19 must-read nonfiction books like The Dublin Railway Murder by Thomas Morris

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The Dublin Railway Murder

By: Thomas Morris

3.88

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

An astonishing real-life locked-room murder mystery set in Victorian Dublin, packed with gripping, …

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1. The Ashes of London (Marwood and Lovett, #1)

By: Andrew Taylor

3.75

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the No.1 best-selling author of The American Boy and The Silent Boy comes a brand new historic… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Taylor's The Ashes of London (Marwood and Lovett, #1) book and Thomas Morris's The Dublin Railway Murder

  • mystery
  • historical
  • crime
"One grey cloak is much like another, just as all cats are grey in the dark."

-Andrew Taylor, The Ashes of London (Marwood and Lovett, #1)

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2. The Little Red Chairs

By: Edna O'Brien

3.24

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

The much-anticipated new novel from the literary world's master of storytelling, Edna O'Brien. A… read more

Similar categories in Edna O'Brien's The Little Red Chairs book and Thomas Morris's The Dublin Railway Murder

  • historical
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"My friends I tell you this, we are a jolly group but put us in uniform and all that change. In war I don’t know who my brother. In war I don’t know who my friend. War make everybody savage. Who can s…"

-Edna O'Brien, The Little Red Chairs

Cover of Mr Briggs' Hat: A Sensational Account of Britain's First Railway Murder by Kate Colquhoun

3. Mr Briggs' Hat: A Sensational Account of Britain's First Railway Murder

By: Kate Colquhoun

3.70

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

On 9 July 1864, after an evening with relatives, Thomas Briggs walked through Fenchurch Station and… read more

Similar categories in Kate Colquhoun's Mr Briggs' Hat: A Sensational Account of Britain's First Railway Murder book and Thomas Morris's The Dublin Railway Murder

  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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4. The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective

By: Kate Summerscale

4.17

Format: None pages,

The dramatic story of the real-life murder that inspired the birth of modern detective fiction. In… read more

Similar categories in Kate Summerscale's The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective book and Thomas Morris's The Dublin Railway Murder

  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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5. The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein

By: Peter Ackroyd

3.66

Format: None pages,

When two nineteenth-century Oxford students--Victor Frankenstein, a serious researcher, and the poe… read more

Similar categories in Peter Ackroyd's The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein book and Thomas Morris's The Dublin Railway Murder

  • historical

6. Thank You, Jeeves (Jeeves, #5)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

4.29

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A Jeeves and Wooster novel Thank You, Jeevesis the first novel to feature the incomparable valet Je… read more

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7. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman

By: Lucy Worsley

4.20

Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition

A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural his… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Worsley's Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman book and Thomas Morris's The Dublin Railway Murder

  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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8. The Christmas Jigsaw Murders

By: Alexandra Benedict

3.70

Format: None pages, Audiobook

On 1st of December, renowned puzzle setter, loner and Christmas sceptic Edie O’Sullivan finds a han… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Benedict's The Christmas Jigsaw Murders book and Thomas Morris's The Dublin Railway Murder

  • mystery
  • crime
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9. Wild Houses

By: Colin Barrett

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more

Similar categories in Colin Barrett's Wild Houses book and Thomas Morris's The Dublin Railway Murder

  • mystery
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

Cover of My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1) by Joseph O'Connor

10. My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

By: Joseph O'Connor

4.05

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

From the best-selling author of Star of the Sea, a WWII-era “great escape” novel set in the Vatican… read more

Similar categories in Joseph O'Connor's My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1) book and Thomas Morris's The Dublin Railway Murder

  • historical
  • ireland
"Life schools you the way no catechism will."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"There are times when we must permit one another to lie."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"I was singing in Belfast the night the Luftwaffe firebombed the theatre. That's what you call a mixed review."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

"A religiously minded kid will often be good at lying awake all night because you need an imagination if you're going to believe."

-Joseph O'Connor, My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)

Cover of Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 by Katja Hoyer

11. Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

By: Katja Hoyer

4.23

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

In 1990, a country disappeared. When the Iron Curtain fell, East Germany simply ceased to be. For o… read more

Similar categories in Katja Hoyer's Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 book and Thomas Morris's The Dublin Railway Murder

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
"Some of the “songs"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart,"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"From 1971, the rates paid were means-tested, allowing working class families with children privileged access. A four-person household in West Germany spent around 21 percent of their net income on re…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

"In other fields too, female ambition had become the norm. By 1988, over 90% of East German women fought their own battles in the workplace. The GDR had reached the highest rate of female employment i…"

