10 must-read crime books like On the Trail of the Serpent: The Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj by Richard Neville

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On the Trail of the Serpent: The Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj

By: Richard Neville

4.23

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

THE GLOBAL BESTSELLER - REVISITED AND REVISED Soon to be the subject of a major BBC and NETFLIX TV …

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1. Nightmare Alley

By: William Lindsay Gresham , Nick Tosches

3.83

Format: 275 pages, Paperback

Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a carnival-show geek—alcoholic and abje… read more

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  • thriller
  • crime
"Also Dad said it was a shame to go to bed early and miss everything when you could sleep late the next day and catch up..."

-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley

"Beyond that elfin face, the steady eyes, there was something breathing, something that was fed blood from a tiny heart beating under pointed breasts. But is was cobweb under the fingers. Cobweb in th…"

-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley

"Hoatley - First Carnival Owner: Now this creature - There he is, THE GEEK! He has puzzled the foremost scientists of Europe and America. Is he the missing link? Is he man or beast? Some have pronounc…"

-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley

"The speech fascinated him. His ear caught the rhythm of it and he noted their idioms and worked some of them into his patter. He had found the reason behind the peculiar, drawling language of the old…"

-William Lindsay Gresham, Nightmare Alley

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2. The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and its Dangerous Legacy

By: David E. Hoffman

4.26

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"A tour de forceof investigative history." --Steve Coll The Dead Handis the suspense-filled story o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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3. Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters

By: Peter Vronsky

4.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • history
  • true crime
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • crime

4. Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green River Killer

By: None

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The riveting personal account of one sheriffs epic hunt for America's most heinous serial killer. F… read more

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5. Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House

By: Peter Baker

3.19

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

In Days of Fire, Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent for The New York Times, takes us on a… read more

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6. Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War

By: Evan Wright

4.28

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

Another nameless town, another target for First Recon. It's only five in the afternoon, but a sandt… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Gentlemen, we just siezed an airfield. That was pretty ninja."

-Evan Wright, Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War

"You find surprising things about the privite life of a country when you invide it"

-Evan Wright, Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War

"You know what happens when you get out of the Marine Corps," Person continues. "you get you brains back."

-Evan Wright, Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War

"We're like America's little pit bull. They beat it, starve it, mistreat it, and once in a while they let it out to attack somebody."

-Evan Wright, Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War

7. Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest

By: Gregg Olsen

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1911 two wealthy British heiresses, Claire and Dora Williamson, came to a sanitorium in the fore… read more

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8. Guilty by Reason of Insanity: A Psychiatrist Explores the Minds of Killers

By: Dorothy Otnow Lewis

4.53

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A psychiatrist and an internationally recognized expert on violence, Dorothy Otnow Lewis has spent … read more

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9. Emperors of the Deep: Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians

By: William McKeever

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this remarkable groundbreaking book, a documentarian and conservationist, determined to dispel m… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"The salt in the sea is the same as the salt in our blood"

-William McKeever, Emperors of the Deep: Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians

"Taking into account fair labor wages for fishermen and canning employees- and the damage inflicted to the ocean through overfishing and the ecological impact of the slow annihilation of sharks- a sin…"

-William McKeever, Emperors of the Deep: Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians

"If we act today, we can ensure that our children will look out on the ocean and know underneath the surface, a shark will be swimming, standing guard over its dominion, protecting the ocean, the grea…"

-William McKeever, Emperors of the Deep: Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians

"Society's lack of compassion for our fellow people and for animals leads to an ocean where sharks are dying by the millions and slaves are being abused by the thousands. The connection is basic: a di…"

-William McKeever, Emperors of the Deep: Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians

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10. Tajemnica domu Uklejów

By: Aneta Jadowska

4.15

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Wszystko, co dobre, kiedyś się kończy. Wszystko, co szalone, kiedyś się zaczyna. Dla Niny Rawic… read more

Similar categories in Aneta Jadowska's Tajemnica domu Uklejów book and Richard Neville's On the Trail of the Serpent: The Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj

  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy

By: Joe Sexton

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An account of two linked and tragic deaths stemming from the 2020 George Floyd protests that explor… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless by Laurah Norton

12. 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
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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13. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy

By: Thomas F. Schaller

3.82

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A searing portrait and damning takedown of America’s proudest citizens — who are also the least lik… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Boy Between: A Mother and Son's Journey From a World Gone Grey by Josiah Hartley

14. The Boy Between: A Mother and Son's Journey From a World Gone Grey

By: Josiah Hartley

4.34

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

Bestselling novelist Amanda Prowse knew how to resolve a fictional family crisis. But then her son … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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15. I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn't)

By: BreneBrown

4.20

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn't)( Telling the Truth about Perfectionism Inadequacy and Power… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
Cover of Killer in the Kremlin: The Explosive Account of Putin's Reign of Terror by John  Sweeney

16. Killer in the Kremlin: The Explosive Account of Putin's Reign of Terror

By: John Sweeney

4.24

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, e… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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17. Couple Found Slain: After a Family Murder

By: Mikita Brottman

3.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times Book ReviewCritically acclaimed author and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman offers … read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Unsolved Serial Killers: 10 Frightening True Crime Cases of Unidentified Serial Killers (The Ones You've Never Heard of) Volume 1 by D.R. Werner

18. Unsolved Serial Killers: 10 Frightening True Crime Cases of Unidentified Serial Killers (The Ones You've Never Heard of) Volume 1

By: D.R. Werner

3.60

Format: 164 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the chilling true stories of killers who stalked their victims undetected and remain free … read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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19. On the Trail of the Serpent: The Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj

By: Richard Neville

4.23

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

THE GLOBAL BESTSELLER - REVISITED AND REVISED Soon to be the subject of a major BBC and NETFLIX TV … read more

Similar categories in Richard Neville's On the Trail of the Serpent: The Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj book and Richard Neville's On the Trail of the Serpent: The Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj

  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • thriller
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • 20th century
  • reportage
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Golden Thread: The Cold War Mystery Surrounding the Death of Dag Hammarskjöld by Ravi Somaiya

20. The Golden Thread: The Cold War Mystery Surrounding the Death of Dag Hammarskjöld

By: Ravi Somaiya

3.72

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A true story of spies and intrigue surrounding one of the most enduring unsolved mysteries of the 2… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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21. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • audiobook
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

11 best-selling audiobook books like On the Trail of the Serpent: The Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj by Richard Neville

Transform Your Habits

Emperors of the Deep: Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians

William McKeever

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Tajemnica domu Uklejów

Aneta Jadowska

4.15

Transform Your Habits

The Lost Sons of Omaha: Two Young Men in an American Tragedy

Joe Sexton

3.89

Transform Your Habits

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

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3.87

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18 Top audiobook books like Emperors of the Deep: Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians by William McKeever

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Peter Benchley

3.72

Transform Your Habits

Emperors of the Deep: Sharks--The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians

William McKeever

3.98

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The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

Steve Brusatte

4.38

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Steve Brusatte

4.20

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