15 best-selling history books like The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories by Mark Bowden

Cover of The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories by Mark Bowden

The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories

By: Mark Bowden

3.92

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

From Mark Bowden, a "master of narrative journalism" (New York Times), comes a true-crime collectio…

If you liked the history plot in The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories by Mark Bowden , here is a list of 15 books like this:

Cover of Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue

1. Slammerkin

By: Emma Donoghue

3.75

Format: 410 pages, Paperback

Mary Saunders, a lower-class London schoolgirl, was born into rough cloth but hungered for lace and… read more

Similar categories in Emma Donoghue's Slammerkin book and Mark Bowden's The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories

"The crow flew closer, as if to hear its praises."

-Emma Donoghue, Slammerkin

"Sometimes words were like glass that broke in her mouth."

-Emma Donoghue, Slammerkin

"I may have had moments of regret in my life, but you know, they wouldn't add up to an hour."

-Emma Donoghue, Slammerkin

"Nie możesz pozwolić by fakt, że ktoś chce twojej śmierci, uniemożliwił ci wypicie twojej herbaty."

-Emma Donoghue, Slammerkin

Cover of While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness by Eli Sanders

2. While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness

By: Eli Sanders

3.99

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

On a summer night in 2009, three lives intersected in one American neighborhood. Two people newly i… read more

Similar categories in Eli Sanders's While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness book and Mark Bowden's The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Blind Faith by Joe McGinniss

3. Blind Faith

By: Joe McGinniss

4.10

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

The Marshalls were the model family of Toms River New Jersey, living the American dream of all that… read more

Similar categories in Joe McGinniss's Blind Faith book and Mark Bowden's The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders by Terry Sullivan, Peter T. Maiken, Peter Maiken

4. Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders

By: Terry Sullivan , Peter T. Maiken , Peter Maiken

3.94

Format: 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The state prosecutor at the Gacy trial recounts the police investigation that led to Gacy's arrest … read more

Similar categories in Terry Sullivan's Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders book and Mark Bowden's The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Moral Disorder and Other Stories by Margaret Atwood

5. Moral Disorder and Other Stories

By: Margaret Atwood

3.64

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Margaret Atwood is acknowledged as one of the foremost writers of our time. In Moral Disorder she h… read more

Similar categories in Margaret Atwood's Moral Disorder and Other Stories book and Mark Bowden's The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories

  • short stories
"You can't lead if no one will follow."

-Margaret Atwood, Moral Disorder and Other Stories

"I could do a good imitation of a competent young woman."

-Margaret Atwood, Moral Disorder and Other Stories

"But all doors used regularly are doors to the afterlife."

-Margaret Atwood, Moral Disorder and Other Stories

"The objects I chose were designed to hold something, but I didn't fill them up. They remained empty. They were little symbolic shrines to thirst."

-Margaret Atwood, Moral Disorder and Other Stories

Cover of Cruel Doubt by Joe McGinniss

6. Cruel Doubt

By: Joe McGinniss

3.91

Format: 69 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 bestselling author of Fatal Vision and Blind Faith comes a rivetingr on a harrowing jou… read more

Similar categories in Joe McGinniss's Cruel Doubt book and Mark Bowden's The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
Cover of As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl by John Colapinto

7. As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl

By: John Colapinto

2.90

Format: 96 pages,

In 1967, after a twin baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical trea… read more

Similar categories in John Colapinto's As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl book and Mark Bowden's The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Best American Crime Writing: 2003 Edition: The Year's Best True Crime Reporting by Otto Penzler, Thomas H. Cook

8. The Best American Crime Writing: 2003 Edition: The Year's Best True Crime Reporting

By: Otto Penzler , Thomas H. Cook

3.63

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

This year's worth of the most powerful, the most startling, the smartest and most astute, in short,… read more

Similar categories in Otto Penzler's The Best American Crime Writing: 2003 Edition: The Year's Best True Crime Reporting book and Mark Bowden's The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories

  • history
  • true crime
  • crime
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
Cover of Gone Forever by Diane Fanning

9. Gone Forever

By: Diane Fanning

3.54

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Susan McFarland was a vivacious, successful mother of three young sons. On November 25, 2002, she d… read more

