25 must-read nonfiction books like Just as Deadly: The Psychology of Female Serial Killers (Cambridge Studies in Graphic Narratives) by Marissa A. Harrison

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Just as Deadly: The Psychology of Female Serial Killers (Cambridge Studies in Graphic Narratives)

By: Marissa A. Harrison

3.53

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

You've heard of Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy. But have you heard of Amy Archer-Gilligan? Or Belle …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Just as Deadly: The Psychology of Female Serial Killers (Cambridge Studies in Graphic Narratives) by Marissa A. Harrison , here is a list of 25 books like this:

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1. The Sociopath Next Door

By: Martha Stout

3.77

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Who is the devil you know? Is it your lying, cheating ex-husband?Your sadistic high school gym teac… read more

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  • true crime
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • sociology
  • science
"I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect."

-Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door

"I am sure that if the devil existed, he would want us to feel very sorry for him."

-Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door

"Conscience- protects the privileges of intimacy, makes ,friends keep their promises, prevents the angered spouse from striking back."

-Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door

"As for the boys..."vulnerable fathers turn to time-honored defensive responses to maintain the function that father knows best' Parents, especially fathers, teach their sons to obey authority no matt…"

-Martha Stout, The Sociopath Next Door

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2. The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

By: Kevin Dutton

3.75

Format: 222 pages, Hardcover

In this engrossing journey into the lives of psychopaths and their infamously crafty behaviors, the… read more

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  • true crime
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • sociology
  • science
"Give rejection the finger, and rejection gives it back."

-Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

"What if our better nature wasn't better after all? But was instead, well, just nature?"

-Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

"The problem with a lot of people is that what they think is a virtue is actually a vice in disguise. It's much easier to convince yourself that you're reasonable and civilised, than soft and weak, is…"

-Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

"Psychopathy is like sunlight. Overexposure can hasten one’s demise in grotesque, carcinogenic fashion. But regulated exposure at controlled and optimal levels can have a significant positive impact o…"

-Kevin Dutton, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

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3. The Great Plague: A People's History

By: Evelyn Lord

3.42

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

In this intimate history of the extraordinary Black Plague pandemic that swept through the British … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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4. Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster

By: Andrew Leatherbarrow , Elizabeth Petrey

3.78

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

At 01:23:40 on April 26th 1986, Alexander Akimov pressed the emergency shutdown button at Chernobyl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science

5. Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters

By: Peter Vronsky

3.68

Format: None pages,

The first book of its kind-photographs included. Mothers, daughters, sisters and grandmothers-fiend… read more

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6. 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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7. The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook

By: Bruce D. Perry , Maia Szalavitz

4.80

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

What happens when a young brain is traumatized? How does terror, abuse, or disaster affect a child'… read more

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8. The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty

By: Simon Baron-Cohen

3.45

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Borderline personality disorder, autism, narcissism, psychosis, Asperger's: All of these syndromes … read more

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9. You Won't Believe Me

By: Cyn Balog

3.57

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Willow is alone, confined to a bed with restraints. She can't remember how she got there...or how l… read more

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10. Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want

By: Ruha Benjamin

4.47

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

An inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world--one small change at a time Long befor… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • science
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11. Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

By: Mandy Matney

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Years before the name Alex Murdaugh was splashed across every major media outlet in America, local … read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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12. Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence

By: James Renner

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Ann Rule and Gregg Olsen, a riveting new true crime book from the acclaimed author o… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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13. The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

By: Tim Alberta

4.45

Format: 506 pages, Kindle Edition

Evangelical Christians are perhaps the most polarizing—and least understood—people living in Americ… read more

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  • nonfiction
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14. Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease―and How to Fight It

By: Benjamin Bikman

4.12

Format: 280 pages, Kindle Edition

A scientist reveals the groundbreaking evidence linking many major diseases, including cancer, diab… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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15. All That Remains: A Life in Death

By: Sue Black

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sue Black confronts death every day. As Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • science
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16. Patient Zero: A Curious History of the World's Worst Diseases

