11 must-read history books like Marilyn Monroe: The Private Life of a Public Icon by Charles Casillo

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Marilyn Monroe: The Private Life of a Public Icon

By: Charles Casillo

4.13

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Based on new interviews and research, this ground-breaking biography explores the secret selves beh…

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1. Signed, Sealed, and Delivered: The Soulful Journey of Stevie Wonder

By: Mark Ribowsky

3.62

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive biography of music legend Stevie Wonder Stevie Wonder's achievements as a sing… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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2. Blonde

By: Joyce Carol Oates , Claude Seban

4.08

Format: 348 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In her most ambitious work to date, Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner, poetic, and spir… read more

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3. Shockaholic

By: Carrie Fisher

4.04

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Infused with Carrie Fisher's trademark incisive wit and on the heels of Wishful Drinking's instant … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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4. My Story

By: Ben Hecht , Marilyn Monroe , Joshua Green , Joshua Greene

3.32

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Written at the height of her fame but not published until over a decade after her death, this autob… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • film
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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5. Marilyn Monroe

By: Barbara Leaming

3.32

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

Barbara Leaming's Marilyn Monroe is a complex, sympathetic portrait that will forever change the wa… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • film
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. A Spaniard in the Works

By: John Lennon

4.17

Format: 78 pages, Hardcover

"It is fascinating of course to climb inside a Beatle's head to see what's going on there, but what… read more

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7. unSweetined

By: Jodie Sweetin , Jon Warech

3.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

How rude! Jodie Sweetin melted our hearts and made us laugh for eight years as cherub-faced, goody-… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult

8. The Night Season (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #4)

By: Chelsea Cain

2.75

Format: None pages,

He captured the Beauty Killer, one of the most deranged serial killers in the country. Now, Portlan… read more

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9. Kill You Twice (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #5)

By: Chelsea Cain

4.15

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

Nothing makes Portland detective Archie Sheridan happier than knowing that Gretchen Lowell—the seri… read more

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  • adult
  • audiobook
"His father is hinky, she said with a sigh. And by hinky she meant a drug kingpin ."

-Chelsea Cain, Kill You Twice (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #5)

"Ugly people kill people all the time. But when pretty people did, it got attention."

-Chelsea Cain, Kill You Twice (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #5)

"He's not like his father. She reconsidered this. I mean, he's not perfect. But he's not Scarface."

-Chelsea Cain, Kill You Twice (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #5)

"She lied to me today," Archie said. "A teenager?" Susan said with faux surprise. "Lying to an authority figure? Impossible."

-Chelsea Cain, Kill You Twice (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #5)

10. Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters

By: Joyce Carol Oates , Marilyn Monroe , Stanley Buchthal , Bernard Comment

4.58

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

Fragments is an event--an unforgettable book that will redefine one of the greatest icons of the tw… read more

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11. Let Me Go (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #6)

By: Chelsea Cain

4.01

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

Beautiful killer Gretchen Lowell tightens her grip on Detective Archie Sheridan in Let Me Go, New Y… read more

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12. Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe

By: Anthony Summers

2.65

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

Marilyn Monroe. Her rollar-coaster life. Her deception - shrouded death. Her divided secret life. H… read more

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13. In the Skin of a Jihadist: Inside Islamic State's Recruitment Networks

By: Anna Erelle

4.16

Format: 293 pages,

Twenty year-old 'Melodie', a recent convert to Islam, meets the leader of an Islamist brigade on Fa… read more

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14. Evil at Heart (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #3)

By: Chelsea Cain

3.64

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Chelsea Cain's novels featuring Portland detective Archie Sheridan and serial killer Gretchen Lowel… read more

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15. The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe

By: J. Randy Taraborrelli

4.27

Format: 127 pages,

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16. A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty

By: Joshilyn Jackson

3.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A Grown-Up Kind Of Prettyis a powerful saga of three generations of women, plagued by hardships and… read more

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17. Richard Nixon: The Life

By: John A. Farrell

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Brilliantly researched, authoritatively crafted by a prize-winning biographer, and lively on the pa… read more

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18. My Life So Far

By: Jane Fonda

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

"In the process of writing this book I discovered there were clear, broad, even universal themes th… read more

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19. A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime

By: Casey Sherman

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The dark story behind the bright lights of Tinseltown From the outside, Hollywood starlet Lana Turn… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • film
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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20. The Exorcist Legacy: 50 Years of Fear

By: Nat Segaloff

3.74

Format: 330 pages, Hardcover

Since 1973, The Exorcist and its progeny have scared and inspired half a century of filmgoers. Now,… read more

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  • history
  • pop culture
  • film
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit & Glamour of an Icon

By: Kate Andersen Brower

4.16

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Residence and First Women, the first ever auth… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • memoir
  • film
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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22. Robin

By: Dave Itzkoff

4.11

Format: 527 pages, Kindle Edition

From New York Times culture reporter Dave Itzkoff, the definitive biography of Robin Williams – a c… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • film
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Bombshell: The Night Bobby Kennedy Killed Marilyn Monroe by Mike Rothmiller

23. Bombshell: The Night Bobby Kennedy Killed Marilyn Monroe

By: Mike Rothmiller

4.14

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The Night Bobby Kennedy Murdered Marilyn Monroe tells the essential truth of the death of Marilyn … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • film
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. -Marilyn Monroe, 1958"

-Mike Rothmiller, Bombshell: The Night Bobby Kennedy Killed Marilyn Monroe

"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul." -Marilyn Monroe, 1958"

-Mike Rothmiller, Bombshell: The Night Bobby Kennedy Killed Marilyn Monroe

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24. Once Upon a Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy

By: Elizabeth Beller

3.86

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The life and legacy of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy Jr., are reexamined in thi… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • pop culture
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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25. Frank Sinatra and the Mafia Murders

By: Mike Rothmiller

4.09

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

It was said of the young Frank Sinatra that he came across as "St Francis of Assisi with a shoulder… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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26. Judgment

By: Joseph Finder

3.88

Format: 399 pages, Kindle Edition

**The Instant NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller**New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder returns wi… read more

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  • adult
  • audiobook
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27. Marilyn Monroe: The Private Life of a Public Icon

By: Charles Casillo

4.13

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Based on new interviews and research, this ground-breaking biography explores the secret selves beh… read more

Similar categories in Charles Casillo's Marilyn Monroe: The Private Life of a Public Icon book and Charles Casillo's Marilyn Monroe: The Private Life of a Public Icon

  • history
  • biography
  • pop culture
  • memoir
  • film
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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28. I Love You So Much It's Killing Us Both

By: Mariah Stovall

3.28

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Susan Choi’s Trust Exercise meets Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity in a Black woman’s coming-of-age stor… read more

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  • adult
Cover of Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan

29. Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

By: Maureen Callahan

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kenn… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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30. Norma Jean

By: Fred Lawrence Guiles

3.77

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Biography. Hardcover with dust jacket. Fred Lawrence Guiles, Author. McGraw-Hill Publishers, 1969. … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • film
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31. Superhero Nutrition

By: Steve Zim

3.78

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

Steve Zim has been a professional trainer in Los Angeles for nearly three decades. He has trained m… read more

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  • nonfiction

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3.62

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4.04

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3.32

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3.81

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3.24

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