9 best-selling historical books like Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime by Candace Fleming

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Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime

By: Candace Fleming

3.90

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child...and why ? And how did their brilliant law…

If you liked the historical plot in Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime by Candace Fleming , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. Dread Nation

By: Justina Ireland

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg and Cha… read more

Similar categories in Justina Ireland's Dread Nation book and Candace Fleming's Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime

  • historical
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2. Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction

By: Jarrett J. Krosoczka

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In kindergarten, Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family, with a mommy and a daddy.… read more

Similar categories in Jarrett J. Krosoczka's Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction book and Candace Fleming's Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime

  • teen
"I AM WHO I AM IN SPITE OF MY MOTHER, BUT I ALSO AM WHO I AM BECAUSE OF HER."

-Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction

"I NOW KNOW WHAT JOE MEANT WHEN HE ALWAYS SAID THAT HIS PARENTS WOULD'VE LOVED ME."

-Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction

"I AM NOW LIVING OUT MY CHILDHOOD DREAMS OF MAKING A LIVING AS AN AUTHOR AND AN ARTIST, BUT IT IS A GREATER TRIUMPH FOR ME TO HAVE CREATED A STABLE, LOVING HOME WITH MY WIFE."

-Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction

"When you're a kid and a teen, you're not in control of your circumstances. But the beautiful thing about growing up is that you get to create your own reality and your own family. That family might b…"

-Jarrett J. Krosoczka, Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction

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3. The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen

By: Isaac Blum

4.01

Format: 218 pages, Hardcover

The Chosen meets Darius the Great in this irreverent and timely story of worlds colliding in friend… read more

Similar categories in Isaac Blum's The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen book and Candace Fleming's Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime

  • audiobook
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4. Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting

By: Kindra Neely

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

This searing graphic memoir portrays gun violence through a fresh lens, giving it urgency, humanity… read more

Similar categories in Kindra Neely's Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting book and Candace Fleming's Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime

  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • biography
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5. Burn Down, Rise Up

By: Vincent Tirado

3.75

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Stranger Things meets Get Out in this Sapphic Horror debut from nonbinary, Afro-Latine author Vince… read more

Similar categories in Vincent Tirado's Burn Down, Rise Up book and Candace Fleming's Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime

  • audiobook
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6. The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

By: Nicholas Day

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive work of narrative nonfiction about how the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre, how t… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Day's The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity book and Candace Fleming's Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime

  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Leonard da Vinci had painted the Mona Lisa. But Vincenzo Perugia had turned it into The Mona Lisa."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"The Lourve, he concluded, with an insult designed to puncture French pride, "is less well protected than a Spanish museum."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"If the Mona Lisa is the most famous face in art history, Les Demoiselles is a hatchet thrown at it. It's not a pretty painting. Its brutal and uncomfortable."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

"Word of his midnight activities gets out. 'The pope has found out that I have skinned three corpses,' Leonardo writes in his notebook. He gets off easy. He's simply told: please stop skinning corpses."

-Nicholas Day, The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

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7. A Work in Progress

By: Jarrett Lerner

4.40

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A young boy struggles with body image in this poignant and “perceptive” ( Publishers Weekly , starr… read more

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8. A First Time for Everything

By: Dan Santat

4.39

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A middle grade graphic memoir based on bestselling author and Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat's awkwa… read more

Similar categories in Dan Santat's A First Time for Everything book and Candace Fleming's Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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9. Mascot

By: Charles Waters

4.02

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

What if a school's mascot is seen as racist, but not by everyone? In this compelling middle-grade n… read more

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10. Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration

By: Elizabeth Partridge

4.53

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

This important work of nonfiction features powerful images of the Japanese American incarceration c… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Partridge's Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration book and Candace Fleming's Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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11. A Snake Falls to Earth

By: Darcie Little Badger

3.95

Format: 377 pages, Kindle Edition

Nina is a Lipan girl in our world. She's always felt there was something more out there. She still … read more

Similar categories in Darcie Little Badger's A Snake Falls to Earth book and Candace Fleming's Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime

  • audiobook
"Hey Daysona!"

