7 best-selling biography books like A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy by Kathy Kleiner Rubin

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A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy

By: Kathy Kleiner Rubin

4.21

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In January 1978, I slept in my bed at the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University as T…

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1. Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone

By: Richard Lloyd Parry

4.58

Format: None pages, Hardcover

On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of nort… read more

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2. Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History

By: Bill Schutt , None

4.32

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

For centuries scientists have written off cannibalism as a bizarre phenomenon with little biologica… read more

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3. Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

By: Donnie Eichar

4.19

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriousl… read more

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4. Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

By: Jonathan Kennedy

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"Pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice."

-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

"Across the whole of the Americas, the introduction of infectious diseases from Europe resulted in a 90 percent fall in the population, from about 60.5 million in 1500 to 6 million a century later."

-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

"There is one universally incorrect choice: do nothing. This didn't work when humans thought that plagues were a punishment sent by angry gods. Nor does a laissez-faire approach help stop disease when…"

-Jonathan Kennedy, Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

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5. 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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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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6. 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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  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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7. Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries

By: Greg Melville

4.00

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our de… read more

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  • book club
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"Every life holds an epic tale, even if no one alive remembers it."

-Greg Melville, Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries

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8. Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries

By: Rick Emerson

3.96

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

Two teens. Two diaries. Two social panics. One incredible fraud. In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvente… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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9. The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis

By: Maria Smilios

4.33

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

New York City, 1929. A sanatorium, a deadly disease, and a dire nurse shortage. So begins the remar… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
  • audiobook
"Missouria took in Mr. Morris’s information and this system of demarcating lives. Maps and lines had defined her entire life. They were drawn throughout history, straightened, elongated, bent up and d…"

-Maria Smilios, The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis

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10. Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

By: Megan Rosenbloom

4.01

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest othe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • true crime
  • audiobook
"Human skin books—mostly made by nineteenth-century doctor bibliophiles—are the only books that are controversial not for the ideas they contain but for the physical makeup of the object itself."

-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

"Anthropodermic books tell a complicated and uncomfortable take about the development of clinical medicine and the doctoring class, and the worst of what can come from the collision of acquisitiveness…"

-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

"Many confirmed human skin books didn’t begin their print life in this controversial binding but were rebound by collectors, usually doctors who took the oldest or rarest texts in their private collec…"

-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

"No wonder the public persists in connecting the idea of human skin books with Nazis. It's easier to believe that objects of human skin are made by monsters like Nazis and serial killers, and not the …"

-Megan Rosenbloom, Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

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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

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"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. Goodbye Hello: Processing Grief and Understanding Death through the Paranormal

By: Adam Berry

4.41

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From paranormal investigator and host of Kindred Spirits Adam Berry comes Goodbye Hello , which ble… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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13. The Serial Killer's Apprentice

By: Katherine Ramsland

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A psychological examination of the blurred line between victim and accomplice―and how a killer can … read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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14. We Used to Live Here

By: Marcus Kliewer

3.84

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Get Out meets Parasite in this eerily haunting debut and Reddit hit—soon to be a Netflix original m… read more

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  • audiobook
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15. The Day I Die: The Untold Story of Assisted Dying in America

By: Anita Hannig

4.37

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An intimate investigation of assisted dying in America and what it means to determine the end of ou… read more

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  • book club
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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16. A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy

By: Kathy Kleiner Rubin

4.21

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

In January 1978, I slept in my bed at the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University as T… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • book club
  • audiobook
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17. Boys Enter the House: The Victims of John Wayne Gacy and the Lives They Left Behind

By: David B. Nelson

3.83

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

"Here is a work that emphasizes the full view of the lives of those young people that Gacy took. . … read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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18. Data Baby: My Life in a Psychological Experiment

By: Susannah Breslin

2.77

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

What if your parents turned you into a human lab rat on the day you were born? Would that change th… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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19. Without a Prayer: The Death of Lucas Leonard and How One Church Became a Cult

By: Susan Ashline

3.77

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The horrifying true story of a killing inside the secluded Word of Life Christian Church, a parish-… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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20. Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable

By: Sarah Gerard

3.44

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed author Sarah Gerard turns her keen observational eye and cutting yet compassionate prose … read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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21. Dark Tide: Growing Up With Ted Bundy

By: Edna Cowell Martin

4.11

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Including never-before-seen photos and handwritten letters from Bundy, Dark Tide’s message is as gu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • audiobook

18 Best audiobook books like A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy by Kathy Kleiner Rubin

Transform Your Habits

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues

Jonathan Kennedy

3.94

Transform Your Habits

While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students

J. Reuben Appelman

3.62

Transform Your Habits

Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless

Laurah Norton

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries

Greg Melville

4.00

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18 Best audiobook books like Goodbye Hello: Processing Grief and Understanding Death through the Paranormal by Adam Berry

Transform Your Habits

Into the Uncanny

Danny Robins

4.27

Transform Your Habits

A Haunting on the Hill

Elizabeth Hand

3.35

Transform Your Habits

I Cheerfully Refuse

Leif Enger

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless

Laurah Norton

3.87

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