9 must-read journalism books like Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland by Nancy Schwartzman

Cover of Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland by Nancy Schwartzman

Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland

By: Nancy Schwartzman

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An incisive narrative about a teen rape case that divided a Rust Belt town, exposing the hostile an…

If you liked the journalism plot in Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland by Nancy Schwartzman , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land by Sally Denton

1. The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land

By: Sally Denton

3.49

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

On the morning of November 4, 2019, an unassuming caravan of women and children was ambushed by mas… read more

Similar categories in Sally Denton's The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land book and Nancy Schwartzman's Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland

  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders by Kathryn Miles

2. Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders

By: Kathryn Miles

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

​Trailed is a beautifully written account of a great American tragedy--the unsolved murders of an u… read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Miles's Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders book and Nancy Schwartzman's Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angels by Paul Pringle

3. Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angels

By: Paul Pringle

4.22

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Spotlight and Catch and Kill comes a nonfiction thriller about corruption and betrayal … read more

Similar categories in Paul Pringle's Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angels book and Nancy Schwartzman's Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland

  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
Cover of Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer by Jillian Lauren

4. Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer

By: Jillian Lauren

3.38

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

He was sitting right across the table...and he would have killed her if he could. Jillian Lauren ha… read more

Similar categories in Jillian Lauren's Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer book and Nancy Schwartzman's Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi by Susan Hendricks

5. 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

Similar categories in Susan Hendricks's Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi book and Nancy Schwartzman's Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story by Max  Marshall

6. 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 Nancy Schwartzman's Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Sandy Hook by Elizabeth  Williamson

7. Sandy Hook

By: Elizabeth Williamson

4.29

Format: 482 pages, Hardcover

Based on hundreds of hours of research, interviews, and access to exclusive sources and materials, … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Williamson's Sandy Hook book and Nancy Schwartzman's Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland

  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
Cover of We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian

8. 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 Nancy Schwartzman's Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence by James Renner

9. Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence

By: James Renner

3.74

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Ann Rule and Gregg Olsen, a riveting new true crime book from the acclaimed author o… read more

Similar categories in James Renner's Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence book and Nancy Schwartzman's Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper by Daniel Stashower

10. American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper

By: Daniel Stashower

3.50

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-winner Daniel Stashower returns with American Dem… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Stashower's American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper book and Nancy Schwartzman's Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls by Kathleen  Hale

11. Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls

By: Kathleen Hale

3.94

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

The first full account of the Slenderman stabbing, a true crime narrative of mental illness, the Am… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Hale's Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls book and Nancy Schwartzman's Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Raising Lazarus by Beth Macy

12. Raising Lazarus

By: Beth Macy

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A “deeply reported, deeply moving” (Patrick Radden Keefe) account of everyday heroes fighting on th… read more

Similar categories in Beth Macy's Raising Lazarus book and Nancy Schwartzman's Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland

  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults by Mitch  Weiss

13. Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults

By: Mitch Weiss

4.15

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In 1979, Jane Whaley, a fiery preacher with a thick Southern drawl, attracted a small group of foll… read more

Similar categories in Mitch Weiss's Broken Faith: Inside the Word of Faith Fellowship, One of America's Most Dangerous Cults book and Nancy Schwartzman's Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder by Edward Humes

14. The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder

By: Edward Humes

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

After 30 years, Detective Jim Scharf arrested a teenage couple's murderer—and exposed a looming bat… read more

Similar categories in Edward Humes's The Forever Witness: How Genetic Genealogy Solved a Cold Case Double Murder book and Nancy Schwartzman's Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students by J. Reuben Appelman

15. While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students

By: J. Reuben Appelman

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, tells the inside story of the “Univers… read more

Similar categories in J. Reuben Appelman's While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students book and Nancy Schwartzman's Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys by Erin Kimmerle

16. We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys

By: Erin Kimmerle

3.88

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Forensic anthropologist Erin Kimmerle investigates of the notorious Dozier Boys School--the true st… read more

Similar categories in Erin Kimmerle's We Carry Their Bones: The Search for Justice at the Dozier School for Boys book and Nancy Schwartzman's Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic by Barry Meier

17. Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic

By: Barry Meier

4.04

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times reporter who first exposed the roots of the opioid e… read more

Similar categories in Barry Meier's Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic book and Nancy Schwartzman's Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence by Ken Auletta

18. Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence

By: Ken Auletta

4.12

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Twenty years ago, Ken Auletta wrote one of the iconic New Yorker profiles for which he is famous, o… read more

Similar categories in Ken Auletta's Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence book and Nancy Schwartzman's Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland

  • history
  • true crime
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
" Harvey Weinstein took pride in not paying bills ,"

-Ken Auletta, Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence

"By suing his former lawyer, Baez’s attorney, Joe Tacopina, said Harvey had waived attorney-client privilege, allowing Tacopina on Baez’s behalf to denounce Harvey as ' a vile fiend ' and a ' rapist ."

