Books like In Cold Blood
12 books with a reading profile close to In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. Deep; a moderate read.
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1
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
history, analytical
Katherine Boo tracks the interconnected lives of several residents in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement bordering the luxury hotels of Mumbai’s international airport.
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
by Anne Fadiman
Also deep · history, analytical
Anne Fadiman details the medical crisis of Lia Lee, a Hmong child in California diagnosed with severe epilepsy.
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3
Noticia de un secuestro
history, narrative
Gabriel García Márquez reconstructs the 1990 abductions of ten prominent Colombian citizens by the Extraditables, a group led by Pablo Escobar to pressure the government into banning extradition to the United States.
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4
Manhattan Beach
history, narrative
Set in New York City during the Great Depression and World War II, the narrative follows Anna Kerrigan as she maneuvers through the male-dominated Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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5
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
history, analytical
Philip Gourevitch chronicles the 1994 Rwandan genocide, during which Hutu extremists murdered approximately 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in one hundred days.
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6
The Lacuna
history, narrative
The novel follows the life of Harrison Shepherd, a man navigating the political upheaval of mid-twentieth-century Mexico and the United States.
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7
The Glass Palace
by Amitav Ghosh
history, narrative
Amitav Ghosh's novel starts with the British conquest of Mandalay in 1885, when the royal family of Burma is exiled to India.
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8
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
Also deep · analytical, narrative
This collection of seven essays blends technical reporting with personal anxiety to examine how American mass culture consumes its participants.
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9
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
history, narrative
In 1799, Jacob de Zoet, a young Dutch clerk, arrives at Dejima, the artificial island in Nagasaki harbor that is Japan's only trading link with the West.
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10
The Night Watchman
Also deep · history, narrative
Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at a jewel-bearing plant in rural North Dakota in 1953, and also a Chippewa council member.
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11
All the Light We Cannot See
history, narrative
Marie-Laure LeBlanc, a blind girl living in Paris, flees to Saint-Malo with her father to escape the Nazi occupation, carrying a precious and potentially cursed diamond from the Museum of Natural History.
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12
Hiroshima
by John Hersey
Also deep · history, narrative
John Hersey details the immediate and long-term consequences of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima through the experiences of six survivors: a clerk, two doctors, a tailor’s widow, a German priest, and a Methodist pastor.
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