Books like The Devil in the White City
If you liked The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Because shares tags: true crime, history, nonfiction.
In 1920s Oklahoma, Osage oil wealth makes tribal members targets for murder, forcing the young FBI under Tom White to expose the conspiracy…
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The Prince
Because shares tags: history, nonfiction.
Machiavelli advises Lorenzo on rule through fear and love, fortune, cruelty and mercy.
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The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
Because shares tags: nonfiction, history.
Washington rowers led by Joe Rantz chase gold in Hitler's Berlin in 1936.
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John Adams
Because shares tags: history, nonfiction.
McCullough follows Adams from Braintree lawyer to second president.
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Between the World and Me
Because shares tags: nonfiction, history.
Coates writes to his son about the Black body in America, from Howard to the loss of Prince Jones.
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Because shares tags: history, nonfiction.
Diamond argues geography and crops explain why some societies expanded faster than others.
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In Cold Blood
Because shares tags: nonfiction, true crime.
Capote reconstructs the Clutter murders and the killers' flight in the book that invented true crime.
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Unbroken
Because shares tags: nonfiction, history.
Louis Zamperini survives a Pacific crash, sharks and POW camps after running in the Berlin Olympics.
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Night
Because shares tags: history, nonfiction.
Elie Wiesel's account of Sighet, the cattle cars, Auschwitz and Buchenwald, told in short flat sections by a boy about fifteen. Why the…
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The Diary of a Young Girl
Because shares tags: history, nonfiction.
Anne Frank's diary explained: two years in the Secret Annex, the entries on fear and boredom, what Otto Frank cut, and why the book still…
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Because shares tags: history, nonfiction.
Harari's Sapiens from cover to cover: the cognitive revolution, the agricultural bargain, shared fictions like money and nations, and the…
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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Because shares tag: nonfiction.
Thiel argues monopolies create value through vertical progress, not by copying competition.
