21 Best nonfiction books like Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber by Steven Hale

Cover of Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber by Steven Hale

Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber

By: Steven Hale

4.10

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

"An eye-opening journey to a place that’s hard to access, rarely seen and shrouded by myths of mons…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber by Steven Hale , here is a list of 21 books like this:

Cover of O Jerusalem (Mary Russell, #5) by Laurie R. King

1. O Jerusalem (Mary Russell, #5)

By: Laurie R. King

2.62

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

With her bestselling mystery series featuring Sherlock Holmes and Mary Russell, Laurie R. King has … read more

Similar categories in Laurie R. King's O Jerusalem (Mary Russell, #5) book and Steven Hale's Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber

  • crime
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2. You Like It Darker

By: Stephen King

4.32

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more

Similar categories in Stephen King's You Like It Darker book and Steven Hale's Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber

  • adult
Cover of Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie

3. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie

4.10

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more

Similar categories in Salman Rushdie's Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder book and Steven Hale's Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • biography
  • true crime
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

Cover of My Name Was Eden by Eleanor Barker-White

4. My Name Was Eden

By: Eleanor Barker-White

3.22

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this edge-of-your-seat psychological debut, a mother’s experience with Vanishing Twin Syndrome t… read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Barker-White's My Name Was Eden book and Steven Hale's Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber

  • crime
  • adult
Cover of Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton

5. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

By: Antonia Hylton

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more

Similar categories in Antonia Hylton's Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum book and Steven Hale's Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber

  • nonfiction
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6. Between Two Trailers

By: J. Dana Trent

3.65

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable memoir about a girl who escapes her childhood as a preschool drug dealer to earn a… read more

Similar categories in J. Dana Trent's Between Two Trailers book and Steven Hale's Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber

  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • biography
Cover of Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America by Harry N. MacLean

7. Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America

By: Harry N. MacLean

3.71

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

The definitive story of Charles Starkweather, often considered to be the first mass killer in the m… read more

Similar categories in Harry N. MacLean's Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America book and Steven Hale's Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • biography
  • true crime
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8. Tree. Table. Book.

By: Lois Lowry

4.39

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Everyone knows the two Sophies are best friends. One is in elementary school, and one is . . . well… read more

Similar categories in Lois Lowry's Tree. Table. Book. book and Steven Hale's Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber

Cover of Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show by Tommy Tomlinson

9. Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show

By: Tommy Tomlinson

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Elephant in the Room comes the first inside account … read more

Similar categories in Tommy Tomlinson's Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show book and Steven Hale's Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber

  • adult
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Serial Killer's Apprentice by Katherine Ramsland

10. The Serial Killer's Apprentice

By: Katherine Ramsland

3.79

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A psychological examination of the blurred line between victim and accomplice―and how a killer can … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Ramsland's The Serial Killer's Apprentice book and Steven Hale's Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin by Andre Dubus III

11. Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin

By: Andre Dubus III

4.18

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Essays from the literary master and bestselling author of Townie on a life of challenges, contradic… read more

Similar categories in Andre Dubus III's Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin book and Steven Hale's Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber

  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of A Lovely Lie by Jaime Lynn Hendricks

12. A Lovely Lie

By: Jaime Lynn Hendricks

3.86

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Is it better to believe a lovely lie or know the horrible truth? 1999: The night of their senior… read more

Similar categories in Jaime Lynn Hendricks's A Lovely Lie book and Steven Hale's Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber

  • crime
  • adult
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13. The Split

By: Kit Frick

3.41

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Jane Connor is resigned to being the “plain Jane” of her family—pragmatic and dependable—so unlike … read more

Similar categories in Kit Frick's The Split book and Steven Hale's Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber

  • adult
Cover of There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish by Anna Akbari

14. There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish

By: Anna Akbari

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of th… read more

Similar categories in Anna Akbari's There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish book and Steven Hale's Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber

  • biography
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story by Kristine S. Ervin

15. Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story

By: Kristine S. Ervin

4.02

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For readers of My Dark Places and I'll Be Gone in the Dark , a beautiful, brutal memoir documenting… read more

Similar categories in Kristine S. Ervin's Rabbit Heart: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Story book and Steven Hale's Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber

  • biography
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz by József  Debreczeni

16. Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz

By: József Debreczeni

4.53

Format: 248 pages, Kindle Edition

The first English language edition of a lost memoir by a Holocaust survivor, offering a shocking an… read more

Similar categories in József Debreczeni's Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz book and Steven Hale's Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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17. Granite Harbor

