Books like I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
12 books with a reading profile close to I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara. Balanced in tone; a moderate read.
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Assata: An Autobiography
history, memoir
Assata Shakur recounts her life as a member of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, structured around her 1973 arrest on the New Jersey Turnpike and subsequent imprisonment.
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Infidel
history, memoir
Infidel follows Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s life from her childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya to her career as a Dutch parliamentarian.
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The Familiars
by Stacey Halls
history, narrative
Set in 1612 Lancashire, the story follows noblewoman Fleetwood Shuttleworth, who is eighteen years old and pregnant for the fourth time.
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Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
by Casey Cep
history, narrative
In the 1970s, Reverend Willie Maxwell was accused of murdering five family members for insurance payouts in rural Alabama.
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Life of Black Hawk, Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak
by Black Hawk
history, memoir
In this 1833 autobiography, Sauk leader Black Hawk recounts his military life and the territorial disputes leading to the Black Hawk War.
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The Last Painting of Sara de Vos
history, narrative
In 1630s Amsterdam, Sara de Vos becomes the first woman admitted to a professional painters' guild, struggling against poverty to create a haunting winter landscape.
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The Address
by Fiona Davis
history, narrative
The Address follows two women connected by the Dakota apartment building in Manhattan across different centuries.
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Homage to Catalonia
history, memoir
George Orwell recounts his personal involvement in the Spanish Civil War, specifically his time serving within the POUM militia on the Aragon front and in Barcelona.
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
history, narrative
In 1860, the brutal murder of three-year-old Saville Kent at Road Hill House shocked mid-Victorian England.
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Decision Points
history, memoir
Decision Points functions as a non-linear memoir centered on fourteen distinct choices made by the forty-third president.
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