-Katja Hoyer, Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

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12. Karma: My Autobiography

By: Boy George

3.62

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

THE OFFICIAL STORY OF A MUSICAL ICON - TOLD IN FULL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS OWN WORDS'In what mig… read more

Similar categories in Boy George's Karma: My Autobiography book and Thomas Morris's The Dublin Railway Murder

  • adult
  • nonfiction
Cover of Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief by Katriona O'Sullivan

13. Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief

By: Katriona O'Sullivan

4.61

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

As the middle of five kids growing up in dire poverty, the odds were low on Katriona O'Sullivan mak… read more

Similar categories in Katriona O'Sullivan's Poor: Grit, courage, and the life-changing value of self-belief book and Thomas Morris's The Dublin Railway Murder

  • nonfiction
  • irish literature
  • ireland
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14. A Village in the Third Reich

By: Julia Boyd

4.25

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New from the author of Travellers in the Third Reich—the Sunday Times Top Three bestseller and Wate… read more

Similar categories in Julia Boyd's A Village in the Third Reich book and Thomas Morris's The Dublin Railway Murder

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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15. The Murder Game

By: Tom Hindle

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

One house. Nine guests. Endless motives for murder...In the seaside town of Hamlet Wick, guests ass… read more

Similar categories in Tom Hindle's The Murder Game book and Thomas Morris's The Dublin Railway Murder

  • mystery
  • crime
  • adult
Cover of Somebody I Used to Know: A Memoir by Wendy Mitchell

16. Somebody I Used to Know: A Memoir

By: Wendy Mitchell

4.37

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Wendy Mitchell had a busy job with the British National Health Service, raised her two daughters al… read more

Similar categories in Wendy Mitchell's Somebody I Used to Know: A Memoir book and Thomas Morris's The Dublin Railway Murder

  • nonfiction
"We see, too, how Christopher is at a stage in his disease where he can't remember the word for moon, but it doesn't matter, he knows it's something beautiful in the sky, isn't that enough?"

-Wendy Mitchell, Somebody I Used to Know: A Memoir

Cover of A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder by Mark    O'Connell

17. A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder

By: Mark O'Connell

3.74

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous chapters in mo… read more

Similar categories in Mark O'Connell's A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder book and Thomas Morris's The Dublin Railway Murder

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective: Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime by Susannah Stapleton

18. The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective: Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime

By: Susannah Stapleton

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Maud West ran her detective agency in London for more than thirty years, having started sleuthing o… read more

Similar categories in Susannah Stapleton's The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective: Secrets and Lies in the Golden Age of Crime book and Thomas Morris's The Dublin Railway Murder

  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
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19. The Bass Rock

By: Evie Wyld

3.70

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

Surging out of the sea, the Bass Rock has for centuries watched over the lives that pass under its … read more

Similar categories in Evie Wyld's The Bass Rock book and Thomas Morris's The Dublin Railway Murder

  • historical
"Joseph recalls his mother who was “mad and screaming like birds were sewn under her skin"

-Evie Wyld, The Bass Rock

Cover of The Dublin Railway Murder by Thomas   Morris

20. The Dublin Railway Murder

By: Thomas Morris

3.88

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

An astonishing real-life locked-room murder mystery set in Victorian Dublin, packed with gripping, … read more

Similar categories in Thomas Morris's The Dublin Railway Murder book and Thomas Morris's The Dublin Railway Murder

  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of Thatcher’s Spy: My Life as an MI5 Agent Inside Sinn Féin by Willie Carlin

21. Thatcher’s Spy: My Life as an MI5 Agent Inside Sinn Féin

By: Willie Carlin

4.02

Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition

Early one morning in March 1985, as he climbed the six steps of Margaret Thatcher’s prime-ministeri… read more

Similar categories in Willie Carlin's Thatcher’s Spy: My Life as an MI5 Agent Inside Sinn Féin book and Thomas Morris's The Dublin Railway Murder

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • irish literature
Cover of Deadly Game: The stunning thriller from the screen legend Michael Caine by Michael Caine

22. Deadly Game: The stunning thriller from the screen legend Michael Caine

By: Michael Caine

3.59

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

DCI Harry Taylor has no respect for red tape or political reputations – but he's great at catching … read more

Similar categories in Michael Caine's Deadly Game: The stunning thriller from the screen legend Michael Caine book and Thomas Morris's The Dublin Railway Murder

  • mystery
  • crime
Cover of Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber: The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale by Sean Driscoll

23. Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber: The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale

By: Sean Driscoll

3.98

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

She grew up in a Chelsea townhouse and on a Devon estate. She was presented to the Queen at Bucking… read more

