10 Top nonfiction books like Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake by Frank W. Abagnale, Stan Redding

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Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake

By: Frank W. Abagnale , Stan Redding

4.55

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

I stole every nickel and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes and other sen…

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1. A Beautiful Mind

By: Sylvia Nasar

4.13

Format: 461 pages, Paperback

Stories of famously eccentric Princetonians abound—such as that of chemist Hubert Alyea, the model … read more

Similar categories in Sylvia Nasar's A Beautiful Mind book and Frank W. Abagnale's Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Nash was respected but not well liked."

-Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind

"A genius with a penis. Isn’t that what we all want?"

-Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind

"His heroes were solitary thinkers and supermen like Newton and Nietzsche."

-Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind

"Hey Nash! You scared?' 'Terrified,mortified,petrified...stupefied by you!"

-Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind

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2. A Beautiful Mind: The Shooting Script

By: Ron Howard , Akiva Goldsman

4.45

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

"A Beautiful Mind, the intensely human drama of a true genius, is inspired by events in the life of… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Your creativity has value. You’re not wasting your time dreaming."

-Ron Howard, A Beautiful Mind: The Shooting Script

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3. The Lufthansa Heist

By: Henry Hill , Daniel Simone , Henry Hill

4.17

Format: 78 pages, Hardcover

The inside story--from the organizer himself--of the largest unrecovered cash haul in history. This… read more

Similar categories in Henry Hill's The Lufthansa Heist book and Frank W. Abagnale's Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake

  • biography
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake by Frank W. Abagnale, Stan Redding

4. Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake

By: Frank W. Abagnale , Stan Redding

4.55

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

I stole every nickel and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes and other sen… read more

Similar categories in Frank W. Abagnale's Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake book and Frank W. Abagnale's Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake

  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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5. The Wolf of Wall Street (The Wolf of Wall Street, #1)

By: Jordan Belfort

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

By day he made thousands of dollars a minute. By night he spent it as fast as he could, on drugs, s… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • autobiography
  • nonfiction
Cover of How to Beat Up Anybody: An Instructional and Inspirational Karate Book by the World Champion by Judah Friedlander

6. How to Beat Up Anybody: An Instructional and Inspirational Karate Book by the World Champion

By: Judah Friedlander

3.41

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

"World Champion" Judah Friedlandertells you How to Beat Up Anybody in this insanely hilarious satir… read more

Similar categories in Judah Friedlander's How to Beat Up Anybody: An Instructional and Inspirational Karate Book by the World Champion book and Frank W. Abagnale's Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake

  • nonfiction
Cover of Prescription for Murder: The True Story of Mass Murderer Dr. Harold Frederick Shipman by Jean  Ritchie, Brian Whittle

7. Prescription for Murder: The True Story of Mass Murderer Dr. Harold Frederick Shipman

By: Jean Ritchie , Brian Whittle

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

In March 1999, Manchester general practitioner Harold Shipman was charged with the murders of four … read more

Similar categories in Jean Ritchie's Prescription for Murder: The True Story of Mass Murderer Dr. Harold Frederick Shipman book and Frank W. Abagnale's Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake

  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • biography
  • true crime

8. Good Will Hunting

By: Gus Van Sant , Matt Damon , None

3.92

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

As director Gus Van Sant observes in the introduction to Matt Damon's and Ben Affleck's screenplay … read more

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9. Whistle Down the Wind

By: None

5.00

Format: 30 pages,

This tale of childhood innocence, published to tie in with a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, is rea… read more

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10. Catching the Wolf of Wall Street: More Incredible True Stories of Fortunes, Schemes, Parties, and Prison (The Wolf Of Wall Street, #2)

By: Jordan Belfort

4.50

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

In the go-go nineties Jordan Belfort proved to Wall Street that you didn't need to be on Wall Stree… read more

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11. Catch Me If You Can: The Film and the Filmmakers

By: Steven Spielberg , Frank W. Abagnale , Jeff Nathanson

4.00

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

With more than 100 color photos, the companion book to the major DreamWorks film directed by Steven… read more

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12. The World Is Not a Rectangle: A Portrait of Architect Zaha Hadid

By: Jeanette Winter

4.34

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

Parents' Choice Recommended Get to know Zaha Hadid in this nonfiction picture book about the famed … read more

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13. The Pursuit of Happyness

By: Chris Gardner

4.15

Format: 447 pages, Paperback

The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless father who raised and cared for his son o… read more

