6 must-read true crime books like Against My Will by Douglas Wight

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Against My Will

By: Douglas Wight

3.97

Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Asperger’s made me a prisoner in my own home. When I finally entered the real world, evil was wait…

If you liked the true crime plot in Against My Will by Douglas Wight , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island

By: Regina Calcaterra

4.31

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Regina Calcaterra is a successful lawyer, New York State official, and activist. Her painful early … read more

Similar categories in Regina Calcaterra's Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island book and Douglas Wight's Against My Will

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"I've just stepped into the kitchen when Rosie's glass fall and shatters on the living room floor, inches from Cookie's ear. (page 54)"

-Regina Calcaterra, Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island

Cover of Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland by Kevin Sullivan, None, Gina DeJesus, Mary Jordan, Amanda     Berry

2. Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland

By: Kevin Sullivan , None , Gina DeJesus , Mary Jordan , Amanda Berry

4.35

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

Two women kidnapped by infamous Cleveland school-bus driver Ariel Castro share the stories of their… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Sullivan's Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland book and Douglas Wight's Against My Will

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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3. Don't Tell a Soul

By: M. William Phelps

4.50

Format: 532 pages,

Phelps is a true-crime veteran. "New York Post" Cherry Walker was a devoted, trusting, uncommonly i… read more

Similar categories in M. William Phelps's Don't Tell a Soul book and Douglas Wight's Against My Will

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of One Child: The True Story of a Tormented Six-Year-Old and the Brilliant Teacher Who Reached Out by Torey L. Hayden

4. One Child: The True Story of a Tormented Six-Year-Old and the Brilliant Teacher Who Reached Out

By: Torey L. Hayden

1.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

This beautiful and deeply moving tale recounts educational psychologist Torey Hayden's battle to un… read more

Similar categories in Torey L. Hayden's One Child: The True Story of a Tormented Six-Year-Old and the Brilliant Teacher Who Reached Out book and Douglas Wight's Against My Will

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Incurable (The Ellie Chronicles, #2) by John Marsden, Mikaela Martin

5. Incurable (The Ellie Chronicles, #2)

By: John Marsden , Mikaela Martin

3.79

Format: 298 pages, Audio CD

Ellie Linton is a survivor. Because she's honest. Because she's loyal. Because she's incurably brav… read more

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6. Will You Love Me?: Lucy's Story: The Heartbreaking True Story of My Adopted Daughter and Her Desperate Search for a Loving Home

By: Cathy Glass

4.23

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

The eleventh memoir and latest title from the internationally bestselling author and foster carer C… read more

Similar categories in Cathy Glass's Will You Love Me?: Lucy's Story: The Heartbreaking True Story of My Adopted Daughter and Her Desperate Search for a Loving Home book and Douglas Wight's Against My Will

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7. E.R. Nurses

By: James Patterson

4.19

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

James Patterson and Matt Eversmann present the medical frontline heroes who work to save our lives … read more

Similar categories in James Patterson's E.R. Nurses book and Douglas Wight's Against My Will

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"My job isn't just taking care of patients. I take care of families too. It is the greatest gift."

-James Patterson, E.R. Nurses

"Nursing, I realize, isn't just about medicine. It's also about making---and preserving--- that human connection."

-James Patterson, E.R. Nurses

"I don't think people realize the fight that goes on in nurses' hearts--- sticking to a hospital's legal policy versus acting on humanitarian impulses."

-James Patterson, E.R. Nurses

Cover of Let Go: It's time for us to let go of shame, expectation and our addiction to social media by Hugh van Cuylenburg

8. Let Go: It's time for us to let go of shame, expectation and our addiction to social media

By: Hugh van Cuylenburg

4.20

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

If ever there was a time for us to be resilient, it was when a deadly virus emerged and engulfed th… read more

Similar categories in Hugh van Cuylenburg's Let Go: It's time for us to let go of shame, expectation and our addiction to social media book and Douglas Wight's Against My Will

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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9. I Survived: A True Story.

By: Victoria Cilliers

4.16

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

A chilling, eye-opening story of marriage and attempted murder, revealing the truth about a case th… read more

Similar categories in Victoria Cilliers's I Survived: A True Story. book and Douglas Wight's Against My Will

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

By: Nadia Murad

4.47

Format: 13 pages, Audio CD

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE In this intimate memoir of survival, a former captive of the Is… read more

Similar categories in Nadia Murad's The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State book and Douglas Wight's Against My Will

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"I want to be the last girl in the world with a story like mine."

-Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

"Every time I tell my story, I feel that I am taking some power away from the terrorists."

-Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

"How is everything, Nadia," he said. "It's hot." I replied, smiling a little bit. "Never forget," Nasser said, teasing me. "It's very hot, Nasser, it's very hot."

-Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

"Since leaving Kocho, I had begged for death, I had willed Salman to kill me or asked God to let me die or refused to eat or drink in the hopes I would fade away. I had thought many times that the man…"

-Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State

Cover of Nowhere to Hide: Trapped, abused and sold for sex by Hannah Morgan

11. Nowhere to Hide: Trapped, abused and sold for sex

By: Hannah Morgan

4.60

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

A shocking true story that reveals how one woman was tormented to the very depths of despair by her… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Morgan's Nowhere to Hide: Trapped, abused and sold for sex book and Douglas Wight's Against My Will

  • nonfiction
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12. The Sunday Girl

By: Pip Drysdale

3.72

Format: 400 pages, ebook

The Girl on the Train meets Before I Go to Sleep with a dash of Bridget Jones in this chilling tale… read more

Similar categories in Pip Drysdale's The Sunday Girl book and Douglas Wight's Against My Will

  • audiobook
Cover of My Word Against His by Lauren North

13. My Word Against His

By: Lauren North

4.06

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

‘It’s me,’ says the voice on the other end of the line. It’s been thirteen years and I still recogn… read more

Similar categories in Lauren North's My Word Against His book and Douglas Wight's Against My Will

  • audiobook
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14. Silent Sisters

By: Joanne Lee

4.13

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

A deadly secret. A horrifying discovery. For over 20 years, Joanne Lee's mother kept the rema… read more

Similar categories in Joanne Lee's Silent Sisters book and Douglas Wight's Against My Will

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Girls at 17 Swann Street by Yara Zgheib

15. The Girls at 17 Swann Street

By: Yara Zgheib

3.97

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

The chocolate went first, then the cheese, the fries, the ice cream. The bread was more difficult, … read more

Similar categories in Yara Zgheib's The Girls at 17 Swann Street book and Douglas Wight's Against My Will

  • audiobook
"I do not suffer from anorexia, I have anorexia. The two states are not the same. I know my anorexia, I understand it better than the world around me."

-Yara Zgheib, The Girls at 17 Swann Street

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16. A Danger to Herself and Others

By: Alyssa B. Sheinmel

3.86

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

Only when she’s locked away does the truth begin to escape… Four walls. One window. No way to e… read more

Similar categories in Alyssa B. Sheinmel's A Danger to Herself and Others book and Douglas Wight's Against My Will

  • audiobook
Cover of Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought by Lily  Bailey

17. Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought

By: Lily Bailey

4.28

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Written with the indelible power of Girl, Interrupted, Brain on Fire, and Reasons to Stay Alive, a … read more

Similar categories in Lily Bailey's Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought book and Douglas Wight's Against My Will

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"For as long as I could remember, I wasn't me, I was me."

-Lily Bailey, Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought

"I suppose I should be thankful that if I have to go mad, at least I get to do it in a fashionable, aristocratic way."

-Lily Bailey, Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought

"I’d love to learn everything all over again, but learn it right this time. I’d love to return my brain to factory settings."

-Lily Bailey, Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought

"Two of us sat side by side in my head, woven together, inseparable. She didn't even have a name; she was just She. Really, it was hard to say where She ended and I began. But food was not shared with…"

-Lily Bailey, Because We Are Bad: OCD and a Girl Lost in Thought

Cover of Against My Will by Douglas  Wight

18. Against My Will

By: Douglas Wight

3.97

Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition

‘Asperger’s made me a prisoner in my own home. When I finally entered the real world, evil was wait… read more

Similar categories in Douglas Wight's Against My Will book and Douglas Wight's Against My Will

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Marilyn's Story (Thrown Away Children) by Louise   Allen

19. Marilyn's Story (Thrown Away Children)

By: Louise Allen

4.59

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

An unhealthy obsession and a dark secret spell trouble for Louise in a disturbing case... A baby… read more

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20. Trafficked Girl: Abused. Abandoned. Exploited. My Story of Fighting Back.

By: Zoe Patterson

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

When Zoe was taken into care at the age of 13, she thought she was finally going to escape from the… read more

Similar categories in Zoe Patterson's Trafficked Girl: Abused. Abandoned. Exploited. My Story of Fighting Back. book and Douglas Wight's Against My Will

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Won't You Love Me?: Unloved as a girl, abused as a woman – the true story of Ava’s fight for survival by Toni Maguire

21. Won't You Love Me?: Unloved as a girl, abused as a woman – the true story of Ava’s fight for survival

By: Toni Maguire

4.31

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

From No.1 bestselling author Toni Maguire comes a new true story of abuse and survival.'Whatever yo… read more

Similar categories in Toni Maguire's Won't You Love Me?: Unloved as a girl, abused as a woman – the true story of Ava’s fight for survival book and Douglas Wight's Against My Will

14 must-read audiobook books like Against My Will by Douglas Wight

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Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island

Regina Calcaterra

4.31

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Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland

Kevin Sullivan , None , Gina DeJesus , Mary Jordan , Amanda Berry

4.35

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Don't Tell a Soul

M. William Phelps

4.50

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E.R. Nurses

James Patterson

4.19

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Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER

Farzon A. Nahvi

3.92

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James Patterson

4.19

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Run, Rose, Run

Dolly Parton

3.80

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Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient

Theresa Brown

3.61

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