13 best-selling true crime books like I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor's Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope by Chessy Prout

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I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor's Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope

By: Chessy Prout

4.41

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

“A bold, new voice.” —People“A nuanced addition to the #MeToo conversation.” —ViceA young survivor …

"#IHaveTheRightTo"

-Chessy Prout, I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor's Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope

If you liked the true crime plot in I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor's Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope by Chessy Prout , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland

By: Kevin Sullivan , None , Gina DeJesus , Mary Jordan , Amanda Berry

4.35

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

Two women kidnapped by infamous Cleveland school-bus driver Ariel Castro share the stories of their… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Sullivan's Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland book and Chessy Prout's I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor's Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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2. For Laci: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Justice

By: Sharon Rocha

4.29

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

Laci Rocha Peterson, 8 months pregnant, was last seen by her sister, Amy, in the late afternoon of … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

By: Sue Klebold

4.14

Format: 336 pages, ebook

On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Co… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"A faraway look—I have heard suicidologist Thomas Joiner refer to it as “the thousand-yard stare"

-Sue Klebold, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

"Asking 'why' only makes us feel hopeless. Asking 'how' points the way forward, and shows us what we must do"

-Sue Klebold, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

"Indeed, I would not achieve the integration I sought until I found two nutrients essential to so many survivors. First, I found community and then I found a way to contribute."

-Sue Klebold, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

"People refer to the fog of war, and I am sure something similar applies to my situation. If I hadn't kept a running record of the days, weeks, and years, the fog would have swallowed too much of the …"

-Sue Klebold, A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy

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4. Lord Dashwood Missed Out (Spindle Cove, #4.5)

By: Tessa Dare

4.26

Format: 331 pages, ebook

A snowstorm hath no fury like a spinster scorned! Miss Elinora Browning grew up yearning for the ha… read more

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5. What Made Maddy Run: The Secret Struggles and Tragic Death of an All-American Teen

By: Kate Fagan

3.61

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

*InstantNew York TimesBestseller* The #1 New York Times Monthly Sports and Fitness bestseller From … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook

6. My Story

By: Chris Stewart , Elizabeth Smart

4.12

Format: None pages, Hardcover

For the first time, ten years after her abduction from her Salt Lake City bedroom, Elizabeth Smart … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

7. Ghost of the Innocent Man: A True Story of Trial and Redemption

By: Benjamin Rachlin

3.72

Format: 134 pages, Hardcover

"A crisply written page turner."-NPR During the last two decades, more than two thousand American c… read more

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8. Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy

By: Donald Miller

4.20

Format: 251 pages, Audio CD

New York Timesbestselling memoirist Donald Miller takes readers on his year-long journey to learn t… read more

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9. The Pox Party (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, #1)

By: M.T. Anderson

3.54

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

It sounds like a fairy tale. He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest of cl… read more

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  • teen
  • audiobook
"At long last, you may no longer distinguish what binds you from what is you."

-M.T. Anderson, The Pox Party (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, #1)

"I went to him & put my Hand upon his Shoulder. Said he to me, “God forgive me. Her Name — I never knew her Name."

-M.T. Anderson, The Pox Party (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, #1)

"Empedolces claims that in utero, our backbone is one long solid; and that through the constriction of the womb and the punishments of birth it must be snapped again and again to form our vertebrae; t…"

-M.T. Anderson, The Pox Party (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, #1)

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10. Vanishing Edge (National Parks Mystery, #1)

By: Claire Kells

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Christine Carbo and Scott Graham, an ex-FBI agent is on a desperate hunt for a party of… read more

Similar categories in Claire Kells's Vanishing Edge (National Parks Mystery, #1) book and Chessy Prout's I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor's Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope

  • audiobook
Cover of Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence by James Renner

11. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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12. Kent State

By: Deborah Wiles

3.96

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

An exploration of one of the darkest moments in our history, when American troops killed four Ameri… read more

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  • teen
  • audiobook
"When the State silences freedom of assembly and freedom to dissent, it silences the people it is sworn to protect."

-Deborah Wiles, Kent State

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13. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of One Way Back: A Memoir by Christine Blasey Ford

14. One Way Back: A Memoir

By: Christine Blasey Ford

4.30

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

On September 27, 2018, Christine Blasey Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee which … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of And How Does That Make You Feel?: Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Therapy by Joshua Fletcher

15. And How Does That Make You Feel?: Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Therapy

By: Joshua Fletcher

4.23

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the closed door of the therapist's office? Psychotherapi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of When the World Didn't End: A Memoir by Guinevere Turner

16. When the World Didn't End: A Memoir

By: Guinevere Turner

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this immersive, spell-binding memoir, an acclaimed screenwriter tells the story of her childhood… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir

By: Lacy Crawford

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A riveting, lucid memoir of a young woman's struggle to regain her sense of self after trauma, and … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Teachers refused to punish me, which is another way of saying that they refused to look after me."

