11 Best american history books like Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta by Beverly Lowry

Cover of Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta by Beverly Lowry

Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta

By: Beverly Lowry

3.41

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The stunning true story of a murder that rocked the Mississippi Delta and forever shaped one author…

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Cover of The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars by Paul  Collins

1. The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars

By: Paul Collins

3.58

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

On Long Island, a farmer finds a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Pilgrim's Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier by Tom Kizzia

2. Pilgrim's Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier

By: Tom Kizzia

3.66

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

Into the Wildmeets Helter Skelterin this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land by Sally Denton

3. The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land

By: Sally Denton

3.49

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

On the morning of November 4, 2019, an unassuming caravan of women and children was ambushed by mas… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail by Andrea Lankford

4. Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

By: Andrea Lankford

3.76

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From a former law enforcement park ranger and investigator, this female-driven true crime adventure… read more

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  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
"A solo woman is more likely to survive a perilous incident in the outdoors than a solo man. Yet, the average female hiker fears for her safety more than the average guy does. Ironically, this phenome…"

-Andrea Lankford, Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

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

5. 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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  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi by Susan Hendricks

6. Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi

By: Susan Hendricks

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Former CNN/HLN anchor and veteran broadcast journalist Susan Hendricks takes an investigative deep-… read more

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  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story by Max  Marshall

7. Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story

By: Max Marshall

3.50

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

A brilliant young investigative journalist traces a murder and a multi-million-dollar drug ring, le… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper by Daniel Stashower

8. American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper

By: Daniel Stashower

3.50

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-winner Daniel Stashower returns with American Dem… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders by John Glatt

9. Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders

By: John Glatt

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Tangled Vines , bestselling true crime author John Glatt reconstructs the rise of the prestigiou… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys by Erin Kimmerle

10. 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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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America by Harry N. MacLean

11. Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America

By: Harry N. MacLean

3.71

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

The definitive story of Charles Starkweather, often considered to be the first mass killer in the m… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Blood & Ink: An Heiress, a Tabloid War, and the Unsolved Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime by Joe Pompeo

12. Blood & Ink: An Heiress, a Tabloid War, and the Unsolved Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime

By: Joe Pompeo

3.58

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Vanity Fair's Joe Pompeo investigates the notorious 1922 double murder of a high-society minister a… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind by Kate Winkler Dawson

13. All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind

By: Kate Winkler Dawson

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Kate Winkler Dawson tells the story of Edward Rulloff--a serial murderer who was called "too intell… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family by Susan Jonusas

14. Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family

By: Susan Jonusas

3.45

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier—shedding new light on a family of serial … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Evidence of Things Seen by Sarah Weinman

15. 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

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

16. 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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  • american history
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Blackwood by Michael Farris Smith

17. Blackwood

By: Michael Farris Smith

3.70

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

In this timeless, mythical tale of unforgiving justice and elusive grace, rural Mississippi townsfo… read more

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  • mystery
  • southern
  • crime
Cover of In the Pines: A Lynching, A Lie, A Reckoning by Grace Elizabeth Hale

18. 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

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World by Yepoka Yeebo

19. Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Looted the West, Outfoxed Washington, and Swindled the World

By: Yepoka Yeebo

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The astounding, never-before-told story of how an audacious Ghanaian con artist pulled off one of t… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University by Richard White

20. Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University

By: Richard White

3.26

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son.… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy by Alex  Mar

21. Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy

By: Alex Mar

3.98

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A masterful, revelatory work of literary non-fiction about a teenage girl's shocking crime--and its… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Helltown: The Untold Story of Serial Murder on Cape Cod by Casey Sherman

22. Helltown: The Untold Story of Serial Murder on Cape Cod

By: Casey Sherman

3.50

Format: 509 pages, ebook

Before Charles Manson, there was Tony Costa―the serial killer of Cape Cod 1969: The hippie scene… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night by Lisa Belkin

23. Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night

By: Lisa Belkin

3.77

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The multigenerational tale of three families whose paths collide one summer night in 1960 with the … read more

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  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder by Rachel Rear

24. Catch the Sparrow: A Search for a Sister and the Truth of Her Murder

By: Rachel Rear

3.68

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The gripping story of a young woman's murder, unsolved for over two decades, brilliantly investigat… read more

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  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta by Beverly Lowry

25. Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta

By: Beverly Lowry

3.41

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The stunning true story of a murder that rocked the Mississippi Delta and forever shaped one author… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • southern
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Delta in the Rearview Mirror: The Life and Death of Mississippi's First Winery by Di Rushing

26. The Delta in the Rearview Mirror: The Life and Death of Mississippi's First Winery

By: Di Rushing

4.59

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

After graduating from Mississippi State University in 1976, Di Rushing and her husband, Sam, found … read more

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  • memoir
Cover of A Most Tolerant Little Town: A Forgotten Story of Desegregation in America by Rachel Louise Martin

27. A Most Tolerant Little Town: A Forgotten Story of Desegregation in America

By: Rachel Louise Martin

4.22

Format: 384 pages, ebook

An intimate portrait of a small town living through tumultuous times, this propulsive piece of forg… read more

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  • american history
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America by Greg King

28. Nothing but the Night: Leopold & Loeb and the Truth Behind the Murder That Rocked 1920s America

By: Greg King

3.82

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Greg King and Penny Wilson turn the original crime of the century on its head in Nothing But the Ni… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of With the Devil's Help: A True Story of Poverty, Mental Illness, and Murder by Neal Wooten

29. With the Devil's Help: A True Story of Poverty, Mental Illness, and Murder

By: Neal Wooten

4.04

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of The Glass Castle, Educated, and Heartland, Neal Wooten traces five decades of h… read more

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  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida by Mikita Brottman

30. Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida

By: Mikita Brottman

3.54

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of the “enthralling” ( San Francisco Book Review ) An Unexplai… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Queen City Detective Agency by Snowden Wright

31. The Queen City Detective Agency

By: Snowden Wright

3.63

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Following an unforgettable cast of characters and a jaded female P.I. enmeshed in a criminal conspi… read more

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  • mystery
  • southern
  • crime

28 must-read audiobook books like Deer Creek Drive: A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta by Beverly Lowry

Transform Your Habits

The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars

Paul Collins

3.58

Transform Your Habits

Pilgrim's Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier

Tom Kizzia

3.66

Transform Your Habits

The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land

Sally Denton

3.49

Transform Your Habits

Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

Andrea Lankford

3.76

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Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

Transform Your Habits

The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

Griffin Dunne

4.19

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We Burn Daylight

Bret Anthony Johnston

3.95

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There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish

Anna Akbari

3.66

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