9 best-selling historical books like The Lost Diary of M by Paul Wolfe

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The Lost Diary of M

By: Paul Wolfe

3.11

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An engrossing debut novel that cannily reimagines the extraordinary life and mysterious death of bo…

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1. You Will Know Me

By: Megan Abbott

3.43

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

Katie and Eric Knox have dedicated their lives to their fifteen-year-old daughter Devon, a gymnasti… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"...there's a hundred ways sex can ruin you but there's no end to the ways love can."

-Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

"...like my own granddad used to say, if you get down to the nub of it, people don't change. That's not true, Katie thought. Not at all. Everyone changed, all the time. That was what was so hard."

-Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

"This sensible, sensible girl. A girl who knew how to protect herself. Never a daredevil, never stunting without a safety mat, without spotters. A girl for whom instability was the ultimate enemy. Who…"

-Megan Abbott, You Will Know Me

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2. JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died & Why It Matters

By: James W. Douglass , James W Douglas

4.36

Format: 510 pages, Hardcover

In this fascinating and disturbing book James Douglass presents a compelling account of why Preside… read more

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  • politics
  • audiobook
"If we go as far as we can into the darkness, regardless of the consequences, I believe a midnight truth will free us from our bondage to violence and bring us to the light of peace."

-James W. Douglass, JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died & Why It Matters

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3. Marilyn's Red Diary

By: E.Z. Friedel

4.16

Format: 76 pages, Kindle Edition

Based on shocking new information, MARILYN'S RED DIARY documents Miss Monroe's roller-coaster final… read more

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4. Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter

By: Randy L. Schmidt , Dionne Warwick

4.10

Format: 668 pages, Hardcover

Little Girl Blue is an intimate profile of Karen Carpenter, a girl from a modest Connecticut upbrin… read more

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5. The Hopefuls

By: Jennifer Close

3.91

Format: 736 pages,

When Beth arrives in Washington, D.C., she hates everything about it: the confusing traffic circles… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • politics
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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6. Reclaiming History: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy

By: Vincent Bugliosi

4.17

Format: None pages,

The nation's foremost prosecutor takes on the most important murder case in American history For ov… read more

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  • politics
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7. Strategic Moves (Stone Barrington, #19)

By: Stuart Woods , Tony Roberts

4.44

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Stone Barrington is enjoying his usual dinner at Elaine's when his boss at Woodman & Weld, the law … read more

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  • mystery
  • fiction
  • audiobook

8. The Kennedy Curse: Why Tragedy Has Haunted America's First Family for 150 Years

By: Edward Klein

3.88

Format: 588 pages,

Death was merciful to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, for it spared her a parent's worst nightmare: the… read more

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9. The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence

By: Clint Hill , Lisa McCubbin Hill , Gerald Blaine

3.65

Format: 304 pages, ebook

The New York Timesbestselling and extraordinary true story of the critical events leading up to and… read more

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10. Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination

By: Thom Hartmann , None

4.32

Format: 318 pages, Hardcover

The JFK assassination launched a flurry of covert actions to hide the fact that the US was on the b… read more

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11. Even The Stars Look Lonesome

By: Maya Angelou

3.72

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Even the Stars Look Lonesome is Maya Angelou talking of the things she cares about most. In her uni… read more

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12. All the President’s Men

By: Bob Woodward , Carl Bernstein

4.18

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

The full account of the Watergate scandal from the two Washington Post reporters who broke the stor… read more

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  • historical
  • politics
"The invariable question, asked only half-mockingly of reporters by editors at the Post (and then up the hierarchical line of editors) was 'What have you done for me today?' Yesterday was for the hist…"

-Bob Woodward, All the President’s Men

"Bernstein looked like one of those counterculture journalists that Woodward despised. Bernstein thought that Woodward's rapid rise at the Post had less to do with his ability than his Establishment c…"

-Bob Woodward, All the President’s Men

"Rosenfeld runs the metropolitan staff, the Post's largest, like a football coach. He prods his players, letting them know that he has promised the front office results, pleading, yelling, cajoling, p…"

-Bob Woodward, All the President’s Men

"Simons, as restrained as Bradlee could be hard-charging and obstreperous, liked to tell of watching Bradlee grind his cigarrettes out in a demitasse cup during a formal dinner party. Bradlee was one …"

-Bob Woodward, All the President’s Men

13. JFK Has Been Shot

By: Charles A. Crenshaw , J. Gary Shaw , None

3.91

Format: 360 pages,

"Thrilling, dramatic, historic." --Robert K. Tanenbaum Life And Death At Parkland Hospital On Novem… read more

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14. The Queen of the Night

By: Alexander Chee

3.93

Format: 265 pages, Hardcover

Lilliet Berne is a sensation of the Paris Opera, a legendary soprano with every accolade except an … read more

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15. 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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  • audiobook
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16. The Fervor