-Ken Auletta, Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence

Cover of Evidence of Things Seen by Sarah Weinman

19. 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 Nancy Schwartzman's Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child by Kim Cross

20. In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child

By: Kim Cross

4.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Paced like a thriller and full of insider information on the history and science of Crime Scene Inv… read more

Similar categories in Kim Cross's In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child book and Nancy Schwartzman's Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Darkest Web: Drugs, Death and Destroyed Lives... The Inside Story of the Internet's Evil Twin by Eileen Ormsby

21. The Darkest Web: Drugs, Death and Destroyed Lives... The Inside Story of the Internet's Evil Twin

By: Eileen Ormsby

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Hitmen for hire, drugs for sale. Inside the dangerous world that lurks beneath the bright, friendly… read more

Similar categories in Eileen Ormsby's The Darkest Web: Drugs, Death and Destroyed Lives... The Inside Story of the Internet's Evil Twin book and Nancy Schwartzman's Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them by Max Cutler

22. Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them

By: Max Cutler

3.56

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

Mystery. Manipulation. Murder. Cults are associated with all of these. But what really goes on insi… read more

Similar categories in Max Cutler's Cults: Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them book and Nancy Schwartzman's Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV by Emily Nussbaum

23. Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

By: Emily Nussbaum

4.02

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Who invented reality TV, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre, and why can’t we look away f… read more

Similar categories in Emily Nussbaum's Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV book and Nancy Schwartzman's Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of We Are Proud Boys: How a Right-Wing Street Gang Ushered in a New Era of American Extremism by Andy     Campbell

24. We Are Proud Boys: How a Right-Wing Street Gang Ushered in a New Era of American Extremism

By: Andy Campbell

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A gripping investigation into the nation’s most notorious far-right group, revealing how they creat… read more

Similar categories in Andy Campbell's We Are Proud Boys: How a Right-Wing Street Gang Ushered in a New Era of American Extremism book and Nancy Schwartzman's Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland

  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • audiobook
Cover of Murderabilia: A History of Crime in 100 Objects by Harold Schechter

25. Murderabilia: A History of Crime in 100 Objects

By: Harold Schechter

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From veteran true crime master Harold Schechter comes a unique look into the history of crime told … read more

Similar categories in Harold Schechter's Murderabilia: A History of Crime in 100 Objects book and Nancy Schwartzman's Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • true crime
Cover of The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius by Scott C. Johnson

26. The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius

By: Scott C. Johnson

3.31

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“This book is as engrossing as anything by Agatha Christie, as unsettling as a novel by Stephen Kin… read more

Similar categories in Scott C. Johnson's The Con Queen of Hollywood: The Hunt for an Evil Genius book and Nancy Schwartzman's Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Girls: An All-American Town, a Predatory Doctor, and the Untold Story of the Gymnasts Who Brought Him Down by Abigail Pesta

27. The Girls: An All-American Town, a Predatory Doctor, and the Untold Story of the Gymnasts Who Brought Him Down

By: Abigail Pesta

4.15

Format: 233 pages, Kindle Edition

In this news-breaking narrative, decades of women who brought down sexual predator Larry Nassar off… read more

Similar categories in Abigail Pesta's The Girls: An All-American Town, a Predatory Doctor, and the Untold Story of the Gymnasts Who Brought Him Down book and Nancy Schwartzman's Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland

  • true crime
  • feminism
  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of American Cartel: Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry by Scott Higham

28. American Cartel: Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry

By: Scott Higham

4.13

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

The definitive investigation and exposé of how some of the nation's largest corporations created an… read more

Similar categories in Scott Higham's American Cartel: Inside the Battle to Bring Down the Opioid Industry book and Nancy Schwartzman's Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland

  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland by Nancy Schwartzman

29. Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland

By: Nancy Schwartzman

3.91

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An incisive narrative about a teen rape case that divided a Rust Belt town, exposing the hostile an… read more

Similar categories in Nancy Schwartzman's Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland book and Nancy Schwartzman's Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland

  • history
  • true crime
  • the united states of america
  • feminism
  • politics
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • sports
  • audiobook
Cover of The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook

30. 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

Similar categories in Jesselyn Cook's The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family book and Nancy Schwartzman's Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland

  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty by Valerie Bauerlein

31. The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty

By: Valerie Bauerlein

4.56

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Power, privilege, and blood—this is the definitive and thrilling true story of Alex Murdaugh’s viol… read more

Similar categories in Valerie Bauerlein's The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty book and Nancy Schwartzman's Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook

30 Best audiobook books like Roll Red Roll: Rape, Power, and Football in the American Heartland by Nancy Schwartzman

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The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land

Sally Denton

3.49

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Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders

Kathryn Miles

3.94

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Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angels

Paul Pringle

4.22

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Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer

Jillian Lauren

3.38

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Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story

Max Marshall

3.50

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While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students

J. Reuben Appelman

3.62

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While We Were Burning

Sara Koffi

3.28

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Robert Essig

3.73

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