20 Top nonfiction books like Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist by Lisa G. Bailey

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Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

By: Lisa G. Bailey

3.75

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Told with unflinching honesty and a touch of gallows humor, Clay and Bones is the personal memoir o…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist by Lisa G. Bailey , here is a list of 20 books like this:

1. The Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death

By: John Bateson

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Dr. Judy Melinek's Working Stiff, an account of the hair-raising and heartbreaking c… read more

Similar categories in John Bateson's The Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death book and Lisa G. Bailey's Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

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2. A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime

By: Casey Sherman

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The dark story behind the bright lights of Tinseltown From the outside, Hollywood starlet Lana Turn… read more

Similar categories in Casey Sherman's A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime book and Lisa G. Bailey's Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

  • biography
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of All Bleeding Stops: Life and Death in the Trauma Unit by Stephen M. Cohn

3. All Bleeding Stops: Life and Death in the Trauma Unit

By: Stephen M. Cohn

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A gripping portrait of trauma surgeons and their place in the controlled chaos of a trauma center, … read more

Similar categories in Stephen M. Cohn's All Bleeding Stops: Life and Death in the Trauma Unit book and Lisa G. Bailey's Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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4. The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder

By: Douglas Preston

3.81

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

Douglas Preston, the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God , presents jaw-droppi… read more

Similar categories in Douglas Preston's The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder book and Lisa G. Bailey's Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. Between Two Trailers

By: J. Dana Trent

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer to earn a… read more

Similar categories in J. Dana Trent's Between Two Trailers book and Lisa G. Bailey's Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. 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 Lisa G. Bailey's Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. 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 Lisa G. Bailey's Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

  • audiobook
  • true crime
  • memoir
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • science
Cover of Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York by Barbara Weisberg

8. Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York

By: Barbara Weisberg

3.43

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Shocking revelations of a wife’s adultery explode in an incendiary nineteenth-century trial, exposi… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Weisberg's Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York book and Lisa G. Bailey's Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds

By: Michelle Horton

4.52

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking memoir about two sisters and a high-profile Nikki Addimando, incarcerated for killi… read more

Similar categories in Michelle Horton's Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds book and Lisa G. Bailey's Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • adult
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. 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 Lisa G. Bailey's Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. 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 Lisa G. Bailey's Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

  • audiobook
  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • adult
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • science
"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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12. 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

Similar categories in C. Alexander Hortis's The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice book and Lisa G. Bailey's Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning by Grace Elizabeth Hale

13. In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning

By: Grace Elizabeth Hale

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“Courageous and compelling…essential and critically important.” —Bryan Stevenson An award-winnin… read more

Similar categories in Grace Elizabeth Hale's In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning book and Lisa G. Bailey's Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks by David Gibbins

14. A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks

By: David Gibbins

3.44

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human … read more

Similar categories in David Gibbins's A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks book and Lisa G. Bailey's Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • science
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15. 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 Lisa G. Bailey's Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • adult
  • 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 Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist by Lisa G. Bailey

16. Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

By: Lisa G. Bailey

3.75

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Told with unflinching honesty and a touch of gallows humor, Clay and Bones is the personal memoir o… read more

Similar categories in Lisa G. Bailey's Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist book and Lisa G. Bailey's Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

  • audiobook
  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • adult
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • science
Cover of The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels by Pamela Prickett

17. The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels

By: Pamela Prickett

4.08

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon—the rising number of unclai… read more

Similar categories in Pamela Prickett's The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels book and Lisa G. Bailey's Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of If Love Could Kill: The Myths and Truths of Women Who Commit Violence by Anna Motz

18. If Love Could Kill: The Myths and Truths of Women Who Commit Violence

By: Anna Motz

3.84

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking work by an internationally acclaimed forensic psychotherapist that looks at women … read more

Similar categories in Anna Motz's If Love Could Kill: The Myths and Truths of Women Who Commit Violence book and Lisa G. Bailey's Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The True Crime File: Serial Killings, Famous Kidnappings, Great Cons, Survivors and Their Stories, Forensics, and More by Kim Daly

19. The True Crime File: Serial Killings, Famous Kidnappings, Great Cons, Survivors and Their Stories, Forensics, and More

By: Kim Daly

3.93

Format: 391 pages, Kindle Edition

Perfect for newcomers and hardened crime junkies alike, The True Crime File is an impulse gift book… read more

Similar categories in Kim Daly's The True Crime File: Serial Killings, Famous Kidnappings, Great Cons, Survivors and Their Stories, Forensics, and More book and Lisa G. Bailey's Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • adult
Cover of A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession That Changed a Small Town Forever by Kim Mager

20. A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession That Changed a Small Town Forever

By: Kim Mager

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this fascinating & profoundly chilling account, Detective Kim Mager , a real-life version of Cla… read more

Similar categories in Kim Mager's A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession That Changed a Small Town Forever book and Lisa G. Bailey's Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death by Spencer Henry

21. Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death

By: Spencer Henry

3.74

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Based on the popular podcast, The Big Hot Book of Death is a smart, funny look at the American cul… read more

Similar categories in Spencer Henry's Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death book and Lisa G. Bailey's Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • science

16 Top adult books like Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist by Lisa G. Bailey

Transform Your Habits

A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime

Casey Sherman

3.71

Transform Your Habits

The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder

Douglas Preston

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Between Two Trailers

J. Dana Trent

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

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8 Top adult books like The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels by Pamela Prickett

Transform Your Habits

Between Two Trailers

J. Dana Trent

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Strong Passions: A Scandalous Divorce in Old New York

Barbara Weisberg

3.43

Transform Your Habits

The Manicurist's Daughter

Susan Lieu

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood

Gretchen Sisson

4.38

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