17 must-read nonfiction books like Eighteen Seconds by Louise Beech

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Eighteen Seconds

By: Louise Beech

4.48

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

My mother once said to me, ‘I wish you could feel the way I do for eighteen seconds. Just eighteen …

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Cover of LEVI'S EYES: A Son's Deadly Secret and a Father's Cruel Betrayal by Aphrodite Jones

1. LEVI'S EYES: A Son's Deadly Secret and a Father's Cruel Betrayal

By: Aphrodite Jones

4.32

Format: 380 pages, Kindle Edition

LEVI’S EYES delves into the unspeakable murders of Christina and Levi Karlsen, as told by the kille… read more

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Cover of Love Lies: A True Story of Marriage and Murder in the Suburbs by Amanda Lamb

2. Love Lies: A True Story of Marriage and Murder in the Suburbs

By: Amanda Lamb

4.01

Format: 454 pages, Kindle Edition

A perfect life. A perfect lie. When Nancy Cooper moved from Canada to Cary, North Carolina with he… read more

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3. The Unspeakable Acts of Zina Pavlou

By: Eleni Kyriacou

4.18

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

**Selected for BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club 2023** THEY HAVE TOLD SO MANY LIES ABOUT ME. … read more

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Cover of Married to the Man Who Washed Himself Away: A memoir: The true story of how obsession tore a family apart by Joan Leech

4. Married to the Man Who Washed Himself Away: A memoir: The true story of how obsession tore a family apart

By: Joan Leech

4.27

Format: 164 pages, Kindle Edition

This extraordinary true story will move you to tears and inspire you to never give up. Set in No… read more

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5. I Survived: A True Story.

By: Victoria Cilliers

4.16

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

A chilling, eye-opening story of marriage and attempted murder, revealing the truth about a case th… read more

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Cover of Through A Mother’s Tears by Cathy Broomfield

6. Through A Mother’s Tears

By: Cathy Broomfield

4.16

Format: 100 pages, Kindle Edition

When Cathy Broomfield’s youngest daughter Kirsty disappeared, Cathy hoped she had gone to stay with… read more

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7. Frank and Red

By: Matt Coyne

4.57

Format: 433 pages, Kindle Edition

Sometimes, the friend you need is the one you never saw coming. Frank and Red are a mess. F… read more

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Cover of Can I Come HOME Now?: A True Story of Childhood Trauma by Barbara Godin

8. Can I Come HOME Now?: A True Story of Childhood Trauma

By: Barbara Godin

4.36

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

True Story of Childhood Trauma Can I Come Home Now? In this moving and painful memoir of grow… read more

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Cover of Life Support: Surviving Guillain-Barre Syndrome - A Mother's Story of Hope and Recovery by Holly Frances

9. Life Support: Surviving Guillain-Barre Syndrome - A Mother's Story of Hope and Recovery

By: Holly Frances

4.51

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

Weeks after giving birth, Holly Frances went from being a healthy 26-year-old new mom to paralyzed … read more

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Cover of Unwanted: The care system failed Lara. Will she fail her own child? by Cathy Glass

10. Unwanted: The care system failed Lara. Will she fail her own child?

By: Cathy Glass

4.41

Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition

Lara was seven when her birth mother died from a drug overdose. With no extended family to look aft… read more

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Cover of After the Wedding: A true story of hope, love, ... and fear. by Eileen Gibb

11. After the Wedding: A true story of hope, love, ... and fear.

By: Eileen Gibb

3.91

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

A young couple meet and fall in love. There are warning signs of trouble ahead, but doesn’t love co… read more

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Cover of Don't Smile: A Gripping True Story of Surviving Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control by Charlotte  Robertson

12. Don't Smile: A Gripping True Story of Surviving Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control

By: Charlotte Robertson

4.14

Format: 249 pages, Kindle Edition

A riveting memoir that describes one woman's journey through shocking levels of domestic abuse and … read more

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Cover of Wedlocked: A Story of Forced Marriage by Hannah  Rubenstein

13. Wedlocked: A Story of Forced Marriage

By: Hannah Rubenstein

4.14

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

When the plainclothes police officers appeared with a warrant for her arrest, Mayah assumed that he… read more

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14. Missing Pieces of Mum

By: Sally Herbert

4.34

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A stolen past, a search for the truth, two lives changed forever. Born out of wedlock in Dublin … read more

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Cover of Playing with Fire: The true story of Fireman Scam by Coleen Greenwood

15. Playing with Fire: The true story of Fireman Scam

By: Coleen Greenwood

4.46

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

"In my 23 years of policing, I have never encountered a man as manipulative as Greg Wilson … a comp… read more

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Cover of Sorry For Your Loss: What Working with the Dead Taught Me About Life by Kate   Marshall

16. Sorry For Your Loss: What Working with the Dead Taught Me About Life

By: Kate Marshall

3.94

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Following Kate Marshall’s first year in the mortuary at a north of England NHS hospital, with each … read more