Similar categories in Diane Fanning's Gone Forever book and Mark Bowden's The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime

10. The Snakebite Survivors' Club: Travels among Serpents

By: Jeremy Seal

4.32

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Snakes are Jeremy Seal's fascination-and his greatest fear. In an attempt to overcome his phobia, h… read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Seal's The Snakebite Survivors' Club: Travels among Serpents book and Mark Bowden's The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories

11. The Ultimate Evil: The Truth about the Cult Murders: Son of Sam and Beyond

By: Maury Terry

3.75

Format: None pages,

On August 10, 1977, the NYPD arrested David Berkowitz for the "Son of Sam" murders that had terrori… read more

Similar categories in Maury Terry's The Ultimate Evil: The Truth about the Cult Murders: Son of Sam and Beyond book and Mark Bowden's The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories

12. Fatal Vision

By: Joe McGinniss

4.11

Format: 14 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Fatal Visionis the electrifying true story of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald, the handsome, Princeton-educat… read more

Similar categories in Joe McGinniss's Fatal Vision book and Mark Bowden's The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories

13. The Voyeur's Motel

By: Gay Talese

3.46

Format: None pages, Hardcover

On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller Thy Neighbor's Wife… read more

Similar categories in Gay Talese's The Voyeur's Motel book and Mark Bowden's The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories

Cover of Love's Blood by Clark Howard

14. Love's Blood

By: Clark Howard

3.99

Format: 593 pages, Kindle Edition

When businessman Frank Columbo, his wife Mary and their 13-year-old son, Michael, were savagely mur… read more

Similar categories in Clark Howard's Love's Blood book and Mark Bowden's The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder by Douglas Preston

15. The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder

By: Douglas Preston

3.81

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

Douglas Preston, the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God , presents jaw-droppi… read more

Similar categories in Douglas Preston's The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder book and Mark Bowden's The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories

  • history
  • true crime
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Wealth of Shadows by Graham Moore

16. The Wealth of Shadows

By: Graham Moore

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An ordinary man joins a secret mission to bring down the Nazi war machine by crashing their economy… read more

Similar categories in Graham Moore's The Wealth of Shadows book and Mark Bowden's The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories

  • mystery
  • thriller
Cover of Everybody's Best Friend: The True Story of a Marriage That Ended In Murder by Ken Englade

17. Everybody's Best Friend: The True Story of a Marriage That Ended In Murder

By: Ken Englade

3.90

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

The shocking murder that exposed a devoted husband as a cold-hearted killer To Love, Honor-And Mur… read more

Similar categories in Ken Englade's Everybody's Best Friend: The True Story of a Marriage That Ended In Murder book and Mark Bowden's The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • true crime
Cover of When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2) by John E. Douglas

18. When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2)

By: John E. Douglas

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A Haunting Story of Murder, Criminal Profiling, and Justice in a Small Town From John Douglas—th… read more

Similar categories in John E. Douglas's When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2) book and Mark Bowden's The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories

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

19. 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

Similar categories in Susan Wels's An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder book and Mark Bowden's The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • true crime
Cover of Deadly Greed: The Riveting True Story of the Stuart Murder Case by Joe Sharkey

20. Deadly Greed: The Riveting True Story of the Stuart Murder Case

By: Joe Sharkey

4.02

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

The horrifying account of the Charles Stuart case, in which ambition drove a man to murder his preg… read more

Similar categories in Joe Sharkey's Deadly Greed: The Riveting True Story of the Stuart Murder Case book and Mark Bowden's The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Gangbuster: One Man's Battle Against Crime, Corruption, and the Klan by Alan Prendergast

21. Gangbuster: One Man's Battle Against Crime, Corruption, and the Klan

By: Alan Prendergast

3.97

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

As gripping as it is prescient, Gangbuster is the first-ever history of the battle waged by one roo… read more

Similar categories in Alan Prendergast's Gangbuster: One Man's Battle Against Crime, Corruption, and the Klan book and Mark Bowden's The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • true crime
Cover of Beyond Reason: The True Story of a Shocking Double Murder by Ken Englade

