23 must-read nonfiction books like My Brother the Killer: A Family Story by Alix Sharkey

Cover of My Brother the Killer: A Family Story by Alix Sharkey

My Brother the Killer: A Family Story

By: Alix Sharkey

3.61

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this remarkable memoir, a harrowing true story of family, violence, guilt and atonement, a journ…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in My Brother the Killer: A Family Story by Alix Sharkey , here is a list of 23 books like this:

Cover of Wishin' and Hopin' by Wally Lamb

1. Wishin' and Hopin'

By: Wally Lamb

3.59

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

Wally Lamb, the beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hour I First Believed, I Know T… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of The Misleading Mind: How We Create Our Own Problems and How Buddhist Psychology Can Help Us Solve Them by Karuna Cayton

2. The Misleading Mind: How We Create Our Own Problems and How Buddhist Psychology Can Help Us Solve Them

By: Karuna Cayton

4.05

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Buddhism asserts that we each have the potential to free ourselves from the prison of our problems.… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of At My Mother's Knee...: and other low joints by Paul O'Grady

3. At My Mother's Knee...: and other low joints

By: Paul O'Grady

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In his own uniquely acid tongue, Paul O'Grady traces the hilarious tales of life in Irish Catholic … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of The Want-Ad Killer by Ann Rule

4. The Want-Ad Killer

By: Ann Rule

3.59

Format: 378 pages,

After his first grisly crime, Harvey Louis Carignan beat a death sentence and continued to manipula… read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search by Sarah    Perry

5. After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search

By: Sarah Perry

3.89

Format: 7 pages, Hardcover

"Stunning." --Entertainment Weekly |"Raw and perfect." --Laura Miller, Slate "Heartbreaking yet hop… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Conviction: The Untold Story of Putting Jodi Arias Behind Bars by Lisa Pulitzer, Juan Martínez

6. Conviction: The Untold Story of Putting Jodi Arias Behind Bars

By: Lisa Pulitzer , Juan Martínez

3.33

Format: 170 pages, Hardcover

Juan Martinez, the fiery prosecutor who convicted notorious murderess Jodi Arias for the disturbing… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Tressa - The 12-Year-Old Mum: My True Story by Tressa Middleton, Katy Weitz

7. Tressa - The 12-Year-Old Mum: My True Story

By: Tressa Middleton , Katy Weitz

3.31

Format: None pages,

read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

8. The Damage Done: Twelve Years of Hell in a Bangkok Prison

By: Warren Fellows

2.75

Format: None pages,

In 1978 Warren Fellows was convicted of heroin trafficking between Thailand and Australia. He was c… read more

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9. A False Report: A True Story of Rape in America

By: Ken Armstrong , T. Christian Miller

3.59

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists tell the riveting true story of Marie, a teenager who was ch… read more

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10. The Lost Girls: The True Story of the Cleveland Abductions and the Incredible Rescue of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus

By: John Glatt

2.83

Format: 288 pages, ebook

New York Times bestselling crime writer John Glatt tells the true story behind the kidnappings and … read more

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Cover of American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century by Maureen Callahan

11. American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

By: Maureen Callahan

4.09

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Jeffrey Dahmer. The names of notorious serial killers are usually well-… read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"I've got lots more stories to tell."

-Maureen Callahan, American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

Cover of Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi by Susan Hendricks

12. 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
Cover of I Survived: A True Story. by Victoria Cilliers

13. I Survived: A True Story.

By: Victoria Cilliers

4.16

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

A chilling, eye-opening story of marriage and attempted murder, revealing the truth about a case th… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Golden Boy: A Murder Among the Manhattan Elite by John Glatt

14. Golden Boy: A Murder Among the Manhattan Elite

By: John Glatt

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Golden Boy, New York Times bestselling author John Glatt tells the true story of Thomas Gilbert … read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Serial Killer's Daughter: My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming by Kerri Rawson

15. A Serial Killer's Daughter: My Story of Faith, Love, and Overcoming

By: Kerri Rawson

3.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What is it like to learn that your ordinary, loving father is a serial killer?   In 2005, Kerri … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America by Harry N. MacLean

16. Starkweather: The Untold Story of the Killing Spree that Changed America

By: Harry N. MacLean

3.71

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

The definitive story of Charles Starkweather, often considered to be the first mass killer in the m… read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of In Control: Dangerous Relationships and How They End in Murder by Jane Monckton-Smith

