8 must-read true crime books like Gorgeous Girl by Mary K. Pershall

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Gorgeous Girl

By: Mary K. Pershall

3.99

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

'The only way to comprehend this tragic story of mine is to write it.' On the 10th of February 2017…

If you liked the true crime plot in Gorgeous Girl by Mary K. Pershall , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster

By: Sarah Krasnostein

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Krasnostein's The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster book and Mary K. Pershall's Gorgeous Girl

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • memoir
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2. If I Can't Have You: Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance, and the Murder of Her Children

By: Gregg Olsen , Rebecca Morris

4.25

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

In If I Can't Have You, bestselling author Gregg Olsen and co-author Rebecca Morris investigate one… read more

Similar categories in Gregg Olsen's If I Can't Have You: Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance, and the Murder of Her Children book and Mary K. Pershall's Gorgeous Girl

  • nonfiction
  • true crime

3. Good Night, Mr. Tom

By: Michelle Magorian

3.93

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

London is poised on the brink of World War II. Timid, scrawny Willie Beech -- the abused child of a… read more

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4. 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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5. The Murder of Allison Baden-Clay

By: David Murray

4.00

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

How did a father with no criminal history come to be on trial for the brutal murder of his wife? Al… read more

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6. Wake (PI Lane Holland #1)

By: Shelley Burr

3.99

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

'The tiny outback town of Nannine lies in the harsh red interior of Australia. Once a thriving cent… read more

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7. Love as Always, Mum xxx

By: Mae West

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

The true story of an abused childhood, of shocking brutality and life as the daughter of notorious … read more

Similar categories in Mae West's Love as Always, Mum xxx book and Mary K. Pershall's Gorgeous Girl

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • memoir
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8. Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s Fall and Anthony Albanese’s Rise

By: Niki Savva

4.21

Format: 320 pages, ebook

‘I don’t hold a hose, mate.’ Scott Morrison, 20 December 2019, on the Black Summer bushfires ‘It’s… read more

Similar categories in Niki Savva's Bulldozed: Scott Morrison’s Fall and Anthony Albanese’s Rise book and Mary K. Pershall's Gorgeous Girl

  • nonfiction
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9. Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

By: David Sheff

4.16

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

With a new afterword Now a Major Motion Picture What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our… read more

Similar categories in David Sheff's Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction book and Mary K. Pershall's Gorgeous Girl

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • mental health
"You're as sick as your secrets."

-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

"I accept evil in order to participate in the miraculous."

-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

"That's when it struck me that I can't take my life as long as I can still laugh."

-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

"A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white."

-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

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10. The Coffin Confessor

By: William Edgar

4.13

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

Imagine you are dying with a secret. Something you’ve never had the courage to tell your friends an… read more

Similar categories in William Edgar's The Coffin Confessor book and Mary K. Pershall's Gorgeous Girl

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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11. Any Ordinary Day

By: Leigh Sales

4.13

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

The day that turns a life upside down usually starts like any other, but what happens the day after… read more

Similar categories in Leigh Sales's Any Ordinary Day book and Mary K. Pershall's Gorgeous Girl

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"The question of life being fair or unfair is one of the first things to drop away once you truly understand that you're as vulnerable as the next person to life's vagaries."

-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day

"I felt this lightness settling on me, which was new. It's not closure, because I will live with Matt's death and the pain of it every day and the grief will stay with me. I just felt that I was carry…"

-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day

"Stuart Diver has had years of extensive professional counselling to retrain his brain so that he can replace the thought of how helpless he was when Sally dies with the truth that he tried everything…"

-Leigh Sales, Any Ordinary Day

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12. The Sunday Girl

By: Pip Drysdale

3.72

Format: 400 pages, ebook

The Girl on the Train meets Before I Go to Sleep with a dash of Bridget Jones in this chilling tale… read more

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13. The Gap: A paramedic’s summer on the edge

By: Benjamin Gilmour

4.42

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

In this riveting memoir, Gilmour recounts the call-outs that summer: some dangerous, some gruesome,… read more

Similar categories in Benjamin Gilmour's The Gap: A paramedic’s summer on the edge book and Mary K. Pershall's Gorgeous Girl

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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14. Eggshell Skull

By: Bri Lee

4.36

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

EGGSHELL SKULL: A well-established legal doctrine that a defendant must 'take their victim as they … read more

Similar categories in Bri Lee's Eggshell Skull book and Mary K. Pershall's Gorgeous Girl

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • memoir
"The ugly parts of my life kept crashing into the beautiful ones."

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

"Finally feminist enough to realise I was all out of fucks to give"

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

"Finally feminist enough to realise I was all out of ducks to give."

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

"Only skinny enough when starving, only successful enough when exhausted."

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

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15. The Dinner Party

By: Rebecca Heath

3.60

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

Four Couples. It's Summer 1979 in the idyllic suburban neighbourhood of Ridgefield, during a scorc… read more

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16. Fake: A Startling True Story of Love in a World of Liars, Cheats, Narcissists, Fantasists and Phonies

By: Stephanie Wood

3.92

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Women the world over are brought up to hope, even expect, to find the man of their dreams, marry an… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Wood's Fake: A Startling True Story of Love in a World of Liars, Cheats, Narcissists, Fantasists and Phonies book and Mary K. Pershall's Gorgeous Girl

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • memoir
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17. You Made Me This Way

By: Shannon Molloy

4.38

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A harrowing and heartbreaking yet ultimately hopeful book about one of our society's deepest shames… read more

Similar categories in Shannon Molloy's You Made Me This Way book and Mary K. Pershall's Gorgeous Girl

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • mental health
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18. The Girl in the Green Dress

By: Jeni Haynes

4.58

Format: 508 pages, Kindle Edition

THE GIRL IN THE GREEN DRESS is an unforgettable memoir from a woman who refused to be silenced. Jen… read more

Similar categories in Jeni Haynes's The Girl in the Green Dress book and Mary K. Pershall's Gorgeous Girl

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • memoir
  • mental health
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19. The Woman Who Fooled The World: Belle Gibson’s Cancer Con, and the Darkness at the Heart of the Wellness Industry

By: Beau Donelly

4.06

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

Belle Gibson convinced the world she had healed herself of terminal brain cancer by eating a health… read more

Similar categories in Beau Donelly's The Woman Who Fooled The World: Belle Gibson’s Cancer Con, and the Darkness at the Heart of the Wellness Industry book and Mary K. Pershall's Gorgeous Girl

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • mental health
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20. Stop Surviving Start Fighting

By: Jazz Thornton

4.33

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Jazz Thornton first attempted to take her own life at the age of 12. Multiple attempts followed and… read more

Similar categories in Jazz Thornton's Stop Surviving Start Fighting book and Mary K. Pershall's Gorgeous Girl

  • mental illness
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • mental health
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21. Gorgeous Girl

By: Mary K. Pershall

3.99

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

'The only way to comprehend this tragic story of mine is to write it.' On the 10th of February 2017… read more

Similar categories in Mary K. Pershall's Gorgeous Girl book and Mary K. Pershall's Gorgeous Girl

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • nonfiction

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