24 Top nonfiction books like OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center by Bruce Goldfarb

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OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center

By: Bruce Goldfarb

3.87

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Go behind the scenes inside the nation's preeminent Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, where goo…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center by Bruce Goldfarb , here is a list of 24 books like this:

Cover of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette by Carolly Erickson

1. The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette

By: Carolly Erickson

3.64

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

Imagine that, on the night before she is to die under the blade of the guillotine, Marie Antoinette… read more

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2. The Michigan Murders

By: Edward Keyes

4.50

Format: 168 pages,

Between July 1967 and July 1969, seven sexual murders were committed in Michigan with horrifying fu… read more

Similar categories in Edward Keyes's The Michigan Murders book and Bruce Goldfarb's OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook

3. Dead Center: Behind the Scenes at the World's Largest Medical Examiner's Office

By: Tom Shachtman , None

3.56

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A city with eight million people has eight million ways to die For fifteen years, Shiya Ribowsky wo… read more

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4. The Education of a Coroner: Lessons in Investigating Death

By: John Bateson

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Dr. Judy Melinek's Working Stiff, an account of the hair-raising and heartbreaking c… read more

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5. Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History

By: Bill Schutt , None

4.32

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

For centuries scientists have written off cannibalism as a bizarre phenomenon with little biologica… read more

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6. A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime

By: Casey Sherman

3.71

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The dark story behind the bright lights of Tinseltown From the outside, Hollywood starlet Lana Turn… read more

Similar categories in Casey Sherman's A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime book and Bruce Goldfarb's OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic by Simon Winchester

7. Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

By: Simon Winchester

3.84

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the creation of the first encyclopedia to Wikipedia, from ancient museums to modern kindergart… read more

Similar categories in Simon Winchester's Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic book and Bruce Goldfarb's OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
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8. The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening

By: Ari Shapiro

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved host of NPR's All Things Considered, a stirring memoir-in-essays that is also a lo… read more

Similar categories in Ari Shapiro's The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening book and Bruce Goldfarb's OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"We'd drive west to the fog of the coast. In Oregon, nobody calls it the beach, maybe to discourage false hopes of warm and sun."

-Ari Shapiro, The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening

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9. Every Minute Is a Day: A Doctor, an Emergency Room, and a City Under Siege

By: Robert Meyer MD

4.28

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

With this debut, emergency room doctor Meyer collaborates with journalist Koeppel to tell a persona… read more

Similar categories in Robert Meyer MD's Every Minute Is a Day: A Doctor, an Emergency Room, and a City Under Siege book and Bruce Goldfarb's OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center

  • audiobook
  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • science
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10. Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER

By: Farzon A. Nahvi

3.92

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Code Gray is a “provocative and meaningful” (Theresa Brown, New York Times bestselling author of He… read more

Similar categories in Farzon A. Nahvi's Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER book and Bruce Goldfarb's OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center

  • audiobook
  • health
  • medical
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton

11. 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 Bruce Goldfarb's OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center

  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • science
Cover of All Bleeding Stops: Life and Death in the Trauma Unit by Stephen M. Cohn

12. All Bleeding Stops: Life and Death in the Trauma Unit

By: Stephen M. Cohn

4.09

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A gripping portrait of trauma surgeons and their place in the controlled chaos of a trauma center, … read more

Similar categories in Stephen M. Cohn's All Bleeding Stops: Life and Death in the Trauma Unit book and Bruce Goldfarb's OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center

  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian

13. We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

By: Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and … read more

Similar categories in Roxanna Asgarian's We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America book and Bruce Goldfarb's OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of What Really Happened in Wuhan: The Cover-Ups, the Conspiracies and the Classified Research by Sharri Markson

14. What Really Happened in Wuhan: The Cover-Ups, the Conspiracies and the Classified Research

By: Sharri Markson

4.19

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Walkley Award-winning journalist, Sharri Markson is the Investigations Editor at The Australian and… read more

Similar categories in Sharri Markson's What Really Happened in Wuhan: The Cover-Ups, the Conspiracies and the Classified Research book and Bruce Goldfarb's OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center

  • science
  • history
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder by Edward Humes

15. The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder

By: Edward Humes

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

After 30 years, Detective Jim Scharf arrested a teenage couple's murderer—and exposed a looming bat… read more

Similar categories in Edward Humes's The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder book and Bruce Goldfarb's OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center

  • audiobook
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • science
Cover of The Next Patient: The Incredible World of Emergency Medicine by J. Thomas Grant

16. The Next Patient: The Incredible World of Emergency Medicine

By: J. Thomas Grant

4.54

Format: 363 pages, Paperback

Extraordinary encounters. Life-threatening diseases. Heroic actions. Instantaneous decisions. Unima… read more

