Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
By: John Berendt
4.27
Format: 67 pages,
A sublime and seductive reading experience. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, this eno…
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1. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
By: Erik Larson
4.00
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with such… read more
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- history
- true crime
- nonfiction
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
"I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold."-Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
"No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck."-Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
"How easy it was to disappear: A thousand trains a day entered or left Chicago."-Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
"Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood. Daniel H. Burnham"-Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
2. After Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Crimescape #1)
By: Marilyn J. Bardsley , None
3.83
Format: 196 pages, Paperback
This original edition, published in 2011, is no longer available and has been replaced by the secon… read more
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- history
- true crime
- nonfiction
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
3. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
By: Vincent Bugliosi , Curt Gentry
4.06
Format: 687 pages, Paperback
Prosecuting attorney in the Manson trial, Vincent Bugliosi held a unique insider's position in one … read more
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- history
- true crime
- nonfiction
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
"Deciding that his own life expectancy was directly proportional to his usefulness to Manson, Crockett made himself very useful, volunteering his truck to haul in supplies, and so forth."-Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
"Noting that it would be a long trial, with many witnesses, I recall the old Chinese proverb, "The palest ink is better than the best memory," urging the jury to take detailed notes to aid them in the…"-Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
"For a lawyer to do less than his utmost is, I strongly feel, a betrayal of his client. Though in criminal trials one tends to focus on the defense attorney and his client the accused, the prosecutor …"-Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
"One day Manson tried with me. I stared right back, holding his gaze until his hands started shaking. During the recess, I slid my chair over next to his and asked, "What are you trembling about, Char…"-Vincent Bugliosi, Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
4. Hiding My Candy: The Autobiography of the Grand Empress of Savannah
By: The Lady Chablis , Theodore Bouloukos
4.00
Format: 321 pages,
After leaping off the pages with he unforgettable debut in John Berendt's bestselling Midnight in t… read more
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- nonfiction
5. In Cold Blood
By: Truman Capote
4.01
Format: 30 pages, Paperback
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were… read more
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- classics
- history
- true crime
- nonfiction
- mystery
- crime
6. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
By: John Berendt
4.27
Format: 67 pages,
A sublime and seductive reading experience. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, this eno… read more
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- audiobook
7. The Women
By: Kristin Hannah
4.64
Format: 471 pages, Hardcover
Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these wor… read more
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- audiobook
"Words were creators of worlds; you had to be careful with them."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love mattered in this ruined world, but so did honor. What was one without the other?"-Kristin Hannah, The Women
"Love. A thing to be shouted from the rooftops, celebrated, not cultivated in secret and clipped into shape in the dark."-Kristin Hannah, The Women
8. The Berry Pickers
By: Amanda Peters
4.14
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mys… read more
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- mystery
- audiobook
9. First Lie Wins
By: Ashley Elston
4.05
Format: 340 pages, Hardcover
Evie Porter has everything a nice, Southern girl could want: a perfect, doting boyfriend, a house w… read more
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- audiobook
"Blunt honesty has more value than blind worship"-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins
"It’s because you’re not ready to tell me the truth and I’d rather you not lie to me."-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins
"There’s an old saying: The first lie wins. It’s not referring to the little white kind that tumble out with no thought; it refers to the big one. The one that changes the game. The one that is delibe…"-Ashley Elston, First Lie Wins
10. The Frozen River
By: Ariel Lawhon
4.43
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-cen… read more
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- crime
- audiobook
11. Tom Lake
By: Ann Patchett
3.99
Format: 309 pages, Hardcover
In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again prov… read more
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- audiobook
"You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"In the summer the pear trees were fine. In the summer, all that is hideous about a pear tree is hidden by leaves and pears. But once those disguises were removed they were nothing but acres of murder…"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"Hazel, listen to me. I'm going to tell you something important, you need to be brave.' I then explained to the dog how I have told myself for so many years that my career fell apart because I wasn't …"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
"It's as if someone bought all the diamonds at Tiffany's, and crushed them into dust, then spread that dust across the water so that it sifts down evenly, filtering through the shards of light that cu…"-Ann Patchett, Tom Lake
12. The Fury
By: Alex Michaelides
3.38
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
A masterfully paced thriller about a reclusive ex–movie star and her famous friends whose spontaneo… read more
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- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
"Character is fate"-Alex Michaelides, The Fury
"Love is mutual respect, and constancy- and friendship"-Alex Michaelides, The Fury
"Do not despair at being different. For that very difference, initially such a source of shame, so humiliating, and painful, will one day become a badge of honor and pride"-Alex Michaelides, The Fury
"I'd never seen Lana lose control. I won't say it wasn't frightening; but then, uncontained emotion is always distressing to be around, isn't it? Particularly when it's from someone you love."-Alex Michaelides, The Fury
13. The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
By: Erik Larson
4.24
Format: 565 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal fi… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"Lincoln on a sofa was like a ship's mast on a barstool, poised in an uneasy equilibrium between relaxation and structural collapse."-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"They were convinced that Britain, once confronted with the loss of Southern cotton, would ally itself with the Confederacy—the “cotton is king"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
"South Carolina is too small for a Republic, and too big for an insane asylum. [James L. Petigru (1789-1863), following the state's vote to secede from the Union in 1860]"-Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
14. James
By: Percival Everett
4.54
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn , both harrowing and f… read more
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- classics
- audiobook
15. The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store
By: James McBride
4.00
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new housing de… read more
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- mystery
- audiobook
16. Remarkably Bright Creatures
By: Shelby Van Pelt
4.39
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Remarkably Bright Creatures, an exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope, tracing a widow's u… read more
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- mystery
- audiobook
"How does it feel, you ask? It is comfortable. It is home. I am lucky. I am grateful"-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
"Day 1,361 of My Captiv- Oh, Let Us Cut the Shit, Shall We? We Have a Ring to Retrieve."-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
"Why can humans not use their millions of words to simply tell one another what they desire?"-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
"Humans are the only species who subvert truth for their own entertainment. They call them jokes. Sometimes puns."-Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures
17. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
By: David Grann
4.14
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklaho… read more
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- history
- true crime
- nonfiction
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
"An Indian Affairs agent said, 'The question will suggest itself, which of these people are the savages?"-David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
"The Osage elders sang the traditional songs for the dead, only now the songs seemed for the living, for those who had to endure this world of killing."-David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
18. Demon Copperhead
By: Barbara Kingsolver
4.50
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
"Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose." Set in t… read more
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- audiobook
"A kid is a terrible thing to be, in charge of nothing."-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead
"I can still feel in my bones how being mad was the one thing holding me together."-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead
"Counting on Jesus to save the day is no more real than sending up the Batman signal."-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead
"life is a wild, impetuous ride. There could be good shit up ahead, don’t rule it out."-Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead
19. The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
By: David Grann
4.19
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story o… read more
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- true crime
- nonfiction
- mystery
- crime
- audiobook
20. The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
By: Michael Finkel
3.97
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the worl… read more
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- true crime
- nonfiction
- crime
- audiobook
"Museums are secular churches . . . and to steal there is blasphemous."-Michael Finkel, The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
21. Hidden History of Savannah
By: Brenna Michaels
3.95
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Join authors Brenna and T.C. Michaels as they explore Savannah's long, wide and very often hidden h… read more
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