28 must-read audiobook books like In My Father's House: A New View of How Crime Runs in the Family by Fox Butterfield

Cover of In My Father's House: A New View of How Crime Runs in the Family by Fox Butterfield

In My Father's House: A New View of How Crime Runs in the Family

By: Fox Butterfield

3.84

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The United States currently holds the distinction of housing nearly one-quarter of the world's pris…

If you liked the audiobook plot in In My Father's House: A New View of How Crime Runs in the Family by Fox Butterfield , here is a list of 28 books like this:

Cover of The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery by Bill James, Rachel McCarthy James

1. The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery

By: Bill James , Rachel McCarthy James

3.46

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Using unprecedented, dramatically compelling sleuthing techniques, legendary statistician and baseb… read more

Similar categories in Bill James's The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery book and Fox Butterfield's In My Father's House: A New View of How Crime Runs in the Family

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"He was who he was; it was how he thought about himself. He was the man with the secret that nobody could ever get to. You guys look at me and you see nothing- this is how he thought; you see a small …"

-Bill James, The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery

Cover of Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything by Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen

2. Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

By: Lydia Kang , Nate Pedersen

4.00

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Discover 67 shocking-but-true medical misfires that run the gamut from bizarre to deadly. Like when… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"Unfortunately, the theory that 'more is better' is a really, really crappy theory when it comes to arsenic."

-Lydia Kang, Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

"It is perhaps oddly appropriate that the symbol for the god Mercury was the caduceus—two snakes entwined on a winged rod. The symbol is commonly and incorrectly associated with the medical establishm…"

-Lydia Kang, Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

Cover of The Brain Defense: Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in America's Courtrooms by Kevin   Davis

3. The Brain Defense: Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in America's Courtrooms

By: Kevin Davis

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In 1991, the police were called to East 72nd St. in Manhattan, where a woman's body had fallen from… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness by Elyn R. Saks

4. The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

By: Elyn R. Saks

4.31

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Elyn Saks is a success by any measure: she's an endowed professor at the prestigious University of … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • psychology
"in my experience, the words “now just calm down"

-Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

"some truths that were too difficult and frightening to know."

-Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

"The humanity we all share is more important than the mental illnesses we may not"

-Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

"I needed to put two critical ideas together: that I could both be mentally ill and lead a rich and satisfying life."

-Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

Cover of Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright

5. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

By: Lawrence Wright

3.31

Format: 267 pages, Hardcover

A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Pilgrim's Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier by Tom Kizzia

6. Pilgrim's Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier

By: Tom Kizzia

3.66

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

Into the Wildmeets Helter Skelterin this riveting true story of a modern-day homesteading family in… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Way Life Should Be by Christina Baker Kline

7. The Way Life Should Be

By: Christina Baker Kline

3.10

Format: 151 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Timesbestselling author of Orphan Train, and the critically acclaimed author o… read more

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Cover of Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer

8. Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town

By: Jon Krakauer

3.89

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

Missoula, Montana is a typical college town, home to a highly regarded state university whose belov… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook

9. Confession of a Serial Killer: The Untold Story of Dennis Rader, the BTK Killer

By: Katherine Ramsland

3.66

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In 1974, Dennis Lynn Rader stalked and murdered a family of four in Wichita, Kansas. Since adolesce… read more

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Cover of Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings by Chrysta Bilton

10. Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings

By: Chrysta Bilton

4.07

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

"One of the maddest memoirs you'll read this year... This beautiful, warm, funny book is a testamen… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia by Samantha Leach

11. The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia

By: Samantha Leach

3.22

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Three suburban girls meet at a boarding school for troubled teens. Eight years later, they were de… read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green

12. 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

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond

13. Poverty, by America

By: Matthew Desmond

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"

-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America

Cover of The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science by Sam Kean

14. The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

By: Sam Kean

4.00

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science Fr… read more

Similar categories in Sam Kean's The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science book and Fox Butterfield's In My Father's House: A New View of How Crime Runs in the Family

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"Many people agreed with one executive who sneered that [Thomas] Edison had a vacuum where his conscience ought to be."

-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

"A rival politician countered that he too supported the dissection of those who were sucking the public teat dry. He proposed starting with the royal family."

