12 Best memoir books like 34 Years in Hell: My Time Inside America's Toughest Prisons by Jamie Morgan Kane

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

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…

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Cover of The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team by Wayne Coffey, Jim Craig, Ken Morrow

1. The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team

By: Wayne Coffey , Jim Craig , Ken Morrow

4.21

Format: 273 pages, Paperback

The true story of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team and the Miracle on Ice, which  Sports Illustrat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"The most enduring heroes are people who don't try to be."

-Wayne Coffey, The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team

"You push on, do your best, and if you are really brave, you dream big, doubts and fears be damned. This is the stuff that miracles are made of, and the proof was there to see, on February 22, 1980."

-Wayne Coffey, The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team

"You can't look back. You can't dial up euphoria on demand, or try to recreate what happened a quarter century ago. You move forward and you live your life and try to be a better person every day than…"

-Wayne Coffey, The Boys of Winter: The Untold Story of a Coach, a Dream, and the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team

Cover of American Drug Addict: a memoir by Brett Douglas

2. American Drug Addict: a memoir

By: Brett Douglas

4.11

Format: 176 pages,

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

3. The unknown Mongol

By: None

2.00

Format: None pages,

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4. The Damage Done: Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison

By: Warren Fellows

2.75

Format: None pages,

In 1978 Warren Fellows was convicted of heroin trafficking between Thailand and Australia. He was c… read more

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5. Welcome to Hell: One Man's Fight for Life Inside the Bangkok Hilton

By: None

2.96

Format: None pages,

Written from his cell and smuggled out page by page, Colin Martin's autobiography chronicles an inn… read more

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6. No Angel: My Harrowing Undercover Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels

By: Jay Dobyns , Nils Johnson-Shelton

3.48

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Here, from Jay Dobyns, the first federal agent to infiltrate the inner circle of the outlaw Hells A… read more

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7. The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison

By: Pete Earley

3.60

Format: None pages,

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Cover of Riding with Evil: Taking Down the Notorious Pagan Motorcycle Gang by Ken Croke

8. Riding with Evil: Taking Down the Notorious Pagan Motorcycle Gang

By: Ken Croke

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Sons of Anarchy meets The Departed in this fast-paced, high-wire act memoir from former ATF agent K… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau by Susan J. Eischeid

9. Mistress of Life and Death: The Dark Journey of Maria Mandl, Head Overseer of the Women's Camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau

By: Susan J. Eischeid

4.21

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The first-ever biography of SS Overseer Maria Mandl, the highest-ranked woman in the Nazi killing m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
Cover of Coasting: Running Around the Coast of Britain – Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans by Elise Downing

10. Coasting: Running Around the Coast of Britain – Life, Love and (Very) Loose Plans

By: Elise Downing

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Running away from your problems doesn’t solve anything – but sometimes it’s more fun than dealing w… read more

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  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Silent Sisters by Joanne Lee

11. Silent Sisters

By: Joanne Lee

4.13

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

A deadly secret. A horrifying discovery. For over 20 years, Joanne Lee's mother kept the rema… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails by Vanessa Frake

12. The Governor: My Life Inside Britain’s Most Notorious Jails

By: Vanessa Frake

4.33

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER As seen on This Morning Back in the day, I was Governor of Se… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of The Twenty-Ninth Day by Alex Messenger

13. The Twenty-Ninth Day

By: Alex Messenger

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A six-hundred-mile canoe trip in the Canadian wilderness is a seventeen-year-old’s dream adventure,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Breaking Midnight: A True Story by Lynn  Walker

14. Breaking Midnight: A True Story

By: Lynn Walker

4.41

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

John Walker was a Miami undercover narcotics agent in the 1970s. Ten years later, he was in prison … read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of No Human Contact: Solitary Confinement, Maximum Security, and Two Inmates Who Changed the System by Pete Earley

15. No Human Contact: Solitary Confinement, Maximum Security, and Two Inmates Who Changed the System

By: Pete Earley

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A deeply disturbing and human look at the American prison system’s practice of lifelong solitary co… read more

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

16. 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

Similar categories in Jamie Morgan Kane's 34 Years in Hell: My Time Inside America's Toughest Prisons book and Jamie Morgan Kane's 34 Years in Hell: My Time Inside America's Toughest Prisons

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of Bad Karma: The True Story of a Mexico Trip from Hell by Paul      Wilson

