7 Best crime books like Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession by Alice Bolin

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Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession

By: Alice Bolin

3.03

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

A collection of poignant, perceptive essays that expertly blends the personal and political in an e…

If you liked the crime plot in Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession by Alice Bolin , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Over Tumbled Graves (Caroline Mabry, #1)

By: Jess Walter

3.73

Format: 383 pages, Paperback

In Over Tumbled Graves, Jess Walter, National Book Award finalist and author of Citizen Vince and T… read more

Similar categories in Jess Walter's Over Tumbled Graves (Caroline Mabry, #1) book and Alice Bolin's Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession

  • crime
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2. Black Sabbath: Symptom of the Universe

By: Mick Wall

4.01

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Decades before reality television was invented, Ozzy Osbourne was subversive and dark. Ozzy was the… read more

Similar categories in Mick Wall's Black Sabbath: Symptom of the Universe book and Alice Bolin's Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession

  • nonfiction
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3. Jane: A Murder

By: Maggie Nelson

3.93

Format: None pages,

Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson's aunt Jane, who was murdered … read more

Similar categories in Maggie Nelson's Jane: A Murder book and Alice Bolin's Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • crime

4. The Ghost Notebooks

By: Ben Dolnick

3.92

Format: 256 pages, ebook

A supernatural story of love, ghosts, and madness as a young couple, newly engaged, become live-in … read more

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5. The Red Parts

By: Maggie Nelson

4.31

Format: 66 pages,

One day in March 1969, twenty-three- year-old Jane Mixer was on her way home to tell her parents sh… read more

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6. The Answers

By: Catherine Lacey

3.59

Format: 32 pages,

An urgent, propulsive novel about a woman learning to negotiate her ailment and its various afteref… read more

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7. Pretty Ugly

By: David Sedaris

3.55

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

David Sedaris and Ian Falconer make a spectacular splash with this tale of a monster turned ugly—st… read more

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8. Rouge

By: Mona Awad

3.56

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more

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  • audiobook
"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

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9. It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

By: Joe Vallese

4.18

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

Through the lens of horror—from "Halloween" to "Hereditary"—queer and trans writers consider the fi… read more

Similar categories in Joe Vallese's It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror book and Alice Bolin's Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession

  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"Androgyny doesn't look a certain way, though gender is ingrained in society such that liberal readings are applied to everyone, sprinkling gender on everything from haircuts to careers to alcoholic b…"

-Joe Vallese, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

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10. Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries

By: Rick Emerson

3.96

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

Two teens. Two diaries. Two social panics. One incredible fraud. In 1971, Go Ask Alice reinvente… read more

Similar categories in Rick Emerson's Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries book and Alice Bolin's Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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11. Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

By: Anna Bogutskaya

3.72

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

How bitches, trainwrecks, shrews, and crazy women have taken over pop culture and liberated women f… read more

Similar categories in Anna Bogutskaya's Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate book and Alice Bolin's Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession

  • pop culture
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • audiobook
"All high school experiences are inherently dramatic because they are being experienced for the first time."

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

"Unlikeable" is code. It's code for "fair game." If a woman in unlikable, she is stepping out of bounds. Which makes it fair game to decimate her socially, emotionally, or physically. Likeability give…"

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

"In 2015, a study about jury deliberation bias conducted at Arizona State University found that "when men expressed their opinion with anger, participants rated them as more credible, which made them …"

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

"When men get angry onscreen, they're angry at the system. When women are angry onscreen, they're angry at someone. Women are not allowed to be angry at the system, because that would be a tacit accep…"

-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

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12. Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s

By: Sarah Ditum

3.58

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A scathing reexamination of the lives of nine female celebrities in the 2000s, and the sexist, expl… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Ditum's Toxic: Women, Fame, and the Tabloid 2000s book and Alice Bolin's Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession

  • pop culture
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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13. The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science

By: Seb Falk

3.68

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

An illuminating guide to the scientific and technological achievements of the Middle Ages through t… read more

Similar categories in Seb Falk's The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science book and Alice Bolin's Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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14. Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession

By: Sarah Weinman

3.59

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A brilliant anthology of modern true-crime writing that illustrates the appeal of this powerful and… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Weinman's Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession book and Alice Bolin's Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession

  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • crime
  • audiobook
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15. Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession

By: Rachel Monroe

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A provocative and original investigation of our cultural fascination with crime, linking four arche… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Monroe's Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession book and Alice Bolin's Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession

  • true crime
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Sometimes women’s attraction to true crime is dismissed as trashy and voyeuristic (because women are vapid!). Sometimes it is unquestioningly celebrated as feminist (because if women like something, …"

-Rachel Monroe, Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession

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16. You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession

By: Piper Weiss

3.27

Format: 368 pages, ebook

A highly unsettling blend of true crime and coming-of-age memoir— The Stranger Beside Me meets Prep… read more

Similar categories in Piper Weiss's You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession book and Alice Bolin's Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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17. 90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality

By: Allison Yarrow

4.03

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

The close of the 20th century promised a new era of gender equality. However, the iconic women of t… read more

Similar categories in Allison Yarrow's 90s Bitch: Media, Culture, and the Failed Promise of Gender Equality book and Alice Bolin's Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession

  • pop culture
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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18. The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir

By: Wayétu Moore

4.24

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

An engrossing memoir of escaping the First Liberian Civil War and building a life in the United Sta… read more

Similar categories in Wayétu Moore's The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir book and Alice Bolin's Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Barely one year in and our new country let us know, every day, that we were different."

-Wayétu Moore, The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir

"I could be beautiful in a place and still not enough, not because of who I was or anything I had done, but because of something as simple, and somehow as grand in this new place, as the color of my s…"

-Wayétu Moore, The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir

"I think, as women of color, especially women of color who come from some means, any means really, we tend to play down the unpleasant things we've experienced. To bury them ... Perfection or the desi…"

-Wayétu Moore, The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir

Cover of Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession by Alice Bolin

19. Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession

By: Alice Bolin

3.03

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

A collection of poignant, perceptive essays that expertly blends the personal and political in an e… read more

Similar categories in Alice Bolin's Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession book and Alice Bolin's Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • pop culture
  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • womens
  • crime
  • audiobook
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20. The Astral Geographic: The Watkins Guide to the Occult World

By: Andy Sharp

4.13

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

EXPLORE THE LANDSCAPES OF THE OCCULT – EXPAND THE HORIZONS OF YOUR CONSCIOUSNESSThis ground-breakin… read more

Similar categories in Andy Sharp's The Astral Geographic: The Watkins Guide to the Occult World book and Alice Bolin's Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession

  • nonfiction
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21. Swimming Pretty: The Untold Story of Women in Water

By: Vicki Valosik

4.14

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From vaudeville tank shows to the Olympic arena, a groundbreaking history of how women found synchr… read more

Similar categories in Vicki Valosik's Swimming Pretty: The Untold Story of Women in Water book and Alice Bolin's Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession

  • womens
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

12 must-read audiobook books like Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession by Alice Bolin

Transform Your Habits

Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

Transform Your Habits

It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror

Joe Vallese

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries

Rick Emerson

3.96

Transform Your Habits

Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate

Anna Bogutskaya

3.72

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23 Top audiobook books like The Light Ages: The Surprising Story of Medieval Science by Seb Falk

Transform Your Habits

Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization

Paul Kriwaczek

3.91

Transform Your Habits

The Devil's Element: Phosphorus and a World Out of Balance

Dan Egan

4.23

Transform Your Habits

The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

Steve Brusatte

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable

Joanna Schwartz

4.47

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