30 must-read nonfiction books like If Love Could Kill: The Myths and Truths of Women Who Commit Violence by Anna Motz

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If Love Could Kill: The Myths and Truths of Women Who Commit Violence

By: Anna Motz

3.84

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking work by an internationally acclaimed forensic psychotherapist that looks at women …

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1. Missing Persons: or, My Grandmother's Secrets

By: Clair Wills

3.65

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Blending memoir with social history, Clair Wills movingly explores the gaping holes in the fabric o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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2. Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters

By: Charan Ranganath

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, on… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
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3. Keanu Reeves is Not in Love With You: The Murky World of Online Romance Fraud

By: Becky Holmes

3.88

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

One woman's hilarious and fascinating quest to expose the truth behind fraudulent Twitter romance … read more

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  • true crime
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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4. Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi

By: Susan Hendricks

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Former CNN/HLN anchor and veteran broadcast journalist Susan Hendricks takes an investigative deep-… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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5. Sociopath: A Memoir

By: Patric Gagne

3.84

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own soci… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
"In a universe where everything seemed to be associated with everything else, jazz was in a world all its own. The untethered notes didn't propel me backward in time or force me into imaginations of t…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"Regardless of whether they realized it, my parents, my friends, my teachers, my lovers—everyone, on some level—was uncomfortable with my limited emotion. Because it meant something sinister. Because,…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"I loved people. I truly did. But the way I loved was different than most. And, if I was being honest, not all that compatible. I didn’t need to get love in order to give love. I never had. I preferre…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

"The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and T…"

-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir

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6. The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church

By: Sarah McCammon

4.21

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive book that names the massive social movement of people leaving the white evange… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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7. 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

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  • history
  • true crime
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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8. Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia

By: Kate Manne

4.25

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research t… read more

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  • audiobook
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
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9. Still Life with Bones: Genocide, Forensics, and What Remains

By: Alexa Hagerty

4.47

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An anthropologist working with forensic teams and victims' families to investigate crimes against h… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. 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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11. 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
  • audiobook
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12. The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice

By: C. Alexander Hortis

3.61

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Before the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey Anthony—before even Lizzie Borden—there was P… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans by Jane Marie

13. Selling the Dream: The Billion-Dollar Industry Bankrupting Americans

By: Jane Marie

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Peabody and Emmy Award–winning journalist Jane Marie expands on her popular podcast The Dream to ex… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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14. Bless Your Heart (Bless Your Heart, #1)

By: Lindy Ryan

3.63

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Rise and shine. The Evans women have some undead to kill. It’s 1999 in Southeast Texas and the E… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today by Elizabeth Comen

15. All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

By: Elizabeth Comen

4.43

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The fascinating history of women’s health as it’s never been told before. For as long as medicin… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"The role of women was proscribed in medicine as in society, bolstered by the stereotype of the female nurturer: Doctors cured. Nurses cared."

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

"A man with high testosterone, it was understood, was virile, a warrior, a stud. A woman with too much estrogen, on the other hand, was just crazy."

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

"The idea was just this: that there is something beautiful, and wonderfully feminine, and powerful and empowering at once, about a woman who can’t breathe."

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

"Between the purported sex appeal of tuberculosis and its special deadliness in young people, being afflicted with the disease—or at least, looking like you were—became associated with a certain statu…"

-Elizabeth Comen, All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women's Bodies and Why It Matters Today

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16. 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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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"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

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17. The Manicurist's Daughter

By: Susan Lieu

3.96

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An emotionally raw memoir about the crumbling of the American Dream and a daughter of refugees who … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services―Notes of a Former Caseworker by Jessica  Pryce

18. Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services―Notes of a Former Caseworker

By: Jessica Pryce

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Joining the ranks of Evicted and The New Jim Crow , a former caseworker’s searing, clear-eyed inves… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
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19. Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood

By: Gretchen Sisson

4.38

Format: 311 pages, Hardcover

A powerful decade-long study of adoption in the age of Roe, revealing the grief of the American mot… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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20. The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice

By: Elizabeth Flock

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Renowned journalist and author of The Heart is a Shifting Sea Elizabeth Flock investigates what few… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"I saw how their violent actions had both helped and harmed them, and others around them... They all found agency, a voice, and an identity beyond how the men in their towns saw them. But they got no …"

-Elizabeth Flock, The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice

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21. 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
  • audiobook
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22. A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes

By: Anthony Bale

3.76

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A captivating journey of the expansive world of medieval travel, from London to Constantinople to t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"travel opens the mind in unpredictable ways"

-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes

"Jerusalem is a city of unfinished projects."

-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes

"Travel forms communities, but not always harmoniously."

-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes

"Holy ground can look startlingly ordinary, especially when one’s standing on it."

-Anthony Bale, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes

Cover of The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels by Pamela Prickett

23. The Unclaimed: Abandonment and Hope in the City of Angels

By: Pamela Prickett

4.08

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, deeply moving investigation of an underreported phenomenon—the rising number of unclai… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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24. The Tragedy of Heterosexuality

By: Jane Ward

4.16

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

A troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeToo Heterosexuality is in crisis. Re… read more

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  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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25. Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder

By: Alexander Kriss

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, compassionate, and expansive portrait of Borderline Personality Disorder that rejects … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • psychology
  • mental health
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26. Kissing Girls on Shabbat: A Memoir

By: Sara Glass

4.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A moving coming-of-age memoir in the vein of Unorthodox and Brazen , about one young woman’s desper… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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27. If Love Could Kill: The Myths and Truths of Women Who Commit Violence

By: Anna Motz

3.84

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking work by an internationally acclaimed forensic psychotherapist that looks at women … read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • feminism
  • gender
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • abuse
  • crime
  • audiobook
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28. 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

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

29. 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

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  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • audiobook
Cover of The Cycle: Confronting the Pain of Periods and PMDD by Shalene Gupta

30. The Cycle: Confronting the Pain of Periods and PMDD

By: Shalene Gupta

4.21

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking exploration of a debilitating disorder that’s underdiagnosed and misunderstood. … read more

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

31. 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

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  • history
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

30 best-selling audiobook books like If Love Could Kill: The Myths and Truths of Women Who Commit Violence by Anna Motz

Transform Your Habits

Missing Persons: or, My Grandmother's Secrets

Clair Wills

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters

Charan Ranganath

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Keanu Reeves is Not in Love With You: The Murky World of Online Romance Fraud

Becky Holmes

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi

Susan Hendricks

3.62

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Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

Transform Your Habits

The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

Griffin Dunne

4.19

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We Burn Daylight

Bret Anthony Johnston

3.95

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

Anna Akbari

3.66

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