13 Top memoir books like Confessions of a Criminal Lawyer by Seymour Wishman

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Confessions of a Criminal Lawyer

By: Seymour Wishman

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A successful former defense attorney exposes the raw truth about the courtroom “game” and a career …

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1. While the City Slept: A Love Lost to Violence and a Young Man's Descent into Madness

By: Eli Sanders

3.99

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

On a summer night in 2009, three lives intersected in one American neighborhood. Two people newly i… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • true crime
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2. The Darkest Night: The Murder of Innocence in a Small Town

By: Ron Franscell

3.96

Format: 282 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Casper, Wyoming:1973. Eleven-year-old Amy Burridge rides with her eighteen-year-old sister, Becky, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • true crime
"Survival is an instinct, not a choice."

-Ron Franscell, The Darkest Night: The Murder of Innocence in a Small Town

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3. A death in Canaan

By: Joan Barthel , William Styron

3.71

Format: 328 pages, Loose Leaf

A “riveting” true crime classic: The trial of Connecticut teen Peter Reilly, accused of killing his… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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4. Blue on Blue: An Insider’s Story of Good Cops Catching Bad Cops

By: Charles Campisi , Gordon Dillow , Gordon L. Dillow

3.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

One of the most authentic and consistently illuminating portraits of police work ever, Blue on Blue… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime

5. Into the Abyss: How a Deadly Plane Crash Changed the Lives of a Pilot, a Politician, a Criminal and a Cop

By: Carol Shaben

4.75

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Only four men survived the plane crash. The pilot. A politician. A cop... and the criminal he was s… read more

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6. Cook County ICU: 30 Years of Unforgettable Patients and Odd Cases

By: Cory Franklin

3.57

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

An inside look at one of the nation's most famous public hospitals, Cook County, as seen through th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir

7. The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride

By: Daniel James Brown

3.59

Format: 464 pages,

In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Il… read more

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8. The Anxiety Toolkit: Strategies for Fine-Tuning Your Mind and Moving Past Your Stuck Points

By: Alice Boyes

5.00

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Do you overthink before taking action? Are you prone to making negative predictions? Do you worry a… read more

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9. The Outlandish Companion: Companion to Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, and Drums of Autumn

By: Diana Gabaldon

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon has captivated millions of readers with her cri… read more

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10. American Black Widow

By: Gregg Olsen

3.75

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of If You Tell comes the chilling, unputdownable stor… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • true crime
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11. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie

4.10

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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12. Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom

By: Katherine Eban

4.42

Format: 512 pages, ebook

Many have hailed the widespread use of generic drugs as one of the most important public-health dev… read more

Similar categories in Katherine Eban's Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom book and Seymour Wishman's Confessions of a Criminal Lawyer

  • nonfiction
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13. Desolation Mountain (Cork O'Connor, #17)

By: William Kent Krueger

4.14

Format: 334 pages, Kindle Edition

New York Times bestselling author William Kent Krueger delivers yet another “punch-to-the-gut blend… read more

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14. The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

By: Jonathan Rosen

4.07

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

“Brave and nuanced…an act of tremendous compassion and a literary triumph.” — The New York Times … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
"It's true I didn't love the job, but I did want the money. If I was too incompetent for ordinary work, I would have to do something extraordinary or face destruction."

-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

"Money had replaced community mental healthcare the way medication had replaced state hospitals. Medication did not go looking for those who resisted taking it, and money could not administer itself. …"

-Jonathan Rosen, The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions

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15. The Alone Time

By: Elle Marr

3.58

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

For two sisters, confronting the past could come at a terrible price in a riveting novel about a fa… read more

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16. 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
  • memoir
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17. Raising Lazarus

By: Beth Macy

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A “deeply reported, deeply moving” (Patrick Radden Keefe) account of everyday heroes fighting on th… read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students

By: J. Reuben Appelman

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The author of the acclaimed true-crime memoir, The Kill Jar, tells the inside story of the “Univers… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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19. Waypoints: My Scottish Journey

By: Sam Heughan

4.29

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

Journey deep into the Scottish Highlands in the first memoir by #1 New York Times bestselling autho… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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20. When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2)

By: John E. Douglas

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A Haunting Story of Murder, Criminal Profiling, and Justice in a Small Town From John Douglas—th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • memoir
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21. The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South

By: Radley Balko

4.03

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursue… read more

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  • law
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon Woo

22. Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

By: Ilyon Woo

3.99

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller | New York Times 10 Best Books of 2023 The remarkable true story of El… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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23. 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

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
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24. Finding Baby Holly: Lost to a Cult, Surviving My Parents' Murders, and Saved by Prayer

By: Holly Marie

3.41

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Holly Marie was forty-two years old the day she found out she was missing.   At ten months old, H… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
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25. Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders

By: Billy Jensen

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Have you ever wanted to solve a murder? Gather the clues the police overlooked? Put together the pi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
"The thought makes my teeth gnash and my lip snarl and my jaw fill with a scream. A scream that always has the same chorus. What they took away, seemingly so easily, was a person. "This was a person!"…"

-Billy Jensen, Chase Darkness with Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders

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26. There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish

By: Anna Akbari

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
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27. What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia

By: Elizabeth Catte

4.02

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

In 2016, headlines declared Appalachia ground zero for America’s “forgotten tribe” of white working… read more

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  • nonfiction
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28. Clay and Bones: My Life as an FBI Forensic Artist

By: Lisa G. Bailey

3.75

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Told with unflinching honesty and a touch of gallows humor, Clay and Bones is the personal memoir o… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
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29. Small Town Sins

By: Ken Jaworowski

3.91

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A Rust Belt thriller that captures the characters of a down-and-out Pennsylvania town, revealing th… read more

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30. Walk Through Fire: The Train Disaster that Changed America

By: Yasmine S. Ali

4.07

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The first book to examine the rarely-acknowledged Waverly Train Disaster of 1978 – the catastrophic… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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31. Confessions of a Criminal Lawyer

By: Seymour Wishman

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A successful former defense attorney exposes the raw truth about the courtroom “game” and a career … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • law
  • nonfiction

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Eli Sanders

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Ron Franscell

3.96

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A death in Canaan

Joan Barthel , William Styron

3.71

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Michelle McNamara

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