9 must-read biography books like Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy by Anne Sebba

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Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy

By: Anne Sebba

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Anne Sebba's moving biography of Ethel Rosenberg, the wife and mo…

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1. Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton

By: Linda Gray Sexton

3.97

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Linda Gray Sexton's critically acclaimed memoir is an honest, unsparing account of the anguish and … read more

Similar categories in Linda Gray Sexton's Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton book and Anne Sebba's Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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2. Roosevelt's Beast

By: Louis Bayard

3.84

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A reimagining of Teddy and Kermit Roosevelt's ill-fated 1914 Amazon expedition--a psychological twi… read more

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  • historical
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3. Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew

By: Brian Hicks

3.74

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

On December 4th, 1872, a 100-foot brigantine was discovered drifting through the North Atlantic wit… read more

Similar categories in Brian Hicks's Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew book and Anne Sebba's Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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4. The Lady in Red: An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal, and Divorce

By: Hallie Rubenhold

4.30

Format: None pages,

She was a spirited young heiress. He was a handsome baronet with a promising career in government. … read more

Similar categories in Hallie Rubenhold's The Lady in Red: An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal, and Divorce book and Anne Sebba's Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy

  • historical
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction

5. William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life

By: James Lee McDonough

3.00

Format: None pages,

A major new biography of one of America's most storied military figures. General Sherman's 1864 bur… read more

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6. The Hiltons: A Family Dynasty

By: J. Randy Taraborrelli

4.10

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

From New York Timesbestselling biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli comes an engrossing and revealing p… read more

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7. A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

By: Timothy Egan

4.38

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"

-Timothy Egan, A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

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8. Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe

By: John Guy

4.16

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

“A fierce, scholarly tour-de-force. . . .  Hunting the Falcon  brilliantly shows how time, circumst… read more

Similar categories in John Guy's Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe book and Anne Sebba's Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy

  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. 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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  • american history
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"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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10. Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt

By: Charlotte Gray

4.19

Format: 420 pages, Kindle Edition

A captivating dual biography of two famous women whose sons would change the course of the 20th cen… read more

Similar categories in Charlotte Gray's Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt book and Anne Sebba's Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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11. How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone

By: Cameron Russell

3.79

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A fierce and innovative memoir that explores who holds the power in an image-obsessed culture, from… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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12. Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics

By: Lawrence O'Donnell

4.41

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the celebrated host of MSNBC's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, an important and enthral… read more

Similar categories in Lawrence O'Donnell's Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics book and Anne Sebba's Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Most politicians are more frustrated by the way their own party disappoints them than the way the other party opposes them. They expect opposition from the opposing party. That’s the way it’s suppose…"

-Lawrence O'Donnell, Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics

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13. This Is the Voice

By: John Colapinto

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

There’s no shortage of books about public speaking, language, or song, but until now, there hasn't … read more

Similar categories in John Colapinto's This Is the Voice book and Anne Sebba's Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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14. How to Starve Cancer ...without starving yourself: The Discovery of a Metabolic Cocktail That Could Transform the Lives of Millions

By: Jane McLelland

4.42

Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition

A modern-day ‘Cancer Sherlock Holmes’, Jane discovered that a cancer-starving diet, powerful supple… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Although there are no trained oncology nutritionists at the moment, your own knowledge of what fuel your cancer prefers (the glutamine: glucose: lipid ratio) will guide food choices and help you star…"

-Jane McLelland, How to Starve Cancer ...without starving yourself: The Discovery of a Metabolic Cocktail That Could Transform the Lives of Millions

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15. Refugee High: Coming of Age in America

By: Elly Fishman

4.19

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For a century, Chicago's Roger C. Sullivan High School has been a landing place for migrants. In re… read more

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  • politics
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. War on the Border: Villa, Pershing, the Texas Rangers, and an American Invasion

By: Jeff Guinn

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Jeff Guinn, chronicler of the Southwestern US and of American undesirables (Bonnie and Clyde, Charl… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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17. A Lovely Girl: The Tragedy of Olga Duncan and the Trial of One of California's Most Notorious Killers

By: Deborah Holt Larkin

4.07

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

The incredible story of a 1958 murder that ended with the last woman to ever be executed in Califor… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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18. The Stasi Poetry Circle: The Creative Writing Class that Tried to Win the Cold War

By: Philip Oltermann

3.52

Format: 212 pages, ebook

The extraordinary true story of the Stasi's poetry Stasiland and The Lives of Others crossed with … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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19. Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy

By: Anne Sebba

3.90

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Anne Sebba's moving biography of Ethel Rosenberg, the wife and mo… read more

Similar categories in Anne Sebba's Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy book and Anne Sebba's Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy

  • espionage
  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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20. Four Friends: Promising Lives Cut Short

By: William D. Cohan

3.65

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A powerful portrait of the lives of four boarding school graduates who died too young, John F. Kenn… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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21. A Funny Kind of Paradise

By: Jo Owens

4.10

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

When her husband left her with a baby, a toddler and a fledgling business, Francesca managed--she w… read more

Similar categories in Jo Owens's A Funny Kind of Paradise book and Anne Sebba's Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy

  • audiobook

12 Best audiobook books like Ethel Rosenberg: An American Tragedy by Anne Sebba

Transform Your Habits

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

Timothy Egan

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe

John Guy

4.16

Transform Your Habits

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

Erik Larson

4.24

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How to Make Herself Agreeable to Everyone

Cameron Russell

3.79

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Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe

John Guy

4.16

Transform Your Habits

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

Doris Kearns Goodwin

4.71

Transform Your Habits

Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House

Jared Cohen

4.27

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The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: The Women Who Created a President

Edward F. O'Keefe

4.25

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