8 best-selling true crime books like MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang by Steven Dudley

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MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang

By: Steven Dudley

3.54

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The MS-13 was born from war. In the 1980s, El Salvador was enmeshed in a bloody civil conflict. To …

If you liked the true crime plot in MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang by Steven Dudley , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber, and the Invention of Criminal Profiling

By: Michael Cannell

3.84

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

Long before the specter of terrorism haunted the public imagination, a serial bomber stalked the st… read more

Similar categories in Michael Cannell's Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber, and the Invention of Criminal Profiling book and Steven Dudley's MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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2. Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

By: Anne Garrels

3.57

Format: None pages, Hardcover

More than twenty years ago, when NPR correspondent Anne Garrels first visited Chelyabinsky--a gritt… read more

Similar categories in Anne Garrels's Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia book and Steven Dudley's MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook

3. Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them

By: Bart D. Ehrman

3.95

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

Picking up where Bible expert Bart Ehrman's New York Timesbestseller Misquoting Jesusleft off, Jesu… read more

Similar categories in Bart D. Ehrman's Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them book and Steven Dudley's MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang

4. Weekends at Bellevue: Nine Years on the Night Shift at the Psych E.R.

By: Julie Holland

4.40

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In an absorbing memoir laced with humor, Holland provides an unvarnished look at life in the psych … read more

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5. The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914

By: David McCullough

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Hardcover

On December 31, 1999, after nearly a century of rule, the United States officially ceded ownership … read more

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6. 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 Steven Dudley's MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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7. Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story

By: Max Marshall

3.50

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

A brilliant young investigative journalist traces a murder and a multi-million-dollar drug ring, le… read more

Similar categories in Max Marshall's Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story book and Steven Dudley's MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • crime
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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8. 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

Similar categories in Sarah McCammon's The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church book and Steven Dudley's MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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9. Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire

By: Caroline Elkins

4.26

Format: 896 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that interrogates … read more

Similar categories in Caroline Elkins's Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire book and Steven Dudley's MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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10. Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family

By: Susan Jonusas

3.45

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier—shedding new light on a family of serial … read more

Similar categories in Susan Jonusas's Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family book and Steven Dudley's MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. Cabin Fever: The Harrowing Journey of a Cruise Ship at the Dawn of a Pandemic

By: Michael Smith

4.21

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The true story of the Holland America cruise ship Zaandam, which set sail with a deadly and little-… read more

Similar categories in Michael Smith's Cabin Fever: The Harrowing Journey of a Cruise Ship at the Dawn of a Pandemic book and Steven Dudley's MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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12. I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad

By: Baynard Woods

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The explosive true story of America's most corrupt police unit, the Gun Trace Task Force (GTTF), th… read more

Similar categories in Baynard Woods's I Got a Monster: The Rise and Fall of America's Most Corrupt Police Squad book and Steven Dudley's MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang

  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • law
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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13. Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty

By: Jeff Pearlman

4.28

Format: 426 pages, Hardcover

The story of the Lakers dynasty from 1996 through 2004, when Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal combi… read more

Similar categories in Jeff Pearlman's Three-Ring Circus: Kobe, Shaq, Phil, and the Crazy Years of the Lakers Dynasty book and Steven Dudley's MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang

  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • history
  • audiobook
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14. The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State

By: Declan Walsh

4.16

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times’s most distinguished international correspondents. His el… read more

Similar categories in Declan Walsh's The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State book and Steven Dudley's MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
"Zia perished in 1988"

-Declan Walsh, The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State

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15. The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War—A Tragedy in Three Acts

By: Scott Anderson

4.14

Format: 562 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Lawrence in Arabia, a gripping history of the early years of the Col… read more

Similar categories in Scott Anderson's The Quiet Americans: Four CIA Spies at the Dawn of the Cold War—A Tragedy in Three Acts book and Steven Dudley's MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Kilo: Inside the Deadliest Cocaine Cartels—From the Jungles to the Streets

By: Toby Muse

4.21

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

For fans of the Netflix show Narcos and readers of true crime, Kilo is a deeply reported account of… read more

Similar categories in Toby Muse's Kilo: Inside the Deadliest Cocaine Cartels—From the Jungles to the Streets book and Steven Dudley's MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang

  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"I roll into the Land of Lightning with a honey bear under my arm and a storm at my heels."

-Toby Muse, Kilo: Inside the Deadliest Cocaine Cartels—From the Jungles to the Streets

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17. Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels

By: Ioan Grillo

4.22

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

“An eye-opening and riveting account of how guns make it into the black market and into the hands o… read more

Similar categories in Ioan Grillo's Blood Gun Money: How America Arms Gangs and Cartels book and Steven Dudley's MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang

  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • sociology
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18. Manhunters: How We Took Down Pablo Escobar

By: Steve Murphy

3.86

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

The explosive memoir of legendary DEA agents and the subject of the hit Netflix series Narcos, Stev… read more

Similar categories in Steve Murphy's Manhunters: How We Took Down Pablo Escobar book and Steven Dudley's MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart by Alice Walker

19. Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart

By: Alice Walker

3.93

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Presented in both English and Spanish, Alice Walker shares a timely collection of nearly seventy wo… read more

Similar categories in Alice Walker's Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart book and Steven Dudley's MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang

  • 21st century
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Hope is a woman who has lost her fear."

-Alice Walker, Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart

"Repelled by cruelty let us ban it from our hearts."

-Alice Walker, Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart

"And when they spy on us let them discover us loving"

-Alice Walker, Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart

"Be what they do not want: Be thoughtful. Be skilled at loving. Be of good heart. Be of the world tribe."

-Alice Walker, Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart

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20. Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America

By: Vegas Tenold

3.79

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The dark story of the shocking resurgence of white supremacist and nationalist groups, and their pa… read more

Similar categories in Vegas Tenold's Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America book and Steven Dudley's MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang by Steven  Dudley

21. MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang

By: Steven Dudley

3.54

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The MS-13 was born from war. In the 1980s, El Salvador was enmeshed in a bloody civil conflict. To … read more

Similar categories in Steven Dudley's MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang book and Steven Dudley's MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang

  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • law
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • 21st century
  • journalism
  • sociology
  • audiobook

17 must-read audiobook books like MS-13: The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang by Steven Dudley

Transform Your Habits

Incendiary: The Psychiatrist, the Mad Bomber, and the Invention of Criminal Profiling

Michael Cannell

3.84

Transform Your Habits

Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia

Anne Garrels

3.57

Transform Your Habits

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

Robert Meyer MD

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story

Max Marshall

3.50

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14 must-read audiobook books like Manhunters: How We Took Down Pablo Escobar by Steve Murphy

Transform Your Habits

At the Devil's Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel

William C. Rempel

3.99

Transform Your Habits

The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

Steve Coll

4.44

Transform Your Habits

Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern (The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts)

Mary Beard

3.68

Transform Your Habits

A Delayed Life: The True Story of the Librarian of Auschwitz

Dita Kraus

3.96

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