24 best-selling true crime books like Duped: Why Innocent People Confess - And Why We Believe Their Confessions by Saul M. Kassin

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Duped: Why Innocent People Confess - And Why We Believe Their Confessions

By: Saul M. Kassin

4.15

Format: 424 pages, ebook

Why do people confess to crimes they did not commit? And, surely, those cases must be rare? In fact…

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1. And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic

By: William Greider , Randy Shilts

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

By the time Rock Hudson's death in 1985 alerted all America to the danger of the AIDS epidemic, the… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction

2. You Have the Right to Remain Innocent

By: None

4.06

Format: 368 pages,

Law professor James J. Duane became a viral sensation thanks to a 2008 lecture outlining the reason… read more

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3. The Children's Blizzard

By: David Laskin

3.50

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

A masterful portrait of a tragic crucible in the settlement of the American heartland - the 'Childr… read more

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4. Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders

By: Kathryn Miles

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

​Trailed is a beautifully written account of a great American tragedy--the unsolved murders of an u… read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Miles's Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders book and Saul M. Kassin's Duped: Why Innocent People Confess - And Why We Believe Their Confessions

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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5. Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters

By: Steven E. Koonin

4.27

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

“Surging sea levels are inundating the coasts.” “Hurricanes and tornadoes are becoming fiercer a… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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6. When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season

By: Rich Cohen

3.90

Format: 265 pages, Hardcover

The gritty, no-holds-barred account of the 1987 NBA season, a thrilling year of fierce battles and … read more

Similar categories in Rich Cohen's When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season book and Saul M. Kassin's Duped: Why Innocent People Confess - And Why We Believe Their Confessions

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence

By: James Renner

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Ann Rule and Gregg Olsen, a riveting new true crime book from the acclaimed author o… read more

Similar categories in James Renner's Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence book and Saul M. Kassin's Duped: Why Innocent People Confess - And Why We Believe Their Confessions

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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8. Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

By: Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the FBI’s former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America’s highways… read more

Similar categories in Frank Figliuzzi's Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers book and Saul M. Kassin's Duped: Why Innocent People Confess - And Why We Believe Their Confessions

  • true crime
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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9. 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 Saul M. Kassin's Duped: Why Innocent People Confess - And Why We Believe Their Confessions

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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10. Golden Boy: A Murder Among the Manhattan Elite

By: John Glatt

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Golden Boy, New York Times bestselling author John Glatt tells the true story of Thomas Gilbert … read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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11. We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

By: Erin Kimmerle

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Forensic anthropologist Erin Kimmerle investigates of the notorious Dozier Boys School--the true st… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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12. 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 Saul M. Kassin's Duped: Why Innocent People Confess - And Why We Believe Their Confessions

  • true crime
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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13. 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 Saul M. Kassin's Duped: Why Innocent People Confess - And Why We Believe Their Confessions

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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14. Horror Movie

By: Paul Tremblay

3.45

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more

Similar categories in Paul Tremblay's Horror Movie book and Saul M. Kassin's Duped: Why Innocent People Confess - And Why We Believe Their Confessions

  • audiobook
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15. The Truth About Aaron: My Journey to Understand My Brother

By: Jonathan Hernández

3.97

Format: None pages, Audio CD

5 Hours and 16 Minutes The unvarnished true story of the tragic life and death of Aaron Hernande… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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16. 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

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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17. What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

By: Barbara Butcher

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected a job at th… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Butcher's What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator book and Saul M. Kassin's Duped: Why Innocent People Confess - And Why We Believe Their Confessions

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
"People can handle the truth, but not uncertainty. The things they imagine are almost always more painful than the facts."

-Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

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18. Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century

By: Roseanne Montillo

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Exploring the darkly intertwined fates of infamous socialite Ann Woodward and literary icon Truman … read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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19. The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice

By: C. Alexander Hortis

3.61

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Before the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey Anthony—before even Lizzie Borden—there was P… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them by Max Cutler

20. Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them

By: Max Cutler

3.56

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

Mystery. Manipulation. Murder. Cults are associated with all of these. But what really goes on insi… read more

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  • true crime
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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21. The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer

By: Dean Jobb

3.62

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

“When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals,” Sherlock Holmes observed during one of … read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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22. Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System

By: M. Chris Fabricant

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An insider's journey into the heart of a broken, racist system of justice and the role junk science… read more

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  • true crime
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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23. The Serial Killer's Apprentice

By: Katherine Ramsland

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A psychological examination of the blurred line between victim and accomplice―and how a killer can … read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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24. The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective

By: Steve Ryan

4.22

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

After years working in homicide, retired Toronto detective Steve Ryan reflects on six cases he will… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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25. Gambler: Secrets from a Life at Risk

By: Billy Walters

3.84

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “An insightful read…Walters is a larger-than-life character.” — Sports … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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26. No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

By: Rachel Louise Snyder

4.50

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In No Visible Bruises, journalist Rachel Louise Snyder frames this urgent and immersive account of … read more

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  • true crime
  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • sociology
"Michelle saw was what so many other women before her had seen: that an abuser appears more powerful than the system."

-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

"The average batterer, Adams told me, “is more likable than his victim, because domestic violence affects victims a lot more than it affects batterers."

-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

"When I questioned whether she believed he really had changed, she said yes, but she also said she believed she could probably trigger him again in a minute."

-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

"The very fact that intimate partner violence is so often addressed in civil court, rather than criminal court, gives insight into how we as a society still view it."

-Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

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27. 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

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  • true crime
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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28. Duped: Why Innocent People Confess - And Why We Believe Their Confessions

By: Saul M. Kassin

4.15

Format: 424 pages, ebook

Why do people confess to crimes they did not commit? And, surely, those cases must be rare? In fact… read more

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  • social science
  • true crime
  • politics
  • law
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-up in Oakland by Ali Winston

29. The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-up in Oakland

By: Ali Winston

4.20

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

From the Polk Award–winning investigative duo comes “a meticulously researched and enraging account… read more

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  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better by Woo-Kyoung Ahn

30. Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better

By: Woo-Kyoung Ahn

3.82

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Psychologist Woo-kyoung Ahn devised a course at Yale University to help students examine the biases… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • psychology
  • audiobook
"When we keep trying to find answers to questions that are probably unanswerable, we may start to feel worse and worse."

-Woo-Kyoung Ahn, Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better

"Why did we create a society that not only forces most people to work to live but also makes even the most privileged feel like they have to work desperately hard all the time? We created a mythology …"

-Woo-Kyoung Ahn, Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better

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31. You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent

By: Justin Brooks

4.66

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Surviving prison as an innocent person is a surreal nightmare no one wants to think about. But it c… read more

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  • law
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime

26 Top audiobook books like Duped: Why Innocent People Confess - And Why We Believe Their Confessions by Saul M. Kassin

Transform Your Habits

Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders

Kathryn Miles

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters

Steven E. Koonin

4.27

Transform Your Habits

When the Game Was War: The NBA's Greatest Season

Rich Cohen

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence

James Renner

3.74

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5 Best adult books like The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective by Steve Ryan

Transform Your Habits

Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

Transform Your Habits

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

Laurah Norton

3.87

Transform Your Habits

The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective

Steve Ryan

4.22

Transform Your Habits

To Kill and Kill Again: The Terrifying True Story of Montana's Baby-Faced Serial Sex Murderer

John Coston

3.93

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