22 Best history books like True Crime Philadelphia: From America's First Bank Robbery to the Real-Life Killers Who Inspired Boardwalk Empire by Kathryn Canavan

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True Crime Philadelphia: From America's First Bank Robbery to the Real-Life Killers Who Inspired Boardwalk Empire

By: Kathryn Canavan

3.77

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

A guided tour of Philadelphia's underworld, revealing the places where deals were made, people were…

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1. Wiseguy

By: Nicholas Pileggi

0.00

Format: 798 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"Wiseguy" is Nicholas Pileggi's remarkable bestseller, the most intimate account ever printed of li… read more

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  • history
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime

2. The Duel: The Parallel Lives of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr

By: Judith St. George

3.89

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In curiously parallel lives, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr were both orphaned at an early age. … read more

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3. 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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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of The Final Witness: A Kennedy Secret Service Agent Breaks His Silence After Sixty Years by Paul Landis

4. The Final Witness: A Kennedy Secret Service Agent Breaks His Silence After Sixty Years

By: Paul Landis

3.73

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Dallas, Texas. November 22, 1963. Shots ring out at Dealey Plaza. The president is struck in the he… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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5. 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

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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6. The Facemaker

By: Lindsey Fitzharris

4.29

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true s… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics

By: Bruce Goldfarb

3.69

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The story of the Gilded Age Chicago heiress who revolutionized forensic death investigation. As the… read more

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  • history
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of The Private Life of Spies and The Exquisite Art of Getting Even: Stories of Espionage and Revenge by Alexander McCall Smith

8. The Private Life of Spies and The Exquisite Art of Getting Even: Stories of Espionage and Revenge

By: Alexander McCall Smith

3.63

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

From the beloved author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series comes a new short story half … read more

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9. Tom Clancy Act of Defiance

By: Brian Andrews

4.65

Format: 559 pages, Kindle Edition

When a Russian superweapon is let loose under the waves, it's up to President Jack Ryan to find a c… read more

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10. The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder

By: Edward Humes

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

After 30 years, Detective Jim Scharf arrested a teenage couple's murderer—and exposed a looming bat… read more

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  • history
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! by David Zucker

11. Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!

By: David Zucker

4.17

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy class… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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12. Red Sky Mourning (Terminal List #7)

By: Jack Carr

4.54

Format: 576 pages, Kindle Edition

You think you know James Reece. Think again. A storm is on the horizon. America’s days are numbe… read more

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13. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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14. 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

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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15. The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

By: Rosemary Sullivan

3.83

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept... Using new technology, recently discovered doc… read more

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  • history
  • crime
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"The fact that Otto survived the horror of the concentration camps demonstrated his profound will to live."

-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

"Fascism counts on people's credulity, on their craving to believe, on their fear that there is nothing to believe."

-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

"While someone with the first person knowledge is still alive, while records are still available, while relatives of witnesses can come forward, the stories must be told."

-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

"The Netherlands in 1940 was like a petri dish in which one can examine how people brought up in freedom react to catastrophe when it is brought to their door: It is a questions still worth asking tod…"

-Rosemary Sullivan, The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation

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16. Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell (Frontier Lawmen)

By: Tom Clavin

4.03

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The true story of the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday, and the famous Battle at the OK Corral, by the N… read more

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  • history
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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17. The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain: The Immersive and Brilliant Historical Guide to Regency Britain

By: Ian Mortimer

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

'Ian Mortimer's Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain tells you all you need to know about crim… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain by Charles Leerhsen

18. Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain

By: Charles Leerhsen

3.31

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling, “unvarnished” ( The New York Times ), “engrossing” ( The Guardian ), “gritty, well… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Mark Dawidziak

19. A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe

By: Mark Dawidziak

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author’s life through the prism of his my… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends will call it.' -- EDGAR ALLAN POE"

-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe

"The glow of the fireside poets failed to warm a world coping with the cold realities of a new century. Their light faded as we became less sure of comforting messages and more intrigued by Poe's trou…"

-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe

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20. 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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21. The End of Policing

By: Alex S. Vitale

4.19

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

The problem is not overpolicing, it is policing itself Recent years have seen an explosion of pr… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Our standard of living is not declining because of migrants but because of unregulated neoliberal capitalism, which has allowed corporations and the rich to avoid paying taxes or decent wages. It is …"

-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

"There is no question that American police use their weapons more than police in any other developed democracy. Unfortunately, we don’t have fully accurate information about the number or nature of ho…"

-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

"As Jeffrey Reiman points out in the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison, the criminal justice system excuses and ignores crimes of the rich that produce profound social harms while intensely crim…"

-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

"Heavy-handed immigration policing will not build a worker’s movement, it will shatter it. One of the mistakes that Trump supporters make is imagining that their own economic conditions will be improv…"

-Alex S. Vitale, The End of Policing

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22. Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty

By: Jeff Pearlman

4.28

Format: 426 pages, Hardcover

The story of the Lakers dynasty from 1996 through 2004, when Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal combi… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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23. Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders

By: Billy Jensen

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Have you ever wanted to solve a murder? Gather the clues the police overlooked? Put together the pi… read more

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"The thought makes my teeth gnash and my lip snarl and my jaw fill with a scream. A scream that always has the same chorus. What they took away, seemingly so easily, was a person. "This was a person!"…"

-Billy Jensen, Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders

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24. The Divorce Colony: How Women Revolutionized Marriage and Found Freedom on the American Frontier

By: April White

3.54

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From a historian and senior editor at Atlas Obscura, a fascinating account of the daring nineteenth… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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

25. 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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Cover of Murder at the Crown and Anchor (Cleopatra Fox, #6) by C.J. Archer

26. Murder at the Crown and Anchor (Cleopatra Fox, #6)

By: C.J. Archer

4.15

Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition

A wealthy businessman with a reputation for taking risks rose from the slums to the height of succe… read more

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27. Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages

By: Jack Hartnell

3.92

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Just like us, medieval men and women worried about growing old, got blisters and indigestion, fell … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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28. True Crime Philadelphia: From America's First Bank Robbery to the Real-Life Killers Who Inspired Boardwalk Empire

By: Kathryn Canavan

3.77

Format: 252 pages, Kindle Edition

A guided tour of Philadelphia's underworld, revealing the places where deals were made, people were… read more

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Cover of The Socialite's Guide to Murder (Pinnacle Hotel Mystery, #1) by S.K. Golden

29. The Socialite's Guide to Murder (Pinnacle Hotel Mystery, #1)

By: S.K. Golden

3.41

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

The hotel was her refuge, but scandal is afoot—and a killer stalks the halls in this charming serie… read more

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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

30. 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

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Cover of Life on the Grocery Line (Second Edition): A Frontline Experience in a Global Pandemic by Adam Kaat

31. Life on the Grocery Line (Second Edition): A Frontline Experience in a Global Pandemic

By: Adam Kaat

3.43

Format: 185 pages, Kindle Edition

On his first day as a cashier at Dream Grocers, Daniel imagines that the worst he’ll have to deal w… read more

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Jillian Lauren

3.38

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The Final Witness: A Kennedy Secret Service Agent Breaks His Silence After Sixty Years

Paul Landis

3.73

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3.66

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4.25

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Michelle McNamara

4.12

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4.07

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