Similar categories in J. Thomas Grant's The Next Patient: The Incredible World of Emergency Medicine book and Bruce Goldfarb's OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center

  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • health
Cover of The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER by Thomas         Fisher

17. The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER

By: Thomas Fisher

3.92

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting, pulse-pounding story of a year in the life of an emergency room doctor trying to stee… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Fisher's The Emergency: A Year of Healing and Heartbreak in a Chicago ER book and Bruce Goldfarb's OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center

  • audiobook
  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers by Frank Figliuzzi

18. Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

By: Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the FBI’s former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America’s highways… read more

Similar categories in Frank Figliuzzi's Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers book and Bruce Goldfarb's OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students by J. Reuben Appelman

19. While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students

By: J. Reuben Appelman

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, tells the inside story of the “Univers… read more

Similar categories in J. Reuben Appelman's While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students book and Bruce Goldfarb's OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center

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

20. 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

Similar categories in Laurah Norton's Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless book and Bruce Goldfarb's OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center

  • audiobook
  • history
  • true crime
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • science
Cover of What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator by Barbara  Butcher

21. 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

Similar categories in Barbara Butcher's What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator book and Bruce Goldfarb's OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center

  • audiobook
  • true crime
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • 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

Cover of I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever by Barbara Rae-Venter

22. I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever

By: Barbara Rae-Venter

3.99

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

For twelve years the Golden State Killer terrorized California, stalking victims and killing withou… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Rae-Venter's I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever book and Bruce Goldfarb's OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center

  • audiobook
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • science
"The cost in time, personnel, and money for trying to identify the Golden State Killer prior to the use of IGG was significant,"

-Barbara Rae-Venter, I Know Who You Are: How an Amateur DNA Sleuth Unmasked the Golden State Killer and Changed Crime Fighting Forever

Cover of The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective by Steve Ryan

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

Similar categories in Steve Ryan's The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective book and Bruce Goldfarb's OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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24. The Lost Van Gogh

By: Jonathan Santlofer

3.52

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the much-praised The Last Mona Lisa comes another thrilling story of masterpiece… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Santlofer's The Lost Van Gogh book and Bruce Goldfarb's OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center

  • audiobook
Cover of Riding the Lightning: A Year in the Life of a New York City Paramedic by Anthony Almojera

25. Riding the Lightning: A Year in the Life of a New York City Paramedic

By: Anthony Almojera

3.84

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

The education of a New York City EMS worker, whose tales of tragedy and transcendence over a single… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Almojera's Riding the Lightning: A Year in the Life of a New York City Paramedic book and Bruce Goldfarb's OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center

  • medical
  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • health
Cover of Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist by Lisa G. Bailey

26. 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

Similar categories in Lisa G. Bailey's Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist book and Bruce Goldfarb's OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center

  • science
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of I'll Be Waiting by Kelley Armstrong

27. I'll Be Waiting

By: Kelley Armstrong

4.05

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times Bestselling author Kelley Armstrong comes a spellbinding new tale of supernatur… read more

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Cover of Reminiscence: Life of A Country Doctor by Carl Matlock

28. Reminiscence: Life of A Country Doctor

By: Carl Matlock

4.50

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

Do you remember the 1970s when doctors made house calls, delivered babies, worked long hours, and l… read more

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Cover of On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service by Anthony Fauci

29. On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service

By: Anthony Fauci

4.59

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The memoir by the doctor who became a beacon of hope for millions through the COVID pandemic, and w… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Fauci's On Call: A Doctor's Journey in Public Service book and Bruce Goldfarb's OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center

  • audiobook
  • history
  • health
  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center by Bruce Goldfarb

30. OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center

By: Bruce Goldfarb

3.87

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Go behind the scenes inside the nation's preeminent Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, where goo… read more

Similar categories in Bruce Goldfarb's OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center book and Bruce Goldfarb's OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center

  • audiobook
  • history
  • true crime
  • health
  • medical
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • science
Cover of Journal of a Black Queer Nurse by Britney Daniels

31. Journal of a Black Queer Nurse

By: Britney Daniels

4.35

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In this searing, honest memoir, a Black queer emergency-room nurse works the front lines of care du… read more

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  • health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

24 must-read audiobook books like OCME: Life in America's Top Forensic Medical Center by Bruce Goldfarb

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The Michigan Murders

Edward Keyes

4.50

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A Murder in Hollywood: The Untold Story of Tinseltown's Most Shocking Crime

Casey Sherman

3.71

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Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic

Simon Winchester

3.84

Transform Your Habits

The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening

Ari Shapiro

4.05

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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

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Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

3.99

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The Best Strangers in the World: Stories from a Life Spent Listening

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4.05

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4.54

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