27 must-read nonfiction books like Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth by Ben Westhoff

Cover of Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth by Ben Westhoff

Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth

By: Ben Westhoff

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This intimate exploration of race and inequality in America tells the story of a journalist’s long-…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth by Ben Westhoff , here is a list of 27 books like this:

1. Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools

By: Jonathan Kozol

3.70

Format: 368 pages,

National Book Award-winning author Jonathan Kozol presents his shocking account of the American edu… read more

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2. Drunk Mom

By: Jowita Bydlowska

3.76

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Three years after giving up drink, Jowita Bydlowska found herself throwing back a glass of champagn… read more

Similar categories in Jowita Bydlowska's Drunk Mom book and Ben Westhoff's Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"There's this parallel, perhaps less conscious desire, which is to numb myself to the world. To deal with the world tomorrow. Living is difficult. Dying is difficult."

-Jowita Bydlowska, Drunk Mom

"It was too much happiness. Happiness puts you at too much risk - what if you were to lose it? Too much happiness is a paradox. It's a tragedy, even: getting something you've always wanted but being u…"

-Jowita Bydlowska, Drunk Mom

3. Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone

By: Richard Lloyd Parry

4.58

Format: None pages, Hardcover

On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of nort… read more

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4. Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders

By: Kathryn Miles

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

​Trailed is a beautifully written account of a great American tragedy--the unsolved murders of an u… read more

Similar categories in Kathryn Miles's Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders book and Ben Westhoff's Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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5. Vanished in Vermillion: The Real Story of South Dakota’s Most Infamous Cold Case

By: Lou Raguse

3.91

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The result of hundreds of interviews, Vanished in Vermillion is a cold case story that flips the sc… read more

Similar categories in Lou Raguse's Vanished in Vermillion: The Real Story of South Dakota’s Most Infamous Cold Case book and Ben Westhoff's Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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6. Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi

By: Susan Hendricks

3.62

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Former CNN/HLN anchor and veteran broadcast journalist Susan Hendricks takes an investigative deep-… read more

Similar categories in Susan Hendricks's Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi book and Ben Westhoff's Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton

7. Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

By: Antonia Hylton

4.27

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of  The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crowns… read more

Similar categories in Antonia Hylton's Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum book and Ben Westhoff's Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth

  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • audiobook
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8. Sandy Hook

By: Elizabeth Williamson

4.29

Format: 482 pages, Hardcover

Based on hundreds of hours of research, interviews, and access to exclusive sources and materials, … read more

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  • true crime
  • journalism
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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9. Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage

By: Jeff Guinn

4.06

Format: None pages, Audiobook

“Impressively researched and written with storytelling verve” (The Wall Street Journal), this is th… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir by Rachel Louise Snyder

10. Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

By: Rachel Louise Snyder

3.94

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I didn't intentionally gravitate towards stories of women. I was interested in human rights, which often boiled down to this question: who was winning and who was losing? And over and over again, cou…"

-Rachel Louise Snyder, Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir

Cover of Ghosts of the Orphanage: A Story of Mysterious Deaths, a Conspiracy of Silence, and a Search for Justice by Christine Kenneally

11. Ghosts of the Orphanage: A Story of Mysterious Deaths, a Conspiracy of Silence, and a Search for Justice

By: Christine Kenneally

4.05

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The shocking secret history of twentieth-century orphanages—which for decades hid violence, abuse, … read more

Similar categories in Christine Kenneally's Ghosts of the Orphanage: A Story of Mysterious Deaths, a Conspiracy of Silence, and a Search for Justice book and Ben Westhoff's Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students by J. Reuben Appelman

12. 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

Similar categories in J. Reuben Appelman's While Idaho Slept: The Hunt for Answers in the Murders of Four College Students book and Ben Westhoff's Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America by Audrey Clare Farley

13. Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America

By: Audrey Clare Farley

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Hidden Valley Road and Patient H.M., an "intimate and compassionate portrait" (Grace… read more

Similar categories in Audrey Clare Farley's Girls and Their Monsters: The Genain Quadruplets and the Making of Madness in America book and Ben Westhoff's Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • audiobook
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14. The Monsters We Make

By: Kali White

3.84

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Rene Denfeld and Shari Lapena comes a rich, atmospheric family drama set in the 1980's … read more

Similar categories in Kali White's The Monsters We Make book and Ben Westhoff's Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth

  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child by Kim Cross

15. In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child

By: Kim Cross

4.30

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Paced like a thriller and full of insider information on the history and science of Crime Scene Inv… read more

Similar categories in Kim Cross's In Light of All Darkness: Inside the Polly Klaas Kidnapping and the Search for America's Child book and Ben Westhoff's Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth

  • true crime
  • journalism
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson by Jeff Pearlman

16. The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson

By: Jeff Pearlman

4.20

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

By the New York Times bestselling author of Showtime—the source for HBO’s Winning Time—the definiti… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era by Donovan X. Ramsey

17. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

By: Donovan X. Ramsey

4.36

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more

Similar categories in Donovan X. Ramsey's When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era book and Ben Westhoff's Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth

  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • crime
  • sociology
  • audiobook
Cover of Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy by Matthew  Campbell

18. Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy

By: Matthew Campbell

4.24

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“A triumph of investigative journalism.” —Tom Wright, New York Times bestselling coauthor of Billio… read more

Similar categories in Matthew Campbell's Dead in the Water: A True Story of Hijacking, Murder, and a Global Maritime Conspiracy book and Ben Westhoff's Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth

  • true crime
  • journalism
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of When the Moon Turns to Blood: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and a Story of Murder, Wild Faith, and End Times by Leah Sottile

19. When the Moon Turns to Blood: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and a Story of Murder, Wild Faith, and End Times

By: Leah Sottile

3.77

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

WHEN THE MOON TURNS TO BLOOD examines the culture of end times paranoia and a trail of mysterious d… read more

Similar categories in Leah Sottile's When the Moon Turns to Blood: Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and a Story of Murder, Wild Faith, and End Times book and Ben Westhoff's Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth

  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of At Any Cost: A Father's Betrayal, a Wife's Murder, and a Ten-Year War for Justice by Rebecca  Rosenberg

20. At Any Cost: A Father's Betrayal, a Wife's Murder, and a Ten-Year War for Justice

By: Rebecca Rosenberg

4.15

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

At Any Cost unravels the twisted story of Rod Covlin, whose unrepentant greed drove him to an unspe… read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe by Keith  O'Brien

21. Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe

By: Keith O'Brien

4.40

Format: 455 pages, Hardcover

The staggering story of an unlikely band of mothers in the 1970s who discovered Hooker Chemical's d… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many by Mona Gable

22. Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many

By: Mona Gable

3.58

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A gripping and illuminating investigation into the disappearance of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind whe… read more

Similar categories in Mona Gable's Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many book and Ben Westhoff's Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth

  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish by Anna Akbari

23. 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

Similar categories in Anna Akbari's There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish book and Ben Westhoff's Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco by Stephan Talty

24. Koresh: The True Story of David Koresh and the Tragedy at Waco

By: Stephan Talty

3.95

Format: 446 pages, Hardcover

The first comprehensive account of David Koresh's life, his road to Waco, and the rise of governmen… read more

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  • biography
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Where the Dead Sit Talking by Brandon Hobson

25. Where the Dead Sit Talking

By: Brandon Hobson

3.35

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

National Book Award finalist Best book of 2018: Kirkus, Southern Living, and NPR Code Switch Read… read more

Similar categories in Brandon Hobson's Where the Dead Sit Talking book and Ben Westhoff's Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth

  • audiobook
Cover of The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune by Alexander Stille

26. The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune

By: Alexander Stille

3.47

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The devolution of the Sullivan Institute, from psychoanalytic organization to insular, radical cult… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • true crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Hell in the Heartland: Murder, Meth, and the Case of Two Missing Girls by Jax Miller

27. Hell in the Heartland: Murder, Meth, and the Case of Two Missing Girls

By: Jax Miller

3.70

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

The stranger-than-fiction cold case from rural Oklahoma that has stumped authorities for two decade… read more

Similar categories in Jax Miller's Hell in the Heartland: Murder, Meth, and the Case of Two Missing Girls book and Ben Westhoff's Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
"I come to Oklahoma, thinking that it’ll be hard to write about the dead, but it has proven harder to write about the living, about those who’ll have to read themselves through my eyes."

-Jax Miller, Hell in the Heartland: Murder, Meth, and the Case of Two Missing Girls

Cover of A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy by Tia  Levings

28. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy

By: Tia Levings

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more

Similar categories in Tia Levings's A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy book and Ben Westhoff's Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip by Jeff Guinn

29. The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip

By: Jeff Guinn

3.75

Format: 307 pages, Hardcover

A “f ascinating slice of rarely considered American history” ( Booklist )—the story of Henry Ford a… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession That Changed a Small Town Forever by Kim Mager

30. A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession That Changed a Small Town Forever

By: Kim Mager

3.85

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this fascinating & profoundly chilling account, Detective Kim Mager , a real-life version of Cla… read more

Similar categories in Kim Mager's A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession That Changed a Small Town Forever book and Ben Westhoff's Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth by Ben Westhoff

31. Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth

By: Ben Westhoff

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This intimate exploration of race and inequality in America tells the story of a journalist’s long-… read more

Similar categories in Ben Westhoff's Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth book and Ben Westhoff's Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • journalism
  • sociology
  • audiobook

29 Best audiobook books like Little Brother: Love, Tragedy, and My Search for the Truth by Ben Westhoff

Transform Your Habits

Drunk Mom

Jowita Bydlowska

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders

Kathryn Miles

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Vanished in Vermillion: The Real Story of South Dakota’s Most Infamous Cold Case

Lou Raguse

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi

Susan Hendricks

3.62

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28 Best audiobook books like Searching for Savanna: The Murder of One Native American Woman and the Violence Against the Many by Mona Gable

Transform Your Habits

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

Timothy Egan

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Trail of the Lost: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail

Andrea Lankford

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Behold the Monster: Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer

Jillian Lauren

3.38

Transform Your Habits

Down the Hill: My Descent into the Double Murder in Delphi

Susan Hendricks

3.62

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