30 Best nonfiction books like Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco by Stephan Talty

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Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco

By: Stephan Talty

3.95

Format: 446 pages, Hardcover

The first comprehensive account of David Koresh's life, his road to Waco, and the rise of governmen…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco by Stephan Talty , here is a list of 30 books like this:

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1. Practice to Deceive

By: Ann Rule

4.27

Format: 637 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Timesbestselling author and Queen of True Crime Ann Rule delivers another gripping true… read more

Similar categories in Ann Rule's Practice to Deceive book and Stephan Talty's Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook

2. The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Impostor

By: Mark Seal

4.15

Format: None pages,

A real-life Talented Mr. Ripley, the unbelievable thirty-year run of a shape-shifting con man. The … read more

Similar categories in Mark Seal's The Man in the Rockefeller Suit: The Astonishing Rise and Spectacular Fall of a Serial Impostor book and Stephan Talty's Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco

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3. The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land

By: Sally Denton

3.49

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

On the morning of November 4, 2019, an unassuming caravan of women and children was ambushed by mas… read more

Similar categories in Sally Denton's The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land book and Stephan Talty's Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco

  • history
  • true crime
  • cults
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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4. Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer

By: Jillian Lauren

3.38

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

He was sitting right across the table...and he would have killed her if he could. Jillian Lauren ha… read more

Similar categories in Jillian Lauren's Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer book and Stephan Talty's Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi

By: Susan Hendricks

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Former CNN/HLN anchor and veteran broadcast journalist Susan Hendricks takes an investigative deep-… read more

Similar categories in Susan Hendricks's Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi book and Stephan Talty's Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian

6. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

By: Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more

Similar categories in Roxanna Asgarian's We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America book and Stephan Talty's Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage

By: Jeff Guinn

4.06

Format: None pages, Audiobook

“Impressively researched and written with storytelling verve” (The Wall Street Journal), this is th… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Guinn's Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage book and Stephan Talty's Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco

  • american history
  • history
  • true crime
  • cults
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. Follow Me to Hell: McNelly's Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice

By: Tom Clavin

3.63

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Tom Clavin's Follow Me to Hell is the explosive true story… read more

Similar categories in Tom Clavin's Follow Me to Hell: McNelly's Texas Rangers and the Rise of Frontier Justice book and Stephan Talty's Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. The Menendez Murders: The Shocking Untold Story of the Menendez Family and the Killings that Stunned the Nation

By: Robert Rand

4.13

Format: 376 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the definitive book on the Menendez case—and the primary source material for NBC's Law and… read more

Similar categories in Robert Rand's The Menendez Murders: The Shocking Untold Story of the Menendez Family and the Killings that Stunned the Nation book and Stephan Talty's Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco

  • biography
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders

By: John Glatt

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Tangled Vines , bestselling true crime author John Glatt reconstructs the rise of the prestigiou… read more

Similar categories in John Glatt's Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders book and Stephan Talty's Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students by J. Reuben Appelman

11. While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students

By: J. Reuben Appelman

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, tells the inside story of the “Univers… read more

Similar categories in J. Reuben Appelman's While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students book and Stephan Talty's Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America by Audrey Clare Farley

12. Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America

By: Audrey Clare Farley

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Hidden Valley Road and Patient H.M., an "intimate and compassionate portrait" (Grace… read more

Similar categories in Audrey Clare Farley's Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America book and Stephan Talty's Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
  • audiobook
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13. Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America

By: Harry N. MacLean

3.71

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

The definitive story of Charles Starkweather, often considered to be the first mass killer in the m… read more

Similar categories in Harry N. MacLean's Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America book and Stephan Talty's Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism by Jeffrey Toobin

14. Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism

By: Jeffrey Toobin

4.16

Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition

The definitive account of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the enduring legacy of Timothy McVeigh… read more

Similar categories in Jeffrey Toobin's Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism book and Stephan Talty's Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless by Laurah Norton

15. Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless

By: Laurah Norton

3.87

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating deep dive into the dark world of forensic science as experts team up to solve the ide… read more

Similar categories in Laurah Norton's Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless book and Stephan Talty's Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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16. The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

By: Jeff Guinn

4.16

Format: 454 pages, Kindle Edition

By the New York Times bestselling author of Manson, the comprehensive, authoritative, and tragic st… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Guinn's The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple book and Stephan Talty's Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • cults
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"No one listening [to Jones' sermons], even those who were the most devoted to him, could take it all in. But at some point each follower heard something that reaffirmed his or her personal reason for…"

-Jeff Guinn, The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

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17. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

By: Adam Higginbotham

4.60

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more

Similar categories in Adam Higginbotham's Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space book and Stephan Talty's Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

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18. Evidence of Things Seen

By: Sarah Weinman

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From Sarah Weinman, the award-winning editor of Unspeakable Acts, a groundbreaking new anthology sh… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Weinman's Evidence of Things Seen book and Stephan Talty's Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child by Kim Cross