17. Bad Karma: The True Story of a Mexico Trip from Hell

By: Paul Wilson

3.98

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

In the summer of 1978, twenty-one-year-old Paul Wilson jumps at the chance to join two local icons … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of Midnight Calling: A Memoir of a Drug Smuggler's Daughter by Lynn  Walker

18. Midnight Calling: A Memoir of a Drug Smuggler's Daughter

By: Lynn Walker

4.35

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

Lynn was the carefree daughter of a Miami undercover narcotics agent—until her dad snuck out of the… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of Blood on the Razor Wire: A Prison Memoir by Chad Marks

19. Blood on the Razor Wire: A Prison Memoir

By: Chad Marks

4.25

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

Twenty-four-year-old Chad Marks was sentenced to forty years in the Federal Prison System for a non… read more

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  • memoir
Cover of Prison Life in Missouri: Doing Life in The Missouri Department of corrections by Harvey Seidel

20. Prison Life in Missouri: Doing Life in The Missouri Department of corrections

By: Harvey Seidel

3.84

Format: 166 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of a 17 year old sentenced to life in the Missouri Department of Corrections. The hardshi… read more

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Cover of 17-Eddie: Crime and Comedy in New York City by Paul E. Murphy

21. 17-Eddie: Crime and Comedy in New York City

By: Paul E. Murphy

4.32

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

Like when my partner Richie and I had to respond to a woman claiming a guy in another building was … read more

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Cover of Shotgun Summer by Sean  Mulcahy

22. Shotgun Summer

By: Sean Mulcahy

4.47

Format: 489 pages, Paperback

He arrived at the scene; his backup had disappeared. Then he heard the screams. Peeking around the … read more

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  • crime
Cover of Meth Road: A life-and-death investigation following the world's most destructive narcotic to Australia by Conor Woodman

23. Meth Road: A life-and-death investigation following the world's most destructive narcotic to Australia

By: Conor Woodman

3.96

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

A wild and dangerous ride from the world's main meth source, a lawless Asian narco-state, to its mo… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Granite City: The Life of a Bandit by Norman Spells

24. Granite City: The Life of a Bandit

By: Norman Spells

3.88

Format: 115 pages, Kindle Edition

Told with raw emotion, this is the true story of one man’s journey through the formative years of t… read more

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Cover of The Unknown Mongol 2 "The Sequel" by Scott "Junior" Ereckson

25. The Unknown Mongol 2 "The Sequel"

By: Scott "Junior" Ereckson

4.39

Format: 146 pages, Kindle Edition

For those of you that read The Unknown Mongol, you're probably wondering just what the hell happene… read more

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Cover of The Life and Times of Cocaine Charlie by Charles T. H. Woods

26. The Life and Times of Cocaine Charlie

By: Charles T. H. Woods

3.90

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

An unrepentant true crime memoir about the life of a man who sold and used cocaine daily for thirty… read more

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Cover of Into Trouble by Paul Francis Gorman

27. Into Trouble

By: Paul Francis Gorman

4.10

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

2022 Readers' Favorite award winner 2022 Best Book Awards Finalist "A well-written account abou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Pressure: A Memoir by Eric Canori

28. Pressure: A Memoir

By: Eric Canori

4.39

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

Pressure is the unbelievable true story of Eric Canori, who buried $10 million worth of gold bars i… read more

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Cover of A Hard Cell: My Incarceration And The Prison Conditions That Almost Ended My Life by Bob Bates

29. A Hard Cell: My Incarceration And The Prison Conditions That Almost Ended My Life

By: Bob Bates

3.64

Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition

A TRUE LOOK INSIDE THE US CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM April 2, 2015 started like any other day for reserve… read more

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Cover of How to Start a Riot in a Brothel in Thailand by Ordering a Beer and Other Lesser Known Travel Tips. by Simon Yeats

30. How to Start a Riot in a Brothel in Thailand by Ordering a Beer and Other Lesser Known Travel Tips.

By: Simon Yeats

3.86

Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition

Book 1 of the hilarious book series that those in the know will want to read on the train to work s… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The MiG Diaries: Fighter pilot memoirs & accounts of Cuban, SAAF and Angolan air combat in Southern African skies by Lionel Reid

31. The MiG Diaries: Fighter pilot memoirs & accounts of Cuban, SAAF and Angolan air combat in Southern African skies

By: Lionel Reid

4.61

Format: 524 pages, Kindle Edition

What was it like to fly a MiG or Mirage in combat over Angola?Most books on the Angolan Bush War, e… read more

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