-Lacy Crawford, Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir

"Walking the path to classes, I had its beat in my head: Now get up and go. Now get up and go. There was no city, but I substituted a hazy notion of future. I liked to think there was a direction for …"

-Lacy Crawford, Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir

"Walking the path to classes, I had its beat in my heard: Now get up and go. Now get up and go. There was no city, but I substituted a hazy notion of future. I liked to think there was a direction for…"

-Lacy Crawford, Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir

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18. Her, Too

By: Bonnie Kistler

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Defending an accused rapist, a high-powered lawyer learns firsthand the terrible truth about her cl… read more

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  • feminism
  • audiobook
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19. Coming Home

By: Brittney Griner

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the nine-time women’s basketball icon and two-time Olympic gold medalist—a raw, revelatory acc… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
"When your world is violently upended, you don't just mourn your immediate losses. You also grieve a future that no longer feels possible, the peace that might've been."

-Brittney Griner, Coming Home

Cover of Finding Baby Holly: Lost to a Cult, Surviving My Parents' Murders, and Saved by Prayer by Holly Marie

20. Finding Baby Holly: Lost to a Cult, Surviving My Parents' Murders, and Saved by Prayer

By: Holly Marie

3.41

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Holly Marie was forty-two years old the day she found out she was missing.   At ten months old, H… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century by Roseanne Montillo

21. 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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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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22. Root Magic

By: Eden Royce

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"A poignant, necessary entry into the children's literary canon, Root Magic brings to life the hist… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed by Dashka Slater

23. Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed

By: Dashka Slater

4.30

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

When a high school student started a private Instagram account that used racist and sexist memes to… read more

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  • high school
  • true crime
  • teen
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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24. The Weight of Beautiful

By: Jackie Goldschneider

4.30

Format: 239 pages, Hardcover

Jackie Goldschneider, star of The Real Housewives of New Jersey , bravely chronicles her decades-lo… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession by Alexandra Robbins

25. The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession

By: Alexandra Robbins

4.19

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

The hit national bestseller - a New York Times Spring Nonfiction Pick, USA Today "Hottest New Book… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • social justice
  • audiobook
"Teachers deserve a well-defined, realistic job description and enough protected school day planning time to fulfill that job within their paid contracted hours."

-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession

"Teachers deserve to helm every committee determining school operations rather than policymakers who proclaim what should happen in the classroom despite never having taught in one."

-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession

"Teachers deserve a safe working environment in which violence is not tolerated from students, parents, or staff, and educators can report it and other transgressions without fear of retaliation."

-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession

"By the fall of 2021, schools across the country had lost a staggering number of teachers, paraeducators, substitutes, bus drivers, and other staff who quit, retired early, got sick, or died because o…"

-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession

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26. Know My Name

By: Chanel Miller

4.70

Format: 384 pages, ebook

She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had b… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"No matter how awful and long your journey, I can promise you the turn. One day it will lift."

-Chanel Miller, Know My Name

"I am a victim, I have no qualms with this word, only with the idea that it is all that I am."

-Chanel Miller, Know My Name

"This book does not have a happy ending. The happy part is there is no ending, because I’ll always find a way to keep going."

-Chanel Miller, Know My Name

"We force her to think hard about what this will mean for his life, even though he never considered what his actions would do to her."

-Chanel Miller, Know My Name

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27. Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

By: Olivia A. Cole

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

This searing and intimate novel in verse follows a sixteen-year-old girl coping with sexual abuse a… read more

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  • feminism
"I remember the thing that I saw on Tumblr, how people with trauma will sometimes reexpose themselves to it, salt in the wound to stay alive. I am tired of salting the wound - I am ready to salt the e…"

-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

"My hair is the color of a dart frog: generations of death adapting into this exact shade of poison ...bright red and orange, the colors of pain, I WILL MAKE YOU SICK I WILL KILL YOU FROM INSIDE YOUR …"

-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

"The last barbecue I went to was at Sarah's house and I almost text her to tell her how when you have so many memories with one person, it's like a crime scene after they're gone. Fingerprints everywh…"

-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

"My mother thinks I’ve dyed my hair red for attention— How can I explain to her the ways that she is right and wrong. As of last night, my hair is the color of a brick the moment before it goes throug…"

-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

Cover of Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder by Mikita Brottman

28. Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder

By: Mikita Brottman

3.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times Book ReviewCritically acclaimed author and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman offers … read more

Similar categories in Mikita Brottman's Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder book and Chessy Prout's I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor's Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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29. I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor's Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope

By: Chessy Prout

4.41

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

“A bold, new voice.” —People“A nuanced addition to the #MeToo conversation.” —ViceA young survivor … read more

Similar categories in Chessy Prout's I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor's Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope book and Chessy Prout's I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor's Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope

  • high school
  • biography
  • teen
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
"#IHaveTheRightTo"

-Chessy Prout, I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor's Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope

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30. Picnic in the Ruins

By: Todd Robert Petersen

3.60

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A madcap caper across the RV-strewn vacation lands of southern Utah meets a meditation on mythology… read more

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31. Parkland Speaks: Survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas Share Their Stories

By: Sarah Lerner

4.52

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Featuring art and writing from the students of the Parkland tragedy, this is a raw look at the even… read more

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  • biography
  • teen
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction

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