who Lived It Tony Spilotro was the M… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • biography
  • true crime
Cover of Too Late to Say Goodbye: A True Story of Murder and Betrayal by Ann Rule

13. Too Late to Say Goodbye: A True Story of Murder and Betrayal

By: Ann Rule

3.71

Format: 272 pages,

Jenn Corbin, a lovely, slim, brown-eyed blonde, appeared to have it all: two dear little boys, a po… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime

14. Mafia Prince: Inside America's Most Violent Crime Family and the Bloody Fall of La Cosa Nostra

By: None , None , None

3.45

Format: 105 pages, Hardcover

Mafia Princeis the first-person account of one of the most violent eras in Mafia history --"Little"… read more

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15. Doctors from Hell: The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans

By: Vivien Spitz

3.79

Format: 249 pages, Hardcover

A chilling story of human depravity and ultimate justice, told for the first time by an eyewitness … read more

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16. Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia

By: Peter Maas

3.69

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Sammy the Bull Gravano is the highest-ranking member of the Mafia in America ever to defeat. In tel… read more

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17. Donnie Brasco

By: Richard Woodley , Joseph D. Pistone

2.82

Format: 3 pages, Paperback

Posing as jewel thief "Donnie Brasco," FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone carried out the most audacious s… read more

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18. Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires

By: Selwyn Raab

3.97

Format: 12 pages,

Genovese, Gambino, Bonnano, Colombo and Lucchese. For decades these Five Families ruled New York an… read more

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19. 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

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20. And the Sea Will Tell

By: Vincent Bugliosi , Bruce Henderson

3.64

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alone with her new husband on a tiny Pacific atoll, a young woman, combing the beach, finds an odd … read more

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Cover of The Cigar: Carmine Galante, Mafia Terror by Frank DiMatteo

21. The Cigar: Carmine Galante, Mafia Terror

By: Frank DiMatteo

3.91

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

From the godfathers of American Mafia history, the brutal and blood-stained biography of Carmine Ga… read more

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  • history
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Giovanni's Ring: My Life Inside the Real Sopranos by Giovanni Rocco

22. Giovanni's Ring: My Life Inside the Real Sopranos

By: Giovanni Rocco

4.23

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The story of a former FBI undercover task force officer who spent years penetrating New Jersey's De… read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich by Volker Ullrich

23. Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich

By: Volker Ullrich

4.21

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

In a bunker deep below Berlin's Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his new bride, Eva Braun, t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Edge of Innocence: The Trial of Casper Bennett (The Edge Of: Crime, Innocence, and Justice) by David Miraldi

24. The Edge of Innocence: The Trial of Casper Bennett (The Edge Of: Crime, Innocence, and Justice)

By: David Miraldi

4.28

Format: 406 pages, Kindle Edition

From the Rubery Prize-winning author David Miraldi, A Chilling Crime That Shocked Lorain, Ohio, and… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Sonny: The Last of the Old Time Mafia Bosses, John "Sonny" Franzese by S.J. Peddie

25. 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

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  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of King of the Godfathers by Anthony M. DeStefano

26. King of the Godfathers

By: Anthony M. DeStefano

3.87

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

The Last Of The Old-World Mob Bosses--And The Ultimate Betrayal For more than twenty years, Jose… read more

Similar categories in Anthony M. DeStefano's King of the Godfathers book and Anthony M. DeStefano's King of the Godfathers

  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • social
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • science
Cover of The Apprentice of Buchenwald: The True Story of the Teenage Boy Who Sabotaged Hitler’s War Machine (Holocaust Survivor True Stories) by Oren Schneider

27. The Apprentice of Buchenwald: The True Story of the Teenage Boy Who Sabotaged Hitler’s War Machine (Holocaust Survivor True Stories)

By: Oren Schneider

4.49

Format: 238 pages, Kindle Edition

Alexander Rosenberg was a smart and curious teenager who spoke many languages, collected stamps, pl… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
Cover of Friends of the Family: The Inside Story of the Mafia Cops Case by Tommy Dades

28. Friends of the Family: The Inside Story of the Mafia Cops Case

By: Tommy Dades

4.10

Format: 395 pages, Kindle Edition

A deep dive into “one of the most spectacular cases of police corruption in the city” from the dete… read more

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  • history
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Chasing the Squirrel: The Pursuit of Notorious Drug Smuggler Wally Thrasher by Ron Peterson

29. Chasing the Squirrel: The Pursuit of Notorious Drug Smuggler Wally Thrasher

By: Ron Peterson

4.30

Format: 354 pages, Kindle Edition

CHASING THE SQUIRREL is the true story of notorious drug smuggler Wally Thrasher, whose investigati… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Don Carlo: Boss of Bosses by Paul Meskil

30. Don Carlo: Boss of Bosses

By: Paul Meskil

4.09

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

Witness the rise of Carlo Gambino, from penniless immigrant, to the boss of all bosses of the entir… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of Mobfather: The Story of a Wife And Son Caught in the Web of the Mafia by George Anastasia

31. Mobfather: The Story of a Wife And Son Caught in the Web of the Mafia

By: George Anastasia

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Recounts the real-life story of Maryann and Bobby DelGiorno--wife and son of Philadelphia mobster T… read more

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  • crime
  • true crime

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The Quiet Don: The Untold Story of Mafia Kingpin Russell Bufalino

Matt Birkbeck

3.80

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Above Suspicion

Joe Sharkey

4.02

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Nicholas Pileggi

0.00

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3.79

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Ken Croke

4.24

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4.23

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Félix Séguin

3.65

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Michael Imperioli

4.22

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