Similar categories in Sean Driscoll's Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber: The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale book and Thomas Morris's The Dublin Railway Murder

  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of Between Two Hells: The Irish Civil War by Diarmaid Ferriter

24. Between Two Hells: The Irish Civil War

By: Diarmaid Ferriter

3.67

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

At the end of the Irish War of Independence, Dublin signed an unsatisfactory treaty with London, th… read more

Similar categories in Diarmaid Ferriter's Between Two Hells: The Irish Civil War book and Thomas Morris's The Dublin Railway Murder

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • irish literature
  • ireland
Cover of The Padre: The True Story of the Irish Priest who Armed the IRA with Gaddafi’s Money by Jennifer O'Leary

25. The Padre: The True Story of the Irish Priest who Armed the IRA with Gaddafi’s Money

By: Jennifer O'Leary

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

For almost two decades, Father Patrick Ryan evaded intelligence agencies across Europe and was, for… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer O'Leary's The Padre: The True Story of the Irish Priest who Armed the IRA with Gaddafi’s Money book and Thomas Morris's The Dublin Railway Murder

  • history
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of The Amusements by Aingeala Flannery

26. The Amusements

By: Aingeala Flannery

3.52

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In the seaside town of Tramore, County Waterford, visitors arrive in waves with the tourist season,… read more

Similar categories in Aingeala Flannery's The Amusements book and Thomas Morris's The Dublin Railway Murder

  • ireland
  • irish literature
Cover of The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind (Wellcome Collection) by Martin Sixsmith

27. The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind (Wellcome Collection)

By: Martin Sixsmith

4.18

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

'It was time for a vivid, popular history of the Cold War, and this is it' The Times More than a… read more

Similar categories in Martin Sixsmith's The War of Nerves: Inside the Cold War Mind (Wellcome Collection) book and Thomas Morris's The Dublin Railway Murder

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • history
Cover of Great Hatred: The Assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP by Ronan McGreevy

28. Great Hatred: The Assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP

By: Ronan McGreevy

4.13

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A gripping investigation into one of Irish history's greatest mysteries, Great Hatred reveals the t… read more

Similar categories in Ronan McGreevy's Great Hatred: The Assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP book and Thomas Morris's The Dublin Railway Murder

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • ireland
Cover of The Twelve Apostles: Michael Collins, the Squad and Ireland's Fight for Freedom by Tim Pat Coogan

29. The Twelve Apostles: Michael Collins, the Squad and Ireland's Fight for Freedom

By: Tim Pat Coogan

4.03

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Ireland, 1919: When Sinn Féin proclaims Dáil Éireann the parliament of the independent Irish republ… read more

Similar categories in Tim Pat Coogan's The Twelve Apostles: Michael Collins, the Squad and Ireland's Fight for Freedom book and Thomas Morris's The Dublin Railway Murder

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • irish literature
  • ireland
Cover of The Mysterious Mrs Hood: A True Victorian Mystery of Scandal, Arson, Murder & Betrayal by Kim Donovan

30. The Mysterious Mrs Hood: A True Victorian Mystery of Scandal, Arson, Murder & Betrayal

By: Kim Donovan

4.08

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

'A gripping story of a cold-blooded murder... This is true crime at its best' Wendy Moore'Drama so … read more

Similar categories in Kim Donovan's The Mysterious Mrs Hood: A True Victorian Mystery of Scandal, Arson, Murder & Betrayal book and Thomas Morris's The Dublin Railway Murder

  • mystery
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of A Case of Mice and Murder: (The Trials of Gabriel Ward Book 1) by Sally Smith

31. A Case of Mice and Murder: (The Trials of Gabriel Ward Book 1)

By: Sally Smith

4.47

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

The Inner Temple, 1901: a warren of shaded courtyards and ancient buildings that has formed the hea… read more

Similar categories in Sally Smith's A Case of Mice and Murder: (The Trials of Gabriel Ward Book 1) book and Thomas Morris's The Dublin Railway Murder

  • mystery
  • historical

15 Best history books like The Dublin Railway Murder by Thomas Morris

Transform Your Habits

Mr Briggs' Hat: A Sensational Account of Britain's First Railway Murder

Kate Colquhoun

3.70

Transform Your Habits

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective

Kate Summerscale

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman

Lucy Worsley

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990

Katja Hoyer

4.23

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16 Top audiobook books like Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber: The Extraordinary Life of Rose Dugdale by Sean Driscoll

Transform Your Habits

Prophet Song

Paul Lynch

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Caledonian Road

Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Close to Home

Michael Magee

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Wild Houses

Colin Barrett

3.78

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