Books like If You Tell

If you liked If You Tell by Gregg Olsen, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.

  1. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

    John Berendt · 1994

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, true crime, murder.

    Berendt spends five years in Savannah and gets drawn into the Jim Williams murder trials, among eccentrics and root doctors.

  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. A Child Called It

    Dave Pelzer · 1995 · Dave Pelzer #1

    Because shares tags: abuse, nonfiction.

    Dave survives his mother games of hunger and cold in Daly City until teachers and foster care step in.

  5. 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.

  6. Educated

    Tara Westover · 2018

    Because shares tags: nonfiction, abuse.

    Educated retold: Idaho scrapyard, no school, BYU, Cambridge, break with father and brother.

  7. Winter Garden

    Kristin Hannah · 2010

    Because shares tag: sisters.

    Two sisters keep a deathbed promise: hear their cold mother's Russian fairy tale to the end, and find besieged Leningrad inside it.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. The Invention of Wings

    Sue Monk Kidd · 2014

    Because shares tag: sisters.

    Sarah Grimke and enslaved Handful grow up bound in Charleston, then push toward freedom and abolition.

  11. 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.

  12. 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…

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