13 Best history books like American Autopsy by Michael M. Baden, MD

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American Autopsy

By: Michael M. Baden, MD

4.47

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A revealing history of covering up the true causes of deaths of BIPOC in custody—from the forensic …

If you liked the history plot in American Autopsy by Michael M. Baden, MD , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine

By: Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

4.00

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize … read more

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  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
"Not everything which comes from the birth parts of a woman is a human being."

-Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine

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2. In with the Devil: A Fallen Hero, a Serial Killer, and a Dangerous Bargain for Redemption

By: Hillel Levin , James Keene

4.04

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Featured on Dateline and CNN, the true story of a young man destined for greatness on the football … read more

Similar categories in Hillel Levin's In with the Devil: A Fallen Hero, a Serial Killer, and a Dangerous Bargain for Redemption book and Michael M. Baden, MD's American Autopsy

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook

3. The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession

By: David Grann

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed New Yorkerwriter and author of the breakout debut bestseller The Lost City of Z, David Gr… read more

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4. Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician

By: Michelle Williams

4.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Michelle Williams is young and attractive, with close family ties, a busy social life . . . and an … read more

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5. American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers

By: Nancy Jo Sales

2.83

Format: 288 pages, ebook

Instagram. Whisper. Yik Yak. Vine. YouTube. Kik. Ask.fm. Tinder. The dominant force in the lives of… read more

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6. Troubled

By: Rob Henderson

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this raw coming-of-age memoir, in the vein of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, The Oth… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Successful people tell the world they got lucky, then tell their loved ones about the importance of hard work and sacrifice. Critics of successful people tell the world those successful people got lu…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

"People don't need motivation; they need self-discipline. Motivation is just a feeling. Self-discipline is: 'I'm going to do this regardless of how I feel.' Seldom do people relish doing something har…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

"Mom's friends were worried that their son isn't talking as much as other six-year-olds. They, like many parents, were concerned with how "smart" their kid is. "Should we be reading to him more?" they…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

"You should keep your expectations in line with reality. If you view the military as a job, you will be miserable. It's not a job, it's a lot more than that. As long as you wear that uniform, it is yo…"

-Rob Henderson, Troubled

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7. Ghost Roast

By: Shawnelle Gibbs

4.13

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Ghost Roast delivers a paranormal adventure full of first crushes, lost histories, and the impossib… read more

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8. Lunar New Year Love Story

By: Gene Luen Yang

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Graphic novel superstars Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham join forces in this heartwarming rom-com ab… read more

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9. Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

By: Mandy Matney

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Years before the name Alex Murdaugh was splashed across every major media outlet in America, local … read more

Similar categories in Mandy Matney's Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty book and Michael M. Baden, MD's American Autopsy

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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10. Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

By: Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the FBI’s former assistant director, a shocking journey to the dark side of America’s highways… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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11. A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain

By: Sara Manning Peskin

4.21

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the ve… read more

Similar categories in Sara Manning Peskin's A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain book and Michael M. Baden, MD's American Autopsy

  • medical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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12. 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 Michael M. Baden, MD's American Autopsy

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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13. Those We Thought We Knew

By: David Joy

4.30

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning writer David Joy comes a searing new novel about the cracks that form in a small… read more

Similar categories in David Joy's Those We Thought We Knew book and Michael M. Baden, MD's American Autopsy

  • race
  • crime
  • audiobook
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14. Thieves

By: Lucie Bryon

4.21

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Ella can’t seem to remember a single thing from the party the night before at a mysterious stranger… read more

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"I'm not just your friend when everything is going well. I'm your friend through the crappy times too."

-Lucie Bryon, Thieves

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15. Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family

By: Susan Jonusas

3.45

Format: 345 pages, Hardcover

A suspense filled tale of murder on the American frontier—shedding new light on a family of serial … read more

Similar categories in Susan Jonusas's Hell's Half-Acre : The Untold Story of the Benders, America's First Serial Killer Family book and Michael M. Baden, MD's American Autopsy

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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16. One Big Happy Family

By: Jamie Day

3.60

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The newest, riveting summer suspense by the author of The Block Party, Jamie Day. The Precipice … read more

Similar categories in Jamie Day's One Big Happy Family book and Michael M. Baden, MD's American Autopsy

  • audiobook
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17. Evidence of Things Seen

