16 Top nonfiction books like The Last Ride by Martha Smith Tate

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The Last Ride

By: Martha Smith Tate

4.35

Format: 461 pages, Kindle Edition

The Last Ride is the first book ever written about the murder of prominent Nashville citizen W. Hay…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Last Ride by Martha Smith Tate , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. If I Am Missing or Dead: A Sister's Story of Love, Murder, and Liberation

By: Janine Latus

3.50

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In April 2002, Janine Latus's youngest sister, Amy, wrote a note and taped it to the inside of her … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of A Murder in Music City: Corruption, Scandal, and the Framing of an Innocent Man by None, Richard Walter, Michael  Lawson  Bishop

2. A Murder in Music City: Corruption, Scandal, and the Framing of an Innocent Man

By: None , Richard Walter , Michael Lawson Bishop

4.08

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

Nashville 1964. Eighteen-year-old babysitter Paula Herring is murdered in her home while her six-ye… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation by John Carlin

3. Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation

By: John Carlin

3.10

Format: 271 pages,

A thrilling, inspiring account of one of the greatest charm offensives in history--Nelson Mandela's… read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. Son

By: Jack Olsen

4.00

Format: 4 pages, Paperback

A classic from "the dean of true crime" (The Washington Post)--now with a new foreword--this 1983 m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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5. Never Enough

By: Joe McGinniss

3.78

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

At thirty-nine, Nancy Kissel had it all: glamour, gusto, garishly flaunted wealth, and the royal li… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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6. True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa

By: Michael Finkel

3.74

Format: 384 pages,

read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime

7. The Informant (Butcher's Boy, #3)

By: Thomas Perry

3.50

Format: 519 pages, Hardcover

In Thomas Perry's Edgar-winning debut The Butcher's Boy, a professional killer betrayed by the Mafi… read more

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8. A Death in White Bear Lake: The True Chronicle of an All-American Town

By: Barry Siegel

4.06

Format: 32 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"We want to talk to you about my brother who was murdered twenty-one years ago--can we come in?" Th… read more

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9. In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox

By: Carol Burnett

3.00

Format: 24 pages,

Comedy legend Carol Burnett tells the hilarious behind-the-scenes story of her iconic weekly variet… read more

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10. The Exchange

By: John Grisham

3.69

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham delivers high-flying international suspense in a … read more

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"Winning was always fun, but winning with class was far more important."

-John Grisham, The Exchange

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11. The Frozen River

By: Ariel Lawhon

4.43

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more

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12. Tom Lake

By: Ann Patchett

3.99

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more

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"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"

-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

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13. The River We Remember

By: William Kent Krueger

4.29

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

In 1958, a small Minnesota town is rocked by the murder of its most powerful citizen, pouring fresh… read more

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"Finally, she wrote: The most frightening thing we do in our lives is to love."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"People who make other people happy are generally pretty unhappy themselves," she said."

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"Bluestone said, " Hihanni waste ." "He honnay washtay?" Sam gave him a bewildered half smile. "I'm afraid I don't understand." "Exactly my point," Bluestone said. "I've lived in a white man's world a…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

"[Scott] heard the clock on the living room mantel strike midnight, and he could no longer lie there suffering. He slipped from his bed, dressed, and so quietly that he might not even have existed--an…"

-William Kent Krueger, The River We Remember

Cover of An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin

14. An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

An Unfinished Love A Personal History of the 1960s by Doris Kearns Goodwin, one of America’s most … read more

Similar categories in Doris Kearns Goodwin's An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s book and Martha Smith Tate's The Last Ride

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War by Erik Larson

15. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

By: Erik Larson

4.24

Format: 565 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"

-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

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16. Crow Mary

By: Kathleen Grissom

4.33

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of the book club classics The Kitchen House and Glory Over Ev… read more

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17. Silver Alert

By: Lee Smith

3.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

This funny and endearing novel of family, secrets, and aging follows an elderly man who heads off o… read more

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18. Everybody's Best Friend: The True Story of a Marriage That Ended In Murder

