7 Best true crime books like Vancouver Vice: Crime and Spectacle in the City's West End by Aaron Chapman

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Vancouver Vice: Crime and Spectacle in the City's West End

By: Aaron Chapman

3.72

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Aaron Chapman's latest Vancouver book explores the gritty history of the West End in the 1970s and …

If you liked the true crime plot in Vancouver Vice: Crime and Spectacle in the City's West End by Aaron Chapman , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. Invisible Dead (Wakeland, #1)

By: Sam Wiebe

3.78

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A gritty, private-eye series begins on the streets of Vancouver, from an award-winning new crime wr… read more

Similar categories in Sam Wiebe's Invisible Dead (Wakeland, #1) book and Aaron Chapman's Vancouver Vice: Crime and Spectacle in the City's West End

  • crime
Cover of Eight Million Ways to Die (Matthew Scudder, #5) by Lawrence Block

2. Eight Million Ways to Die (Matthew Scudder, #5)

By: Lawrence Block

4.36

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Nobody knows better than Matthew Scudder how far down a person can sink in this city. A young prost… read more

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  • crime
Cover of Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant, #1) by William Gibson

3. Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant, #1)

By: William Gibson

4.06

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Cayce Pollard is an expensive, spookily intuitive market-research consultant. In London on a job, s… read more

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4. History Will Absolve Me

By: Fidel Castro

4.00

Format: 191 pages,

This is Fidel Castro's brilliant courtroom defense speech, offering a foretaste of the oratory for … read more

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5. On the Farm

By: Stevie Cameron

3.33

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

Now that the publication bans are lifted, you need Stevie Cameron to get the whole story, which inc… read more

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6. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Hanna's Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk book and Aaron Chapman's Vancouver Vice: Crime and Spectacle in the City's West End

  • nonfiction
"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

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7. Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.87

Format: 190 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the second v… read more

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"I would like to belong but I dont."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"The notion of nothing is an inconceivable notion"

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Love is quite possibly a mental disorder itself."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

"Rage is only for what you believe can be fixed. All the rest is grief."

-Cormac McCarthy, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #2)

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8. The Librarianist

By: Patrick deWitt

3.41

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who ha… read more

Similar categories in Patrick deWitt's The Librarianist book and Aaron Chapman's Vancouver Vice: Crime and Spectacle in the City's West End

  • historical
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9. If I Survive You

By: Jonathan Escoffery

3.69

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. … read more

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"What does Whiteness feel like?... I imagine it's like walking barefoot…"

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

"Why don't stars make any sounds in the winter? What sounds? Ethan said."

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

"Every boy deserves to believe him father is good, but if each father were good, we’d be living in a different kind of world."

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

"I imagined I could have begged an old girlfriend from college to send money; enough of them had expressed ambivalence about their trust funds that this seemed a plausible path down which I might drag…"

-Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You

Cover of Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green

10. Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

By: Elon Green

3.84

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

The gripping true story, told here for the first time, of the Last Call Killer and the gay communit… read more

Similar categories in Elon Green's Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York book and Aaron Chapman's Vancouver Vice: Crime and Spectacle in the City's West End

  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 4 by James Tynion IV

11. Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 4

By: James Tynion IV

4.45

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The origin of Erica Slaughter, monster hunter, is revealed in this volume of the Eisner Award-nomin… read more

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12. The Mysteries

By: Bill Watterson

3.76

Format: 72 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Indie Bestseller. From Bill Watterson, bests… read more

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13. Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta

By: James Hannaham

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this “dangerously hilarious” novel ( Los Angeles Time s), a trans woman reenters life on the out… read more

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14. Liberation Day

By: George Saunders

4.00

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The "best short story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores i… read more

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"...or said some racist thing out loud at church..."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

"It is always regrettable to have attracted the attention of adult son Mike."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

" You are trapped in you, the beam said. Yeah, well, who isn’t? she thought."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

"It was always falling down around you, everything has always been falling down around us. Only we were too alive to notice."

