16 Best nonfiction books like The Last Good Heist: The Inside Story of the Biggest Single Payday in the Criminal History of the Northeast by Tim White, Randall Richard, Wayne Worcester

Cover of The Last Good Heist: The Inside Story of the Biggest Single Payday in the Criminal History of the Northeast by Tim    White, Randall Richard, Wayne Worcester

The Last Good Heist: The Inside Story of the Biggest Single Payday in the Criminal History of the Northeast

By: Tim White , Randall Richard , Wayne Worcester

3.50

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

On Aug. 14, 1975, eight daring thieves ransacked 148 massive safe-deposit boxes at a secret bank us…

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Cover of Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944 by Stephen E. Ambrose

1. Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

4.14

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

In the early morning hours of June 6, 1944, a small detachment of British airborne troops stormed t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Avenger by Frederick Forsyth

2. Avenger

By: Frederick Forsyth

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Attorney Calvin Dexter hangs his shingle in a quiet New Jersey town, has a reasonably successful pr… read more

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  • crime
"Almost all great fortunes are based upon one cracking good idea and the guts to go with it"

-Frederick Forsyth, Avenger

"As he went down the steps to the street, something was troubling him. Something about the Vietcong officer, his face, the expression of frozen astonishment. At the end of the street passers-by turned…"

-Frederick Forsyth, Avenger

Cover of Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us by Sam Kean

3. Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us

By: Sam Kean

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

It's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
"Don’t damn people to hell, damn them to Venus."

-Sam Kean, Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us

Cover of The CBS Murders: A True Account of Greed and Violence in New York's Diamond District by Richard Hammer

4. The CBS Murders: A True Account of Greed and Violence in New York's Diamond District

By: Richard Hammer

4.23

Format: None pages,

When three CBS employees were gunned down in a Manhattan parking lot, the ensuing investigation rev… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • true crime
Cover of A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr

5. A Civil Action

By: Jonathan Harr

4.09

Format: None pages,

This is the true story of an epic courtroom showdown. Two of the nation's largest corporations stan… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • true crime
Cover of A Certain Age (A Certain Age, #1) by Beatriz Williams

6. A Certain Age (A Certain Age, #1)

By: Beatriz Williams

3.65

Format: 327 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of A Hundred Summers brings the Roaring Twenties brilliantly to life in this… read more

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Cover of The Last Good Heist: The Inside Story of the Biggest Single Payday in the Criminal History of the Northeast by Tim    White, Randall Richard, Wayne Worcester

7. The Last Good Heist: The Inside Story of the Biggest Single Payday in the Criminal History of the Northeast

By: Tim White , Randall Richard , Wayne Worcester

3.50

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

On Aug. 14, 1975, eight daring thieves ransacked 148 massive safe-deposit boxes at a secret bank us… read more

Similar categories in Tim White's The Last Good Heist: The Inside Story of the Biggest Single Payday in the Criminal History of the Northeast book and Tim White's The Last Good Heist: The Inside Story of the Biggest Single Payday in the Criminal History of the Northeast

  • american history
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime

8. Jungle of Stone: The True Story of Two Men, Their Extraordinary Journey, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya

By: William Carlsen

3.93

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller (Expeditions) "Thrilling. ... A captivating history of two men who dramat… read more

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9. Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires

By: Selwyn Raab

3.97

Format: 12 pages,

Genovese, Gambino, Bonnano, Colombo and Lucchese. For decades these Five Families ruled New York an… read more

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10. Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus

By: Monica Murphy , Bill Wasik

4.00

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An engrossing, lively history of a fearsome and misunderstood virus that binds man and dog. The mos… read more

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11. Cocoa Beach

By: Beatriz Williams

4.03

Format: 288 pages, ebook

The New York Timesbestselling author of A Certain Agetransports readers to sunny Florida in this lu… read more

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12. Billy Martin: Baseball's Flawed Genius

By: Bill Pennington , Scott Waxman

3.45

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The definitive biography of one of baseball's most celebrated, mercurial, and misunderstood figures… read more

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13. Priceless: How I Went Undercover to Rescue the World's Stolen Treasures

By: John Shiffman , Robert K. Wittman

4.27

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The Wall Street Journal called him "a living legend." The London Times dubbed him "the most famous … read more

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14. Playing for the Ashes (Inspector Lynley, #7)

By: Elizabeth George

4.30

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

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15. Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History

By: Scott Andrew Selby , Greg Campbell

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

On February 15, 2003, a group of thieves broke into an allegedly airtight vault in the internationa… read more

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16. The Longest Day

By: Cornelius Ryan

4.25

Format: 131 pages,

The classic account of the Allied invasion of Normandy. The Longest Day is Cornelius Ryan's unsurpa… read more

