6 Best true crime books like Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh by Wendy S. Painting

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Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh

By: Wendy S. Painting

4.58

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

Presenting startling new biographical details about Timothy McVeigh and exposing stark contradictio…

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1. The Bluegrass Conspiracy: An Inside Story of Power, Greed, Drugs and Murder

By: Sally Denton

3.78

Format: 389 pages, Paperback

When Kentucky Blueblood Drew Thornton parachuted to his death in September 1985 carrying thousands … read more

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  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
"Lexington, Kentucky looks like paradise. Acres of grass as green and tender as a golf course putting green surround hilltop mansions. New Circle Road--a beltway enveloping the city's heartland like a…"

-Sally Denton, The Bluegrass Conspiracy: An Inside Story of Power, Greed, Drugs and Murder

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2. The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories: The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka

By: Franz Kafka

4.09

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Translated by PEN translation award-winner Joachim Neugroschel, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Col… read more

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"Ako te to toliko mami, a ti pokušaj da odeš tamo. Ali upamti; ja sam moćan. A ja sam samo posljednji po činu."

-Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories: The Great Short Works of Franz Kafka

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3. The Crying of Lot 49

By: Thomas Pynchon

3.69

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more

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  • the united states of america
"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

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4. JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died & Why It Matters

By: James W. Douglass , James W Douglas

4.36

Format: 510 pages, Hardcover

In this fascinating and disturbing book James Douglass presents a compelling account of why Preside… read more

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  • american history
  • conspiracy theories
  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
"If we go as far as we can into the darkness, regardless of the consequences, I believe a midnight truth will free us from our bondage to violence and bring us to the light of peace."

-James W. Douglass, JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died & Why It Matters

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5. The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

By: David Talbot

4.43

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An explosive, headline-making portrait of Allen Dulles, the man who transformed the CIA into the mo… read more

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  • american history
  • conspiracy theories
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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6. Inherent Vice

By: Thomas Pynchon

3.31

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon- private eye Doc Sportello comes, occasionally… read more

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  • crime
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7. The Big Nowhere (L.A. Quartet, #2)

By: James Ellroy

4.26

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

1950s Los Angeles: The City of Angels has become the city of the Angel of Death. Communist witch-hu… read more

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  • crime
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8. Underworld

By: Don DeLillo

4.81

Format: 539 pages, Paperback

While Eisenstein documented the forces of totalitarianism and Stalinism upon the faces of the Russi… read more

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9. Mao II

By: Don DeLillo

4.31

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

"One of the most intelligent, grimly funny voices to comment on life in present-day America" (The N… read more

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10. Das Kapital

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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11. Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

By: Michael Parenti

4.41

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, rev… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Ecology's implications for capitalism are too horrendous for the capitalist to contemplate."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"Decentralized parochial autonomy is the graveyard of insurgency-which may be one reason why there has never been a successful anarcho-syndicalist revolution."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"A joke circulating in Russia in 1992 went like this: Q. What did capitalism accomplish in one year that communism could not do in seventy years? A. Make communism look good."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

"...the [pure socialist] critics [of communist countries] seem unable to apply their own leadership genius to producing a successful revolutionary movement in their own country."

-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

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12. The Wild Boys

By: William S. Burroughs

3.99

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

The Wild Boysis a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to … read more

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13. Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippy Dream

By: Nick Bryant , David McGowan

4.12

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

As a native Angeleno who was born in 1960 and came of age in the 1970s, the music produced by the a… read more

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14. Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder

By: David McGowan

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The specter of the marauding serial killer has become a relatively common feature on the American l… read more

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15. Libra

By: Don DeLillo

3.87

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

From the author of White Noise (winner of the National Book Award) and Zero K In this powerful, eer… read more

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16. 2666

By: Roberto Bolaño

4.21

Format: 1128 pages, Paperback

A cuatro profesores de literatura, Pelletier, Morini, Espinoza y Norton, los une su fascinación por… read more

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  • crime
"Nothing is ever behind us."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"Reading is never a waste of time."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"Every hundred feet the world changes"

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

"The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower."

