10 must-read true crime books like The Last Counterfeiter: The Story of Fake Money, Real Art, and Forging the Impossible $100 Bill by Jason Kersten

Cover of The Last Counterfeiter: The Story of Fake Money, Real Art, and Forging the Impossible $100 Bill by Jason Kersten

The Last Counterfeiter: The Story of Fake Money, Real Art, and Forging the Impossible $100 Bill

By: Jason Kersten

4.24

Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition

The true story of the mastermind counterfeiter who forged millions, replicated the impossible 1996 …

If you liked the true crime plot in The Last Counterfeiter: The Story of Fake Money, Real Art, and Forging the Impossible $100 Bill by Jason Kersten , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table

By: Ruth Reichl

4.18

Format: None pages,

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific by J. Maarten Troost

2. The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific

By: J. Maarten Troost

4.40

Format: None pages,

At the age of twenty-six, Maarten Troost who had been pushing the snooze button on the alarm clock … read more

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  • nonfiction
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3. Redshirts

By: John Scalzi

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of… read more

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"Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us."

-John Scalzi, Redshirts

"We've already established whoever is writing us is an asshole."

-John Scalzi, Redshirts

"Who are you and what medications aren't you taking?" Finn said."

-John Scalzi, Redshirts

"In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug," Cassaway said, dryly."

-John Scalzi, Redshirts

4. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

By: Erik Larson

3.84

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthrall… read more

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5. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

By: Kara Swisher

3.99

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach

6. Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

By: Mary Roach

3.84

Format: 308 pages, Hardcover

What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
"The black bear is a ridiculously lovable species. There's a reason kids have teddy bears, not teddy goats or teddy eels."

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

"Californians are like, 'Lions are everywhere now!'" What's on the rise are home security cameras. Doorbell cameras are the mammograms of wildlife biology."

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

"So I’m curious, how far does the Pope think we should go in the direction of respecting and correcting the natural world and it’s wild inhabitants. Before I arrived the PIL media manager sent me a co…"

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

"We are irrational in our species-​specific devotions. I know a man who won’t eat octopus because of its intelligence. Yet he eats pork and buys glue traps for rats, though rats and pigs are highly in…"

-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

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7. Somebody's Fool

By: Richard Russo

4.27

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and t… read more

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8. The Amish Wife

By: Gregg Olsen

3.49

Format: 387 pages, Kindle Edition

The #1 New York Times and Amazon Charts bestselling author Gregg Olsen solves a murder among the Am… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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9. Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

By: Henry Winkler

4.14

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply tho… read more

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  • nonfiction
"It’s so funny about time - you get into these nice little grooves with people you love, and you think it’ll go on forever. But time goes so fast, and nothing goes on forever."

-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

"If you don't nail your feet to the ground, you can just believe - and you want to believe. It's so enticing. It felt so good. You could just become a gigantic balloon in the Thanksgiving Day parade a…"

-Henry Winkler, Being Henry: The Fonz . . . and Beyond

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10. Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road

By: Kyle Buchanan

4.33

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A full-speed-ahead oral history of the nearly two-decade making of the cultural phenomenon Mad Max:… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy

11. 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

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  • 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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12. Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball

By: Keith O'Brien

4.43

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

A page-turning work of narrative nonfiction chronicling the incredible story of one of America’s mo… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades by Rebecca Renner

13. Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades

By: Rebecca Renner

3.81

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

David Grann meets Susan Orlean in this page-turning true story of an underground operation into the… read more

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

14. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • 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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15. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Courtiers: Intrigue, Ambition, and the Power Players Behind the House of Windsor by Valentine Low

16. Courtiers: Intrigue, Ambition, and the Power Players Behind the House of Windsor

By: Valentine Low

3.64

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The gripping account of how the Royal family really operates from the man who has spent years study… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

By: Whoopi Goldberg

4.33

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From multi-award winner Whoopi Goldberg comes a new and unique memoir of her family and their influ… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Listen. The confines of this neighbourhood do not represent the confines of your life. You can go and do and be whatever you want. But, whatever you choose, be yourself."

-Whoopi Goldberg, Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me

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18. Don't Say a Thing: A Predator, a Pursuit, and the Women Who Persevered

By: Tamara Leitner

3.89

Format: 461 pages, Kindle Edition

In a powerful true-crime memoir, an Emmy Award–winning journalist seeks closure in a decades-long s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs by Benjamin  Herold

19. Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs

By: Benjamin Herold

3.89

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Through the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, hist… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Long Cold Winter (The 509 Crime Stories, #2) by Colin Conway

20. The Long Cold Winter (The 509 Crime Stories, #2)

By: Colin Conway

4.12

Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition

A thirty-year old case. A body discovered in the snow. For one grieving detective, it's going to be… read more

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21. Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches

By: John Hodgman

4.04

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

Although his career as a bestselling author and on The Daily Show With Jon Stewart was founded on f… read more

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  • nonfiction
"There is no peace in dying."