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Cover of Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess by Evan Drellich

17. Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess

By: Evan Drellich

4.16

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The reporter who broke the Houston Astros' cheating scandal reveals how a baseball team could so dr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • true crime
Cover of Clive Cussler’s The Corsican Shadow (Dirk Pitt #27) by Clive Cussler

18. Clive Cussler’s The Corsican Shadow (Dirk Pitt #27)

By: Clive Cussler

4.38

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

Intrepid adventurer Dirk Pitt must unravel an enduring historical mystery in the latest novel in th… read more

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Cover of The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend by Rob Copeland

19. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend

By: Rob Copeland

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The unauthorized, unvarnished story of famed Wall Street hedge-fund manager Ray Dalio. Ray Dalio… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins–and WWII Heroes by Tim  Brady

20. Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins–and WWII Heroes

By: Tim Brady

4.01

Format: 298 pages, Hardcover

The astonishing WWII true story of a trio of fearless female resisters whose youth and innocence be… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Lord of the Atlas by Colin Falconer

21. Lord of the Atlas

By: Colin Falconer

4.35

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

‘A proper adventure. Brutal and captivating.’ Marrakesh, 1893: His military career in disgrace, … read more

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"What a place, George thought. Greasy, grim and ripe for murder."

-Colin Falconer, Lord of the Atlas

Cover of Did I Ever Tell You? by Genevieve Kingston

22. Did I Ever Tell You?

By: Genevieve Kingston

4.34

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Based on her "Modern Love" piece ("She Put Her Unspent Love in a Cardboard Box"), this extraordinar… read more

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  • nonfiction
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23. When We Were Gods

By: Colin Falconer

4.03

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Caesar, Antony, Cleopatra, Augustus. Only one can rule. Only one can live. Alexandria, 51 BC: Wh… read more

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Cover of The Greatest Gambling Story Ever Told: A True Tale of Three Gamblers, The Kentucky Derby, and the Mexican Cartel by Mark   Paul

24. The Greatest Gambling Story Ever Told: A True Tale of Three Gamblers, The Kentucky Derby, and the Mexican Cartel

By: Mark Paul

4.03

Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition

The Greatest Gambling Story Ever Told is an inspiring personal narrative about a filly who broke th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain by Julian T. Jackson

25. France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain

By: Julian T. Jackson

4.17

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

One of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twen… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Father's Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism by Bill Shaffer

26. The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Father's Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism

By: Bill Shaffer

3.63

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An Alexander Hamilton heir, a beautiful female con artist, an abandoned baby, and the shocking cour… read more

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

27. 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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  • american history
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of The Longest Minute: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906 by Matthew J. Davenport

28. The Longest Minute: The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906

By: Matthew J. Davenport

4.03

Format: 433 pages, Hardcover

Matthew J. Davenport’s The Longest Minute is the spellbinding true story of the 1906 earthquake and… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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29. Honey

By: Isabel Banta

3.48

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A coming-of-age story that follows the meteoric rise of singer Amber Young as she navigates fame in… read more

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"The truth is my dad was always singing […]"

-Isabel Banta, Honey

"I wasn’t good enough—what a mortifying thing to discover about yourself."

-Isabel Banta, Honey

"[…] she remains enigmatic, unbreachable; she unlocks herself only for certain people."

-Isabel Banta, Honey

"Mike wants me to say I’m a normal girl. But I’m not, I never was. I always felt I had to prove I was better."

-Isabel Banta, Honey

Cover of Manhunters: How We Took Down Pablo Escobar by Steve       Murphy

30. Manhunters: How We Took Down Pablo Escobar

By: Steve Murphy

3.86

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

The explosive memoir of legendary DEA agents and the subject of the hit Netflix series Narcos, Stev… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • history
  • true crime
Cover of Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History by Peter Houlahan

31. Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History

By: Peter Houlahan

3.93

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A true crime account of one of the most violent bank heists in US history. Norco ’80 tells the stor… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime

15 must-read history books like The Last Good Heist: The Inside Story of the Biggest Single Payday in the Criminal History of the Northeast by Tim White, Randall Richard, Wayne Worcester

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Pegasus Bridge: June 6, 1944

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.14

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Caesar's Last Breath: Decoding the Secrets of the Air Around Us

Sam Kean

4.25

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The CBS Murders: A True Account of Greed and Violence in New York's Diamond District

Richard Hammer

4.23

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Jonathan Harr

4.09

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At the Devil's Table: The Untold Story of the Insider Who Brought Down the Cali Cartel

William C. Rempel

3.99

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The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq

Steve Coll

4.44

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Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern (The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts)

Mary Beard

3.68

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