-George Saunders, Liberation Day

Cover of The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession by Michael Finkel

15. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

By: Michael Finkel

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the worl… read more

Similar categories in Michael Finkel's The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession book and Aaron Chapman's Vancouver Vice: Crime and Spectacle in the City's West End

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • true crime
"Museums are secular churches . . . and to steal there is blasphemous."

-Michael Finkel, The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

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16. Talking to Canadians

By: Rick Mercer

4.28

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Canada’s beloved comic genius tells his own story for the first time. What is Rick Mercer going… read more

Similar categories in Rick Mercer's Talking to Canadians book and Aaron Chapman's Vancouver Vice: Crime and Spectacle in the City's West End

  • nonfiction
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17. Greenwood

By: Michael Christie

4.33

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

It's 2034 and Jake Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting u… read more

Similar categories in Michael Christie's Greenwood book and Aaron Chapman's Vancouver Vice: Crime and Spectacle in the City's West End

  • historical
"There is nothing more quieting than an ancient tree"

-Michael Christie, Greenwood

"Do you know what becomes of men like us without the armour of wealth...?"

-Michael Christie, Greenwood

"Maybe trees do have souls. Which makes wood a kind of flesh. And perhaps instruments of wooden construction sound so pleasing to our ears for this reason: the choral shimmer of a guitar; the heartbea…"

-Michael Christie, Greenwood

"Still, Temple has no illusions concerning her library's impact. Her books won't lift anyone from their low station. They won't right wrongs or save wandering souls from perdition or fill grumbling st…"

-Michael Christie, Greenwood

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18. Like a Rolling Stone

By: Jann S. Wenner

3.84

Format: 592 pages, Hardcover

In this New York Times bestseller, Rolling Stone founder, co-editor, and publisher Jann Wenner offe… read more

Similar categories in Jann S. Wenner's Like a Rolling Stone book and Aaron Chapman's Vancouver Vice: Crime and Spectacle in the City's West End

  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • history
Cover of Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries by Rick Emerson

19. 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 Aaron Chapman's Vancouver Vice: Crime and Spectacle in the City's West End

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • true crime
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20. Jonny Appleseed

By: Joshua Whitehead

3.95

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

(Alternate cover edition of ISBN 1551527251 / 9781551527253.) "You're gonna need a rock and a w… read more

Similar categories in Joshua Whitehead's Jonny Appleseed book and Aaron Chapman's Vancouver Vice: Crime and Spectacle in the City's West End

"I am my own best medicine."

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"...leaving home always hurts--home isn't a space, it's a feeling. You have to feel home and to feel it, you have to sense it: smell it, taste it, hear it. And it isn't always comfortable--"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"Maybe we're more like dandelions. A weed that's a pest in the yard but pretty to look at. Yeah, an Indian home is like a dandelion, pretty, but disposable and imbued with a million little seeds that …"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

"The nurses were busybodies, I could hear them scurrying about in the rooms adjacent to ours. They were telling jokes and laughing. Their happiness pissed me off. Stop fucking laughing, I thought, my …"

-Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

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21. What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

By: Barbara Butcher

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Barbara Butcher was early in her recovery from alcoholism when she found an unexpected a job at th… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Butcher's What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator book and Aaron Chapman's Vancouver Vice: Crime and Spectacle in the City's West End

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
"People can handle the truth, but not uncertainty. The things they imagine are almost always more painful than the facts."

-Barbara Butcher, What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator

Cover of "Indian" in the Cabinet: Speaking Truth to Power by Jody Wilson-Raybould

22. "Indian" in the Cabinet: Speaking Truth to Power

By: Jody Wilson-Raybould

4.14

Format: 304 pages, ebook

THE #1 BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE WRITERS' TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY A compelling … read more

Similar categories in Jody Wilson-Raybould's "Indian" in the Cabinet: Speaking Truth to Power book and Aaron Chapman's Vancouver Vice: Crime and Spectacle in the City's West End

  • nonfiction
  • history
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23. The Colony

By: Audrey Magee

4.11

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

In 1979, as violence erupts all over Ireland, two outsiders travel to a small island off the west c… read more