-Roberto Bolaño, 2666

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17. By Night in Chile

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

3.89

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m… read more

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"…and for goodness’ sake read widely and deeply…"

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"I am dying now, but I still have many things to say."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"His falcon, called Othello, had struck terror into the heart of every pigeon in Turin..."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

18. Bleeding Edge

By: Thomas Pynchon

4.22

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Thomas Pynchon brings us to New York in the early days of the internet It is 2001 in New York City,… read more

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19. Nazi Literature in the Americas

By: Roberto Bolaño

4.14

Format: 438 pages, Hardcover

Nazi Literature in the Americas was the first of Roberto Bolano's books to reach a wide public. Whe… read more

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20. Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put it in the White House & What Their Influence Means for America

By: Russ Baker

2.00

Format: 28 pages,

The long-hidden story of a family we thought we knew--and of a power-making apparatus that we have … read more

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21. Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam

By: Nick Turse

4.21

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated inc… read more

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22. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

By: Tom O'Neill

4.03

Format: 504 pages, Kindle Edition

A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders brings shocking revelations about the … read more

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  • american history
  • conspiracy theories
  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • crime
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23. If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

By: Vincent Bevins

4.28

Format: 337 pages, Hardcover

The story of the recent uprisings that sought to change the world - and what comes next   From 20… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"In the history of revolutions, a couple of truisms had already emerged. One is that they are only successful when security forces defect or are defeated in violent conflict. Even if Moa Zedong was be…"

-Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

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24. Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union

By: Vladislav M. Zubok

4.26

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

A major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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25. Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control

By: Stephen Kinzer

4.09

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

The bestselling author of All the Shah's Men and The Brothers tells the astonishing story of the ma… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
  • nonfiction
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26. Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh

By: Wendy S. Painting

4.58

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

Presenting startling new biographical details about Timothy McVeigh and exposing stark contradictio… read more

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  • conspiracy theories
  • biography
  • history
  • true crime
  • the united states of america
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • terrorism
  • crime
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27. Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex

By: Yasha Levine

4.24

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The internet is the most effective weapon the government has ever built.In this fascinating book, i… read more

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  • conspiracy theories
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Cover of One Nation Under Blackmail - Vol. 1: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein, VOL.1 by Whitney Alyse Webb

28. One Nation Under Blackmail - Vol. 1: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime that Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein, VOL.1

By: Whitney Alyse Webb

4.32

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

One Nation Under Blackmail  is a damning indictment of the consequences resulting from the nearly c… read more

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  • american history
  • conspiracy theories
  • history
  • true crime
  • politics
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  • crime
Cover of Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture by Oswaldo Zavala

29. Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture

By: Oswaldo Zavala

4.08

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Through political and cultural analysis of representations of the so-called war on drugs, Oswaldo Z… read more

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  • the united states of america
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30. Eye of the Chickenhawk

By: Simon Dovey

4.48

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

This book has been my effort to chronicle the existence of an international child sex trafficking n… read more

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  • history
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Cover of Interlock: Art, Conspiracy, and the Shadow Worlds of Mark Lombardi by Patricia Goldstone

31. Interlock: Art, Conspiracy, and the Shadow Worlds of Mark Lombardi

By: Patricia Goldstone

4.00

Format: 408 pages, Hardcover

In the fateful month of March 2000, shortly after opening a hugely successful show in New York that… read more

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15 must-read history books like Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh by Wendy S. Painting

Transform Your Habits

The Bluegrass Conspiracy: An Inside Story of Power, Greed, Drugs and Murder

Sally Denton

3.78

Transform Your Habits

JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died & Why It Matters

James W. Douglass , James W Douglas

4.36

Transform Your Habits

The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

David Talbot

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Das Kapital

Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky

4.22

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14 Best history books like Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex by Yasha Levine

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Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media

Michael Parenti

4.53

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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

Transform Your Habits

The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government

David Talbot

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism

Michael Parenti

4.41

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