By: Ken Englade

3.90

Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition

The shocking murder that exposed a devoted husband as a cold-hearted killer To Love, Honor-And Mur… read more

Similar categories in Ken Englade's Everybody's Best Friend: The True Story of a Marriage That Ended In Murder book and Martha Smith Tate's The Last Ride

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Raising Emotionally Strong Boys: Tools Your Son Can Build On for Life by David                 Thomas

19. Raising Emotionally Strong Boys: Tools Your Son Can Build On for Life

By: David Thomas

4.58

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

About those meltdowns, blowups, and one-word answers . . . Some say that's just how boys are--pr… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Deadly Greed: The Riveting True Story of the Stuart Murder Case by Joe Sharkey

20. Deadly Greed: The Riveting True Story of the Stuart Murder Case

By: Joe Sharkey

4.02

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

The horrifying account of the Charles Stuart case, in which ambition drove a man to murder his preg… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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21. When the Men Were Gone

By: Marjorie Herrera Lewis

3.71

Format: 240 pages, ebook

In Marjorie Herrera Lewis’s debut historical novel the inspiring true story of high school teacher … read more

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"These boys would be better off hog-tied than playing for a woman!"

-Marjorie Herrera Lewis, When the Men Were Gone

Cover of Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5) by Elizabeth Strout

22. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

By: Elizabeth Strout

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more

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"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"

-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

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23. The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History

By: Nathalia Holt

4.18

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

In The Queens of Animation, author Nathalia Holt recounts the stories of a group of women who have … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Sadness transforms comedy, tingeing its edges with emotion and thus delivering fewer laughs but more real humor."

-Nathalia Holt, The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History

"It doesn't matter whether one's limbs are wooden or flesh; it is not out bodies that make us human but the way we treat one another."

-Nathalia Holt, The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History

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24. Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom

By: McCracken Poston Jr.

4.45

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Like a nonfiction John Grisham thriller with echoes of Rainman, Just Mercy, and a captivating small… read more

Similar categories in McCracken Poston Jr.'s Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom book and Martha Smith Tate's The Last Ride

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of An Unfinished Canvas: A True Story of Love, Family, and Murder in Nashville by Michael Glasgow

25. An Unfinished Canvas: A True Story of Love, Family, and Murder in Nashville

By: Michael Glasgow

4.11

Format: 456 pages, Kindle Edition

This true crime saga reveals the case of a missing Nashville woman, a husband on the run, and a rar… read more

Similar categories in Michael Glasgow's An Unfinished Canvas: A True Story of Love, Family, and Murder in Nashville book and Martha Smith Tate's The Last Ride

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of The Last Ride by Martha Smith Tate

26. The Last Ride

By: Martha Smith Tate

4.35

Format: 461 pages, Kindle Edition

The Last Ride is the first book ever written about the murder of prominent Nashville citizen W. Hay… read more

Similar categories in Martha Smith Tate's The Last Ride book and Martha Smith Tate's The Last Ride

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner

27. Long Island Compromise

By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner

3.88

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more

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28. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

By: Anthony Fauci

4.59

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Fauci's On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service book and Martha Smith Tate's The Last Ride

  • nonfiction
Cover of Welcome to Capitol Hill: Fifty Years of Scandal in Tennessee Politics by Joel Ebert

29. Welcome to Capitol Hill: Fifty Years of Scandal in Tennessee Politics

By: Joel Ebert

4.06

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Although Tennessee has a rich history of political scandals dating back to the founding of the stat… read more

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30. A Generous Pour: Tall Tales from the Backroom of Jimmy Kelly's

By: Mike Kelly

4.21

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of Jimmy Kelly’s Steak House, Nashville's oldest fine restaurant, and the family who star… read more

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31. Adelicia: Grace, Grit and Gumption

By: Joyce Blaylock

4.23

Format: 600 pages, Kindle Edition

ADELICIA Grace, Grit and Gumption is not a biography, but an historical fiction based on Adelicia's… read more

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