-Darcie Little Badger, A Snake Falls to Earth

"And their voices had a keenly musical quality. It wasn't that the animal people barked out literal instrumental notes or sand when they spoke. Rather, their words ignited emotional responses Nina had…"

-Darcie Little Badger, A Snake Falls to Earth

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12. Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe

By: Steve Sheinkin

4.49

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A true story of two Jewish teenagers racing against time during the Holocaust—one in hiding in Hung… read more

Similar categories in Steve Sheinkin's Impossible Escape: A True Story of Survival and Heroism in Nazi Europe book and Candace Fleming's Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime

  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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13. Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice

By: Tommie Smith

4.46

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold … read more

Similar categories in Tommie Smith's Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice book and Candace Fleming's Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
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14. The Silence that Binds Us

By: Joanna Ho

4.33

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Maybelline Chen isn't the Chinese Taiwanese American daughter her mother expects her to be. May pre… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Ho's The Silence that Binds Us book and Candace Fleming's Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime

  • audiobook
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15. Rez Ball

By: Byron Graves

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

This debut novel by Byron Graves tells the story of a young athlete determined to play like the her… read more

Similar categories in Byron Graves's Rez Ball book and Candace Fleming's Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime

  • teen
  • audiobook
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16. Promise Boys

By: Nick Brooks

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Promise Boys is a blockbuster, dark academia mystery about three teens of color who must investigat… read more

Similar categories in Nick Brooks's Promise Boys book and Candace Fleming's Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime

  • crime
  • audiobook
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17. Punching Bag

By: Rex Ogle

4.49

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Punching Bag is the compelling true story of a high school career defined by poverty and punctuated… read more

Similar categories in Rex Ogle's Punching Bag book and Candace Fleming's Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime

  • teen
  • audiobook
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18. The Weight of Blood

By: Tiffany D. Jackson

4.21

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

" New York Times bestselling author Tiffany D. Jackson ramps up the horror and tackles America's hi… read more

Similar categories in Tiffany D. Jackson's The Weight of Blood book and Candace Fleming's Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime

  • audiobook
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19. Sunshine: A Graphic Novel

By: Jarrett J. Krosoczka

4.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary--and extraordinarily powerful--follow-up to HEY, KIDDO. When Jarrett J. Krosoc… read more

Similar categories in Jarrett J. Krosoczka's Sunshine: A Graphic Novel book and Candace Fleming's Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • teen
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20. Slay

By: Brittney Morris

4.20

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

'We are different ages, genders and traditions ... but tonight we all SLAY'Black Panther meets Read… read more

Similar categories in Brittney Morris's Slay book and Candace Fleming's Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime

  • teen
  • audiobook
"As we duel, as we chat, there's an understanding that "your black is not my black" and "your weird is not my weird" and "your beautiful is not my beautiful," and that's okay. It' brings tears to my e…"

-Brittney Morris, Slay

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21. The Summer of Bitter and Sweet

By: Jen Ferguson

4.05

Format: 374 pages, Hardcover

In this complex and emotionally resonant novel, debut author Jen Ferguson serves up a powerful stor… read more

Similar categories in Jen Ferguson's The Summer of Bitter and Sweet book and Candace Fleming's Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime

  • audiobook
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22. Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed

By: Dashka Slater

4.30

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

When a high school student started a private Instagram account that used racist and sexist memes to… read more

Similar categories in Dashka Slater's Accountable: The True Story of a Racist Social Media Account and the Teenagers Whose Lives It Changed book and Candace Fleming's Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • teen
  • audiobook
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23. Gideon Green in Black and White

By: Katie Henry

4.02

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Gideon's short-lived run as a locally-famous boy detective ended when middle school started, and ev… read more

Similar categories in Katie Henry's Gideon Green in Black and White book and Candace Fleming's Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime

  • audiobook
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24. Odd One Out

By: Nic Stone

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Dear Martin comes this exploration of old friendships, new crushes, and the path… read more

Similar categories in Nic Stone's Odd One Out book and Candace Fleming's Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime

  • teen
  • audiobook
"The truth is, I've been learning a lot about myself lately, and at this point, I don't feel like any of the labels really fit me."

