18 best-selling nonfiction books like In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took On the US Army by Charles Barber

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In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took On the US Army

By: Charles Barber

4.30

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The "high-stakes" true story of how an absent-minded inventor and a down-on-his-luck salesman joine…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took On the US Army by Charles Barber , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Encounters with Jesus: Unexpected Answers to Life's Biggest Questions

By: Timothy J. Keller

4.17

Format: 251 pages, Hardcover

Renowned pastor and New York Timesbestselling author of The Songs of Jesus Timothy Keller shows how… read more

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  • nonfiction

2. The Airbnb Story: How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions . . . and Created Plenty of Controversy

By: Leigh Gallagher

4.28

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

This is the remarkable behind-the-scenes story of the creation and growth of Airbnb, the online lod… read more

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3. Shoeless Joe

By: W.P. Kinsella

3.97

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“If you build it, he will come.” These mysterious words inspire Ray Kinsella to create a cornfi… read more

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"I'm not trying to bleed you. I want to renew you."

-W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe

"Any game becomes important when you know and love the players."

-W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe

"Serenity is a very elusive quality. I've been trying all my life to find it."

-W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe

"I am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger's gray head."

-W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe

4. Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894

By: Daniel James Brown

3.80

Format: 220 pages,

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5. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • history
Cover of Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer by Jillian Lauren

6. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • history
Cover of The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I by Douglas Brunt

7. The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

By: Douglas Brunt

4.23

Format: 374 pages, Kindle Edition

This instant New York Times bestselling “dynamic detective story” (The New York Times) reveals the … read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • science
"But the prevailing and indelible lesson, learned through traumatic personal experience, was his understanding of the family’s security. War and industrial innovation could destroy the life a family h…"

-Douglas Brunt, The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I

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8. Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments

By: Joe Posnanski

4.56

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

A masterful ode to the a countdown of 50 of the most memorable moments in baseball’s history, to m… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel

9. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

By: Michael Finkel

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the worl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • history
"Museums are secular churches . . . and to steal there is blasphemous."

-Michael Finkel, The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

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10. The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean

By: Susan Casey

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author Susan Casey, an awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the … read more

Similar categories in Susan Casey's The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean book and Charles Barber's In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took On the US Army

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
Cover of Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery by Earl Swift

11. Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery

By: Earl Swift

3.98

Format: 419 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Chesapeake Requiem comes a gripping new wor… read more

Similar categories in Earl Swift's Hell Put to Shame: The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery book and Charles Barber's In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took On the US Army

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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12. The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang

By: Tom Clavin

3.67

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

The definitive account of the Dalton Gang and the most brazen bank heist in history, by the multipl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • history
Cover of For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug by Nathan Vardi

13. For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug

By: Nathan Vardi

4.30

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A gripping business narrative and scientific thriller about what it takes to bring a wonder drug to… read more

Similar categories in Nathan Vardi's For Blood and Money: Billionaires, Biotech, and the Quest for a Blockbuster Drug book and Charles Barber's In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took On the US Army

  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era by Donovan X. Ramsey

14. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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15. Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

By: Mark Harmon

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account.… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
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16. Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy

By: Matthew Campbell

4.24

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“A triumph of investigative journalism.” —Tom Wright, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Billio… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Curse of the Marquis de Sade: A Notorious Scoundrel, a Mythical Manuscript, and the Biggest Scandal in Literary History by Joel Warner

17. The Curse of the Marquis de Sade: A Notorious Scoundrel, a Mythical Manuscript, and the Biggest Scandal in Literary History

By: Joel Warner

3.60

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The captivating, deeply reported true story of how one of the most notorious novels ever written—Ma… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took On the US Army by Charles Barber

18. In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took On the US Army

By: Charles Barber

4.30

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The "high-stakes" true story of how an absent-minded inventor and a down-on-his-luck salesman joine… read more

Similar categories in Charles Barber's In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took On the US Army book and Charles Barber's In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took On the US Army

  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • historical
  • medicine
  • military fiction
  • war
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • science
Cover of Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever by Joseph Cox

19. Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever

By: Joseph Cox

4.12

Format: None pages, None

The inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI made its own… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually by Meichi Ng

20. Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually

By: Meichi Ng

4.16

Format: 401 pages, Hardcover

From the creator of Barely Functional Adult, a painfully relatable webcomic with over 125k follower… read more

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  • adult
  • nonfiction
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21. What the Taliban Told Me

By: Ian Fritz

3.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, timely memoir of a young Air Force linguist coming-of-age in a war that is lost. When … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • military fiction
  • war

6 best-selling adult books like In the Blood: How Two Outsiders Solved a Centuries-Old Medical Mystery and Took On the US Army by Charles Barber

Transform Your Habits

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

Casey Sherman

3.71

Transform Your Habits

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

Jillian Lauren

3.38

Transform Your Habits

The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

Michael Finkel

3.97

Transform Your Habits

The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang

Tom Clavin

3.67

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5 must-read fiction books like Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella

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The Natural

Bernard Malamud , Kevin Baker

4.12

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The Actual : A Novella

Saul Bellow

3.26

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Shoeless Joe

W.P. Kinsella

3.97

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The Shadow of War: A Novel of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Jeff Shaara

4.33

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