13 must-read nonfiction books like Hell with the Lid Off: Inside the Fierce Rivalry between the 1970s Oakland Raiders and Pittsburgh Steelers by Ed Gruver

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Hell with the Lid Off: Inside the Fierce Rivalry between the 1970s Oakland Raiders and Pittsburgh Steelers

By: Ed Gruver

3.67

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Hell with the Lid Off  looks at the ferocious five-year war waged by Pittsburgh and Oakland for NFL…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Hell with the Lid Off: Inside the Fierce Rivalry between the 1970s Oakland Raiders and Pittsburgh Steelers by Ed Gruver , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Wiseguy

By: Nicholas Pileggi

0.00

Format: 798 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"Wiseguy" is Nicholas Pileggi's remarkable bestseller, the most intimate account ever printed of li… read more

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  • nonfiction
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2. Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football

By: Rich Cohen

4.50

Format: 87 pages,

The gripping account of a once-in-a-lifetime football team and their lone championship season For R… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football

3. Loose Balls: The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association

By: Terry Pluto

4.45

Format: 864 pages, Paperback

The American Basketball Association (1967-1976) gave birth to Julius Erving, Moses Malone, Bob Cost… read more

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

By: Timothy Egan

4.38

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the rivetin… read more

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"When hate was on the ballot, especially in the guise of virtue, a majority of voters knew exactly what to do."

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

"Stephenson had succeeded with an unusual formula for a mass movement: men were the muscle, women spread the poison, and ministers sanctified it all."

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

"The governor of Georgia, Clifford Walker, told a Klan rally in 1924 that the United States should 'build a wall of steel, a wall as high as heaven' against immigrants."

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

"There are millions who have never joined, but who think and feel and, when called on, will fight with us," Evans wrote. "This is our real strength, and no one who ignores it can hope to understand Am…"

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

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5. The Exchange

By: John Grisham

3.69

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham delivers high-flying international suspense in a … read more

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"Winning was always fun, but winning with class was far more important."

-John Grisham, The Exchange

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6. The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II

By: Buzz Bissinger

3.81

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary, untold story of the Second World War in the vein of Unbroken and The Boys in the … read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
  • football
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7. James Patterson by James Patterson: The Stories of My Life

By: James Patterson

4.19

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

How did a boy from small-town New York become one of the world's most successful writers? · On t… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Here’s the best I’ve come up with about recovering from the death of somebody we love. It goes like this. When we were little, maybe one or so, we learn how to walk. Somehow we figure out how to get …"

-James Patterson, James Patterson by James Patterson: The Stories of My Life

"When she was free, the whale didn’t rush out to sea. Instead, she swam around and around her rescuers in joyous circles. The whale came up to each and every diver one at a time. She nudged them, push…"

-James Patterson, James Patterson by James Patterson: The Stories of My Life

"Okay, now. In the spirit of open minds — try to walk in somebody else's shoes at least once a day. Maybe even twice a day. What's it like for your poor teachers to have to put up with you rowdy, ill-…"

-James Patterson, James Patterson by James Patterson: The Stories of My Life

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8. A Time for Mercy (Jake Brigance, #3)

By: John Grisham

4.29

Format: 480 pages, Kindle Edition

Clanton, Mississippi. 1990. Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a deeply divisive trial when t… read more

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"I can’t believe you would represent a killer like that Jake. I thought you were one of us. xxx ‘Gotta have a lawyer, Helen. You can’t put the boy in the gas chamber if he doesn’t have a lawyer. Surel…"

-John Grisham, A Time for Mercy (Jake Brigance, #3)

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9. Triple Cross (Alex Cross, #30)

By: James Patterson

4.39

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Detective Alex Cross hunts down a serial killer who’s murdering entire families—and who will next b… read more

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10. The Dark Hours (Renée Ballard, #4; Harry Bosch, #23; Harry Bosch Universe, #36)

By: Michael Connelly

4.39

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Has a killer lain dormant for years only to strike again on New Year’s Eve? LAPD Detective Renée Ba… read more