By: Sarah Weinman

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

From Sarah Weinman, the award-winning editor of Unspeakable Acts, a groundbreaking new anthology sh… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Weinman's Evidence of Things Seen book and Michael M. Baden, MD's American Autopsy

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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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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  • true crime
  • death
  • 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

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19. Bad Dreams in the Night

By: Adam Ellis

4.26

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Like a graphic novel version of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark , this collection of original hor… read more

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20. A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks

By: David Gibbins

3.44

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From renowned underwater archaeologist David Gibbins comes an exciting and rich narrative of human … read more

Similar categories in David Gibbins's A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks book and Michael M. Baden, MD's American Autopsy

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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21. Fire and Bones (Temperance Brennan, #23)

By: Kathy Reichs

4.18

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

It’s never easy working fire scenes.   Called to Washington, DC to analyse the victims of a mysteri… read more

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  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Ultimate Serial Killer Trivia Book: A Collection Of Fascinating Facts And Disturbing Details About Infamous Serial Killers And Their Horrific Crimes (Perfect True Crime Gift) by Jack Rosewood

22. The Ultimate Serial Killer Trivia Book: A Collection Of Fascinating Facts And Disturbing Details About Infamous Serial Killers And Their Horrific Crimes (Perfect True Crime Gift)

By: Jack Rosewood

3.87

Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition

Have you ever wanted to know everything there is to know about serial killers? Ever pondered the d… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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23. The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter

By: John E. Douglas

4.15

Format: None pages, Audiobook

The legendary FBI criminal profiler, number-one New York Times bestselling author, and inspiration … read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
"I miss my dog,"

-John E. Douglas, The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter

"I familiarize myself with every detail of their crimes and loathe what they did. At the same time, I may feel tremendous empathy and sorrow for what they went through in their young lives that contri…"

-John E. Douglas, The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter

"Within just about every serial predator, there are two warring elements: A feeling of grandiosity, specialness, and entitlement, together with deep-seated feelings of inadequacy and powerlessness and…"

-John E. Douglas, The Killer Across the Table: Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers and Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter

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24. A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind

By: Ann Wolbert Burgess

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A vivid behind-the-scenes look into the creation of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit and the evolu… read more

Similar categories in Ann Wolbert Burgess's A Killer by Design: Murderers, Mindhunters, and My Quest to Decipher the Criminal Mind book and Michael M. Baden, MD's American Autopsy

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of American Autopsy by Michael M. Baden, MD

25. American Autopsy

By: Michael M. Baden, MD

4.47

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A revealing history of covering up the true causes of deaths of BIPOC in custody—from the forensic … read more

Similar categories in Michael M. Baden, MD's American Autopsy book and Michael M. Baden, MD's American Autopsy

  • race
  • history
  • true crime
  • medical
  • politics
  • death
  • nonfiction
  • police
  • crime
  • audiobook
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26. The Wilds (Detective Elin Warner, #3)

By: Sarah Pearse

3.81

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

A perpetual drifter, Kier Templer lives her life on the road. Dubbed “the monster’s daughter” after… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Pearse's The Wilds (Detective Elin Warner, #3) book and Michael M. Baden, MD's American Autopsy

  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions by John Grisham

27. Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions

By: John Grisham

4.49

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In his first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, #1 bestselling author John Grisham and Cent… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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28. In Every Life

By: Rea Frey

4.11

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

What happens when a husband's dying wish is for his wife to find a new love... before he's even gon… read more

Similar categories in Rea Frey's In Every Life book and Michael M. Baden, MD's American Autopsy

  • audiobook
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29. Memorials

By: Richard Chizmar

4.51

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A group of students encounter a supernatural terror while on a road trip through Appalachia in this… read more

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Cover of Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death by Spencer Henry

30. Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death

By: Spencer Henry

3.74

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Based on the popular podcast, The Big Hot Book of Death is a smart, funny look at the American cul… read more

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  • audiobook
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • death
Cover of Ushers: A Short Story by Joe Hill

31. Ushers: A Short Story

By: Joe Hill

4.31

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

A young man who has improbably escaped death twice reveals his secret in a spine-tingling short sto… read more

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Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine

Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

4.00

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Hillel Levin , James Keene

4.04

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Troubled

Rob Henderson

4.26

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Blood on Their Hands: Murder, Corruption, and the Fall of the Murdaugh Dynasty

Mandy Matney

3.78

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All the Sinners Bleed

S.A. Cosby

4.24

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Happiness Falls

Angie Kim

3.75

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William Kent Krueger

4.29

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