12 must-read crime books like The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch by Miles Harvey

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The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch

By: Miles Harvey

3.69

Format: 401 pages, Hardcover

In the summer of 1843, James Strang, a charismatic young lawyer and avowed atheist, vanished from a…

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1. Drawing Blood

By: Molly Crabapple

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Art was my dearest friend.To draw was trouble and safety, adventure and freedom.In that four-corner… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"Globalism has less leeway for a poor country's brilliant sons."

-Molly Crabapple, Drawing Blood

"Art is hope against cynicism, creation against entropy. To make art is an act of both love and defiance."

-Molly Crabapple, Drawing Blood

"Radicals often suspect beauty of corruption. Uptight fuckers though they sometimes are, they're right in one thing: art alone cannot change the world. Pens can't take on swords, let alone Predator dr…"

-Molly Crabapple, Drawing Blood

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2. Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way

By: Jon Krakauer

3.72

Format: 77 pages, ebook

Greg Mortenson has built a global reputation as a selfless humanitarian and children’s crusader, an… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. Running with the Devil: The True Story Of The Atf's Infiltration Of The Hells Angels

By: Kerrie Droban

3.80

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

The infamous Sonny Barger once declared that the Hells Angels would never be infiltrated. Running w… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime

4. Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules

By: Joyce Carol Oates , David Sedaris , Katherine Mansfield , Alice Munro , Flannery O'Connor , Sarah Vowell , Patricia Highsmith , Charles Baxter , Richard Yates , Jhumpa Lahiri , Dorothy Parker , Jincy Willett , Tobias Wolff , Lorrie Moore , Amy Hempel , Jean Thompson , None , Frank Gannon , Tim Johnston

3.65

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

A must-have for the fans of the #1 bestselling author of Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris, a c… read more

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5. Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition

By: Daniel Okrent

3.89

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, authoritative, and fascinating history of America’s most puzzling era, the years 1920 … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook

6. Trials of the Century: A Decade-by-Decade Look at Ten of America's Most Sensational Crimes

By: None , None

3.93

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

In every decade of the twentieth century, there was one sensational murder trial that riveted publi… read more

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7. Who Killed These Girls?: The Twenty-Five-Year History of Austin's Yogurt Shop Murders

By: Beverly Lowry

3.88

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

The facts are brutally straightforward. On December 6, 1991, the naked, bound-and-gagged bodies of … read more

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8. Jack the Ripper: The Forgotten Victims

By: Paul Begg

3.94

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Experts agree that Jack the Ripper murdered five London women, but how many others did he slaughter… read more

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9. 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 American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper by Daniel Stashower

10. American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper

By: Daniel Stashower

3.50

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-winner Daniel Stashower returns with American Dem… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults

By: Mitch Weiss

4.15

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In 1979, Jane Whaley, a fiery preacher with a thick Southern drawl, attracted a small group of foll… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. Daughter of the White River:: Depression-Era Treachery and Vengeance in the Arkansas Delta (True Crime)

By: Denise White Parkinson

4.05

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Join author Denise Parkinson for an intimate look at a Depression-era tragedy. The once-thriving ho… read more

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  • history
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder by Susan Wels

13. An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder

By: Susan Wels

3.33

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

This true crime odyssey explores a forgotten, astonishing chapter of American history, leading the … read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. 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
  • audiobook
Cover of Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass by Ramin Setoodeh

15. Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass

By: Ramin Setoodeh

3.66

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the editor in chief of Variety and author of the New York Times bestseller Ladies Who Punch, t… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. This Isn't Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew

By: Daniel Wallace

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“A memoir wrapped in an elegy… [that] maps a strangely stunning life… [Wallace] imbues this chronic… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance by Ramie Targoff

17. Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance

By: Ramie Targoff

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shak… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Kingdom of Nauvoo: The Rise and Fall of a Religious Empire on the American Frontier

By: Benjamin E. Park

4.17

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Compared to the Puritans, Mormons have rarely gotten their due, often treated as fringe cultists or… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch

By: Miles Harvey

3.69

Format: 401 pages, Hardcover

In the summer of 1843, James Strang, a charismatic young lawyer and avowed atheist, vanished from a… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom by McCracken Poston Jr.

20. Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom

By: McCracken Poston Jr.

4.45

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Like a nonfiction John Grisham thriller with echoes of Rainman, Just Mercy, and a captivating small… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Rajneeshpuram: Inside the Cult of Bhagwan and Its Failed American Utopia by Russell    King

21. Rajneeshpuram: Inside the Cult of Bhagwan and Its Failed American Utopia

By: Russell King

4.00

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“Russell King has written the most definitive account of this grand American saga. Rajneeshpuram is… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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22. En bra dag att dö : vad 276 avrättningar lärt en fängelsepastor om livet

By: Carina Bergfeldt

3.59

Format: 268 pages, Hardcover

276 gånger har pastorn Jim Brazzil suttit i dödens väntrum. Han har lyssnat på bekännelser i elfte … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • biography
Cover of The Dockporter: A Mackinac Island Novel (Mackinac Island Series #1) by Dave McVeigh

23. The Dockporter: A Mackinac Island Novel (Mackinac Island Series #1)

By: Dave McVeigh

4.03

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

It's the summer of 1989. Jack McGuinn is a dockporter, transporting tourists' luggage, piled high i… read more

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24. The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels

By: Pamela Prickett

4.08

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon—the rising number of unclai… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Alma 30–63: A Brief Theological Introduction (The Book of Mormon: Brief Theological Introductions, #7) by Mark A. Wrathall

25. Alma 30–63: A Brief Theological Introduction (The Book of Mormon: Brief Theological Introductions, #7)

By: Mark A. Wrathall

4.45

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

"Now is the time and the day of your salvation . . ." Alma the Younger is forever changed by an … read more

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  • religion
  • nonfiction
Cover of Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality by Matthew L. Harris

26. Second-Class Saints: Black Mormons and the Struggle for Racial Equality

By: Matthew L. Harris

4.91

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

An in-depth account--grounded in new archival discoveries--of the most consequential development in… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • religion
  • history
Cover of The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age by Michael Wolraich

27. The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

By: Michael Wolraich

3.77

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of how the murder of femme fatale Vivian Gordon in 1931 brought about the downfa… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Fire Season by Leyna Krow

28. Fire Season

By: Leyna Krow

3.42

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The propulsive story of three scheming opportunists--a banker, a conman, and a woman with an extrao… read more

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  • historical
  • audiobook
Cover of A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue by Dean Jobb

29. A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue

By: Dean Jobb

4.02

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

“A master of narrative nonfiction … in this mesmerizing tale about a Jazz Age gentlemanly thief, Jo… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Rogues' Gallery: The Birth of Modern Policing and Organized Crime in Gilded Age New York by John Oller

30. Rogues' Gallery: The Birth of Modern Policing and Organized Crime in Gilded Age New York

By: John Oller

3.86

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

From the beginnings of big-city police work to the rise of the Mafia, Rogues' Gallery is a colorful… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way by Fred C. Trump

31. All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way

By: Fred C. Trump

4.07

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, bre… read more

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  • biography
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

18 Best audiobook books like The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch by Miles Harvey

Transform Your Habits

Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His Way

Jon Krakauer

3.72

Transform Your Habits

Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition

Daniel Okrent

3.89

Transform Your Habits

American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper

Daniel Stashower

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults

Mitch Weiss

4.15

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5 must-read audiobook books like Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom by McCracken Poston Jr.

Transform Your Habits

High on Arrival

Mackenzie Phillips

3.82

Transform Your Habits

The Foundling: The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret, and My Search for the Real Me

Alex Tresniowski , Paul Joseph Fronczak

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Dead By Sunset: Perfect Husband, Perfect Killer?

Ann Rule

4.11

Transform Your Habits

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

Susan J. Eischeid

4.21

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