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11. Storm Watch (Joe Pickett, #23)

By: C.J. Box

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett investigates a mysterious death at a secret remote high-tech facili… read more

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12. Armored (Armored, #1)

By: Mark Greaney

4.37

Format: 510 pages, Kindle Edition

A novel inspired by #1 New York Times best-selling author Mark Greaney’s Audible Original drama, Ar… read more

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13. Camino Ghosts (Camino Island #3)

By: John Grisham

4.26

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

In this new thriller on Camino Island, popular bookseller Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann an irresist… read more

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14. Camino Winds (Camino Island, #2)

By: John Grisham

3.80

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Welcome back to Camino Island, where anything can happen—even a murder in the midst of a hurricane,… read more

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"Okay, I talked to my lieutenant and he said don’t touch the body. He’s trying to find our homicide guy."

-John Grisham, Camino Winds (Camino Island, #2)

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15. Code Red (Mitch Rapp #22)

By: Kyle Mills

4.42

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

Mitch Rapp makes a mortal enemy of Russia in this high-octane and “ripped straight from next week’s… read more

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16. When the Game Was Ours

By: Larry Bird

4.23

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

From the moment these two players took the court on opposing sides, they engaged in a fierce physic… read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
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17. Cross Down (Alex Cross #31)

By: James Patterson

4.41

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Alex Cross is gravely injured. Only his partner and friend John Sampson can keep him safe . . . and… read more

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18. Walk in My Combat Boots

By: James Patterson

4.19

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

"These are the stories America needs to hear about the remarkable young men and women who serve." -… read more

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  • nonfiction
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19. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.46

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more

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"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"

-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness

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20. Robert B. Parker's Fallout (Jesse Stone #21)

By: Mike Lupica

4.23

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

When two seemingly unconnected mysterious deaths occur on his watch, police chief Jesse Stone must … read more

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21. The Boys from Biloxi

By: John Grisham

4.06

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry… read more

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"The ship was sinking and the rats were jumping overboard."

-John Grisham, The Boys from Biloxi

"Great trial lawyers aren't born; they're made. The great ones simply tell the jury a story..."

-John Grisham, The Boys from Biloxi

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22. Flags on the Bayou

By: James Lee Burke

3.98

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times-bestselling author James Lee Burke comes a novel set in Civil War-era Louisiana… read more

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23. The Last Rose of Shanghai

By: Weina Dai Randel

4.12

Format: 429 pages, Kindle Edition

In Japanese-occupied Shanghai, two people from different cultures are drawn together by fate and th… read more

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24. The Collector (Gabriel Allon, #23)

By: Daniel Silva

4.38

Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition

Legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thi… read more

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25. We Own This City: A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City

By: Justin Fenton

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Baltimore, 2015. Riots were erupting across the city as citizens demanded justice for Freddie Gray,… read more

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26. 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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"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

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27. The House of Wolves

By: James Patterson

4.22

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Joe Wolf applies a cutthroat determination to his life’s work, from to building a California busine… read more

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28. Sooley

By: John Grisham

4.13

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author John Grisham takes you to a different kind of court in his first … read more

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"Men, we don't deserve respect. Yet. Respect is out there on the floor, just waiting for us to go get it."

-John Grisham, Sooley

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29. Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original

By: Howard Bryant

4.23

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

“Seldom does a sports biography—especially a page-turner—so comprehensively explain the forces that… read more

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  • nonfiction
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30. Cobra: A Life of Baseball and Brotherhood

By: Dave Parker

4.40

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Finalist for the 2021 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year “For that period of time, he … read more

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  • sports
  • nonfiction
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31. Hell with the Lid Off: Inside the Fierce Rivalry between the 1970s Oakland Raiders and Pittsburgh Steelers

By: Ed Gruver

3.67

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Hell with the Lid Off  looks at the ferocious five-year war waged by Pittsburgh and Oakland for NFL… read more

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