By: Alma Katsu

3.63

Format: 309 pages, Hardcover

A psychological and supernatural twist on the horrors of the Japanese American internment camps in … read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"No computer books for me. I love real books I can hold and open with excitement, anticipation and, yes, reverence. There is nothing like the smell of a book, bookshops and libraries"

-Alma Katsu, The Fervor

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17. America Fantastica

By: Tim O'Brien

3.45

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

At 11:34 a.m. one Saturday in August 2019, Boyd Halverson strode into Community National Bank in No… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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18. Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

By: Judith Heumann

4.48

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of f… read more

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  • politics
  • audiobook
"When other people see you as a third-class citizen, the first thing you need is a belief in yourself and the knowledge that you have rights. The next thing you need is a group of friends to fight bac…"

-Judith Heumann, Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

"When someone ignores you, it's an intentional display of power. They're essentially acting like you don't exist, and they do it because they can. They believe that nothing will happen to them. Ignori…"

-Judith Heumann, Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

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19. Frank Sinatra and the Mafia Murders

By: Mike Rothmiller

4.09

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

It was said of the young Frank Sinatra that he came across as "St Francis of Assisi with a shoulder… read more

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  • audiobook
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20. The Wicked Redhead (The Wicked City, #2)

By: Beatriz Williams

3.71

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

The dazzling narrator of The Wicked City brings her mesmerizing voice and indomitable spirit to ano… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. Her Last Flight

By: Beatriz Williams

4.15

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In 1947, photographer and war correspondent Janey Everett arrives at a remote surfing village on th… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
"But while a photograph may tell a thousand words, it doesn't tell the full story"

-Beatriz Williams, Her Last Flight

"I consider delivering some nonsense about how the cat’s had a pretty long run, wouldn’t you say, I mean I’ve never heard of a cat living nineteen years. But that’s the last thing you want to hear abo…"

-Beatriz Williams, Her Last Flight

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22. These Women

By: Ivy Pochoda

3.79

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In West Adams, a rapidly changing part of South Los Angeles, they’re referred to as “these women.” … read more

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  • mystery
  • feminism
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"These women... Give them a bone and they'll gnaw all day."

-Ivy Pochoda, These Women

"She craves the brutality of the attack because when it comes it will be a release."

-Ivy Pochoda, These Women

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23. The Summer I Met Jack

By: Michelle Gable

3.76

Format: 515 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author imagines the affair between JFK and Alicia Corning Clark - and th… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • politics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Jack loved Hollywood but could never sit through a full reel. Fifteen, twenty minutes in, he took to pacing, tapping, scratching doodles on a pad. Jack Kennedy was never at rest."

-Michelle Gable, The Summer I Met Jack

"When they weren't on the beach or sailing, Alicia and Jack were indoors, usually in the basement watching movies. Alicia missed so many important films during those frightening years."

-Michelle Gable, The Summer I Met Jack

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24. All the Demons Are Here

By: Jake Tapper

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Following his instant  New York Times  bestsellers  The Hellfire Club  and  The Devil May Dance , J… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • historical
  • politics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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25. Meghan and Harry: The Real Story

By: Lady Colin Campbell

3.69

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

The fall from popular grace of Prince Harry, the previously adulated brother of the heir to the Bri… read more

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  • politics
  • audiobook
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26. Reckless: Sex, Lies and JFK

By: Mike Rothmiller

3.93

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Drawing on new interviews and previously hidden police and intelligence files, Reckless finally rev… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of City of a Thousand Gates by Bee Sacks

27. City of a Thousand Gates

By: Bee Sacks

3.52

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A novel of great humanity, compassion, and astonishing immediacy, this inventive and unique debut c… read more

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  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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28. The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy

By: Jean Kennedy Smith

3.84

Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition

In this evocative and affectionate memoir, Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith, the last surviving child … read more

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  • politics
  • audiobook
"(Dad) could not abide us feeling sorry for ourselves. Life was far too good for us to whine about small things. It was selfish, and on top of that, it was boring."

-Jean Kennedy Smith, The Nine of Us: Growing Up Kennedy

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29. The Lost Diary of M

By: Paul Wolfe

3.11

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An engrossing debut novel that cannily reimagines the extraordinary life and mysterious death of bo… read more

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  • adult fiction
  • dc comics
  • feminism
  • politics
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan

30. Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

By: Maureen Callahan

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven exposé of the real Kenn… read more

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  • historical
  • politics
  • feminism
  • audiobook
Cover of Suppressing the Truth in Dallas: Conspiracy, Cover-Up, and International Complications in the JFK Assassination Case by Charles Brandt

31. Suppressing the Truth in Dallas: Conspiracy, Cover-Up, and International Complications in the JFK Assassination Case

By: Charles Brandt

3.25

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the #1 NYT bestseller I Heard You Paint Houses / The Irishman Featuring the eye… read more

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