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Books like The Monster of Florence
The best books like The Monster of Florence are In Cold Blood, The Devil in the White City, and The Executioner's Song. The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston is about true crime, italian justice, obsession. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- In Cold Blood
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Truman Capote · Memoir
Truman Capote's account of the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas — and of the investigation, capture, trial, and execution of the killers Perry Smith and Richard Hickock — is the founding document of the true crime genre and one of the most admired works of American nonfiction of the twentieth century.
Both dig into true crime.
Read the summary → - The Devil in the White City
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Erik Larson · History
The Devil in the White City tells two stories that unfolded simultaneously in Chicago in 1893.
A kindred memoir read.
Read the summary → - The Executioner's Song
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Norman Mailer · Memoir
The Executioner's Song is Norman Mailer's Pulitzer Prize-winning account of Gary Gilmore, the convicted murderer who in 1977 became the first person executed in the United States after the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty.
A kindred memoir read.
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- Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe · History
Say Nothing opens with a scene that sets its register precisely: Jean McConville, a widowed mother of ten, is dragged from her Belfast flat by a gang of masked strangers in December 1972 and never seen alive again.
A kindred memoir read.
Read the summary → - Barbarian Days
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William Finnegan · Memoir
Barbarian Days is William Finnegan's memoir of a life spent surfing — from his childhood in Los Angeles and Hawaii through decades of obsessive searching for waves across the Pacific, Asia, Africa, and eventually the cold waters of New York.
Both dig into obsession.
Read the summary → - The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
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The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
Kirk Wallace Johnson · Memoir
The Feather Thief tells two intertwined stories.
Both dig into obsession.
Read the summary → - The Lost City of Z
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David Grann · Memoir
David Grann's account of the British explorer Percy Fawcett's disappearance in the Amazon in 1925 — and of Grann's own journey into the jungle to investigate — is one of the most compelling works of narrative journalism of the 2000s.
Both dig into obsession.
Read the summary → - The Soul of a New Machine
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Tracy Kidder · Memoir
Tracy Kidder's account of the engineers at Data General Corporation who designed a new minicomputer under enormous competitive pressure in the late 1970s won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1982 and effectively invented the genre of technology-company narrative journalism.
Both dig into obsession.
Read the summary → - Fermat's Enigma
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Simon Singh · Science
In 1637, Pierre de Fermat scrawled a note in the margin of a mathematics book claiming to have found a proof that no three positive integers can satisfy the equation a^n + b^n = c^n for any integer value of n greater than 2 — but that the margin was too narrow to contain it.
Both dig into obsession.
Read the summary → - Killers of the Flower Moon
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David Grann · History
In the 1920s, members of the Osage Nation in northeastern Oklahoma were being murdered.
Both dig into true crime.
Read the summary → - Moby-Dick
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Herman Melville · Literary fiction
Moby-Dick opens with one of the most famous sentences in American literature — "Call me Ishmael" — and immediately establishes a voice that is learned, digressive, sardonic, and strange.
Both dig into obsession.
Read the summary → - November 9
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Colleen Hoover · Contemporary fiction
Fallon and Ben meet in a diner on November 9th, the day Fallon is leaving Los Angeles to move across the country.
Both dig into obsession.
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Books like The Monster of Florence: quick answers
What are the best books like The Monster of Florence?
The best books like The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston are In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe, Barbarian Days by William Finnegan, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Monster of Florence, such as true crime, italian justice, obsession.
What should I read after The Monster of Florence?
A natural next read after The Monster of Florence is In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. Both dig into true crime. Other strong choices are The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe.
What books are similar to The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston?
The Monster of Florence centers on true crime, italian justice, obsession. Books with a similar feel include In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson, The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer, Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe, Barbarian Days by William Finnegan, The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
