15 Best nonfiction books like The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire by Tom Sancton

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The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire

By: Tom Sancton

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A riveting, on-the-edge-of-your-seat tale about the notorious 1978 kidnapping of Baron Édouard-Jean…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire by Tom Sancton , here is a list of 15 books like this:

1. Socrates: A Man for Our Times

By: Paul Johnson

4.75

Format: 2112 pages,

A brilliant portrait of the Greek philosopher who personified philosophy. Socrates was undeniably o… read more

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2. A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World

By: Tony Horwitz

4.24

Format: 376 pages,

On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz realizes he's mislaid more than a century of Ameri… read more

Similar categories in Tony Horwitz's A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World book and Tom Sancton's The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire

Cover of Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum by Antonia Hylton

3. 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 Tom Sancton's The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
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4. Winter Work

By: Dan Fesperman

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

"Winter Work is an exhilarating spy thriller set in East Germany after the fall of Berlin Wall, abo… read more

Similar categories in Dan Fesperman's Winter Work book and Tom Sancton's The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire

  • crime
Cover of The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder by Douglas Preston

5. The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder

By: Douglas Preston

3.81

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

Douglas Preston, the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God , presents jaw-droppi… read more

Similar categories in Douglas Preston's The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder book and Tom Sancton's The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost it All by Mary  Childs

6. The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost it All

By: Mary Childs

3.80

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the host of NPR’s Planet Money, the deeply-investigated story of how one visionary, dogged inv… read more

Similar categories in Mary Childs's The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost it All book and Tom Sancton's The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli: The Epic Story of the Making of The Godfather by Mark Seal

7. Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli: The Epic Story of the Making of The Godfather

By: Mark Seal

4.36

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

This “wickedly pacey page-turner” (Total Film) unfurls the behind-the-scenes story of the making of… read more

Similar categories in Mark Seal's Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli: The Epic Story of the Making of The Godfather book and Tom Sancton's The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Forsaken Country (Detective Max Rupert, #5) by Allen Eskens

8. Forsaken Country (Detective Max Rupert, #5)

By: Allen Eskens

4.24

Format: None pages, Audiobook

11 hours, 9 minutes Three fathers collide far beyond the reach or safety of the law in this bre… read more

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  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Blood & Ink: An Heiress, a Tabloid War, and the Unsolved Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime by Joe Pompeo

9. Blood & Ink: An Heiress, a Tabloid War, and the Unsolved Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime

By: Joe Pompeo

3.58

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

Vanity Fair's Joe Pompeo investigates the notorious 1922 double murder of a high-society minister a… read more

Similar categories in Joe Pompeo's Blood & Ink: An Heiress, a Tabloid War, and the Unsolved Double Murder That Hooked America on True Crime book and Tom Sancton's The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America by Steve Inskeep

10. Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America

By: Steve Inskeep

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From journalist and historian Steve Inskeep, a compelling and nuanced exploration of the political … read more

Similar categories in Steve Inskeep's Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America book and Tom Sancton's The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Writing history is a relay, which is also true of history itself. We build, if we can, on the legacies that are left us."

-Steve Inskeep, Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America

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

11. 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 Tom Sancton's The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire

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

12. 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 Tom Sancton's The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire

  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder by Mark    O'Connell

13. A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder

By: Mark O'Connell

3.74

Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition

From the award-winning author comes a gripping account of one of the most scandalous chapters in mo… read more

Similar categories in Mark O'Connell's A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder book and Tom Sancton's The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire

  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin

14. End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration

By: Peter Turchin

4.04

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

“Peter Turchin brings science to history. Some like it and some prefer their history plain. But eve… read more

Similar categories in Peter Turchin's End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration book and Tom Sancton's The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Paradise of the Damned: The True Story of an Obsessive Quest for El Dorado, the Legendary City of Gold by Keith Thomson

15. Paradise of the Damned: The True Story of an Obsessive Quest for El Dorado, the Legendary City of Gold

By: Keith Thomson

3.80

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The transporting account of an obsessive quest to find El Dorado, set against the backdrop of Eliza… read more

Similar categories in Keith Thomson's Paradise of the Damned: The True Story of an Obsessive Quest for El Dorado, the Legendary City of Gold book and Tom Sancton's The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
Cover of Mussolini's Daughter: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe by Caroline Moorehead

16. Mussolini's Daughter: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe

By: Caroline Moorehead

3.75

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling biography of Edda Mussolini—Benito Mussolini’s favorite daughter, one of the most influ… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Moorehead's Mussolini's Daughter: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe book and Tom Sancton's The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire

  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • audiobook
Cover of A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue by Dean Jobb

17. A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue

By: Dean Jobb

4.02

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

“A master of narrative nonfiction … in this mesmerizing tale about a Jazz Age gentlemanly thief, Jo… read more

Similar categories in Dean Jobb's A Gentleman and a Thief: The Daring Jewel Heists of a Jazz Age Rogue book and Tom Sancton's The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire

  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Grave in the Woods (Bruno, Chief of Police #17) by Martin  Walker

18. A Grave in the Woods (Bruno, Chief of Police #17)

By: Martin Walker

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Another entertaining and enlightening entry in the Bruno, Chief of Police series, featuring an arch… read more

Similar categories in Martin Walker's A Grave in the Woods (Bruno, Chief of Police #17) book and Tom Sancton's The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire

  • crime
  • france
  • audiobook
Cover of The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire by Tom Sancton

19. The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire

By: Tom Sancton

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A riveting, on-the-edge-of-your-seat tale about the notorious 1978 kidnapping of Baron Édouard-Jean… read more

Similar categories in Tom Sancton's The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire book and Tom Sancton's The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire

  • history
  • biography
  • true crime
  • france
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering by Malcolm Gladwell

20. Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering

By: Malcolm Gladwell

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns … read more

Similar categories in Malcolm Gladwell's Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering book and Tom Sancton's The Last Baron: The Paris Kidnapping That Brought Down an Empire

  • nonfiction
  • history
  • audiobook
Cover of Superyacht Captain: Life and leadership in the world's most incredible industry by Brendan O’Shannassy

21. Superyacht Captain: Life and leadership in the world's most incredible industry

By: Brendan O’Shannassy

3.87

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

In Superyacht Captain, a professional at the zenith of one of the world's most lavish and exclusive… read more

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