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17. Eighteen Seconds

By: Louise Beech

4.48

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

My mother once said to me, ‘I wish you could feel the way I do for eighteen seconds. Just eighteen … read more

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Cover of Our Georgia: The devastating murder of my daughter by a killer who should have been stopped by Lynnette Williams

18. Our Georgia: The devastating murder of my daughter by a killer who should have been stopped

By: Lynnette Williams

4.50

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

Georgia Williams’ murder at the hands of college pal Jamie Reynolds was a crime that shocked the c… read more

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Cover of Unspoken: The Silent Truth Behind My Lifelong Trauma as a Forced Adoptee (Stolen Lives) by Liz Harvie

19. Unspoken: The Silent Truth Behind My Lifelong Trauma as a Forced Adoptee (Stolen Lives)

By: Liz Harvie

4.37

Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition

“I was two when the woman I called Mummy told me, ‘You came out of another mummy’s tummy.’ I grew u… read more

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Cover of Mary Flora Bell: The Horrific True Story Behind An Innocent Girl Serial Killer by Nancy Veysey

20. Mary Flora Bell: The Horrific True Story Behind An Innocent Girl Serial Killer

By: Nancy Veysey

3.47

Format: 146 pages, Kindle Edition

What can drive a young and seemingly innocent child to kill? Murder is horrible enough when perpe… read more

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Cover of End of Story by Louise Swanson

21. End of Story

By: Louise Swanson

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Too much imagination can be a dangerous thing It's the year 2035 and fiction has been banned b… read more

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22. Painfully Beautiful

By: Rebecca Waltz

4.50

Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition

The saying ‘It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all’; is never more rel… read more

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Cover of I Don't Talk to Dead Bodies: The Curious Encounters of a Forensic Psychiatrist by Rhona Morrison

23. I Don't Talk to Dead Bodies: The Curious Encounters of a Forensic Psychiatrist

By: Rhona Morrison

3.82

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Prepare to be intrigued, amazed and astonished as you join Dr Rhona Morrison on an often funny, and… read more

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Cover of Finding Margaret: Solving the mystery of my birth mother by Andrew Pierce

24. Finding Margaret: Solving the mystery of my birth mother

By: Andrew Pierce

4.44

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

Finding Margaret is the moving story of journalist and broadcaster Andrew Pierce's search for his b… read more

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Cover of Unimaginable Loss: A true story of murder, heartbreaking injustice, and surviving the unthinkable by Joseph Thuney

25. Unimaginable Loss: A true story of murder, heartbreaking injustice, and surviving the unthinkable

By: Joseph Thuney

4.46

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

Within two and a half years, I would live through the molestation of my only grandchild by her pate… read more

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Cover of Somebody Up There Likes Me: Living with the Threat of Huntington’s Disease by Melanie Pearson

26. Somebody Up There Likes Me: Living with the Threat of Huntington’s Disease

By: Melanie Pearson

4.73

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

If you thought that unbreakable family curses only happened in fairy tales, think again. Nobody re… read more

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Cover of Surviving a Psychopath: Book 1 of a 2-Part Series by Kathryn Holland

27. Surviving a Psychopath: Book 1 of a 2-Part Series

By: Kathryn Holland

3.86

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

Part 1 of a 2-Part SeriesHaving just left a dead-end relationship, Kat thought she had found the ma… read more

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Cover of In Little Stars by Linda Green

28. In Little Stars

By: Linda Green

4.47

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In a divided northern England, love and hate are about to collide . . . Sylvie and Donna travel … read more

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Cover of A Place for Lost Souls: A psychiatric nurse's stories of hope and despair by Belinda Black

29. A Place for Lost Souls: A psychiatric nurse's stories of hope and despair

By: Belinda Black

4.49

Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition

'Ultimately, my experiences as a mental health nurse have taught me that we should judge less and o… read more

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Cover of Stolen Years: A True Story of Domestic Abuse and Survival by Darrel Day

30. Stolen Years: A True Story of Domestic Abuse and Survival

By: Darrel Day

4.11

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

This is the story of Connie {Sarff} Nelson, a woman from Minnesota that was abducted by her estrang… read more

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Cover of Will You Help Me?: Ralph’s true story of abuse, secrets and lies by Maggie Hartley

31. Will You Help Me?: Ralph’s true story of abuse, secrets and lies

By: Maggie Hartley

4.81

Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition

'Please help me,' he said in a small voice. 'Will you help me?'Six-year-old Ralph has only been i… read more

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10 must-read nonfiction books like Can I Come HOME Now?: A True Story of Childhood Trauma by Barbara Godin

Transform Your Habits

Running From The Mirror

Howard Shulman

4.45

Transform Your Habits

Wildflower: A Tale of Transcendence

Teresa Van Woy

4.56

Transform Your Habits

LEVI'S EYES: A Son's Deadly Secret and a Father's Cruel Betrayal

Aphrodite Jones

4.32

Transform Your Habits

Displaced: A Memoir

Esther Wiebe

4.30

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