18 books like Heroes in the Night

What to read after Heroes in the Night — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

By the Fire We Carry Rebecca Nagle · 2024 · ★ 4.4 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "No part of the judiciary exposes the chasm between American ideals and institutional practice like federal Indian law. In By the Fire We Carry, Nagle, a Cherokee journalist, turns a case most Americans haven’t heard of into a legal thriller." —New York Times Book ReviewNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe New Yorker’s Best Books of 2024 • Publishers Weekly Top 10 Book of the Year • NPR 2024 "Books We Loved"… Shares: Social Science, True Crime

Street crime Simon Hallsworth · 2005 · 193p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "Street crime remains high on the public and political agenda, and is frequently the subject of media attention and concern. This book aims to provide a detailed and accessible account of the phenomenon, placing the subject in its historical, theoretical, and political context."--BOOK JACKET. Shares: Crime prevention, True Crime

Freakonomics Steven D. Levitt · 2005 · ★ 4.0 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But… Shares: Popular culture, Social Science

Swamp Thing Saga of the Swamp Thing Alan Moore · 1987 · 205p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Swamp Thing, an elemental creature, fights to protect his home, the environment, and humanity from various threats. Shares: Superheroes, Heroes

Watchmen Alan Moore · 1986 · ★ 4.4 · 442p · ≈ 14h · Moderate "This book examines each of the series' twelve issues in unprecedented detail, moving page by page and panel by panel to reveal the hidden foundations of this milestone in modern storytelling. Edited with notes by Leslie S. Klinger, this new edition draws upon critical and scholastic commentary, in-depth interviews with Dave Gibbons, and previously unseen original source material. Klinger… Shares: Superheroes, Heroes

Red card Ken Bensinger · 2018 · ★ 4.4 · 368p · ≈ 12h · Moderate "The definitive account of the FIFA scandal, the biggest international corruption case of recent years, touching dozens of countries and spearheaded by U.S. investigators, published on the eve of the biggest sporting event on the planet, soccer's World Cup"-- The FIFA case began with an IRS agent's review of an American soccer official's tax returns. It led to a huge worldwide corruption scandal… Shares: Popular culture, Social Science, True Crime

The Dark Knight returns Frank Miller · 1986 · ★ 4.3 · 204p · ≈ 6h · Moderate "Together with inker Klaus Janson and colorist Lynn Varley, writer/artist Frank Miller completely reinvents the legend of Batman in his saga of a near-future Gotham City gone to rot, ten years after the Dark Knight's retirement. This masterpiece of modern comics storytelling, BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS, brings to vivid life a dark world and an even darker man. The Dark Knight returns in a… Shares: Superheroes, Heroes

Human Trafficking and Human Security Anna Jonsson · 2008 · ★ 1.0 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Moderate This text examines human trafficking from post-Soviet countries, exploring the full extent of the problem and discussing countermeasures, both local and at the global level, and considering the problem in all its aspects. Shares: Crime prevention, True Crime

Invisible Darkness Stephen Williams · 1996 · ★ 4.0 · 553p · ≈ 18h · Moderate Invisible Darkness is the story of one of the more bizarre cases in recent memory--killings so sensational that they prompted the Canadian government, in the interests of justice, to silence its national press and to lock foreign journalists out of the courts.To all appearances, Paul and Karla Bernardo had a fairytale marriage--beautiful working-class girl weds bright upper-middle-class guy and… Shares: True Crime

Nice Girl Rachael Jane Chin · 2011 Nice Girl? is a 1941 American musical comedy film directed by William A. Seiter and starring Deanna Durbin, Franchot Tone, Walter Brennan, Robert Stack, and Robert Benchley. Based on the play Nice Girl? by Phyllis Duganne, the film is about a young girl who finds herself attracted to one of her fathers business partners who comes to town to give her father a scholarship for his dietary studies. Shares: True Crime

Outlaws Adam Shand · 2011 What's it like to be an outlaw biker? 'We're dd magnets,' one of them tells Adam Shand. 'Drunks in bars like to test themselves against a so-called outlaw.' Once seen as a free-wheeling, brawling, pleasure-seeking bunch of misfits rolling down the highways, bikers are now cast as social bogeymen. If you believe the dire warnings of the media and politicians, they are an organised crime threat on… Shares: True Crime

Batman Dennis O'Neil · 1991 · ★ 4.0 · 124p · ≈ 4h · Moderate After suffering a cataclysmic earthquake, the U.S. government has deemed Gotham City uninhabitable and ordered all citizens to leave. It is now months later and those that have refused to vacate “No Man's Land” live amid a citywide turf war in which the strongest prey on the weak. Batman and his allies continue their fight to save Gotham during its darkest hour. In this final volume, Lex Luthor… Shares: Superheroes, Heroes

The curse Janice Delaney · 1976 · ★ 3.5 · 276p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Shares: Popular culture, Social Science

Dallas Gerard Way · 2008 · ★ 4.2 · 216p · ≈ 7h · Moderate It this is anything like the show then I'll tell you about that. Five has teleportation and he teleports to the furute to see the world is going to be in an apocalypse and Vanya's boyfriend is the start of the apocalypse or that's what they think. I said if this was anything like the show because I haven't read the comic but I'm on the waiting list. Shares: Superheroes, Heroes

The Attention Merchants Tim Wu · 2016 · ★ 4.1 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate "From Tim Wu, author of award-winning The Master Switch, and who coined the phrase "net neutrality"--a revelatory look at the rise of "attention harvesting," and its transformative effect on our society and our selves"-- Shares: Popular culture, Social Science

Captain Underpants and the revolting revenge of the radioactive robo-boxers Dav Pilkey · 2013 · ★ 4.4 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate When we last saw our heroes George and Harold, they had been turned into evil zombie nerds doomed to roam a devastated, post-apocalyptic planet for all eternity. Tippy Tinkletrousers and this time-traveling hijinks prevented George and Harold from creating Captain Underpants in the first place! Now, having changed the course of human history forever, they'll have to figure out a way to change it… Shares: Superheroes, Heroes

Transnational Organised Crime Adam Edwards · 2003 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The origins & perceptions of transnational organised crime are discussed in this book. The authors contend that the ways in which such crime is constructed as an 'external' threat obscures the reality that such crime is demand driven & they question whether law enforcement alone can contain it. Shares: Crime prevention, True Crime

Arkham Asylum Grant Morrison · 1920 · ★ 4.0 · 228p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth (often shortened to Batman: Arkham Asylum) is a Batman graphic novel written by Grant Morrison and illustrated by Dave McKean. The story follows the vigilante Batman, who is called upon to quell a maddening riot taking place in the infamous Arkham Asylum, a psychiatric hospital housing the most dangerous supervillains in Gotham City. Inside, Batman… Shares: Superheroes, Heroes

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