17. In Control: Dangerous Relationships and How They End in Murder

By: Jane Monckton-Smith

4.67

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In the UK, every week three women are killed by their partners. Over half the women killed by men a… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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18. Silent Sisters

By: Joanne Lee

4.13

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

A deadly secret. A horrifying discovery. For over 20 years, Joanne Lee's mother kept the rema… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Normal Women by Ainslie Hogarth

19. Normal Women

By: Ainslie Hogarth

3.01

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this darkly comic story about how we value female labor—and don’t—a new mother becomes embroiled… read more

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Cover of Death on Ocean Boulevard: Inside the Coronado Mansion Case by Caitlin Rother

20. Death on Ocean Boulevard: Inside the Coronado Mansion Case

By: Caitlin Rother

3.67

Format: 402 pages, Kindle Edition

Bestselling author Caitlin Rother explores the mysterious death of 32-year-old Rebecca Zahau, who w… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Playing with Fire: The true story of Fireman Scam by Coleen Greenwood

21. Playing with Fire: The true story of Fireman Scam

By: Coleen Greenwood

4.46

Format: 226 pages, Kindle Edition

"In my 23 years of policing, I have never encountered a man as manipulative as Greg Wilson … a comp… read more

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Cover of Unsafe: Damian longs for home, but one man stands in his way by Cathy Glass

22. Unsafe: Damian longs for home, but one man stands in his way

By: Cathy Glass

4.33

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

Damian longs for home, but one man stands in his way … Damian is just seven when he is taken in by… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last High by Daniel Kalla

23. The Last High

By: Daniel Kalla

3.79

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this riveting novel from international bestselling author Daniel Kalla, a Vancouver doctor and a… read more

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  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy by Alex  Mar

24. Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy

By: Alex Mar

3.98

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A masterful, revelatory work of literary non-fiction about a teenage girl's shocking crime--and its… read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Sleeping with a Psychopath by Carolyn  Woods

25. Sleeping with a Psychopath

By: Carolyn Woods

3.60

Format: 322 pages, Paperback

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER A Divorced Woman. A Dangerous Man. A Devastating Affair.… read more

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  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Passion for Poison: Serial Killer. Poisoner. Schoolboy by Carol Ann Lee

26. A Passion for Poison: Serial Killer. Poisoner. Schoolboy

By: Carol Ann Lee

4.15

Format: 476 pages, Kindle Edition

'The whole story is so terrible. You will be disgusted and amazed.' Graham Young, confessing his c… read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America by Gene Weingarten

27. One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America

By: Gene Weingarten

3.94

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

On New Year's Day 2013, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winner Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, li… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
"Life is essentially a fatal disease of indeterminate duration."

-Gene Weingarten, One Day: The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary 24 Hours in America

Cover of How Was It for You?: Stories from a Sex Worker by Eve  Smith

28. How Was It for You?: Stories from a Sex Worker

By: Eve Smith

3.66

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

The author of How Was It for You? is a sex worker. Let’s call her ‘Eve’. Eve is someone’s partner. … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • audiobook
Cover of My Brother the Killer: A Family Story by Alix Sharkey

29. My Brother the Killer: A Family Story

By: Alix Sharkey

3.61

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this remarkable memoir, a harrowing true story of family, violence, guilt and atonement, a journ… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Helpless: Are Riley and his two little siblings in danger? by Cathy Glass

30. Helpless: Are Riley and his two little siblings in danger?

By: Cathy Glass

4.44

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

The 32nd fostering memoir from international bestseller Cathy Glass Struggling to cope with three … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Killer Kids Volume 15: 22 Shocking True Crime Cases of Kids Who Kill by Robert Keller

31. Killer Kids Volume 15: 22 Shocking True Crime Cases of Kids Who Kill

By: Robert Keller

4.45

Format: 121 pages, Kindle Edition

22 Shocking True Crime Cases of Kids Who Kill, including;Caleb Sharpe: He was the kid everyone igno… read more

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Wally Lamb

3.59

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The Want-Ad Killer

Ann Rule

3.59

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After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder, a Daughter's Search

Sarah Perry

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Conviction: The Untold Story of Putting Jodi Arias Behind Bars

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3.33

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Maciej Wasielewski

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Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life

Evan Stark

4.11

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The Good Heart: A Buddhist Perspective on the Teachings of Jesus

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4.52

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