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Books like Are You Dead Yet?

Across Criminals & Outlaws, Personal Memoirs, and Biography & Autobiography — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Are You Dead Yet? by Shane Hoffman.

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Strong read-alikes chosen for how closely they echo the themes and feel of Are You Dead Yet?.

As the Crow Flies The Redemption of an International Drug Smuggler — Ed Hudson

As the Crow Flies The Redemption of an International Drug Smuggler

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

The Officer’s Daughter A Memoir of Family and Forgiveness — Elle Johnson

The Officer’s Daughter A Memoir of Family and Forgiveness

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

Sour — Tracey Miller

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

Fighting for My Life A Prisoner’s Story of Redemption — Billy Moore

Fighting for My Life A Prisoner’s Story of Redemption

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

I’ll Fly Away Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison — Wally Lamb

I’ll Fly Away Further Testimonies from the Women of York Prison

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

Happy Hour Is for Amateurs A Lost Decade in the World’s Worst Profession — Philadelphia Lawyer

Happy Hour Is for Amateurs A Lost Decade in the World’s Worst Profession

Philadelphia Lawyer

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

Fall The Mysterious Life and Death of Robert Maxwell, Britain’s Most Notorious Media Baron — John Preston

Fall The Mysterious Life and Death of Robert Maxwell, Britain’s Most Notorious Media Baron

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

The Other Side of Charm Your Memoir — H. G. Beverly

The Other Side of Charm Your Memoir

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

The Adventurer’s Son A Memoir — Roman Dial

The Adventurer’s Son A Memoir

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

The Language of Thieves The Story of Rotwelsch and One Family’s Secret History — Martin Puchner

The Language of Thieves The Story of Rotwelsch and One Family’s Secret History

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

Redemption A Story of Sisterhood, Survival, and Finding Freedom Behind Bars — Stacey Lannert

Redemption A Story of Sisterhood, Survival, and Finding Freedom Behind Bars

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

Yours for Eternity A Love Story on Death Row — Damien Echols

Yours for Eternity A Love Story on Death Row

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

Bad The Autobiography of James Carr — James Carr

Bad The Autobiography of James Carr

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

Assume Nothing A Story of Intimate Violence — Tanya Selvaratnam

Assume Nothing A Story of Intimate Violence

Tanya Selvaratnam

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

Brutal The Untold Story of My Life Inside Whitey Bulger’s Irish Mob — Kevin Weeks

Brutal The Untold Story of My Life Inside Whitey Bulger’s Irish Mob

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

The Cook Up A Crack Rock Memoir — D. Watkins

The Cook Up A Crack Rock Memoir

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

The Adventures of George Pitts An Inmate with the Birdman of Alcatraz — George Pitts

The Adventures of George Pitts An Inmate with the Birdman of Alcatraz

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

You Can’t Win — Jack Black

You Can’t Win

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

Disloyal: A Memoir The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump — Michael Cohen

Disloyal: A Memoir The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

Can You Ever Forgive Me? Memoirs of a Literary Forger — Lee Israel

Can You Ever Forgive Me? Memoirs of a Literary Forger

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

Smuggler’s Blues A True Story of the Hippie Mafia (Cannabis Americana: Remembrance of the War on Plants, Book 1) — Richard Stratton

Smuggler’s Blues A True Story of the Hippie Mafia (Cannabis Americana: Remembrance of the War on Plants, Book 1)

Richard Stratton

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

Diary of a Pimp’s Wife — Karen Joy

Diary of a Pimp’s Wife

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy Updated and Expanded Edition — Elizabeth Kendall

The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy Updated and Expanded Edition

Elizabeth Kendall

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

I Am a Hitman The Real-Life Confessions of a Contract Killer — Anonymous Hitman

I Am a Hitman The Real-Life Confessions of a Contract Killer

Anonymous Hitman

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • Personal Memoirs • Biography & Autobiography

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Are You Dead Yet? by Shane Hoffman. Connected by Criminals & Outlaws, Personal Memoirs, Biography & Autobiography. Authors featured include Ed Hudson, Elle Johnson, Tracey Miller, Billy Moore, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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