Books like Breaking Out

#1

Rat Bastards The Life and Times of South Boston’s Most Honorable Irish Mobster

John Shea

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime

#2

Sour

Tracey Miller

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime

#3

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

Anonymous Hitman

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime

#4

Paddy Whacked The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster

T. J. English

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime

#5

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

Kevin Weeks

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime

#6

No Ordinary Bird Drug Smuggling, a Plane Crash, and a Daughter’s Quest for the Truth

Artis Henderson

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime

#7

Mr Nasty Misadventures in the Drug World

Cameron White

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime

#8

How to Escape from Prison

Paul Wood

Themes: Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime • Motivational & Inspirational

#9

El Chapo The Untold Story of the World’s Most Infamous Drug Lord

Noah Hurowitz

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime

#10

The Last Boss of Brighton Boris Biba Nayfeld and the Rise of the Russian Mob in America

Douglas Century

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime

#11

Generation Oxy From High School Wrestlers to Pain Pill Kingpins

Douglas Dodd

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime

#12

Double Cross The Explosive Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America

Sam Giancana

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime

#13

Milwaukee Mafia

Gavin Schmitt

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime

#14

You Can’t Win

Jack Black

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime

#15

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

Richard Stratton

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime

#16

Gangsters and Goodfellas Wiseguys… and Life on the Run

Henry Hill

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime

#17

Queen of Thieves The True Story of “Marm” Mandelbaum and Her Gangs of New York

J. North Conway

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime

#18

In His Sights A True Story of Love and Obsession

Kate Brennan

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime

#19

A Few Kind Words and a Loaded Gun The Autobiography of a Career Criminal — Noel “Razor” Smith

Noel "Razor" Smith

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime

#20

Street Soldier My Life as an Enforcer for Whitey Bulger and the Boston Irish Mob

Edward MacKenzie

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime

#21

Unlocked A Journey from Prison to Proust

Louis Ferrante

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime

#22

A Plot to Kill The Notorious Killing of Peter Farquhar, a Story of Deception and Betrayal That Shocked a Quiet English Town

David Wilson

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime

#23

A Man of Honor The Autobiography of Joseph Bonanno

Joseph Bonanno

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime

#24

Breaking the Code A True Story by a Hells Angel President and the Cop Who Pursued Him

Jarosław Marek Rymkiewicz

Themes: Organized Crime • Criminals & Outlaws • True Crime