14 best-selling crime books like Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison by Daniel S. Medwed

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Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison

By: Daniel S. Medwed

4.40

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking exposé of how our legal system makes it nearly impossible to overturn wrongful con…

If you liked the crime plot in Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison by Daniel S. Medwed , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan #11)

By: Jane Casey

4.29

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Every mother's worst nightmare . . . When nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall vanished from her bed one … read more

Similar categories in Jane Casey's A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan #11) book and Daniel S. Medwed's Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison

  • crime
  • audiobook
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2. Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable

By: Joanna Schwartz

4.47

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An urgent and definitive examination of how the legal system prevents accountability for police mis… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Schwartz's Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable book and Daniel S. Medwed's Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • crime
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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3. Martyr!

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more

Similar categories in Kaveh Akbar's Martyr! book and Daniel S. Medwed's Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison

  • audiobook
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4. Help Wanted

By: Adelle Waldman

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In Help Wanted, Adelle Waldman brings her unparalleled wit and knack for social observation to the … read more

Similar categories in Adelle Waldman's Help Wanted book and Daniel S. Medwed's Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison

  • adult
  • audiobook
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5. 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 Daniel S. Medwed's Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • crime
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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6. 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

Similar categories in Tim Alberta's The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism book and Daniel S. Medwed's Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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7. The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power

By: Dana Mattioli

4.10

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From veteran Amazon reporter for The Wall Street Journal, and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in in… read more

Similar categories in Dana Mattioli's The Everything War: Amazon’s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power book and Daniel S. Medwed's Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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8. Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America

By: Will Sommer

4.09

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

The definitive book on QAnon from the reporter knows them best; Will Sommer explains what it is, ho… read more

Similar categories in Will Sommer's Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America book and Daniel S. Medwed's Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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9. The Age of Grievance

By: Frank Bruni

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni comes a lucid, powerful e… read more

Similar categories in Frank Bruni's The Age of Grievance book and Daniel S. Medwed's Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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10. The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South

By: Radley Balko

4.03

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursue… read more

Similar categories in Radley Balko's The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South book and Daniel S. Medwed's Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

By: Adam Higginbotham

4.60

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more

Similar categories in Adam Higginbotham's Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space book and Daniel S. Medwed's Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

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12. Evidence of Things Seen

By: Sarah Weinman

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From Sarah Weinman, the award-winning editor of Unspeakable Acts, a groundbreaking new anthology sh… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Weinman's Evidence of Things Seen book and Daniel S. Medwed's Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison

  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • crime
  • audiobook
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13. The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity

By: Axton Betz-Hamilton

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An identity theft expert tells the story of the duplicity and betrayal that inspired her career and… read more

Similar categories in Axton Betz-Hamilton's The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity book and Daniel S. Medwed's Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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14. Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System

By: M. Chris Fabricant

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An insider's journey into the heart of a broken, racist system of justice and the role junk science… read more

Similar categories in M. Chris Fabricant's Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System book and Daniel S. Medwed's Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison

  • politics
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • crime
  • audiobook
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15. Kill Show

By: Daniel Sweren-Becker

3.78

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

When sixteen-year-old Sara Parcell goes missing, it’s an utter tragedy—and an entertaining national… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Sweren-Becker's Kill Show book and Daniel S. Medwed's Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison

  • crime
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Some people chalk up every violent act against women to a boy who never got kissed in Middle School...I hate that framework because it implies it's somehow every teenage girl's responsibility to dole…"

-Daniel Sweren-Becker, Kill Show

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16. Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration

By: Reuben Jonathan Miller

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A "persuasive and essential" (Matthew Desmond) work that will forever change how we look at life af… read more

Similar categories in Reuben Jonathan Miller's Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration book and Daniel S. Medwed's Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • crime
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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17. Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal

By: Alexandra Natapoff

4.17

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A revelatory account of the misdemeanor machine that unjustly brands millions of Americans as crimi… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Natapoff's Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal book and Daniel S. Medwed's Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison

  • politics
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • crime
  • sociology
"[O]ffenses like disorderly conduct, obstruction, and resisting arrest are easily alleged, they effectively give police the power to arrest based on violations of their own sense of authority."

-Alexandra Natapoff, Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal

"Once people understood that wrongful convictions were occurring regularly in homicide and rape cases, a widespread consensus developed that innocent people should not be convicted of serious crimes. …"

-Alexandra Natapoff, Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal

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18. Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers

By: Deborah Tuerkheimer

4.40

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this landmark book, a former prosecutor, legal expert, and leading authority on sexual violence … read more

Similar categories in Deborah Tuerkheimer's Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers book and Daniel S. Medwed's Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • crime
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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19. Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison

By: Daniel S. Medwed

4.40

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking exposé of how our legal system makes it nearly impossible to overturn wrongful con… read more

Similar categories in Daniel S. Medwed's Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison book and Daniel S. Medwed's Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison

  • politics
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • crime
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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20. Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights

By: Erwin Chemerinsky

4.22

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Presumed Guilty, like the best-selling The Color of Law, is a “smoking gun” of civil rights researc… read more

Similar categories in Erwin Chemerinsky's Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights book and Daniel S. Medwed's Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison

  • politics
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • crime
  • audiobook
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21. You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent

By: Justin Brooks

4.66

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Surviving prison as an innocent person is a surreal nightmare no one wants to think about. But it c… read more

Similar categories in Justin Brooks's You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent book and Daniel S. Medwed's Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • social justice

9 Top adult books like Barred: Why the Innocent Can't Get Out of Prison by Daniel S. Medwed

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Help Wanted

Adelle Waldman

3.62

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

Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

Transform Your Habits

Evidence of Things Seen

Sarah Weinman

3.65

Transform Your Habits

The Less People Know About Us: A Mystery of Betrayal, Family Secrets, and Stolen Identity

Axton Betz-Hamilton

3.89

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20 must-read audiobook books like Trust the Plan: The Rise of QAnon and the Conspiracy That Unhinged America by Will Sommer

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Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theories

Mike Rothschild

3.84

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Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

4.22

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Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracy Theories Became a Health Threat

Derek Beres

4.10

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The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism

Tim Alberta

4.45

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