7 must-read biography books like NYPD Green: A Memoir by Luke Waters

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NYPD Green: A Memoir

By: Luke Waters

3.81

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this gritty, sometimes hilarious, but always brutally honest memoir, Irish immigrant and retired…

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1. The Job: True Tales from the Life of a New York City Cop

By: Steve Osborne

4.22

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"HOW YA DOIN'?" With these four syllables, delivered in an unmistakably authentic New York accent, … read more

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2. The Butcher: Anatomy of a Mafia Psychopath

By: Philip Carlo

4.20

Format: 24 pages,

Written by the bestselling author of The Ice Man, The Butcheris a gripping and disturbing fly-on-th… read more

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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 Luke Waters's NYPD Green: A Memoir

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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4. Suspect (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #12)

By: Scott Turow

3.82

Format: 439 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Presumed Innocent and The Last Trial returns with a riv… read more

Similar categories in Scott Turow's Suspect (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #12) book and Luke Waters's NYPD Green: A Memoir

  • crime
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5. Riding with Evil: Taking Down the Notorious Pagan Motorcycle Gang

By: Ken Croke

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Sons of Anarchy meets The Departed in this fast-paced, high-wire act memoir from former ATF agent K… read more

Similar categories in Ken Croke's Riding with Evil: Taking Down the Notorious Pagan Motorcycle Gang book and Luke Waters's NYPD Green: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
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6. City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3)

By: Don Winslow

4.42

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you have to become what you hate to protect what you love. Danny Ryan is rich. Beyond … read more

Similar categories in Don Winslow's City in Ruins (Danny Ryan, #3) book and Luke Waters's NYPD Green: A Memoir

  • crime
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7. Next in Line (William Warwick, #5)

By: Jeffrey Archer

4.18

Format: 388 pages, Hardcover

London, 1988. Royal fever sweeps the nation as Britain falls in love with the ‘people’s princess’. … read more

Similar categories in Jeffrey Archer's Next in Line (William Warwick, #5) book and Luke Waters's NYPD Green: A Memoir

  • crime
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8. Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

By: Beth Macy

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of America's twenty-plus year struggle with opioid addiction.… read more

Similar categories in Beth Macy's Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America book and Luke Waters's NYPD Green: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
"The corporation feels no pain."

-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

"You whack one [dealer], and the others just pop right up, like Whac-A-Mole"

-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

"Too many Americans go to too many prisons for far too long and for truly no good law enforcement reason."

-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

"But you can't put a corporation in jail; you just take their money, and it's not really their money anyway."

-Beth Macy, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

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9. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelv… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Radden Keefe's Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks book and Luke Waters's NYPD Green: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • biography
  • true crime
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10. City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1)

By: Don Winslow

4.10

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller! From the #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cartel Trilogy … read more

Similar categories in Don Winslow's City on Fire (Danny Ryan, #1) book and Luke Waters's NYPD Green: A Memoir

  • crime
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11. City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2)

By: Don Winslow

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Hollywood. The city where dreams are made. On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime w… read more

Similar categories in Don Winslow's City of Dreams (Danny Ryan #2) book and Luke Waters's NYPD Green: A Memoir

  • crime
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12. The Island

By: Adrian McKinty

3.77

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

It was just supposed to be a family vacation. A terrible accident changed everything. You don't k… read more

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"the difference between a physiotherapist and a terrorist is that you might have a chance of negotiating with a terrorist."

