18 books like The Birthday Party

What to read after The Birthday Party — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Hope Amanda Berry · 2015 · ★ 4.4 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate On May 6, 2013, Amanda Berry made headlines around the world when she fled a Cleveland home and called 911, saying: "Help me, I'm Amanda Berry... I've been kidnapped, and I've been missing for ten years." A horrifying story rapidly unfolded. Ariel Castro, a local school bus driver, had separately lured Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight to his home, where he kept them chained. In the decade… Shares Victims of crimes, Kidnapping Victims, Kidnapping, True Crime

The Authentic Life of Billy, The Kid Pat Garrett · 2008 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Light Hankering for a mostly true tale about the hard-living desperadoes who inhabited America's desert Southwest in the mid-1800s? This biography of the ill-fated gunslinger Billy, the Kid was written by Pat Garrett, the sheriff who shot Billy down. Although some historians now question the veracity of some of the self-aggrandizing bluster Garrett and his ghostwriter included in the book, The… Shares True Crime, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir

A Talent to Deceive William Norris · 2006 · 327p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh's infant son, and the subsequent trial and execution of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, have been a source of fascination for more than 70 years. Now, for the first time, William Norris delves into sources of information ignored by previous investigators and comes up with the identity of the true culprit. Lindbergh is exposed as having obstructed the… Shares True Crime, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir

Invisible Darkness Stephen Williams · 1996 · ★ 4.0 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, Nonfiction

Last Yakuza Jake Adelstein · 2017 · ★ 4.4 · 408p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Shares True Crime, Biography & Memoir with this book.

A rip in Heaven Jeanine Cummins · 2004 · ★ 4.2 · 302p · ≈ 10h · Moderate It was a headline story in the New York Times and USA Today. It was covered by Court TV and profiled on the Ricki Lake Show. Now, here is the intimate memoir of a shocking crime and its aftermath...one family's immediate and unforgettable story of what victims can suffer long after they should be safe. Shares True Crime, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir

The Bobbed Haired Bandit Stephen Duncombe · 2004 · ★ 4.0 · 383p · ≈ 12h · Moderate This book explores a real married couple who decided that they needed to have a better life for the wife's unborn child. The problem was that they decided to rob small time stores in Brooklyn, New York to get the money to improve their surroundings. The year was 1924, and everything was changing. Women were getting their hair bobbed, and such women were being labeled as "flappers" (young women… Shares Robbery, New york, True Crime, Biography & Memoir

The Hit Charade Tyler Gray · 2008 · ★ 3.4 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Without Lou Pearlman, there would have been no Backstreet Boys, no *NSYNC, and possibly no Justin Timberlake. In the late 1990s, Pearlman's boy bands ushered out guitar-and-angst-driven grunge music, and *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys began to dominate the television and radio airwaves. At the core of this squeaky-clean pop revolution was a sinister international fraud conceived by Pearlman, a husky… Shares True Crime, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir

Dead Center Tom Shachtman · 2006 · ★ 3.3 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate A city with eight million people has eight million ways to die For fifteen years, Shiya Ribowsky worked as a medicolegal investigator in New York City's medical examiner's office—the largest, most sophisticated organization of its kind in the world. Utilizing his background in medicine, he led the investigations of more than eight thousand individual deaths, becoming a key figure in some of… Shares New york, True Crime, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir

Nice Girl

Nice Girl Rachael Jane Chin · 2011 Shares True Crime with this book.

Autobiography

Autobiography Anderson L Staff · 2001 · 166p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

Two Sisters Gore Vidal · 1970 · ★ 5.0 · 236p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Originally published in 1970 this fairly short novel (174 pages) contains, according to the blurb on the dust jacket of the first edition, “Gore Vidal’s singular speculations on love, sex, death, literature and politics.” Shares Biography & Memoir

A history of autobiography in antiquity

A history of autobiography in antiquity Georg Misch · 1950 · 364p · ≈ 12h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

The Library of American Biography Jared Sparks · 1846 · 402p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

The D.A. Holds a Candle

The D.A. Holds a Candle Erle Stanley Gardner · 1938 · 233p · ≈ 7h · Moderate In this classic mystery by the author of the Perry Mason series, a California D.A. investigates the case of a murderer who didn't kill."The bestselling author of the century . . . a master storyteller." —The New York TimesYoung and ambitious, Doug Selby became district attorney hoping to clean up corruption in Madison City and the surrounding county. But even in a farming community… Shares Public prosecutors

Missing Persons

Missing Persons Mary Evans · 1998 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

Outlaws

Outlaws Adam Shand · 2011 Shares True Crime with this book.

Marse Henry : An Autobiography Henry Watterson · 1919 · 325p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Shares Biography & Memoir with this book.

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