-John Hodgman, Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches

"Raccoons are beyond fear, and they are assholes."

-John Hodgman, Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches

"Maine is a beautiful place that I paradoxically want to hoard to myself and share with everyone I meet."

-John Hodgman, Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches

"...not everything in life is unpleasant, but most of it is, and certainly all of things that lead to real and lasting pleasure are."

-John Hodgman, Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches

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22. An American Dreamer: Life in a Divided Country

By: David Finkel

3.79

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An immersive account of a man navigating the startling changes underway in contemporary America, fr… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. Midnight Calling: A Memoir of a Drug Smuggler's Daughter

By: Lynn Walker

4.35

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

Lynn was the carefree daughter of a Miami undercover narcotics agent—until her dad snuck out of the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Manhattan Cult Story: My Unbelievable True Story of Sex, Crimes, Chaos, and Survival by Spencer Schneider

24. Manhattan Cult Story: My Unbelievable True Story of Sex, Crimes, Chaos, and Survival

By: Spencer Schneider

3.53

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

They took an oath of absolute secrecy and lived in a covert world in plain sight. “It didn’t loo… read more

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  • true crime
"I was a member of the Gans group for over 20 years. I didn't realize it was really a cult until I took the step, out the door. Ironically, that's when I finally felt and tasted the very freedom that …"

-Spencer Schneider, Manhattan Cult Story: My Unbelievable True Story of Sex, Crimes, Chaos, and Survival

"...There were dozens of construction projects where members were coerced into working in dangerous conditions for free...We were paying for the privilege of being forced to build for Sharon and other…"

-Spencer Schneider, Manhattan Cult Story: My Unbelievable True Story of Sex, Crimes, Chaos, and Survival

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25. How to Forget: A Daughter's Memoir

By: Kate Mulgrew

3.99

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this profoundly honest and examined memoir about returning to Iowa to care for her ailing parent… read more

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  • nonfiction
"How is it that words so longed for can hit and miss with equal acuity?"

-Kate Mulgrew, How to Forget: A Daughter's Memoir

"I thought again about the miracle of time, its manifest cruelty and sublime mercy."

-Kate Mulgrew, How to Forget: A Daughter's Memoir

"Homesickness is a sickness of the heart, not of the mind. It is deeply subjective and belongs, inarguably, to the sufferer alone."

-Kate Mulgrew, How to Forget: A Daughter's Memoir

"Fear is a starkly felt emotion, it is not nuanced, and as I looked around the room, I saw how it had manifested itself in each of my siblings."

-Kate Mulgrew, How to Forget: A Daughter's Memoir

Cover of The Mutt for Me: A Beautiful Transformation from Project Dog to Man’s Best Friend by Don   Hughes

26. The Mutt for Me: A Beautiful Transformation from Project Dog to Man’s Best Friend

By: Don Hughes

4.38

Format: 178 pages, Kindle Edition

A memoir of second chances, healing, and how rescuing a dog rescued me Having never had a dog of hi… read more

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  • nonfiction
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27. Homeward

By: Angela Jackson-Brown

4.04

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The country is changing, and her own world is being turned upside down. Nothing—and no one—will eve… read more

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28. HUSH GIRL : It's Only a Dream

By: Gloria Zachgo

4.33

Format: 379 pages, Kindle Edition

While Nicki Reed is desperate to find the answers to her past, someone is desperate for her to neve… read more

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Cover of The Last Counterfeiter: The Story of Fake Money, Real Art, and Forging the Impossible $100 Bill by Jason Kersten

29. The Last Counterfeiter: The Story of Fake Money, Real Art, and Forging the Impossible $100 Bill

By: Jason Kersten

4.24

Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition

The true story of the mastermind counterfeiter who forged millions, replicated the impossible 1996 … read more

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  • true crime
Cover of The Prophets of Gentilly Terrace by Gordon Peter Wilson

30. The Prophets of Gentilly Terrace

By: Gordon Peter Wilson

3.24

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

A Multilayered Story of the Tragedy, Triumph, and Peculiarity of New Orleans Amid the infection of … read more

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31. Any Resemblance to a Coincidence Is Accidental

By: Stephen C. Bird

2.76

Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition

(281 Word Synopsis) 1. Noloso Chushingura returns to the wretchedness of Mucha Nieve, Nueva Jork an… read more

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23 Top nonfiction books like The Last Counterfeiter: The Story of Fake Money, Real Art, and Forging the Impossible $100 Bill by Jason Kersten

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Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table

Ruth Reichl

4.18

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The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific

J. Maarten Troost

4.40

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Burn Book: A Tech Love Story

Kara Swisher

3.99

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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

Mary Roach

3.84

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Mary Roach

3.84

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John Scalzi

4.16

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How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures

Sabrina Imbler

4.12

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Heather Radke

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