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Karen Abbott Picks Dark Nonfiction Books

Goodreads asked author Karen Abbott to share her recommended reading list with us. Abbott is the author of nonfiction works including Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul and Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War. Her newest book, The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him, and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America, is available in paperback on May 5.
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Beyond the Game: The Collected Sportswriting of Gary Smith (Gary Smith)
Beyond the Game: The Collected Sportswriting of Gary Smith
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Gary Smith
Reporting at Wit's End: Tales From the New Yorker (St.Clair McKelway)
Reporting at Wit's End: Tales From the New Yorker
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St.Clair McKelway
Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial (Janet Malcolm)
Iphigenia in Forest Hills: Anatomy of a Murder Trial
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Janet Malcolm
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele)
When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
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Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele
The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir (Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich)
The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir
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Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs.Seacole in Many Lands (Mary Seacole)
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs.Seacole in Many Lands
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Mary Seacole
Helter Skelter (Vincent Bugliosi)
Helter Skelter
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Vincent Bugliosi
A Dark and Bloody Ground (Darcy O'Brien)
A Dark and Bloody Ground
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Darcy O'Brien
White Mischief (James Fox)
White Mischief
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James Fox
The Body Papers (Grace Talusan)
The Body Papers
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Grace Talusan
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession (David Grann)
The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession
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David Grann
The Last Days of Hitler (Hugh Trevor-Roper)
The Last Days of Hitler
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Hugh Trevor-Roper
Lost Girls (Robert Kolker)
Lost Girls
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Robert Kolker
Strange Piece of Paradise (Terri Jentz)
Strange Piece of Paradise
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Terri Jentz
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