22. Beyond Reason: The True Story of a Shocking Double Murder

By: Ken Englade

4.09

Format: 391 pages, Kindle Edition

The She was a beautiful, gifted descendant of Lady Astor. But Elizabeth Haysom was also a spoiled,… read more

Similar categories in Ken Englade's Beyond Reason: The True Story of a Shocking Double Murder book and Mark Bowden's The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of The Current by Tim Johnston

23. The Current

By: Tim Johnston

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

When two young women leave their college campus in the dead of winter for a 700-mile drive north to… read more

Similar categories in Tim Johnston's The Current book and Mark Bowden's The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories

  • mystery
  • thriller
  • crime
"A professor of mine used to say justice is blind,' he said, 'but she also can't see worth a shit."

-Tim Johnston, The Current

Cover of Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass by Ramin Setoodeh

24. 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

Similar categories in Ramin Setoodeh's Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass book and Mark Bowden's The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice by Benjamin Gilmer

25. The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice

By: Benjamin Gilmer

4.21

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A rural physician learns that a former doctor at his clinic committed a shocking crime, leading him… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Gilmer's The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice book and Mark Bowden's The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Deadly Lessons by Ken Englade

26. Deadly Lessons

By: Ken Englade

3.57

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

A husband’s murder leads to a trial that stunned a nation, and a killer whose motive is the most sh… read more

Similar categories in Ken Englade's Deadly Lessons book and Mark Bowden's The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories by Mark Bowden

27. The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories

By: Mark Bowden

3.92

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

From Mark Bowden, a "master of narrative journalism" (New York Times), comes a true-crime collectio… read more

Similar categories in Mark Bowden's The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories book and Mark Bowden's The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories

  • history
  • true crime
  • crime
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • thriller
  • journalism
Cover of A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind by Ann Wolbert Burgess

28. A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind

By: Ann Wolbert Burgess

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A vivid behind-the-scenes look into the creation of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit and the evolu… read more

Similar categories in Ann Wolbert Burgess's A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind book and Mark Bowden's The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of The Most Bizarre True Crime Stories Ever Told: 20 Unforgettable and Twisted True Crime Cases That Will Haunt You by Jack Rosewood

29. The Most Bizarre True Crime Stories Ever Told: 20 Unforgettable and Twisted True Crime Cases That Will Haunt You

By: Jack Rosewood

3.72

Format: 131 pages, Kindle Edition

Are you a hardcore true crime fan? Do you know all the ins and outs of popular cases and killers? … read more

Similar categories in Jack Rosewood's The Most Bizarre True Crime Stories Ever Told: 20 Unforgettable and Twisted True Crime Cases That Will Haunt You book and Mark Bowden's The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of The Darkest Places: Unsolved Mysteries, True Crimes, and Harrowing Disasters in the Wild by Outside Magazine

30. The Darkest Places: Unsolved Mysteries, True Crimes, and Harrowing Disasters in the Wild

By: Outside Magazine

3.88

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

Longtime readers have come to understand that Outside’s true gift is in chronicling misadventure. T… read more

Similar categories in Outside Magazine's The Darkest Places: Unsolved Mysteries, True Crimes, and Harrowing Disasters in the Wild book and Mark Bowden's The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories

  • true crime
  • anthologies
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders by Howard Blum

31. When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders

By: Howard Blum

3.63

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, inside story of the Idaho murders from bestselling author Howard Blum, whose ground… read more

Similar categories in Howard Blum's When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders book and Mark Bowden's The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • true crime

23 Best nonfiction books like The Case of the Vanishing Blonde: And Other True Crime Stories by Mark Bowden

Transform Your Habits

While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness

Eli Sanders

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Blind Faith

Joe McGinniss

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders

Terry Sullivan , Peter T. Maiken , Peter Maiken

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Cruel Doubt

Joe McGinniss

3.91

View all the books

20 Best nonfiction books like Gone Forever by Diane Fanning

Transform Your Habits

Blind Faith

Joe McGinniss

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Bitter Harvest

Ann Rule

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Marked for Death

Brian J. Karem

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Cruel Doubt

Joe McGinniss

3.91

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.