Books like Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

If you liked Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.

  1. If You Tell

    Gregg Olsen · 2019

    Because shares tags: true crime, nonfiction, murder.

    Three sisters survive fear in a Raymond farmhouse and help police face long hidden murders.

  2. In Cold Blood

    Truman Capote · 1966

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, true crime, murder.

    Capote reconstructs the Clutter murders and the killers' flight in the book that invented true crime.

  3. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

    David Grann · 2017

    Because shares tags: true crime, nonfiction.

    In 1920s Oklahoma, Osage oil wealth makes tribal members targets for murder, forcing the young FBI under Tom White to expose the conspiracy…

  4. The Devil in the White City

    Erik Larson · 2003

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, true crime.

    Architect Burnham builds the 1893 Chicago Fair while H.H. Holmes builds his murder hotel nearby.

  5. We Should All Be Feminists

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2014

    Because shares tag: nonfiction.

    Adichie turns her 2012 TEDx talk into a short sharp essay on gender, using stories from Lagos and America to argue equality helps everyone.

  6. The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn Part 1: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion

    Mark Cotta Vaz · 2011 · The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion #4

    Because shares tag: nonfiction.

    Official photo guide to the Breaking Dawn Part 1 film, from the wedding to Isle Esme to the birth scene crew work.

  7. The Hunting Party

    Lucy Foley · 2018

    Because shares tag: murder.

    Nine Oxford friends gather at a remote Scottish lodge for New Year, where old rivalries and secrets end in murder.

  8. The Autobiography of Malcolm X

    Malcolm X · 1965

    Because shares tag: nonfiction.

    Malcolm X traces his life from Michigan childhood through Harlem, prison, and the Nation of Islam to Mecca in this 1965 memoir told to Alex…

  9. Talking to Strangers

    Malcolm Gladwell · 2019

    Because shares tag: nonfiction.

    Gladwell asks why we misread strangers, from spies and frauds to traffic stops, and why good intentions still fail.

  10. Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

    David Sedaris · 2004

    Because shares tag: nonfiction.

    Sedaris on snow days, rental houses, Dutch Christmas, and the family that made him funny.

  11. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

    Peter Thiel · 2014

    Because shares tag: nonfiction.

    Thiel argues monopolies create value through vertical progress, not by copying competition.

  12. Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time

    Greg Mortenson · 2006

    Because shares tag: nonfiction.

    Mortenson fails K2 builds schools in Pakistan after Korphe kindness.

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