-Adrian McKinty, The Island

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13. Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases

By: Paul Holes

4.10

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the detective who found The Golden State Killer, a memoir of investigating America’s toughest … read more

Similar categories in Paul Holes's Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases book and Luke Waters's NYPD Green: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
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14. The Witness

By: Nicola Tallant

4.43

Format: 230 pages, Kindle Edition

'A superb book... Joey's story is extraordinary and its authenticity and relevance to the times we'… read more

Similar categories in Nicola Tallant's The Witness book and Luke Waters's NYPD Green: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • true crime
  • memoir
Cover of The Murder of Mr Moonlight: The tragic story of a young widow’s search for happiness and the killing of an innocent man by Catherine Fegan

15. The Murder of Mr Moonlight: The tragic story of a young widow’s search for happiness and the killing of an innocent man

By: Catherine Fegan

4.26

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'I was a very vulnerable young woman with three small children. I was los… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Fegan's The Murder of Mr Moonlight: The tragic story of a young widow’s search for happiness and the killing of an innocent man book and Luke Waters's NYPD Green: A Memoir

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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16. Tragedy in the North Woods: The Murders of James Hicks (True Crime)

By: Trudy Scee

3.78

Format: 131 pages, Kindle Edition

A riveting account of one of Maine’s most notorious serial killers—includes a prison interview betw… read more

Similar categories in Trudy Scee's Tragedy in the North Woods: The Murders of James Hicks (True Crime) book and Luke Waters's NYPD Green: A Memoir

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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17. Ghost: My Thirty Years as an FBI Undercover Agent

By: Michael R. McGowan

3.96

Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition

The explosive memoir of an FBI field operative who has worked more undercover cases than anyone in … read more

Similar categories in Michael R. McGowan's Ghost: My Thirty Years as an FBI Undercover Agent book and Luke Waters's NYPD Green: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of With the Devil's Help: A True Story of Poverty, Mental Illness, and Murder by Neal Wooten

18. With the Devil's Help: A True Story of Poverty, Mental Illness, and Murder

By: Neal Wooten

4.04

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of The Glass Castle, Educated, and Heartland, Neal Wooten traces five decades of h… read more

Similar categories in Neal Wooten's With the Devil's Help: A True Story of Poverty, Mental Illness, and Murder book and Luke Waters's NYPD Green: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
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19. NYPD Green: A Memoir

By: Luke Waters

3.81

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In this gritty, sometimes hilarious, but always brutally honest memoir, Irish immigrant and retired… read more

Similar categories in Luke Waters's NYPD Green: A Memoir book and Luke Waters's NYPD Green: A Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of A Guarded Life: My story of the dark side of An Garda Síochána by Majella Moynihan

20. A Guarded Life: My story of the dark side of An Garda Síochána

By: Majella Moynihan

4.37

Format: 221 pages, Kindle Edition

A GARDA, A FORCED ADOPTION, A FIGHT FOR JUSTICEIn 1984, Majella Moynihan was a fresh-faced young ga… read more

Similar categories in Majella Moynihan's A Guarded Life: My story of the dark side of An Garda Síochána book and Luke Waters's NYPD Green: A Memoir

  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of McMillions: The Absolutely True Story of How an Unlikely Pair of FBI Agents Brought Down the Most Supersized Fraud in Fast Food History by James Lee Hernandez

21. McMillions: The Absolutely True Story of How an Unlikely Pair of FBI Agents Brought Down the Most Supersized Fraud in Fast Food History

By: James Lee Hernandez

3.91

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Argo, The Wizard of Lies, and The Smartest Guys in the Room, a book that expan… read more

Similar categories in James Lee Hernandez's McMillions: The Absolutely True Story of How an Unlikely Pair of FBI Agents Brought Down the Most Supersized Fraud in Fast Food History book and Luke Waters's NYPD Green: A Memoir

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime

13 Top nonfiction books like NYPD Green: A Memoir by Luke Waters

Transform Your Habits

Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angels

Paul Pringle

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Riding with Evil: Taking Down the Notorious Pagan Motorcycle Gang

Ken Croke

4.24

Transform Your Habits

Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America

Beth Macy

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

Patrick Radden Keefe

4.01

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18 Top audiobook books like Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy

Transform Your Habits

Drug Dealer, MD: How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It's So Hard to Stop

Anna Lembke

4.01

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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Matthew Desmond

3.37

Transform Your Habits

Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town

Jon Krakauer

3.89

Transform Your Habits

A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

Timothy Egan

4.38

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