8 Best historical books like The Gotti Wars: Taking Down America's Most Notorious Mobster by John Gleeson

Cover of The Gotti Wars: Taking Down America's Most Notorious Mobster by John Gleeson

The Gotti Wars: Taking Down America's Most Notorious Mobster

By: John Gleeson

4.25

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

“Riveting…an electrifying true crime story of the Mafia-smitten eighties and nineties. Suspenseful …

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1. The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

4.22

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A mesmerizing narrative about the rise and fall of an unlikely international crime boss In the 1980… read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook

2. Mafia Prince: Inside America's Most Violent Crime Family and the Bloody Fall of La Cosa Nostra

By: None , None , None

3.45

Format: 105 pages, Hardcover

Mafia Princeis the first-person account of one of the most violent eras in Mafia history --"Little"… read more

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3. Donnie Brasco

By: Richard Woodley , Joseph D. Pistone

2.82

Format: 3 pages, Paperback

Posing as jewel thief "Donnie Brasco," FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone carried out the most audacious s… read more

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4. 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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5. Black Mass

By: Dick Lehr , Gerard O'Neill

3.17

Format: None pages,

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Cover of Riding with Evil: Taking Down the Notorious Pagan Motorcycle Gang by Ken Croke

6. Riding with Evil: Taking Down the Notorious Pagan Motorcycle Gang

By: Ken Croke

4.24

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Sons of Anarchy meets The Departed in this fast-paced, high-wire act memoir from former ATF agent K… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Life We Chose: William “Big Billy” D'Elia and the Last Secrets of America's Most Powerful Mafia Family by Matt Birkbeck

7. The Life We Chose: William “Big Billy” D'Elia and the Last Secrets of America's Most Powerful Mafia Family

By: Matt Birkbeck

4.14

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From Matt Birkbeck--investigative journalist and executive producer of Netflix's #1 movie Girl in t… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
Cover of The Gotti Wars: Taking Down America's Most Notorious Mobster by John Gleeson

8. The Gotti Wars: Taking Down America's Most Notorious Mobster

By: John Gleeson

4.25

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

“Riveting…an electrifying true crime story of the Mafia-smitten eighties and nineties. Suspenseful … read more

Similar categories in John Gleeson's The Gotti Wars: Taking Down America's Most Notorious Mobster book and John Gleeson's The Gotti Wars: Taking Down America's Most Notorious Mobster

  • new york
  • biography
  • history
  • memoir
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America by Bill O'Reilly

9. Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America

By: Bill O'Reilly

4.25

Format: 292 pages, Hardcover

O’Reilly and co-author Martin Dugard trace the brutal history of 20th Century organized crime in th… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe

10. Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

By: Patrick Radden Keefe

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelv… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper by Daniel Stashower

11. American Demon: Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper

By: Daniel Stashower

3.50

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-winner Daniel Stashower returns with American Dem… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History by Rory Carroll

12. There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History

By: Rory Carroll

4.38

Format: 397 pages, Hardcover

Killing Thatcher is the gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margar… read more

Similar categories in Rory Carroll's There Will Be Fire: Margaret Thatcher, the IRA, and Two Minutes That Changed History book and John Gleeson's The Gotti Wars: Taking Down America's Most Notorious Mobster

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage

13. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

By: Beverly Gage

4.37

Format: 864 pages, Hardcover

A major new biography of J. Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a grou… read more

Similar categories in Beverly Gage's G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century book and John Gleeson's The Gotti Wars: Taking Down America's Most Notorious Mobster

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders by John Glatt

14. Tangled Vines: Power, Privilege, and the Murdaugh Family Murders

By: John Glatt

3.94

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Tangled Vines , bestselling true crime author John Glatt reconstructs the rise of the prestigiou… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Watergate: A New History by Garrett M. Graff

15. Watergate: A New History

By: Garrett M. Graff

4.49

Format: 832 pages, Hardcover

From Garrett​ Graff, comes the first definitive narrative history of Watergate, exploring the full … read more

Similar categories in Garrett M. Graff's Watergate: A New History book and John Gleeson's The Gotti Wars: Taking Down America's Most Notorious Mobster

  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence by Ken Auletta

16. Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence

By: Ken Auletta

4.12

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Twenty years ago, Ken Auletta wrote one of the iconic New Yorker profiles for which he is famous, o… read more

Similar categories in Ken Auletta's Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence book and John Gleeson's The Gotti Wars: Taking Down America's Most Notorious Mobster

  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
" Harvey Weinstein took pride in not paying bills ,"

-Ken Auletta, Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence

"By suing his former lawyer, Baez’s attorney, Joe Tacopina, said Harvey had waived attorney-client privilege, allowing Tacopina on Baez’s behalf to denounce Harvey as ' a vile fiend ' and a ' rapist ."

-Ken Auletta, Hollywood Ending: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence

Cover of Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie by Gary Weiss

17. Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie

By: Gary Weiss

3.92

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A biography of the spectacular rise and fall of Eddie Antar, better known as "Crazy Eddie," whose h… read more

Similar categories in Gary Weiss's Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie book and John Gleeson's The Gotti Wars: Taking Down America's Most Notorious Mobster

  • new york
  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of Sonny: The Last of the Old Time Mafia Bosses, John "Sonny" Franzese by S.J. Peddie

18. Sonny: The Last of the Old Time Mafia Bosses, John "Sonny" Franzese

By: S.J. Peddie

4.19

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

“Couldn’t put it down.” —Nicholas Pileggi, author of Wiseguy (Goodfellas) and CasinoThe extraordina… read more

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

19. 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

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  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob by T.J. English

20. The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob

By: T.J. English

4.05

Format: 538 pages, Kindle Edition

In the tradition of The Godfather, The Westies is a powerful tale spanning 60 years. A gang of Iris… read more

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  • new york
  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
Cover of A Brotherhood Betrayed: The Man Behind the Rise and Fall of Murder Inc. by Michael Cannell

21. A Brotherhood Betrayed: The Man Behind the Rise and Fall of Murder Inc.

By: Michael Cannell

3.93

Format: 326 pages, Hardcover

The riveting true story of the rise and fall of Murder, Inc. and the executioner-turned-informant w… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • nonfiction
  • mystery
  • crime
  • audiobook

15 must-read audiobook books like The Gotti Wars: Taking Down America's Most Notorious Mobster by John Gleeson

Transform Your Habits

The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream

Patrick Radden Keefe

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Riding with Evil: Taking Down the Notorious Pagan Motorcycle Gang

Ken Croke

4.24

Transform Your Habits

The Gotti Wars: Taking Down America's Most Notorious Mobster

John Gleeson

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in America

Bill O'Reilly

4.25

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16 Best audiobook books like A Brotherhood Betrayed: The Man Behind the Rise and Fall of Murder Inc. by Michael Cannell

Transform Your Habits

The Good Rat

Jimmy Breslin

3.55

Transform Your Habits

True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray

James Renner

3.66

Transform Your Habits

Mickey Cohen: The Life and Crimes of L.A.'s Notorious Mobster

Tere Tereba

3.52

Transform Your Habits

The Expats

Chris Pavone

4.48

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