20 must-read nonfiction books like Killing Season: A Paramedic's Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic by Peter Canning

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Killing Season: A Paramedic's Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic

By: Peter Canning

4.22

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

When Peter Canning started work as a paramedic on the streets of Hartford, Connecticut, twenty-five…

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Cover of My Sweet Angel: The True Story of Lacey Spears, the Seemingly Perfect Mother Who Murdered Her Son in Cold Blood by John Glatt

1. My Sweet Angel: The True Story of Lacey Spears, the Seemingly Perfect Mother Who Murdered Her Son in Cold Blood

By: John Glatt

3.96

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Lacey Spears made international headlines in January 2015 when she was charged with the “depraved m… read more

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  • medical
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Hospital: How I Survived the Secret Child Experiments at Aston Hall by Barbara O'Hare, Veronica Clark

2. The Hospital: How I Survived the Secret Child Experiments at Aston Hall

By: Barbara O'Hare , Veronica Clark

4.37

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

A shocking expose of the appalling abuse and experimentation carried out on vulnerable children at … read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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3. Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters

By: Peter Langman

3.83

Format: 193 pages, Hardcover

Ten years after the school massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado, school shootings are a ne… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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4. Secrets in the Cellar

By: John Glatt

4.16

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

Josef Fritzl was a 73-year-old retired engineer in Austria. He seemed to be living a normal life wi… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

5. The Bitter Taste of Dying: A Memoir

By: Jason Smith

3.96

Format: 425 pages,

In his first book, author Jason Smith explores the depravity and desperation required to maintain a… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • health
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6. Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases

By: Cory Franklin

3.57

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An inside look at one of the nation's most famous public hospitals, Cook County, as seen through th… read more

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  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

7. A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic’s Wild Ride to the Edge and Back

By: Kevin Hazzard

4.04

Format: 156 pages, Hardcover

A former paramedic's visceral, poignant, and mordantly funny account of a decade spent on Atlanta's… read more

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8. My Bloody Life: The Making of a Latin King

By: Reymundo Sánchez

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Looking for an escape from childhood abuse, Reymundo Sanchez turned away from school and baseball t… read more

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9. Tears of the Silenced: A True Crime and an American Tragedy; Severe Child Abuse and Leaving the Amish

By: Misty Griffin

3.93

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

When I was six years old my family started to live and dress like the Amish, it was the beginning o… read more

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10. I Forgot to Die

By: None

3.76

Format: None pages, Paperback

Khalil Rafati went to Los Angeles in the 1990s and had it all. He was working with Hollywood movie … read more

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11. American Pain: How a Young Felon and His Ring of Doctors Unleashed America's Deadliest Drug Epidemic

By: John Temple

3.81

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Finalist for the Edgar(r) Award in Best Fact Crime. Nominee for Foreword Reviews INDIEFAB Book of t… read more

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12. Lights and Sirens: The Education of a Paramedic

By: Kevin Grange

3.67

Format: 220 pages,

A true account of going through UCLA's famed Daniel Freeman Paramedic Program--and practicing emerg… read more

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13. The Lost Girls: The True Story of the Cleveland Abductions and the Incredible Rescue of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus

By: John Glatt

2.83

Format: 288 pages, ebook

New York Times bestselling crime writer John Glatt tells the true story behind the kidnappings and … read more

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14. When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales of Neurosurgery

By: Frank T. Vertosick Jr.

4.10

Format: 322 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"This book should be read by every medical student, doctor and present or potential patient. In oth… read more

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15. We Thought We Knew You: A Terrifying True Story of Secrets, Betrayal, Deception, and Murder

By: M. William Phelps

4.10

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author, television personality, and host of the #1 podcast "Paper Ghosts… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. A Brief History of Japan: Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun (Brief History of Asia Series)

By: Jonathan Clements

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. 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

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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18. Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

By: Rachel Louise Snyder

3.94

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"I didn't intentionally gravitate towards stories of women. I was interested in human rights, which often boiled down to this question: who was winning and who was losing? And over and over again, cou…"

-Rachel Louise Snyder, Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

Cover of 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics by Bruce Goldfarb

19. 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

By: Bruce Goldfarb

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The story of the Gilded Age Chicago heiress who revolutionized forensic death investigation. As the… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder by Edward Humes

20. The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder

By: Edward Humes

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

After 30 years, Detective Jim Scharf arrested a teenage couple's murderer—and exposed a looming bat… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Limitless: An Ultrarunner’s Story of Pain, Perseverance and the Pursuit of Success

By: Mimi Anderson

3.77

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

Don’t limit your challenges. Challenge your limits At the age of 55, record-breaking ultrarunner… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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22. Bluebeard

By: Jim Clemente

3.76

Format: 4 pages, Audible Audio

A NEW THRILLER BASED ON THE TRUE STORY OF LA’S FIRST KNOWN SERIAL KILLER In 1919, Kathryn Wombache… read more

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  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Perfection Trap: Embracing the Power of Good Enough by Thomas Curran

23. The Perfection Trap: Embracing the Power of Good Enough

By: Thomas Curran

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A BLOOMBERG BEST BOOK OF 2023 “Offers a hopeful beacon and a steady path for anyone struggling t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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24. Killing Season: A Paramedic's Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic

By: Peter Canning

4.22

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

When Peter Canning started work as a paramedic on the streets of Hartford, Connecticut, twenty-five… read more

Similar categories in Peter Canning's Killing Season: A Paramedic's Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic book and Peter Canning's Killing Season: A Paramedic's Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic

  • memoir
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness by Alisa Roth

25. Insane: America's Criminal Treatment of Mental Illness

By: Alisa Roth

4.07

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An urgent exposé of the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons America has made … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • health
Cover of 34 Years in Hell: My Time Inside America's Toughest Prisons by Jamie Morgan Kane

26. 34 Years in Hell: My Time Inside America's Toughest Prisons

By: Jamie Morgan Kane

4.09

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

In July 1983, James Morgan Kane returned home in the evening to find a corpse in his living room.Fe… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Yours for the Taking by Gabrielle  Korn

27. Yours for the Taking

By: Gabrielle Korn

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The year is 2050. Ava and her girlfriend live in what's left of Brooklyn, and though they love each… read more

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  • audiobook
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28. Hard Roll: A Paramedic’s Perspective of Life and Death in New Orleans

By: Jon McCarthy

4.21

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

Experience the rush as an emergency medic details some of the most formative calls of his career in… read more

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  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The New Evil: Understanding the Emergence of Modern Violent Crime by Michael H.  Stone

29. The New Evil: Understanding the Emergence of Modern Violent Crime

By: Michael H. Stone

4.17

Format: 607 pages, Kindle Edition

A CHILLING FOLLOW-UP TO THE POPULAR TRUE CRIME BOOK THE ANATOMY OF EVILRevisiting Dr. Michael Stone… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The South Carolina State Hospital: Stories from Bull Street (Landmarks) by William Buchheit

30. The South Carolina State Hospital: Stories from Bull Street (Landmarks)

By: William Buchheit

3.95

Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition

Nearly two decades after it closed, the South Carolina State Hospital continues to hold a palpable … read more

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  • nonfiction

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Barbara O'Hare , Veronica Clark

4.37

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Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters

Peter Langman

3.83

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John Glatt

4.16

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4.09

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American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of American CSI

Kate Winkler Dawson

3.66

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Antonia Hylton

4.27

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Sam Kean

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