-Sam Kean, The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science

Cover of Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall by Helena Merriman

15. Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall

By: Helena Merriman

4.51

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

He's just escaped from one of the world's most brutal regimes. Now, he decides to tunnel back in… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show by Tommy Tomlinson

16. Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show

By: Tommy Tomlinson

4.20

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Elephant in the Room comes the first inside account … read more

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

17. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of What the Dead Know: Learning About Life as a New York City Death Investigator by Barbara  Butcher

18. 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

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"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 In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife by Sebastian Junger

19. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

By: Sebastian Junger

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"

-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

Cover of The Drowning Sea (Maggie D'arcy, #3) by Sarah Stewart Taylor

20. The Drowning Sea (Maggie D'arcy, #3)

By: Sarah Stewart Taylor

3.70

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In The Drowning Sea, Sarah Stewart Taylor returns to the critically acclaimed world of Maggie D’arc… read more

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  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Victim F: From Crime Victims to Suspects to Survivors by Denise Huskins

21. Victim F: From Crime Victims to Suspects to Survivors

By: Denise Huskins

4.18

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The shocking true story of a bizarre kidnapping and the victims' re-victimization by the justice sy… read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA by Theresa Runstedtler

22. Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA

By: Theresa Runstedtler

3.96

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A vital narrative history of 1970s pro basketball, and the Black players who shaped the NBA Agains… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
Cover of A Very Private School: A Memoir by Charles     Spencer

23. A Very Private School: A Memoir

By: Charles Spencer

4.09

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this poignant memoir, Charles Spencer recounts the trauma of being sent away from home at age ei… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Cloistered: My Years as a Nun by Catherine Coldstream

24. Cloistered: My Years as a Nun

By: Catherine Coldstream

3.71

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing memoir of twelve years as a contemplative nun in a silent monastery. Cloistered t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career by Kristi Coulter

25. Exit Interview: The Life and Death of My Ambitious Career

By: Kristi Coulter

4.19

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A candid, intensely funny memoir of ambition, gender, and a grueling decade inside Amazon, from the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
Cover of The Mountains Wild (Maggie D'arcy, #1) by Sarah Stewart Taylor

26. The Mountains Wild (Maggie D'arcy, #1)

By: Sarah Stewart Taylor

3.85

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In a series debut for fans of Tana French and Kate Atkinson, set in Dublin and New York, homicide d… read more

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  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Distant Grave (Maggie D'arcy #2) by Sarah Stewart Taylor

27. A Distant Grave (Maggie D'arcy #2)

By: Sarah Stewart Taylor

3.91

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

In the follow up to the critically acclaimed The Mountains Wild, Detective Maggie D'arcy tackles an… read more

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  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House by Norman Eisen

28. The Last Palace: Europe's Turbulent Century in Five Lives and One Legendary House

By: Norman Eisen

4.16

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A masterfully told and immersive narrative about the last hundred years of European history, as se… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of In My Father's House: A New View of How Crime Runs in the Family by Fox Butterfield

29. In My Father's House: A New View of How Crime Runs in the Family

By: Fox Butterfield

3.84

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The United States currently holds the distinction of housing nearly one-quarter of the world's pris… read more

Similar categories in Fox Butterfield's In My Father's House: A New View of How Crime Runs in the Family book and Fox Butterfield's In My Father's House: A New View of How Crime Runs in the Family

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • crime
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty by Valerie Bauerlein

30. 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

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans

31. Hitler's People: The Faces of the Third Reich

By: Richard J. Evans

4.27

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

Through a connected set of biographical portraits of key Nazi figures that follows power as it radi… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

19 must-read history books like In My Father's House: A New View of How Crime Runs in the Family by Fox Butterfield

Transform Your Habits

The Man from the Train: The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery

Bill James , Rachel McCarthy James

3.46

Transform Your Habits

Quackery: A Brief History of the Worst Ways to Cure Everything

Lydia Kang , Nate Pedersen

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Brain Defense: Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in America's Courtrooms

Kevin Davis

3.87

Transform Your Habits

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

Lawrence Wright

3.31

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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

Erik Larson

4.24

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The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: True Stories of the Magic of Reading

James Patterson

3.92

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The Paris Novel

Ruth Reichl

3.84

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Four Thousand Paws: Caring for the Dogs of the Iditarod: A Veterinarian's Story

Lee Morgan

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