19 Top nonfiction books like The Gilded Edge: Two Audacious Women and the Cyanide Love Triangle That Shook America by Catherine Prendergast

Cover of The Gilded Edge: Two Audacious Women and the Cyanide Love Triangle That Shook America by Catherine Prendergast

The Gilded Edge: Two Audacious Women and the Cyanide Love Triangle That Shook America

By: Catherine Prendergast

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Astonishingly well written, painstakingly researched, and set in the evocative locations of earthqu…

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Cover of The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder by Daniel Stashower

1. The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder

By: Daniel Stashower

3.69

Format: None pages,

On July 28, 1841, the body of Mary Rogers, a twenty-year-old cigar girl, was found floating in the … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America by Catherine Kerrison

2. Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America

By: Catherine Kerrison

3.96

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Thomas Jefferson fathered three girls: two white and free, one black and a slave. This book about M… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes

3. The Weary Blues

By: Langston Hughes

4.26

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

A beautiful new edition of this beloved poet's first collection, originally published in 1926 when … read more

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Cover of Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth by Bryan Burrough

4. Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth

By: Bryan Burrough

4.26

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Three noted Texan writers combine forces to tell the real story of the Alamo, dispelling the myths,… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch by Melinda Taub

5. The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch

By: Melinda Taub

3.81

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A sparkling, witchy reimagining of Pride and Prejudice, told from the perspective of the troublesom… read more

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  • historical
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Family Roe: An American Story by Joshua Prager

6. The Family Roe: An American Story

By: Joshua Prager

4.13

Format: 672 pages, Hardcover

Despite her famous pseudonym, “Jane Roe,” no one knows the truth about Norma McCorvey (1947–2017), … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies by Paul   Fischer

7. The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Tale of Obsession, Murder, and the Movies

By: Paul Fischer

3.58

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

One of the New York Times Best True Crime of 2022 A “spellbinding, thriller-like” ( Shelf Awarenes… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul by Michael Fanone

8. Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul

By: Michael Fanone

4.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An urgent warning about the growing threat to our democracy from… read more

Similar categories in Michael Fanone's Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul book and Catherine Prendergast's The Gilded Edge: Two Audacious Women and the Cyanide Love Triangle That Shook America

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"That’s why “reforming"

-Michael Fanone, Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul

"Mom, they tried to kill me."

-Michael Fanone, Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul

"I wasn't a "good" cop or a "bad" cop. I was an "every" cop."

-Michael Fanone, Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul

"To say that members of Congress have egos is like saying that I like cold beer."

-Michael Fanone, Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul

Cover of The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution by Eric Foner

9. The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution

By: Eric Foner

4.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, an authoritative story of the constitutional changes tha… read more

Similar categories in Eric Foner's The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution book and Catherine Prendergast's The Gilded Edge: Two Audacious Women and the Cyanide Love Triangle That Shook America

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century by Roseanne Montillo

10. Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century

By: Roseanne Montillo

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Exploring the darkly intertwined fates of infamous socialite Ann Woodward and literary icon Truman … read more

Similar categories in Roseanne Montillo's Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century book and Catherine Prendergast's The Gilded Edge: Two Audacious Women and the Cyanide Love Triangle That Shook America

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free by Paulina Bren

11. The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free

By: Paulina Bren

3.67

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning author Paulina Bren comes the remarkable history of New York’s most famous resid… read more

Similar categories in Paulina Bren's The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free book and Catherine Prendergast's The Gilded Edge: Two Audacious Women and the Cyanide Love Triangle That Shook America

  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"[Negli anni '30] Molti ritenevano anche, sebbene il Women's Bureau del governo avesse ripetutamente contraddetto tale convinzione, che le donne lavoravano per comprarsi il superfluo, rubando i posti …"

-Paulina Bren, The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free

"Nel 1932, ventisei Stati avevano decretato che fosse illegale per le donne sposate avere un lavoro, e negli Stati in cui non era obbligatorio lasciare il lavoro al momento delle nozze era comunque ne…"