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14. Braveheart

By: Randall Wallace

4.28

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

For love of country, for love of maiden, for love of freedom...he became the hammer and scourge of … read more

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15. Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump, #1)

By: Winston Groom

3.80

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Meet Forrest Gump, the lovable, herculean, and surprisingly savvy hero of this remarkable comic ody… read more

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16. FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

By: Steven Lomazow

4.33

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

THE HIDDEN ILLNESSES THAT SHAPED FDR’S LIFE AND CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY Conventional wisdo… read more

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"Researching this book has been a voyage of discovery and it is a privilege to present an unexpurgated medical biography of the most consequential American of the twentieth century."

-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

"Another new and groundbreaking story in FDR Unmasked is about his highly consequential friendship with Vincent Astor, the closest with any man in his adult life. To truly understand the “real"

-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

"FDR Unmasked chronicles Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s life from a physician’s perspective. It tells a harrowing story of heroic achievement by a great leader determined to impart his vision of freedom …"

-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

"FDR Unmasked is first to present convincing evidence of Roosevelt’s battle with prostate cancer, underpinned by FBI memoranda and reliable firsthand information from multiple physicians - even a shoc…"

-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

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17. Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

By: Claudia Clark

4.28

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

One of the great political friendships of the modern world, as told through key moments that shaped… read more

Similar categories in Claudia Clark's Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel book and Frank W. Abagnale's Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake

  • nonfiction
  • biography
"As she had done when she introduced the US president in Berlin, she addressed him publicly with the informal du for the first time since the NSA controversy in 2013."

-Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

"Let me make two remarks. First I concentrate on the task ahead for 2016. I’m quite busy with that—thank you very much. And I’m looking with great interest in the American election campaign.’ For the …"

-Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

"Obama’s next words captured the attention of the world and the amusement of those present. As he wagged his finger at the crowd, he scolded, ‘So stop it, all of you. I know you have to find something…"

-Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

"In her usual manner, Merkel spoke in German. It is worth pointing out, however, that before the translator had an opportunity to convert her statements to English, Obama gave the chancellor and the p…"

-Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

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18. The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)

By: Susan Rowland

4.30

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Former Archivist Mary Wandwalker hates bringing bad news. Nevertheless, she confirms to her alma ma… read more

Similar categories in Susan Rowland's The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery) book and Frank W. Abagnale's Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake

  • crime
"The fire on the mountain."

-Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)

"The Alchemy Scroll works on the heart,"

-Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)

"You can’t set fires, Anna. Never again. Promise."

-Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)

"She stabbed the earth with her big fork as if she could make Cookie Mac’s blood sprout from it."

-Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder (Mary Wandwalker Mystery)

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19. The Dead Tell Lies

By: J.F. Kirwan

4.36

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

If you want to catch a serial killer, you need to think like one. Greg Adams, a criminal psychol… read more

Similar categories in J.F. Kirwan's The Dead Tell Lies book and Frank W. Abagnale's Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake

  • crime
Cover of The Greatest Hoax on Earth: Catching Truth, While We Can by Alan C.  Logan

20. The Greatest Hoax on Earth: Catching Truth, While We Can

By: Alan C. Logan

4.10

Format: 471 pages, Kindle Edition

Award-winning author unmasks the myth of Frank "Catch Me If You Can" Abagnale with meticulous resea… read more

Similar categories in Alan C. Logan's The Greatest Hoax on Earth: Catching Truth, While We Can book and Frank W. Abagnale's Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • true crime
Cover of Deep State: Trump, the FBI, and the Rule of Law by James B. Stewart

21. Deep State: Trump, the FBI, and the Rule of Law

By: James B. Stewart

3.87

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Instant  New York Times Bestseller "Important and stunning. This is must-read material if you want… read more

Similar categories in James B. Stewart's Deep State: Trump, the FBI, and the Rule of Law book and Frank W. Abagnale's Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook

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Henry Hill , Daniel Simone , Henry Hill

4.17

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Frank W. Abagnale , Stan Redding

4.55

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Prescription for Murder: The True Story of Mass Murderer Dr. Harold Frederick Shipman

Jean Ritchie , Brian Whittle

3.83

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4.30

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Harold Shipman: The True Story of Britain's Most Notorious Serial Killer

Ryan Green

4.09

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3.83

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Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

Adam Kay

4.12

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Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

Adam Kay

3.91

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