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Books like The Poet

The Poet by Michael Connelly is about grief and obsession, serial predation, journalism and truth. If that's what drew you in, here are 6 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.

  1. In Cold Blood
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    In Cold Blood

    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.

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  2. The Devil in the White City
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    The Devil in the White City

    Erik Larson · History

    The Devil in the White City tells two stories that unfolded simultaneously in Chicago in 1893.

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  3. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
    The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

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    The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War

    Ben Macintyre · History

    Ben Macintyre tells the story of Oleg Gordievsky, a KGB officer who became the most important British spy of the Cold War.

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  4. Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
    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.

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  5. Killers of the Flower Moon
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    Killers of the Flower Moon

    David Grann · History

    In the 1920s, members of the Osage Nation in northeastern Oklahoma were being murdered.

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  6. A Time to Kill
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    A Time to Kill

    John Grisham · Thriller

    In Clanton, Mississippi, two white men rape and nearly kill ten-year-old Tonya Hailey.

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