By: Lydia Kang

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A very timely history of disease outbreaks, from the authors of Quackery: stories of outbreaks (and… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • science
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17. Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases

By: Paul Holes

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the detective who found The Golden State Killer, a memoir of investigating America’s toughest … read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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18. American Serial Killers: The Epidemic Years 1950-2000

By: Peter Vronsky

3.87

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Fans of Mindhunter and true crime podcasts will devour these chilling stories of serial killers fro… read more

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  • true crime
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • sociology
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19. Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries

By: Greg Melville

4.00

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A lively tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our de… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Every life holds an epic tale, even if no one alive remembers it."

-Greg Melville, Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries

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20. Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind

By: Sue Black

4.31

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Our bones are the silent witnesses to the lives we lead. Our stories are marbled into their marrow.… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • science
"Sometimes, a bone is just a coconut"

-Sue Black, Written in Bone: Hidden Stories in What We Leave Behind

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21. Dear Sister: A Memoir of Secrets, Survival, and Unbreakable Bonds

By: Michelle Horton

4.52

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking memoir about two sisters and a high-profile Nikki Addimando, incarcerated for killi… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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22. What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

By: Barbara Butcher

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected a job at th… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • science
"People can handle the truth, but not uncertainty. The things they imagine are almost always more painful than the facts."

-Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

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23. The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective

By: Steve Ryan

4.22

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

After years working in homicide, retired Toronto detective Steve Ryan reflects on six cases he will… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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24. Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

By: Marion Gibson

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating, vivid global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told t… read more

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  • nonfiction
"James looks like he's waiting to mug old ladies, which of course is one way of looking at a witch trial."

-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

"Witch trials were not just misogynist festivals of torture and hatred; they also directly facilitated the building of empire."

-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

"As with later witch trials, like the ones in Salem, flexing normal court processes in response to a powerful authority can lead to mass injustice..."

-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials

Cover of Who Do I Think I Am?: Stories of Chola Wishes and Caviar Dreams by Anjelah Johnson-Reyes

25. Who Do I Think I Am?: Stories of Chola Wishes and Caviar Dreams

By: Anjelah Johnson-Reyes

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

This hilarious and thoughtful memoir from comedy legend Anjelah Johnson-Reyes explores questions of… read more

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  • nonfiction
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26. So Fetch

By: Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

3.60

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Seinfeldia comes the totally fetch story of one of th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • sociology
Cover of Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant by Curtis Chin

27. Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant

By: Curtis Chin

3.80

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

This memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin’s time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980’… read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

By: Lisa G. Bailey

3.75

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Told with unflinching honesty and a touch of gallows humor, Clay and Bones is the personal memoir o… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • science
Cover of Hard Girls (Jane and Lila Pool, #1) by J. Robert Lennon

29. Hard Girls (Jane and Lila Pool, #1)

By: J. Robert Lennon

3.34

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Two estranged twin sisters as they hunt down their elusive mother in this razor-sharp crime novel f… read more

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  • crime
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30. The Best New True Crime Stories: Serial Killers

By: Mitzi Szereto

3.42

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Serial Killer—Your Neighbor, Friend, Even Your Spouse? Serial killers. Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gac… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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31. Just as Deadly: The Psychology of Female Serial Killers (Cambridge Studies in Graphic Narratives)

By: Marissa A. Harrison

3.53

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

You've heard of Ted Bundy and John Wayne Gacy. But have you heard of Amy Archer-Gilligan? Or Belle … read more

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  • true crime
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • sociology
  • science

15 Top crime books like Just as Deadly: The Psychology of Female Serial Killers (Cambridge Studies in Graphic Narratives) by Marissa A. Harrison

Transform Your Habits

The Sociopath Next Door

Martha Stout

3.77

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The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

Kevin Dutton

3.75

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Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

Mandy Matney

3.78

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Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

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

Laurah Norton

3.87

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