-Nic Stone, Odd One Out

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25. Hollow Fires

By: Samira Ahmed

4.28

Format: 404 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, gripping YA novel about the insidious nature of racism, the terrible costs of unearthin… read more

Similar categories in Samira Ahmed's Hollow Fires book and Candace Fleming's Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime

  • audiobook
"from the postscript: The commentators who scream against allowing in refugees, the same talking heads who think the horrifyingly inhumane treatment of migrants at our border with Mexico is justified,…"

-Samira Ahmed, Hollow Fires

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26. American Murderer

By: Gail Jarrow

4.08

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

What made workers in the American South so tired and feeble during the 19th and early 20th centurie… read more

Similar categories in Gail Jarrow's American Murderer book and Candace Fleming's Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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27. The Getaway

By: Lamar Giles

3.74

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to the funnest spot around . . . Jay is living his best life at Karloff Country, one of … read more

Similar categories in Lamar Giles's The Getaway book and Candace Fleming's Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime

  • teen
  • audiobook
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28. Enter the Body

By: Joy McCullough

4.00

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“At once tender, poetic and ferocious, Enter The Body breathes new life into the Bard’s most tragic… read more

Similar categories in Joy McCullough's Enter the Body book and Candace Fleming's Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime

  • historical
  • audiobook
"Broken people can be loved."

-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body

"The telling of stories holds back the weight of time."

-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body

"Each considers how these acts of violence against their bodies were acceptable to the world, while their desires were not."

-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body

"Not all stories can be told. Some are so dark and twisted, their telling would undo the world. But just because she doesn't speak doesn't mean Lavinia can't share who she is, what she's been through,…"

-Joy McCullough, Enter the Body

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29. The Blood Years

By: Elana K. Arnold

4.32

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

The harrowing story of a young girl's struggle to survive the Holocaust in Romania. Frederieke T… read more

Similar categories in Elana K. Arnold's The Blood Years book and Candace Fleming's Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime

  • historical
  • audiobook
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30. How to Build a Human: In Seven Evolutionary Steps

By: Pamela S. Turner

4.20

Format: 166 pages, Hardcover

The epic story of our evolution in seven big steps! How did we become who we are? With trademark… read more

Similar categories in Pamela S. Turner's How to Build a Human: In Seven Evolutionary Steps book and Candace Fleming's Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • teen
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31. Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime

By: Candace Fleming

3.90

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child...and why ? And how did their brilliant law… read more

Similar categories in Candace Fleming's Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime book and Candace Fleming's Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • teen
  • historical
  • adult
  • mental illness
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook

20 Top audiobook books like Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime by Candace Fleming

Transform Your Habits

The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen

Isaac Blum

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Burn Down, Rise Up

Vincent Tirado

3.75

Transform Your Habits

The Mona Lisa Vanishes: A Legendary Painter, a Shocking Heist, and the Birth of a Global Celebrity

Nicholas Day

4.15

Transform Your Habits

A Snake Falls to Earth

Darcie Little Badger

3.95

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18 must-read middle grade books like Sunshine: A Graphic Novel by Jarrett J. Krosoczka

Transform Your Habits

Courage to Dream: Tales of Hope in the Holocaust

Neal Shusterman

4.14

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A Work in Progress

Jarrett Lerner

4.40

Transform Your Habits

A First Time for Everything

Dan Santat

4.39

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Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam

Thien Pham

4.29

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