Similar categories in Audrey Magee's The Colony book and Aaron Chapman's Vancouver Vice: Crime and Spectacle in the City's West End

  • historical
Cover of Not Forever, But For Now by Chuck Palahniuk

24. Not Forever, But For Now

By: Chuck Palahniuk

2.98

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a hilarious horror satire about a family of profess… read more

Similar categories in Chuck Palahniuk's Not Forever, But For Now book and Aaron Chapman's Vancouver Vice: Crime and Spectacle in the City's West End

  • crime
"We're bright young things, and no bright young thing wants to squander his life as a custodian to the dead."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Not Forever, But For Now

"The predators must prey. The prey must be predated. They only wish to be preyed upon by someone who'll do the job properly."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Not Forever, But For Now

"Religion ... is merely what people invent when they wake late at night filled with ancient terror of being found out in their little nest of grasses and torn to shreds by the inevitable."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Not Forever, But For Now

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25. The Sorority Murder (Regan Merritt, #1)

By: Allison Brennan

3.74

Format: 448 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A popular sorority girl. An unsolved murder. A campus podcast with chilling repercussions. Lucas… read more

Similar categories in Allison Brennan's The Sorority Murder (Regan Merritt, #1) book and Aaron Chapman's Vancouver Vice: Crime and Spectacle in the City's West End

  • crime
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26. Huge

By: Brent Butt

3.68

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In comedy, killing is a good thing. From the award-winning screenwriter and International Emmy nomi… read more

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27. The School of Mirrors

By: Eva Stachniak

3.50

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A scintillating, gorgeously written historical novel about a mother and a daughter in eighteenth-ce… read more

Similar categories in Eva Stachniak's The School of Mirrors book and Aaron Chapman's Vancouver Vice: Crime and Spectacle in the City's West End

  • historical
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28. Off the Record

By: Peter Mansbridge

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Peter Mansbridge invites us to walk the beat with him in this entertaining and revealing look into … read more

Similar categories in Peter Mansbridge's Off the Record book and Aaron Chapman's Vancouver Vice: Crime and Spectacle in the City's West End

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Wilful Blindness: How a Criminal Network of Narcos, Tycoons and CCP Agents Infiltrated the West by Sam  Cooper

29. Wilful Blindness: How a Criminal Network of Narcos, Tycoons and CCP Agents Infiltrated the West

By: Sam Cooper

4.14

Format: 472 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1982 three of the most powerful men in Asia met in Hong Kong. They would decide how Hong Kong wo… read more

Similar categories in Sam Cooper's Wilful Blindness: How a Criminal Network of Narcos, Tycoons and CCP Agents Infiltrated the West book and Aaron Chapman's Vancouver Vice: Crime and Spectacle in the City's West End

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • crime
Cover of Vancouver Vice: Crime and Spectacle in the City's West End by Aaron Chapman

30. Vancouver Vice: Crime and Spectacle in the City's West End

By: Aaron Chapman

3.72

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Aaron Chapman's latest Vancouver book explores the gritty history of the West End in the 1970s and … read more

Similar categories in Aaron Chapman's Vancouver Vice: Crime and Spectacle in the City's West End book and Aaron Chapman's Vancouver Vice: Crime and Spectacle in the City's West End

  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • microhistory
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31. Cold Case BC: The Stories Behind the Province’s Most Sensational Murder and Missing Persons Cases

By: Eve Lazarus

4.03

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

In her BC bestseller Cold Case Vancouver, crime historian and reporter Eve Lazarus used investigati… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
  • true crime

9 best-selling history books like Vancouver Vice: Crime and Spectacle in the City's West End by Aaron Chapman

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Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York

Elon Green

3.84

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The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession

Michael Finkel

3.97

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Like a Rolling Stone

Jann S. Wenner

3.84

Transform Your Habits

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

Rick Emerson

3.96

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4.54

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If I Survive You

Jonathan Escoffery

3.69

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Miranda July

3.81

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Bryan Washington

3.56

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