-Paulina Bren, The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free

"[Negli anni ‘50] Le regole erano chiare, e le attese elevatissime: le donne dovevano essere vergini ma non bacchettone; dovevano fare l'università, dedicarsi a un certo tipo di carriera e poi rinunci…"

-Paulina Bren, The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free

Cover of The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future by Stephen Marche

12. The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future

By: Stephen Marche

3.66

Format: 238 pages, Hardcover

The United States is coming to an end. The only question is how. “Should be required reading for a… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Marche's The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future book and Catherine Prendergast's The Gilded Edge: Two Audacious Women and the Cyanide Love Triangle That Shook America

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University by Richard White

13. Who Killed Jane Stanford?: A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University

By: Richard White

3.26

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In 1885 Jane and Leland Stanford cofounded a university to honor their recently deceased young son.… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Shattering: America in the 1960s by Kevin Boyle

14. The Shattering: America in the 1960s

By: Kevin Boyle

4.10

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

On July 4, 1961, the rising middle-class families of a Chicago neighborhood gathered before their f… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Boyle's The Shattering: America in the 1960s book and Catherine Prendergast's The Gilded Edge: Two Audacious Women and the Cyanide Love Triangle That Shook America

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Diamonds and Deadlines: A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and a Female Tycoon in the Gilded Age by Betsy Prioleau

15. Diamonds and Deadlines: A Tale of Greed, Deceit, and a Female Tycoon in the Gilded Age

By: Betsy Prioleau

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Betsy Prioleau’s biography of Gilded Age female tycoon Miriam Leslie is “an appropriately twisty ta… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron De Hart

16. Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life

By: Jane Sherron De Hart

4.21

Format: 752 pages, Hardcover

The first full life—private, public, legal, philosophical—of the 107th Supreme Court Justice, one o… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"As the economy began to improve in the early 1940s, she made small deposits into five local savings banks for Kiki's education. Having lived through the crash, when banks closed their doors and custo…"

-Jane Sherron De Hart, Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life

Cover of Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida by Mikita Brottman

17. Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida

By: Mikita Brottman

3.54

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the critically acclaimed author of the “enthralling” ( San Francisco Book Review ) An Unexplai… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way by Fred C. Trump

18. All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way

By: Fred C. Trump

4.07

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

With revealing, never-before-told stories, Fred C. Trump III, nephew of President Donald Trump, bre… read more

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  • biography
  • historical
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Gilded Edge: Two Audacious Women and the Cyanide Love Triangle That Shook America by Catherine Prendergast

19. The Gilded Edge: Two Audacious Women and the Cyanide Love Triangle That Shook America

By: Catherine Prendergast

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Astonishingly well written, painstakingly researched, and set in the evocative locations of earthqu… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Prendergast's The Gilded Edge: Two Audacious Women and the Cyanide Love Triangle That Shook America book and Catherine Prendergast's The Gilded Edge: Two Audacious Women and the Cyanide Love Triangle That Shook America

  • art
  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • adult
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir by Mary L. Trump

20. Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir

By: Mary L. Trump

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller! A New York Times Nonfiction Book to R… read more

Similar categories in Mary L. Trump's Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir book and Catherine Prendergast's The Gilded Edge: Two Audacious Women and the Cyanide Love Triangle That Shook America

  • history
  • biography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait?: Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the Fight for the Right to Vote by Tina Cassidy

21. Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait?: Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the Fight for the Right to Vote

By: Tina Cassidy

4.17

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In this “heroic narrative” ( The Wall Street Journal ), discover the inspiring and timely account o… read more

Similar categories in Tina Cassidy's Mr. President, How Long Must We Wait?: Alice Paul, Woodrow Wilson, and the Fight for the Right to Vote book and Catherine Prendergast's The Gilded Edge: Two Audacious Women and the Cyanide Love Triangle That Shook America

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history

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4.26

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Melinda Taub

3.81

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Joshua Prager

4.13

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Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop's Battle for America's Soul

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3.64

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Griffin Dunne

4.19

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Bret Anthony Johnston

3.95

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3.66

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