By: Peter Nichols

3.58

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A small town in coastal Maine is shaken to its core by a serial killer in this crime novel from Pet… read more

Similar categories in Peter Nichols's Granite Harbor book and Steven Hale's Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber

  • crime
  • adult
Cover of My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me by Caleb Carr

18. My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me

By: Caleb Carr

4.33

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The #1 bestselling author of  The Alienist,  Caleb  Carr , tells the extraordinary story of Masha, … read more

Similar categories in Caleb Carr's My Beloved Monster: Masha, the Half-wild Rescue Cat Who Rescued Me book and Steven Hale's Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber

  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Devils Kill Devils by Johnny Compton

19. Devils Kill Devils

By: Johnny Compton

3.46

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Devils Kill Devils is perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Certain Dark Things and Southern g… read more

Similar categories in Johnny Compton's Devils Kill Devils book and Steven Hale's Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber

  • adult
Cover of Another Word for Love: A Memoir by Carvell Wallace

20. Another Word for Love: A Memoir

By: Carvell Wallace

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for hea… read more

Similar categories in Carvell Wallace's Another Word for Love: A Memoir book and Steven Hale's Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber

  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz

21. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

By: John Ganz

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more

Similar categories in John Ganz's When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s book and Steven Hale's Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber

  • crime
  • nonfiction
Cover of Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America by Shefali Luthra

22. Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America

By: Shefali Luthra

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An urgent, intimate investigation into the experience of seeking an abortion after the fall of Roe … read more

Similar categories in Shefali Luthra's Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America book and Steven Hale's Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber

  • nonfiction
Cover of Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber by Steven Hale

23. Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber

By: Steven Hale

4.10

Format: 287 pages, Kindle Edition

"An eye-opening journey to a place that’s hard to access, rarely seen and shrouded by myths of mons… read more

Similar categories in Steven Hale's Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber book and Steven Hale's Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber

  • biography
  • true crime
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of This Girl's a Killer by Emma C. Wells

24. This Girl's a Killer

By: Emma C. Wells

3.90

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Meet Cordelia Black. Cordelia loves exactly three things: her chosen family composed of her best fr… read more

Similar categories in Emma C. Wells's This Girl's a Killer book and Steven Hale's Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber

  • crime
  • adult
Cover of A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession That Changed a Small Town Forever by Kim Mager

25. A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession That Changed a Small Town Forever

By: Kim Mager

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this fascinating & profoundly chilling account, Detective Kim Mager , a real-life version of Cla… read more

Similar categories in Kim Mager's A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession That Changed a Small Town Forever book and Steven Hale's Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • adult
Cover of Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida by Mikita Brottman

26. Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida

By: Mikita Brottman

3.54

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of the “enthralling” ( San Francisco Book Review ) An Unexplai… read more

Similar categories in Mikita Brottman's Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida book and Steven Hale's Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Facing the Unseen: The Struggle to Center Mental Health in Medicine by Damon Tweedy

27. Facing the Unseen: The Struggle to Center Mental Health in Medicine

By: Damon Tweedy

4.24

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Black Man in a White Coat comes a powerful and urgent… read more

Similar categories in Damon Tweedy's Facing the Unseen: The Struggle to Center Mental Health in Medicine book and Steven Hale's Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook

28. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

By: Jesselyn Cook

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more

Similar categories in Jesselyn Cook's The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family book and Steven Hale's Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber

  • nonfiction
Cover of Wordhunter by Stella Sands

29. Wordhunter

By: Stella Sands

3.71

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

An utterly original and compulsively readable detective story about a woman who uses her uncanny ab… read more

Similar categories in Stella Sands's Wordhunter book and Steven Hale's Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber

  • crime
  • adult
Cover of Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant by Stephanie Kiser

30. Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant

By: Stephanie Kiser

3.95

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

What are the lives of America's richest families really like? Their nannies see it all… When S… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Kiser's Wanted: Toddler's Personal Assistant book and Steven Hale's Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber

  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • biography
Cover of White Robes and Broken Badges: Infiltrating the KKK and Exposing the Evil Among Us by Joe Moore

31. White Robes and Broken Badges: Infiltrating the KKK and Exposing the Evil Among Us

By: Joe Moore

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this shocking memoir, a former FBI informant reveals what he learned from successfully infiltrat… read more

Similar categories in Joe Moore's White Robes and Broken Badges: Infiltrating the KKK and Exposing the Evil Among Us book and Steven Hale's Death Row Welcomes You: Visiting Hours in the Shadow of the Execution Chamber

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime

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