19. In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child

By: Kim Cross

4.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Paced like a thriller and full of insider information on the history and science of Crime Scene Inv… read more

Similar categories in Kim Cross's In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child book and Stephan Talty's Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era by Donovan X. Ramsey

20. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

By: Donovan X. Ramsey

4.36

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more

Similar categories in Donovan X. Ramsey's When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era book and Stephan Talty's Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco

  • american history
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever by Barbara Rae-Venter

21. I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever

By: Barbara Rae-Venter

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For twelve years the Golden State Killer terrorized California, stalking victims and killing withou… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Rae-Venter's I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever book and Stephan Talty's Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"The cost in time, personnel, and money for trying to identify the Golden State Killer prior to the use of IGG was significant,"

-Barbara Rae-Venter, I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever

Cover of When the Moon Turns to Blood: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and a Story of Murder, Wild Faith, and End Times by Leah Sottile

22. When the Moon Turns to Blood: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and a Story of Murder, Wild Faith, and End Times

By: Leah Sottile

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

WHEN THE MOON TURNS TO BLOOD examines the culture of end times paranoia and a trail of mysterious d… read more

Similar categories in Leah Sottile's When the Moon Turns to Blood: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and a Story of Murder, Wild Faith, and End Times book and Stephan Talty's Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • cults
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free by Sarah Weinman

23. Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free

By: Sarah Weinman

3.55

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Real Lolita and editor of Unspeakable Acts, the astonishing story of a murde… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Weinman's Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free book and Stephan Talty's Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Gentleman Bandit: The True Story of Black Bart, the Old West's Most Infamous Stagecoach Robber by John Boessenecker

24. Gentleman Bandit: The True Story of Black Bart, the Old West's Most Infamous Stagecoach Robber

By: John Boessenecker

3.90

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and award-winning historian John Boessenecker separates fact from… read more

Similar categories in John Boessenecker's Gentleman Bandit: The True Story of Black Bart, the Old West's Most Infamous Stagecoach Robber book and Stephan Talty's Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI by Jana Monroe

25. Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI

By: Jana Monroe

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Mindhunter, Criminal Minds, and My Favorite Murder, a riveting memoir of a trailblazing… read more

Similar categories in Jana Monroe's Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI book and Stephan Talty's Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco

  • history
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"The devil, or whatever force was behind that disembodied knife in her mind, has never made anyone do anything. The devil just applauds when it happens."

-Jana Monroe, Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI

"Our answers were rarely found in confessional sessions in a jailhouse interrogation room despite how hard serial killers like Ted Bundy and Edmund Kemper tried to play their interviewers. Our answers…"

-Jana Monroe, Hearts of Darkness: Serial Killers, the Behavioral Science Unit, and My Life as a Woman in the FBI

Cover of Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco by Stephan Talty

26. Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco

By: Stephan Talty

3.95

Format: 446 pages, Hardcover

The first comprehensive account of David Koresh's life, his road to Waco, and the rise of governmen… read more

Similar categories in Stephan Talty's Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco book and Stephan Talty's Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • cults
  • biography memoir
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy by Colin Dickey

27. Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy

By: Colin Dickey

3.90

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From beloved cultural historian and acclaimed author of Ghostland comes a history of America's obse… read more

Similar categories in Colin Dickey's Under the Eye of Power: How Fear of Secret Societies Shapes American Democracy book and Stephan Talty's Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco

  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias by Kevin Cook

28. Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias

By: Kevin Cook

3.88

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A news-making account of the war between David Koresh’s Branch Davidians and the FBI, and how their… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Cook's Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias book and Stephan Talty's Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco

  • american history
  • history
  • true crime
  • cults
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders by Howard Blum

29. 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 Stephan Talty's Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics by Elle Reeve

30. Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

By: Elle Reeve

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Pola… read more

Similar categories in Elle Reeve's Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics book and Stephan Talty's Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty by Valerie Bauerlein

31. The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty

By: Valerie Bauerlein

4.56

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Power, privilege, and blood—this is the definitive and thrilling true story of Alex Murdaugh’s viol… read more

Similar categories in Valerie Bauerlein's The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty book and Stephan Talty's Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook

29 Top audiobook books like Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco by Stephan Talty

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Practice to Deceive

Ann Rule

4.27

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The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land

Sally Denton

3.49

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Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer

Jillian Lauren

3.38

Transform Your Habits

Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi

Susan Hendricks

3.62

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White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy

Thomas F. Schaller

3.82

Transform Your Habits

They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms

Mike Hixenbaugh

4.48

Transform Your Habits

Finish What We Started: The MAGA Movement’s Ground War to End Democracy

Isaac Arnsdorf

3.92

Transform Your Habits

When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

John Ganz

4.23

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