9 must-read true crime books like Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice by Barbara Bradley Hagerty

Cover of Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice by Barbara Bradley Hagerty

Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice

By: Barbara Bradley Hagerty

4.49

Format: 463 pages, Kindle Edition

How states are making their legal systems more equitable, seen through the story of a Black man fal…

If you liked the true crime plot in Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice by Barbara Bradley Hagerty , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers by Frank Figliuzzi

1. 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

Similar categories in Frank Figliuzzi's Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers book and Barbara Bradley Hagerty's Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter by Zoë Schiffer

2. Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter

By: Zoë Schiffer

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

“the bird is freed” – Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 27, 2022 When Elon Musk took over Twitter, … read more

Similar categories in Zoë Schiffer's Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter book and Barbara Bradley Hagerty's Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice

  • nonfiction
Cover of Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham

3. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

By: Adam Higginbotham

4.60

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more

Similar categories in Adam Higginbotham's Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space book and Barbara Bradley Hagerty's Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice

  • nonfiction
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

Cover of Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5) by Elizabeth Strout

4. Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

By: Elizabeth Strout

4.46

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a hopeful, healing novel about new friend… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Strout's Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5) book and Barbara Bradley Hagerty's Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice

"...Bob caught a glimpse of himself in the store window that was right there. He was startled. Who was that tall older man? Was that him? A sense of bewilderment came to him. He turned away, then turn…"

-Elizabeth Strout, Tell Me Everything (Amgash, #5)

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5. That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

By: Amanda Jones

4.14

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, part manifesto, the inspiring story of a Louisiana librarian advocating for inclusivit… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Jones's That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America book and Barbara Bradley Hagerty's Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice

  • nonfiction
Cover of If We Ever Get There by Laura Barrow

6. If We Ever Get There

By: Laura Barrow

4.20

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

From the author of Call the Canaries Home comes the heartwarming tale of two generations of women s… read more

Similar categories in Laura Barrow's If We Ever Get There book and Barbara Bradley Hagerty's Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice

Cover of When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders by Howard Blum

7. When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders

By: Howard Blum

3.63

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, inside story of the Idaho murders from bestselling author Howard Blum, whose ground… read more

Similar categories in Howard Blum's When the Night Comes Falling: A Requiem for the Idaho Student Murders book and Barbara Bradley Hagerty's Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice

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

8. 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

Similar categories in Mikita Brottman's Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida book and Barbara Bradley Hagerty's Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics by Elle Reeve

9. Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

By: Elle Reeve

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Pola… read more

Similar categories in Elle Reeve's Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics book and Barbara Bradley Hagerty's Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Where They Last Saw Her by Marcie R. Rendon

10. Where They Last Saw Her

By: Marcie R. Rendon

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

From the award-winning author of the Cash Blackbear series, a harrowing novel of a Native American … read more

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Cover of The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook

11. The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family

By: Jesselyn Cook

4.45

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The riveting story of five families shattered by pernicious, pervasive conspiracy theories, and how… read more

Similar categories in Jesselyn Cook's The Quiet Damage: QAnon and the Destruction of the American Family book and Barbara Bradley Hagerty's Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice

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

12. 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

Similar categories in John Grisham's Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions book and Barbara Bradley Hagerty's Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice by Dan Slepian

13. The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice

By: Dan Slepian

4.74

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An NBC Dateline producer's cinematic account of two decades navigating a broken criminal justice sy… read more

Similar categories in Dan Slepian's The Sing Sing Files: One Journalist, Six Innocent Men, and a Twenty-Year Fight for Justice book and Barbara Bradley Hagerty's Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty by Valerie Bauerlein

14. The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty

By: Valerie Bauerlein

4.56

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Power, privilege, and blood—this is the definitive and thrilling true story of Alex Murdaugh’s viol… read more

Similar categories in Valerie Bauerlein's The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty book and Barbara Bradley Hagerty's Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Lovely One: A Memoir by Ketanji Brown Jackson

15. Lovely One: A Memoir

By: Ketanji Brown Jackson

4.64

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In her inspiring, intimate memoir, the first Black woman to ever be … read more

Similar categories in Ketanji Brown Jackson's Lovely One: A Memoir book and Barbara Bradley Hagerty's Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice

  • nonfiction
Cover of Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice by Barbara Bradley Hagerty

16. Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice

By: Barbara Bradley Hagerty

4.49

Format: 463 pages, Kindle Edition

How states are making their legal systems more equitable, seen through the story of a Black man fal… read more

Similar categories in Barbara Bradley Hagerty's Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice book and Barbara Bradley Hagerty's Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice

  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir by Mary L. Trump

17. 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 Barbara Bradley Hagerty's Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory by Thomas  Fuller

18. The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory

By: Thomas Fuller

4.36

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The incredible story of an all-deaf high school football team’s triumphant climb from underdog to u… read more

Similar categories in Thomas Fuller's The Boys of Riverside: A Deaf Football Team and a Quest for Glory book and Barbara Bradley Hagerty's Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich

19. The Mighty Red

By: Louise Erdrich

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning author Louise Erdrich tells … read more

Similar categories in Louise Erdrich's The Mighty Red book and Barbara Bradley Hagerty's Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice

Cover of Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success by Russ Buettner

20. Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success

By: Russ Buettner

4.56

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters behind the 2018 bombshell New York Times exposé of then-P… read more

Similar categories in Russ Buettner's Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father's Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success book and Barbara Bradley Hagerty's Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice

  • nonfiction
Cover of The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi by Wright Thompson

21. The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi

By: Wright Thompson

4.51

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A shocking and revelatory account of the murder of Emmett Till that lays bare how forces from aroun… read more

Similar categories in Wright Thompson's The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi book and Barbara Bradley Hagerty's Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice

  • nonfiction
  • true crime

17 must-read nonfiction books like Bringing Ben Home: A Murder, a Conviction, and the Fight to Redeem American Justice by Barbara Bradley Hagerty

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Long Haul: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers

Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

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Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter

Zoë Schiffer

4.06

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Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

Adam Higginbotham

4.60

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That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America

Amanda Jones

4.14

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Frank Figliuzzi

3.64

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The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

Griffin Dunne

4.19

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We Burn Daylight

Bret Anthony Johnston

3.95

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

Anna Akbari

3.66

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