10 must-read nonfiction books like Safe Harbor: A Murder in Nantucket by Brian McDonald

Cover of Safe Harbor: A Murder in Nantucket by Brian McDonald

Safe Harbor: A Murder in Nantucket

By: Brian McDonald

3.66

Format: 259 pages,

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Safe Harbor: A Murder in Nantucket by Brian McDonald , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of There's Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins

1. There's Someone Inside Your House

By: Stephanie Perkins

3.40

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

Love hurts... Makani Young thought she'd left her dark past behind her in Hawaii, settling in wi… read more

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"Makani genuinely hoped that others . . . found peace and strength through prayer. But she wasn't religious herself, and it made her uncomfortable whenever it was forced upon her."

-Stephanie Perkins, There's Someone Inside Your House

"Only Darby, who also innately understood the concept of otherness had successfully avoided this pitfall. just as it was rude and invasive to ask him about his genitalia or sexual preference, it was e…"

-Stephanie Perkins, There's Someone Inside Your House

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2. Blind Faith

By: Joe McGinniss

4.10

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

The Marshalls were the model family of Toms River New Jersey, living the American dream of all that… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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3. A Killer Among Us: A True Story of Murder and Justice

By: Charles Bosworth Jr.

3.82

Format: 557 pages, Kindle Edition

Elizabeth DeCaro, a 28 year-old mother of four was found dead in her own home, murdered execution-s… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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4. Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

By: Holly Madison

3.55

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A former girlfriend of Hugh Hefner describes how her years inside the Playboy Mansion went from a f… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Marriage and family are certainly beautiful parts of life, but I believe those things can truly be appreciated only when we find, love, and respect ourselves first."

-Holly Madison, Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

"But let that not be the moral of my story. True happiness doesn't come from simply getting married. I don't believe a woman's worth should be measured by whether or not she's married."

-Holly Madison, Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny

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5. The Innocent Wife

By: Amy Lloyd

3.41

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

You Love Him. You Trust Him. So Why Are You So Scared? Twenty years ago, Dennis Danson was… read more

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6. Nantucket Nights

By: Elin Hilderbrand

4.00

Format: 321 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The ties between women can run as deep as the ocean-but so can the secrets. For 20 years, Kayla, An… read more

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7. Safe Harbor: A Murder in Nantucket

By: Brian McDonald

3.66

Format: 259 pages,

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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8. Running With Scissors

By: Augusten Burroughs

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Running with Scissors is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton… read more

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  • nonfiction
"look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it"

-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors

"Life would be fabric-softener, tuna-salad-on-white, PTA-meeting normal."

-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors

"I like it when she's shiny, like a star, like a guest on the Donnie and Marie Show ."

-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors

"Doctor, if being a bitch is healthy, then I am the healthiest damn woman on the face of the earth"

-Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors

9. Barefoot Season (Blackberry Island #1)

By: Susan Mallery

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

Michelle Sanderson may appear to be a strong, independent woman, but on the inside, she's still the… read more

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10. I'll See You Again

By: Janice Kaplan , None

2.00

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

In a powerful and intimate memoir, Jackie Hance shares her story of unbearable loss, darkest despai… read more

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11. People Like Us

By: Dominick Dunne

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback

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12. Another City, Not My Own

By: Dominick Dunne

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

This is the story of the Trial of the Century as only Dominick Dunne can write it. Told from the po… read more

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13. Corrections in Ink: A Memoir

By: Keri Blakinger

4.26

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“Brave, brutal . . . a riveting story about suffering, recovery, and redemption. Inspiring and rele… read more

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  • nonfiction
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14. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

By: Meg Kissinger

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

By: Tina Brown

4.03

Format: 571 pages, Hardcover

The gripping inside story of the British royal family’s battle to overcome the dramas of the Diana … read more

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  • nonfiction
"What Diana’s younger son was thinking only he can tell us, and doubtless will."

-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

"Dacre's staff referred to his morning editorial meetings as the “Vagina Monologues,"

-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

"Until he lost his hair, Prince William was probably the biggest heartthrob to be heir to the throne since the pre-obese Henry VIII."

-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

"Philip had to apologize in 1999 after a walkabout at an Edinburgh electronics factory when he commented that a fuse box bursting with wires looked “as if it was put in by an Indian."

-Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil

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16. Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story

By: Max Marshall

3.50

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

A brilliant young investigative journalist traces a murder and a multi-million-dollar drug ring, le… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
Cover of Local Gone Missing (Elise King, #1) by Fiona Barton

17. Local Gone Missing (Elise King, #1)

By: Fiona Barton

3.48

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Detective Elise King investigates a man's disappearance in a seaside town where the locals and week… read more

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18. The Book of Accidents

By: Chuck Wendig

3.73

Format: 530 pages, Hardcover

Long ago, Nathan lived in a house in the country with his abusive father—and has never told his fam… read more

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19. My Sweet Girl

By: Amanda Jayatissa

3.67

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

Paloma thought her perfect life would begin once she was adopted and made it to America, but she’s … read more

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Cover of Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family by Rabia Chaudry

20. Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family

By: Rabia Chaudry

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author and host of the wildly popular Undisclosed podcast, a warm, intimate me… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Every person, I'd argue, has the right to pursue what feeling good means to them."

-Rabia Chaudry, Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family

"But when I dug deeper, I realized the self-loathing was less about what I looked like on the outside, and more about feeling out of control and helpless."

-Rabia Chaudry, Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family

Cover of A Talent for Murder (Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner, #3) by Peter  Swanson

21. A Talent for Murder (Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner, #3)

By: Peter Swanson

3.61

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

A newlywed librarian begins to suspect the man she married might be a murderer—in this spectacularl… read more

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22. I'll Be You

By: Janelle Brown

3.73

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

11 hours, 41 minutes Two identical twin sisters and former child actors have grown apart--until… read more

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23. No One Will Miss Her

By: Kat Rosenfield

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A novel of suspense in which a girl from a hardscrabble small town meets a gorgeous Instagram influ… read more

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24. The Best Friend

By: Jessica Fellowes

2.67

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Following the intense, toxic friendship of two kindred spirits across their lifetimes, The Best Fri… read more

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Amy Poehler

4.11

Transform Your Habits

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David Sedaris

4.27

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